Synthetic support materials

The sitosterol hydrogenation and deactivation kinetics was determined in a shaking constant-pressure batch reactor by using the new type of synthetic support material (mesoporous carbon Sibunit) for palladium (4wt% Pd) [55]. 

In order to investigate how the support material affects heterogenous gold catalysts, we sought a synthetic technique that could be easily applied to a variety of realistic bulk support materials, regardless of the surface... 

The popcorn polymer flakes may be used as supporting materials for ion exchangers. Depending on the monomers units, the polymers have functional groups of different kinds and may be used for synthetic purposes. The materials also adsorb and absorb a variety of organic vapors and thus may be used as filter materials. 

Despite the current success and popularity of polymer reagents, the availability of functional resins has been a severe limitation in recent years. For many synthetically important transformations, reliable reagents were not available. Moreover, polymer-assisted synthesis was usually restricted to small scale apphcations, and also suffered from the inherent limitations of the standard support material (e.g., cross-linked polystyrene) such as solvent incompatibihty, adsorption of reagents,14 or the chemical reactivity of the resin backbone. 

Although the homogeneous catalyst systems have been successfully applied in commercial practice, some intrinsic problems associated with catalyst separation remain. This has led to considerable interest in the development of a suitable heterogeneous analog. Rhodium compounds have been heterogenenized on substrates such as carbon (197), alumina (198, 199), and synthetic polymers (200). More recently, zeolites have also attracted quite some attention as a support material for carbonylation catalysis, as is discussed later. 

Fluorous reverse phase silica gel (FRPSG) has been used in the purification of synthetic DNA fragments.In solid phase DNA synthesis, truncated sequences are often separated from the desired product after deprotection using HPLC or electrophoresis. In order to perform, parallel syntheses and separations of nucleotides the trityl-on purification procedure was developed, in which a lipophilic support material is used to separate the desired and undesired product, followed by deprotection. If the protecting group is labelled with a fluorous group, fiuorous-fiuorous interactions between the FRPSG and the protected nucleotide can be used to aid separation of the aqueous mixture. 

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