Title: ” Bridging homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis through MOF support platforms.”
Speaker: Prof. Sherzod Madrahimov, Texas A&M University Qatar
Date: 10/12/2024, Tuesday
Time: 12:30 (Turkiye Time)
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Abstract: Dr. Madrahimov’s research focuses on developing environmentally friendly and recyclable catalytic systems with high stability, activity and selectivity to prepare value added products from feedstock chemicals. His research group achieves this via immobilizing the molecular catalysts on the Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are a new type of highly stable crystalline catalyst supports and impart the immobilized catalysts with high stability, recyclability and ability to operate in gas phase. The catalysts developed in Dr. Madrahimov’s research group have been applied to a variety of processes including coupling, olefin oligomerization, hydrogenation and hydrolysis reactions to obtain value added products from feedstock chemicals. One example of these processes is a QNRF NPRP funded collaborative work with Qatar Shell to apply the MOF-immobilized catalysts for olefin oligomerization reactions that produce highly valuable terminal alkenes that are used for producing specialty polymers, detergents and other valuable chemicals.
Bio: Prof. Sherzod Madrahimov is an associate Professor of Chemistry in the Division of Arts and Sciences of Texas A&M University Qatar. He joined TAMUQ in August of 2015. In 2021, he received early career research award, and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. Since 2022 he is also serving as the Associate Director of Division of Arts and Sciences. He completed his graduate work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the guidance of Prof. John Hartwig, obtaining his PhD degree in 2012. In the summer of 2012 he moved to Northwestern University, joining the group of Prof. SonBinh Nguyen as a Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Chemistry. His work at TAMUQ focuses on development of highly active and recyclable catalysts to generate value added products from chemical feedstock and methods for the analysis of these catalysts.