Sustainability is an urgent need to secure the progress of our civilization and to reach it is getting more and more into common conscious. From a chemists viewpoint, this means the customary practices of the last centuries have to be overcome, chemicals and chemical processes must be designed safe and environmentally friendly without long term consequences while at the same time conserving resources. A main part within this is the reduction of toxic waste, often originated in solvents. To accomplish this, new paths have to be discovered. One possible path is mechanochemistry, which describes chemical reactions initiated by mechanical forces like milling balls and vessels in a ball mill. In this environment solubility is not required and thus turns the use of solvents obsolete. However, in mechanochemical catalytic reactions for instance catalyst complexes with ligands are used, that originally ensured solubility in the former reaction medium. Since no solubility is required in this solvent free reaction environment, the complexes can be simplified to salts or further to pure metal powder catalysts. Complexes, salts and powders alike are difficult to recycle from the reaction mixture, thwarting the aim of sustainability. A concept to overcome this drawback is direct mechanocatalysis that uses milling materials themselves made of the catalytic metal, likewise accounting for the catalyst and the energy input. The aim of the thesis on hand was to expand the concept towards new direct mechanocatalytic reactions and gain insights beyond the mere phenomenology. In detail, the palladium catalysed Suzuki coupling as well as the copper catalysed Ullmann reaction/coupling, and Glaser coupling were investigated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:79950 |
| Date | 14 July 2022 |
| Creators | Vogt, Christian |
| Contributors | Kaskel, Stefan, Borchardt, Lars, Technische Universität Dresden |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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