Reversible Switching and Recycling of Adaptable Organic Microgel Catalysts (Microgelzymes) for Asymmetric Organocatalytic Desymmetrization

Ruediger Borrmann, Volodymyr Palchyk, Andrij Pich, Magnus Rueping

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Abstract

Adaptable enzyme-mimetic catalysts based on temperature-responsive polymer microgels (microgelzymes) have been developed. By a simple change in the temperature, a microgel catalyst can be reversibly switched into its soluble or precipitated form, thus combining the advantages of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. The responsive microgel reactors show high reactivity and selectivity, as well as good recycling properties in the alcoholysis of cis-tetrahydrophthalic anhydride.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)7991-7996
Number of pages6
JournalACS Catalysis
Volume8
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2018

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We thank the BMBF (Project UGR203118812), German Research Foundation (DFG) SFB 985 “Functional Microgels and Microgel Systems” (A.P.), and the Volkswagen Foundation (A.P.) for financial support.

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