Objective
Research objectives and content
we plan to design novel oligopyridine ligands for the self assembly of (supra-)molecular structures as models for oligometal enzymes. Rigid, linear polytopic ligands containing bidentate chelating sites will be used to self-assemble into square matrix arrays of metal centers with ions of tetrahedral coordination geometry, Zn(II) and Cu(I). By varying the number of coordination sites on the ligands, different sizes and shapes of metal arrays are envisioned. Additional ligands could be introduced by tuning solvation and anion interactions. This new approach to model the active sites of polynuclear metallo enzymes has the potential to yield large electron reservoirs to serve as relays in multi-electronic reduction processes (Cu) and provide complexes with the enhanced reactivity and selectivity of multi- metal hydrolytic enzymes (Zn).
Training content (objective, benefit and expected impact)
Through this project, the applicant will learn new synthetic methods of the preparation of self-assembly systems, as well as state-of-the-art spectroscopic techniques needed for sophisticated polyelectronic systems. This work is anticipated to result in biomimetic transformations which are of high interest in the fields of pharmacological and environmental chemistry.
Links with industry / industrial relevance (22)
Complexes might be used to investigate oxygenation reactions which are relevant to the development of practical catalysts for the mild, selective oxidation of organics. This project will be carried out on a non-financial basis, with potential interest of Rhtne-Poulenc.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences chemical sciences electrochemistry electrolysis
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry transition metals
- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics geometry
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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67070 STRASBOURG
France
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