Adnan S. Abu-Surrah
Qatar University, Qatar
Title: Transition Metal Based Catalysts For Polymerization of Acrylate Monomers
Biography
Biography: Adnan S. Abu-Surrah
Abstract
Schiff base ligands are considered ‘‘privileged ligands’’ because they are able to coordinate many different metals, and to stabilize them in various oxidation states, enabling the use of Schiff base metal complexes for a large variety of useful catalytic transformations [1]. The application of some palladium(II), cobalt(III)-, -iron(III)-, and chromium(III)- based catalyst systems for polymerization of acrylate monomers such as acrylonitrile (Ac), methylmethacrylate (MMAc) and tert-butylacrylate (t-BAc) will be discussed. In addition, the utilization of cobalt(III) based complexes as catalysts precursors for fabrication of a novel molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) by the polymerization of tert-butylacrylate (t-BA) in the presence of a polar template (cibacron reactive red dye) and divenylbenzene (DVB) (as crosslinker) will be presented [2].