Garner Green

Gagliardi L, Ziegler, Neville S, Garner, Green, Harvey, Eisenstein, Bursten, Kaltsoyan-nis, Macgregor, Perutz (2003) Faraday Discuss 124 145... 

I would like to thank a number of my colleagues, particularly Drs. N. Binsted, G. Diakun, S. Gurman and R. Strange and Professor C. D. Garner. I also thank Professor P. J. Duke, Dr. D. J. Thompson and Professor Leslie Green for their encouragement. I am especially thankful to Miss Julie Johnson for carefully reading the manuscript. 

One of the areas garnering attention in catalysis research has been the development of green or environmentally benign catalytic systems. For olefin metathesis, the trend has been to develop catalytic systems that can be efficiently recycled. Success in this area has multiple implications for OM processes. First, a recyclable catalyst will give overall more turnovers per catalyst molecule, and thereby be more economical. Second, a catalyst that can be efficiently recycled (low loss of activity over repeated uses) leaches less Ruthenium into the product and thus less expensive processing costs. To this end immobilization of the olefin metathesis catalysts on a variety of solid supports and utilization of nonorganic solvent systems have been explored. 

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