Descripción del proyecto
La unión de dos compuestos simples y abundantes para cerrar el círculo
Los ácidos grasos son compuestos orgánicos importantes en facetas que van más allá de los análisis de sangre y la salud en general. Resultan útiles en la producción de plásticos, lubricantes, pinturas, combustibles, cosméticos, jabones y detergentes, entre otros muchos productos. No sorprende que la química orgánica cuente con innumerables métodos para extraer o producir ácidos grasos a partir de distintas materias primas mediante gran cantidad de procesos diferentes y, a menudo, complejos. El proyecto FAT-FEEDOX, financiado con fondos europeos, trabajará en una ruta simplificada basada únicamente en el abundante CO2 y los hidrocarburos fácilmente disponibles para una producción sostenible de ácidos grasos que conduzca a la sociedad a una economía circular.
Objetivo
FAT-FEEDOX deals with the development of an innovative and unconventional catalytic de novo approach to fatty acids, privileged motifs on the manufacture of detergents, soaps, dyes, plastics, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, using simple, available and abundant carbon dioxide (CO2) and alkanes, compounds derived from the crude oil. Specifically, FAT-FEEDOX will promote a synergistic catalytic C(sp3)–H activation /CO2 insertion event of readily available alkane chemical feedstocks. The project will offer all the necessary understanding behind the factors influencing both C(sp3)–H activation and the subsequent CO2 insertion event, thus opening up new horizons in preparative organic chemistry as well as offering solutions to a social, industrial and academic problem such as the use of multiple chemical feedstocks to produce added-value compounds. FAT-FEEDOX will lead to new knowledge in synthetic design, thus providing new logics in retrosynthetic analysis that will likely attract the interest of both pharmaceutical and industrial laboratories and a significant step-forward for our circular economy.
This project sits at the interface between the applicant and the supervisor’s background. The applicant has the experience in C-H functionalization part, which is defined as the first step of this project. The applicant will gain more skills in the CO2 activation from the host group during this fellowship. Therefore, the applicant can contribute his own expertise in part of this project independently, meanwhile he can learn new techniques from the host, which will benefit back. The fellowship will develop the applicant’s capacities by providing new laboratory skills, which will broaden his research field. This invaluable experience will make him more independent and competent for building his future research career.
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinador
43007 Tarragona
España