Dr. Julio Lloret-Fillol, ICIQ group leader since last November, has been awarded a ERC Consolidator Grant to develop his project: ‘Towards a Greener Reduction Chemistry by Using Cobalt Coordination Complexes as Catalysts and Light-driven Water Reduction as a Source of Reductive Equivalents’ (GREENLIGHT_REDCAT).
This project aims to merge the concepts at the edge of the fields of solar fuels production and catalytic transformation facilitated by coordination complexes to perform light-driven catalytic transformations of organic substrates. The project may open a newer and greener avenue towards the application of artificial photosynthetic schemes in fine catalytic transformations of organic molecules.
Worth up to € 2.75 million per grant for up to 5 years, ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support researchers at the stage at which they are consolidating their own independent research team or programme. The scheme will strengthen independent and excellent new individual research teams that have been recently created.