University of Groningen
Sustainable pathways to bio-based amines via the 'hydrogen borrowing' strategy
Afanasenko, Anastasiia
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10.33612/diss.135979053
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Sustainable pathways to bio-based amines via the 'hydrogen borrowing'
strategy
Door
Anastasiia M. Afanasenko
1. Green chemistry is not just a ‘buzzword’ but it is a completely different way of thinking how chemistry and chemical engineering can be done.
2. Bridging the gap between heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis fields may lead to the development of faster, cheaper, and greener hybrid catalysts offering feasible solutions to current economic and environmental problems (Chapter 2).
3. Evaluation of the research as well as the success of the scientist by the journal impact factor is a completely wrong approach. The first palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reaction using alkenylboranes and alkenyl/alkynyl halides was reported by Akira Suzuki (2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) and co-workers in Tetrahedron Letters (IF: 2.275).
4. At the end of the PhD program what matters is not the number of publications, but the knowledge and experience you have gained overcoming endless hurdles on the way both personally and professionally. 5. “Ideal synthesis” is one which “creates a complex molecule…in a sequence of only construction reactions involving no intermediary refunctionalizations, and leading directly to the target, not only its skeleton, but also its correctly placed functionality” (Chapter 5 and 6). – Hendrickson, J. B. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1975, 97, 5784–5800
6. “How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
7. Surprisingly that we are no longer amazed by trees around us, however, we have just started ‘scratching the surface’ of understanding the creativity of Nature.
