Developing Catalysts and Catalytic Processes with Industrial Relevance

Authors

  • Hans-Ulrich Blaser Solvias AG, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basel;, Email: hans-ulrich.blaser@solvias.com

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2010.65

Keywords:

Coupling catalysis, Enantioselective hydrogenation, Heterogeneous hydrogenation, Solvias

Abstract

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.

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Published

2010-02-26