CATALYSIS LABORATORY (CATLAB)

 RESEARCH FIELDS:

• Metal Complex and Nanoparticle Hydrogenation Catalysts
• Di-, Oligo-, Poly- Telomerization of Unsaturated Compounds
• Coordination Chemistry of Palladium and Nickel

ONGOING PROJECTS:

ACHIEVED OUTCOMES:

• New approaches to synthesis of effective (active and selective) palladium catalysts for hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds modified with elemental phosphorus has been developed
• Mechanism of formation, size, chemical and phase composition of Pd-P particles, state of their surface layer, causes of modifying action of phosphorus in hydrogenation of nitrohalogenarenes, mono- and disubstituted alkynes, alkynols, and alkyl-anthraquinones have been set by the physical & chemical methods
• The main stages of the processes of formation, functioning, deactivation and regeneration of catalytically active complexes of lower alkenes oligomerization in Ziegler-type systems have been established

THE LIST OF TOP SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:

1. Role of phosphorus in the formation of selective palladium catalysts for hydrogenation of alkylanthraquinones / L.B. Belykh, N.I. Skripov, T.P. Sterenchuk, V.V. Akimov, V.L. Tauson, T.A. Savanovich, F.K. Schmidt // Applied Catalysis A, General. – 2020. – Vol. 589. 117293 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2019.117293.)
2. The effect of crystallinity on selectivity of palladium catalysts in hydrogenation of 2-ethyl-9,10-anthraquinone / L.B. Belykh, N.I. Skripov, T.P. Sterenchuk, F.K. Schmidt // Catalysis Communications. – 2020. – Vol. 146. – 106124. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2020.106124)
3. Pd-P nanoparticles as active catalyst for the hydrogenation of acetylenic compounds / L.B. Belykh, N.I. Skripov, T.P. Sterenchuk, K.L. Gvozdovskaya, S.B. Sanzhieva, F.K. Schmidt // J. Nanopart. Res. – 2019. – Vol. 21. № 9. – P. 198−213. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-019-4641-z).
4. Synthesis of mono- and dinuclear palladium(II) complexes containing oxadithioether ligands and their catalytic activities in norbornene polymerization / D.S. Suslov, Z.D. Abramov, I.A. Babenko, V.A. Bezborodov, T.N. Borodina, M.V. Bykov, M.V. Pakhomova, V.I. Smirnov, A.V. Suchkova, G.V. Ratovskii, I.A. Ushakov, A.I. Vilms // Appl. Organomet. Chem. — 2021. — P. e6381. — DOI:10.1002/aoc.6381.
5. Cationic palladium(II)–acetylacetonate complexes containing phosphine and aminophosphine ligands and their catalytic activities in telomerization of 1,3-butadiene with methanol / D.S. Suslov, M.V. Bykov, Z.D. Abramov, I.A. Ushakov, T.N. Borodina, V.I. Smirnov, G.V. Ratovskii, V.S. Tkach // J. Organomet. Chem. — 2020. — V. 923. — P. 121413. — DOI:10.1016/j.jorganchem.2020.121413.
6. Polymerization of phenylacetylene by cationic acetylacetonate palladium complexes / D.S. Suslov, M.V. Pakhomova, M.V. Bykov, I.A. Ushakov, V.S. Tkach // Catal. Commun. — 2019. — V. 119. — P. 16–21. — DOI:10.1016/j.catcom.2018.10.010.

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