Efficient and selective catalysis by polymer-immobilized bifunctional catalysts

One of the most important topics in synthetic chemistry is the development of efficient recyclable catalysts. A potential approach for this purpose is the immobilization of homogenous catalysts through the use of a polymer support.

In this work, Merrifield polymer (Figure2) has been used as a solid support to immobilize our previously discovered homogenous catalysts (Figure1) in order to build heterogenous catalysts that can be easily recycled.

Our New polymer supported catalysts showed a great efficiency in stereo- and chemo-selective hydroformylation and in acceptor-less dehydrogenation reactions, with an efficient capability of being reused for more than five times.