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Research Interests
Research in the Barta group is centered around sustainability and Green Chemistry with a special focus on the conversion of renewable resources and catalysis using earth-abundant metals. Two main research lines are being pursued:
1.) Synthesis and characterization of novel heterogeneous catalysis for the cleavage of crude lignocellulose resources, including lignocellulose pre-treatment and characterization
2.) New homogeneous catalytic methods for the atom-economic functionalization of the obtained building blocks.
A variety of research lines include reductive and hydrogen-neutral depolymerisation and defunctionalization of lignin to aromatic monomers. Similarly, reductive approaches using copper catalysts are used for the conversion of cellulose and derived platform chemicals to a variety of end products. Here, the central aim is to find new concepts that allow to deal with complexity and changed material inputs and to identify causes of and minimize side reactions which lead to decreased product yields. In addition, we are involved in developing new methods for iron-catalysed coupling of alcohols and amines as well as hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds including esters also in an asymmetric fashion.
The Group
News
Read more here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cctc.201900930
https://www.rug.nl/news/2019/03/first-n3c-award-for-katalin-barta-
Interview with Katalin Barta in @ChemCatChem
@StratinghInst @univgroningen https://t.co/Ke4OozYgEO
Katalin Barta @univgroningen received the First Netherlands’ Catalysis and Chemistry Conference Award in 2019. Find out more about her in this interview that will be included in our upcoming special issue dedicated to the #WomenOfCatalysis #CatalysisAwards https://t.co/ghBB2q40o0 https://t.co/s79IWV7Yjo
Our latest paper is now online! @ACSSustainable
Primary benzylamines by efficient N-alkylation of benzyl alcohols using commercial Ni catalysts and easy-to-handle ammonia sources | ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering https://t.co/XGDggJKZQX
We are now on Twitter! Welcome to the official Twitter page of the Barta research group! @univgroningen @stratinghinst
We will share news about our research, exciting scientific findings and events happening in our labs!