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COORDINATION
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(Last 5 years)
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​MIT Portugal Program - MPP2030

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2020-21
Producing methanol as sustainable fuel by coupling CO2 capture and hydrogenation

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​Programme for Cooperation in Science between Portugal and Poland

2019-21
​Design of new heterogenized rhodium catalysts for sustainable hydroformylation of olefins and oxidation of alkanes


The project aims providing sustainable catalytic processes for hydroformylation (the most important industrial transformation for olefins valorization) and for organic oxidative synthesis from linear and cyclic alkanes (invaluable precursors for a wide range of synthetic targets), with significant advantages over the current industrial processes in terms of safety, simplicity, energy saving, economic and environmental concerns. To accomplish that, novel Rh catalysts (complexes / immobilized complexes) will be prepared and characterized. Follows the evaluation of their suitability to act as efficient and reusable catalysts for the important industrial oxidation reactions chosen (olefin hydroformylation and alkane oxidation) and the fine-tuning of their catalytic activity by optimizing operatory conditions for those reactions and by designing new catalysts. The overcome of scientific and technological hurdles on the way to industrial scaling-up will be also considered. 
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FCT Competitive Projects in all Scientific Domains

2016-20
Magnetic scorpionate ionic catalysts – improving sustainability of industrial catalytic oxidation processes


This project aims to provide novel magnetic ionic liquids (MScorpILs) and fluids (MScorpIFs) based on metal C- or B-scorpionate catalysts to design improved  catalytic processes for selective oxidation reactions of industrial interest i) the oxidation of cyclohexane to the cyclohexanol/cyclohexanone mixture and ii) the one-pot oxidation of ethane to acetic acid.
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Portugal 2020 BIP Proof of Concept

2017-19
​Catalytic process of partial oxidation of secondary alcohols to the corresponding ketones 

This project aims to obtain financing for protection and economic valorization of the rights of intellectual property associated to the use of an efficient and recyclable catalyst consisting on an hybrid material, based on the dichloro hydrotris(pyrazol-1-yl)methane iron(II) complex anchored on carbon nanotubes functionalized with carboxylate surface groups, to be used in the partial oxidation of secondary alcohols to the corresponding ketones with t-butyl hydroperoxide, without the addition of solvents and using low power microwave irradiation.

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Portugal-Germany Integrated Action

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2017-18
Heterogenization of gold (and related metal) complexes on carbon and oxide supports and their use in catalysis 

​This project aims to immobilise homogeneous complexes (namely functionalized C-scorpionate gold complexes and the N-heterocyclic carbene gold(I) complexes onto heterogeneous supports (carbon materials, such as activated carbon, carbon xerogel, carbon nanotubes, and even nanodiamonds (which with regard to chemical and mechanical resistance probably represent an extraordinary support; and metal oxides, like silica and alumina). Those hybrid materials will be tested as catalysts for important industrial reactions like alkane or alcohol oxidations and well investigated and established reactions in homogeneous gold catalysis like the addition of nucleophiles to alkynes or the phenol synthesis.
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IDI&CA Projects - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
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2017-18
​Carbon nanomaterials as catalysts for sustainable industrial oxidative processes

This project aims to provide novel carbon nanomaterials (CNM) produced from cork industry wastewater to design improved catalytic processes for selective oxidation reactions of industrial interest, in particular i) the oxidation of cyclohexane to the cyclohexanone/cyclohexanol mixture (KA oil) and ii) the oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to, respectively, aldehydes and ketones.
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2012-14: PTDC/EQU-EQU/122025/2010 - Catalytic process tuning for Baeyer-Villiger and Henry reactions

2003-07: IPL/41/2003- Coordination of B- e C-scorpionates to transition metal centres 

2001-02: IPL/10/2001- Activation of small unsaturated nitrogen molecules (cyanamides) by transition metal centres



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(Last 5 years)

2018-22: PTDC/QUI-QIN/29778/2017 - Straightforward Synthesis of Multifunctional core-shell composites and their applications

The main aim of this project is to find easily scalable procedures for the cost-effective preparation of multifunctional core-shell composite materials. Viability of the prepared multifunctional dispersed materials will be tested in catalytic multistage one-pot reactions, smart corrosion protection, dynamic catalysis (induced activation of the catalytic particles with electromagnetic waves of different frequencies) and in the catalyst recovery.

2016-19: PTDC/QEQ-QIN/3967/2014 - Catalytic Alkane Functionalization towards Sustainable Organic Synthesis

IPL/2016/MechSynCat_ISEL - Mechanochemical Synthesis of Advanced Nanomaterials and Application in Catalysis

2014-15: EXPL/QEQ/ERQ/2243/2013 OXIPOLY - New one-pot process comprising consecutive Oxidation-Polymerization reactions for the production of new polymers, directly from renewable resources 
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2013-14: PEst-OE/QUI/UI0100/2013 - Strategic Project - UI 100, FCT 

2010-13: PTDC/QUI-QUI/102150/2008 - Single pot alkane functionalization under mild conditions 

2011-12: PEst-OE/QUI/UI0100/2011- - Strategic Project - UI 100, FCT 
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2005-09: POCI/QUI/58821/2004,POCI 2010 Program, Catalytic Carboxylation of Alkanes. 

