Innovative recycling technology of costly metal complex catalysts
– To reduce the manufacturing cost of medicines etc. –

Japan Science and Technology Agency and Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc. announced that they have succeeded in the synthesis of a novel solid support for metal complex catalysts, which enabled easy recovery and recycle uses of homogeneous catalysts preserving the high activity.

The present research was published in an electric version of Journal of the American Chemical Society on 27th February 2014.

Title： A Solid Chelating Ligand: Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica Containing 2,2'-Bipyridine within the Pore Walls
Journal Name： Journal of the American Chemical Society
Published online： 27 February 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja4131609