Bartosz Trzaskowski, leader of the Chemical and Biological Systems Simulation Laboratory, has been awarded a CELSA 2024 grant. Together with prof. Tatjana N. Parac-Vogt from the Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven he will study novel metal-oxo clusters as a new generation of artificial enzymes. The main goal of this research project is to combine state-of-the-art computational and experimental tools towards the development of new metal-oxo clusters (MOCs) as potential artificial enzymes. The central part of such unique approach consists of the design, computational modelling, synthesis, and experimental analysis of new metal-oxo clusters, frequently found as building blocks in metal organic frameworks (MOFs), that are able to mimic reactivity of biological enzymes and perform important catalytic reactions. The results of this project will allow for a thorough characterization of a series of novel metal-oxo clusters as potential catalysts of important chemical reactions, and enable us to develop a general methodology, which will be used in the future to design more advanced systems with desired properties.
The “Metal-oxo clusters as a new generation of artificial enzymes: where experiment meets theory” project is funded by the Central Europe Leuven Strategic Alliance initiative, which aims at promoting collaboration between its members, to exchange practice at both policy and operational level, and together to find solutions for the major problems Europe is facing.
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