Inhaltszusammenfassung:
The anchoring of reactive centers, in particular catalytically active
transition metal complexes, to an inert support is a field of increasing
interest in terms of academic as well as commercial research.
Such materials are able to combine the advantages of homogenous and
heterogeneous catalysis: the catalyst becomes easily separable from the
reaction products and it can be reused in several runs without an essential
loss of activity. On the other hand, the reactive centers are well defined
and the improvement of their properties is not only empirical.
Due to the homogenous character of the catalytic reaction the activities
and selectivities are high.
A novel mono-T-silyl functionalized triphenylphosphine ligand was prepared
by a simple coupling reaction of (p-aminophenyl)diphenylphosphine and
3-triethoxysilylpropylisocyanate. The corresponding
rhodium(I) complex was synthesized in order to be sol-gel processed with
various amounts of different silyl bifunctionalized co-condensation agents. The rhodium containing xerogels were
applied in the hydroformylation of 1-hexene.
A major intrinsic intricacy that may occur in reactions in interphases
are diffusion problems which adversely influence the activity of the
catalysts. All reactive centers should be readily accessible for substrates.
Excellent model systems for accessibility studies represent iridium complexes
which are much more stable compared to corresponding rhodium congeners.
Therefore the reactive behavior of an iridium(I) complex incorporated into
a stationary phase was examined towards a series of molecules with different
shapes and sizes.
The further development of new tailored materials for the enrichment and
separation of synthetic and natural compounds plays an important role in
chemical, pharmaceutical, medical, and biological research. HPLC is currently the most commonly applied technique
to separate and analyze multi-component mixtures.