Kleij

Research group

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Abstract

Our research activities focus on the valorization of carbon dioxide and renewable feed stocks into value-added organic matter using organocatalytic and metal-mediated catalytic approaches. We have and continue to be active in the preparation of highly functional organic carbonates, focusing on sustainable solutions and improving activity and stereo-selectivity profiles. We have recently expanded our portfolio of activities to other classes of relevant compounds such as oxazolidinones, CO2-based (bio)polymers and more complex organic matter derived from stereo-selective, multi-component coupling approaches. An important part of our work puts attention to new catalyst design and efforts to get a higher degree of understanding concerning the observed reactivity/selectivity features by means of mechanistic and computational studies. Collaborations with the industrial sector form part of our work in order to be able to potentially transfer technological advancements from bench to pilot scale and beyond. More recently we have begun to use functional organic carbonates as a starting point for unprecedented stereo-selective and enantioselective syntheses of various fine chemicals including allylic amines and sulfones.

Topics addressed

  • Carbon dioxide conversion
  • Oxetane conversion
  • Polycarbonates
  • Fine chemicals

Articles

“Meet Our Editorial Board Member”
Curr. Org. Chem. (2015) 19 – 2321-2321
A.W. Kleij*

“Copolymerization of CO2 and Cyclohexene Oxide Mediated by Yb(salen)-Based Complexes”
Macromolecules (2015) 48 – 8197-8207.
A.Decortes, R. M. Haak, C. Martín, M. Martínez Belmonte, E. Martin, J. Benet-Buchholz, A. W. Kleij*

“Highly Efficient Organocatalyzed Conversion of Oxiranes and CO2 into Organic Carbonates”
ChemSusChem (2015) 8 – 3248-3254
S.Sopeña, G. Fiorani, C. Martín, A. W. Kleij*

“Aluminium-Catalysed Oxazolidinone Synthesis and their Conversion into Functional Non-Symmetrical Ureas”
Adv. Synth. Catal. (2015) 357 – 2849-2854
V. Laserna, W. Guo, A. W. Kleij*

“A Metal-free Synthesis of N-Aryl Carbamates under Ambient Conditions”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2015) 54 – 11686-11690
W. Guo, J. González-Fabra, N. A. G. Bandeira, C. Bo, A. W. Kleij*

“Highly Chemo-Selective Catalytic Coupling of Substituted Oxetanes and Carbon Dioxide”
Chem. Eur. J. (2015) 21 – 10754-10762
J. Rintjema, W. Guo, E. Martin, E. C. Escudero-Adán, A.W. Kleij*

“Highly Efficient Chirality Transfer from Diamines Encapsulated within a Self-Assembled Calixarene-Salen Host”
Chem. Eur. J. (2015) 21 – 7144-7150
L. Martínez-Rodríguez, N. A. G. Bandeira, C. Bo, A. W. Kleij*

“Al(III)-Catalysed Formation of Poly(limonene)carbonate: DFT Analysis of the Origin of Stereoregularity”
Chem. Eur. J. (2015) 21 – 6115-6122
L. Peña Carrodeguas, J. González-Fabra, F. Castro-Gómez, C. Bo, A. W. Kleij*

“New Iron Pyridylamino-Bis(Phenolate) Catalyst for Converting CO2 into Cyclic Carbonates and Cross-Linked Polycarbonates”
ChemSusChem (2015) 8 – 1034-1042
M. Taherimehr, J. P. Cardoso Costa Serta, A. W. Kleij, C. J. Whiteoak, P. P. Pescarmona

“Sustainable conversion of carbon dioxide: the advent of organocatalysis”
Green Chem. (2015) 17 – 1375-1389
G. Fiorani, W. Guo, A. W. Kleij*

“Recent Advances in the Catalytic Preparation of Cyclic Organic Carbonates”
ACS Catal. (2015) 5 – 1353-1370
C. Martín, G. Fioriani, A.W. Kleij*

“Diastereo- and Enantioselective Valorization of Cyclic Organic Carbonates”
ChemCatChem (2015) 7 – 51-53
A. W. Kleij, C. J. Whiteoak