MOF-ET-WORK

ETHANOL AND ETHYLENE UPGRADE IN METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS: NEW SELECTIVITY TARGETS

Coordinatore	FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA    more  Organization address address: AVINGUDA PAISOS CATALANS 16 city: TARRAGONA postcode: 43007 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Noèlia Cognome: Flores Email: send email Telefono: +34 977920830
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Totale costo	173˙370 €
EC contributo	173˙370 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF
Funding Scheme	MC-IIF
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-04-15   -   2016-04-14

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA  Organization address address: AVINGUDA PAISOS CATALANS 16 city: TARRAGONA postcode: 43007 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Noèlia Cognome: Flores Email: send email Telefono: +34 977920830	ES (TARRAGONA)	coordinator	173˙370.60

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'In the current IIF application, the candidate, Oleksii V. Gutov (1984, Ukraine) describes a 2-year postdoctoral project to be carried out in the group of Dr. Alexandr Shafir at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), a leading European catalysis center in Tarragona, Spain. As a Marie Curie fellow at ICIQ, Dr. Gutov will apply his unique expertise in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) field to the development of catalysts for the selective ethylene and ethanol upgrade, an area in urgent need of conceptually new catalytic materials, and where any advance could mean an important step towards Europe’s more sustainable (environmentally and economically) future. We aim at creating catalytic processes for selective conversion of low-value two-carbon feedstocks, ethanol and ethylene, into valuable longer-chain substances. State-of-the art examples include the d-metal-catalyzed upgrade of ethanol to 1-butanol, and the tetramerization of ethylene to 1-octene. The selectivity and efficiency in such processes is insufficient. We propose placing the catalyst within the pores/channels of a MOF, thus altering the selectivity via confinement effects. The approach (through varying the MOF structure) would give access to species currently unattainable, such as 1-hexanol (from ethanol) or 1-decene, as well as improve the selectivity/efficiency of the already existing processes. The research proposed requires deep understanding of both MOF materials and catalysis. Having previously gained valuable experience with MOFs with a leader in the field (prof. J. Hupp, Northwestern), the applicant will be uniquely positioned to undertake this cutting-edge investigation at an institution dedicated to catalysis. With notable exceptions, most of MOF research in Europe is centered on basic investigations, gas storage and separation. As a broader objective, adding MOF-based catalyst to this repertoire would help position Europe as a leader in sustainable chemistry and renewable energies'