Description du projet
Deux composés simples et abondants s’assemblent pour boucler la boucle
Les acides gras sont des composés organiques importants dont l’intérêt ne se limite pas à nos prélèvements sanguins et à notre santé générale. Ils servent entre autres choses à produire des plastiques, des lubrifiants, des peintures, des combustibles, des cosmétiques, des savons et des détergents. Bien évidemment, la chimie organique dispose de très nombreuses recettes pour extraire ou produire des acides gras à partir de plusieurs matières premières, à l’aide d’une kyrielle de processus différents et souvent complexes. Le projet FAT-FEEDOX, financé par l’UE, travaillera sur une méthode simplifiée reposant uniquement sur le CO2 abondant et sur des hydrocarbures facilement disponibles, afin de produire des acides gras de manière durable, capables de pousser la production vers une économie circulaire.
Objectif
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 EFCoordinateur
43007 Tarragona
Espagne