2005-09: CONC-REEQ/543/2001, National Programme for Re-Equipping Science - Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis.

2004-07: MRTN-CT-2003-503864, Marie Curie Research Training Network - AQUACHEM – Transition Metal Chemistry and Catalysis in Aqueous Media. Other participants: Prof. M. Peruzzini (Florence) (Coordinator), Prof. F. Joó (Debrecen, Hungary), Prof. O. Lev (Jerusalem), Prof. A. Lledós (Barcelone), Prof. J.-P. Majoral (Toulouse), Prof. R. Perutz (York), Prof. R. Poli (Dijon), Prof. A. Romerosa (Almería, Spain), Prof. E. Shubina (Moscow) and Prof. R. van Eldik (Erlangen, Germany).

2003-06: NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant PST. CLG. 979289 - Early-Late Multinuclear Metal Systems on Design and Development of New Materials. Other participants: Prof. V. Yu. Kukushkin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) and Prof. P. Sobota (Wroclaw University, Poland)

2002-05: POCTI/QUI/43415/2001,POCTI programme, FCT .Metal-based Synthons with Pharmacological Significance.

2000-10: FCT -Coordination Chemistry and Molecular Electrochemistry, Group V (CQE). 

1999-2001: ICCTI(JNICT) and the CNR, Italy - Coordination and Reactivity of Organonitriles, Cyanamides and Derived Species. Collaboration with Prof. R.A. Michelin (University of Padova).

1998-2002: PRAXIS/POCTI/2/2.1/QUI/193/94 - Oxidation of Saturated Hydrocarbons.

1997-98: ICCTI (JNICT) and the CNR, Italy - Chemical and Electrochemical Investigation of Some Transition Metal-Promoted Reactions of Alkynes, Diazoalkanes, Cyanamide and Derived Species. Collaboration with Prof. R.A. Michelin (University of Padova).

1996-99: FCT/JNICT - Activation of Small Molecules. 

1996-99: FCT/JNICT - Molecular Electrochemistry of Coordination Compounds.


1995-96: ICCTI(JNICT) and the CNR, Italy - Chemistry and Redox Properties of Palladium or Platinum Complexes with Multiple Bonded C,N-Donor Ligands. Collaboration with Prof. R.A. Michelin (University of Padova). 

1994-99: PRAXIS XXI2/2.1/Qui/03/94, PRAXIS XXI Programme for Scientific and Technological Research - Development of Mimetic Systems of Fundamental Biological Processes with Environmental and Economical Relevance. 

1994-97: ERBCHRXCT 940501, Human Capital and Mobilidade EC Network - Multiple Metal-Carbon Bond Species in Selective Processes. Other participants: Prof. S. Maiorana (Milan) (Coordinator), Prof. P.H. Dixneuf (Rennes), Prof. K.H. Dötz (Bonn), Dr. J.M. Moreto (Barcelona), Prof. S. Thomas (London) and Prof. J. Gimeno (Oviedo). 

1993-94: ICCTI(JNICT) and the CNR, Italy - Activation of Unsaturated Small Molecules by Palladium or Platinum Metal Centres, a Chemical and Electrochemical Investigation. Collaboration with Dr. R.A. Michelin (University of Padova).

1992-96: INIC, JNICT and CNRS, France - Mechanisms of the Activation of Metal-Ligand Bonds by Electrochemistry with Ultramicroelectrodes. Application to the Study of Model Reactions for the Activation of Small Molecules.. Collaboration with Dr. C. Amatore (École Normale Superieure, Paris).

1992-95: STRADA/CEN/450/92, STRIDE Program, Measure E - Activation and Electrochemistry of Unsaturated Small Molecules of Biological or Industrial Significance - Nitric Oxide and Cyanamide. 

1991-97: ICCTI (JNICT)/The British Council protocol - Investigation of the Mechanisms of Proton Transfer Reactions, in Coordination Compounds, by Stopped Flow Spectrophotometry. Collaboration with Dr. R. Henderson (Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory, Norwich). 

1991-97: CIENCIA Program, Sub-program III - Global Support to the Scientific and Technological System, Infrastructures for Research and Development, Measure M -Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies in Bioinorganic Chemistry.

1991-95: INIC (1991-92) or JNICT (1993-95) - Electrochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes. 

1991-95: INIC (1991-92) or JNICT (1993-95) - Coordination Chemistry of Dinitrogen and Related Molecules. 

1991-94: PMCT/C/CEN/339/90, JNICT - Molecular Electrochemistry of Coordination Compounds - Application of Ultramicroelectrodes. 


1991-92: CRUP/The British Council, Treaty of Windsor programme - Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Coordination Compounds with Multiple Phosphorus-Carbon Bonds. Collaboration with Prof. J. Nixon (University of Sussex).

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