Making Polymers from Sugars

John Matthiesen publishes in Angewandte Chemie International Edition with CBiRC members. Sugars were converted to monomers using a cascade process that streamlines metabolic engineering and electrochemistry. The obtained monomer, 3-hexenedioic acid, yields unsaturated...
Designing Carbocatalysts from Bottom Up

Designing Carbocatalysts from Bottom Up

We design new carbocatalysts (metal-free catalysts predominantly based on carbon) from bottom up by combining homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Molecular active sites are first investigated under homogeneous conditions using kinetic studies. This approach...