Training for Opportunities and Growth in Academic Sustainability

Theme 1: Catalytic methods for sustainable chemical transformations

  • Supervisor ​: Prof. Bert Maes
  • ​Research environment: ORSY/ CASCH Center of Excellence​
  • A​pplications within theme 1 should focus on the development of new synthetic methodologies for sustainable organic synthesis. These new synthetic methods are enablers for advanced modern organic synthesis and can be based on base metal catalysis, organocatalysis, photocatalysis, or electrocatalysis. Besides thermal also new activation modes (i.e. photochemical, electrochemical and mechanochemical) can be embraced.
  • The expected results are new production methods that can be applied for the synthesis of specialty and fine chemicals in the sustainable chemical industry of the future.