Homogeneous Catalysis
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course describes the main industrial processes involving organometallic homogeneous catalysis. The processes are described in a way that the students can become acquainted with the problems encountered when passing from a laboratory to an industrial scale, but without dealing with engineering aspects.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will acquire the knowledge to be able to examine a homogeneous catalytic process not only for the reactivity/selectivity aspects, but also from the point of view of the stability, activity and reciclability of the catalyst on a large scale.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Industrial and laboratory processes for the production of base and fine chemicals, employing transition metal complexes as catalysts in the homogeneous phase. A special attention is given to industrial processes. Isomerization, polymerization, hydrogenation (even asymmetric) of olefins, ketones and imines; hydrocyanation and hydrosilylation of olefins; alkyne reactions; organic halides carbonylation; carbonylation of methanol to acetic acid, acetic anhydride and vinylacetate; hydroformylation reactions; olefin carboxylation; olefin metathesis; cyclopropanation reactions; olefin-CO copolymerization; dimethylcarbonate and dimethyloxalate synthesis; reductive carbonylation of nitroarenes.
Prerequisites for admission
Base knowledge of coordination and organometallic chemistry
Teaching methods
Classroom lessons with the aid of Powerpoint presentations. In accord with the students, a "flipped classroom" teaching modality may be applied, in which the student listen to the registered lessons available on the Ariel site of the course before the actual lesson. The latter then becomes a moment in which doubts are clarified and the most stimulating aspects of the lesson are debated.
Teaching Resources
- Powerpoint presentations of the lessons with audio (in English)
- Steinborn, Foundamentals of Organometallic Catalysis, Wiley-VCH, 2012
- van Leuween,, Homogeneous Catalysis, Kluwer, 2004
- Steinborn, Foundamentals of Organometallic Catalysis, Wiley-VCH, 2012
- van Leuween,, Homogeneous Catalysis, Kluwer, 2004
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral exam. The exam constitutes of a series of questions aimed at assessing the level of knowledge of the field reached by the students and their ability to manage the concepts acquired during the course.
CHIM/03 - GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - University credits: 6
Lessons: 48 hours
Professor:
Ragaini Fabio Attilio Cirillo
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Ragaini Fabio Attilio CirilloProfessor(s)