Heterogeneous Removal of Water-Soluble Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalyst from Aqueous Media Via Host-Guest Interaction

This method can help answer key questions in the practical application of transition metal catalyst field, such as polymer science and pharmaceutical industries. We can produce ultra pure product using this technology. The main advantage of this technique is that we can easily remove the homogeneous catalyst which is difficult to do by using Host-Guest Interaction.

The implications of this technique extend toward recyclable homogeneous catalysis, because the catalyst removal method, Host-Guest Interaction is reversible. Though this method can provide insight into the same metastasis catalyst removal. It can also be applied to other metal containing catalyst such as palladium, platinum, copper, nickel and gold catalyst.