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DESCRIPTION:Despite decades of research\, the utilization of CO2 for commod
 ity chemical and fuel synthesis still faces substantial technological and 
 economic hurdles. To change this paradigm\, it is imperative to develop sc
 alable processes to high-volume targets in which the use of CO2 affords a 
 clear chemical advantage over conventional routes starting from fossil fue
 ls. This talk will describe our recent fundamental and applied research to
 ward converting CO2 into oxygenated organic commodities. I will first desc
 ribe our development of “defect-rich” metallic catalysts for electrochemic
 al CO2 and CO reduction. We have pioneered the use of bulk defects known a
 s grain boundaries to create active surfaces for these reactions and recen
 tly unveiled the structural origin of grain boundary–activity relationship
 s. In the second part of my talk\, I will describe our development of carb
 onate-promoted C–H carboxylation reactions to generate (di)-carboxylic aci
 ds. We have found systems in which carbonate deprotonates ordinarily non-a
 cidic C–H bonds (pKa>35 in organic solvent)\, generating carbon-centered n
 ucleophiles that react with CO2 to form C–C bonds. As one application\, th
 is chemistry can be used to convert furoic acid\, a compound derived from 
 inedible biomass\, into furan-2\,5-dicarboxylic acid (FDCA)\, a monomer us
 ed for polyester plastic synthesis. The same strategy can be extended to H
 2\, enabling CO2 hydrogenation reactions that produce C2+ oxygenates. This
  process effectively upgrades the value of H2 and thereby increases the vi
 ability of solar water-splitting technologies.\n\n \n\nBIO\n\nMatt Kanan i
 s an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford Univer
 sity. His research focuses on challenges in heterogeneous and molecular ca
 talysis with an emphasis on developing scalable CO2 utilization technologi
 es. His group has invented “grain-boundary-rich” heterogeneous electro-cat
 alysts for CO2 reduction to liquid fuels and carbonate-promoted C–H carbox
 ylation reactions for commodity carboxylic acid synthesis. Matt was recent
 ly named a Dreyfus Environmental Postdoctoral Mentor (2016)\, one of the T
 alented 12 by Chemical and Engineering News (2015)\, and a Camille Dreyfus
  Teacher-Scholar Award (2014). Prior to Stanford\, Matt was an NIH Postdoc
 toral Researcher in inorganic chemistry at MIT and completed his Ph.D. in 
 organic chemistry at Harvard in 2005. Matt studied chemistry as an undergr
 aduate at Rice University.\n
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LOCATION:Room 10\, Maass Chemistry Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0B8\
 , 801 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:CCVC / CGCC - Dr. Matthew Kanan -Materials Science and Synthetic Ch
 emistry for CO2 Utilization
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/ccvc-cgcc-dr-matthew-kana
 n-materials-science-and-synthetic-chemistry-co2-utilization-270273
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