Opportunities in the use of carbon materials to develop heterogenized metal complexes for catalytic applications

Abstract

Carbon materials constitute a broad family of solids that encompass a high variety of physical and chemical properties, including morphology. These materials have shown to be very useful as catalysts supports and, in this context, also for the heterogenization of metal complexes owing catalytic properties. This work is, mainly, the summary of the results obtained in several research projects focused on developing heterogenized molecular catalysts by exploiting the properties of a plethora of carbon materials to address several immobilization procedures.