Mechanism-guided reaction design - next generation nickel catalysis. Catalysis is essential to producing high-value chemicals, however these processes often rely on increasingly expensive and difficul

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Mechanism-guided reaction design - next generation nickel catalysis. Catalysis is essential to producing high-value chemicals, however these processes often rely on increasingly expensive and difficult to mine metals. This project expects to overcome this limitation by developing a novel approach to examining the reactivity of earth abundant nickel-based catalysts, allowing substantial new knowledge and mechanistic insight to be gained. This innovative technique, and the extensive kinetic analyses it will allow, will have significant academic and industrial impact as Australia has the largest deposits of nickel in the world. The insight generated will facilitate new applications of nickel catalysts in chemical synthesis, which could enable Australia to become a leader in sustainable synthesis. . Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships. Field: 3402 - Inorganic Chemistry. Lead: Dr Sinead Keaveney