Research Areas Faculty Akgerman , Anthony , Holtzapple and Watson Pollution Prevention and Environmental Remediation Pollution prevention research focuses on environmentally friendly organic synthesis.
Projects relate to solvent replacement in organic synthesis and separation processes.
Current focus is on use of supercritical fluid solvents in organic reactions such hydroformylation, Diels-Alder reaction, enantioselective synthesis and metathesis reactions. Of special interest is modification of proven homogeneous catalysts for dissolution in supercritical fluid solvents. In the separations area the research focus is on adsorptive separations. Applications include synthesis of controlled release drug systems using supercritical fluid solvents and separation of chiral isomers from racemic mixtures.