Open AccessDeveloping Catalysts and Catalytic Processes with Industrial Relevance
Author(s) -
HansUlrich Blaser
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2010.65
Subject(s) - catalysis , relevance (law) , enantioselective synthesis , business , chemistry , nanotechnology , biochemical engineering , organic chemistry , materials science , engineering , political science , law
The catalysis group of Solvias has its roots in the Central Research Laboratories of Ciba-Geigy. Since the early eighties its research has been focused on three areas of catalytic technology: heterogeneous hydrogenation, coupling catalysis, and enantioselective hydrogenation. Today, these are still the catalytic methods with the greatest industrial potential. In this overview a short description will be given how these methods have been developed further since the spin-off of Solvias in 1999. It will be discussed which strategies were successful and what the most important results have been in the first decade of Solvias.