The recently founded CRC 1633 “Pushing Electrons with Protons” starts into its first phase (press release University of Göttingen). We congratulate all the people involved in the CRC, especially the spokesperson Sven Schneider and the members of the CRC board.

The CRC 1633 aims at facilitating new strategies for redox catalysis, as key enabling methodology for sustainable chemical synthesis and energy conversion based on renewable and chemically inert feedstock (CO2, O2, H2O, N2, biomass). For this purpose, the projects focus on a physicochemical phenomenon that controls the energetics and selectivity of redox transformations of these chemically diverse and unreactive substrates: The thermochemical and/or kinetic coupling of proton and electron transfer, proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET).
As the central paradigm of the CRC, advancing the fundamental understanding of PCET provides unifying strategies across the traditional branches of catalysis (homogeneous, enzymatic, heterogeneous) towards energy-efficient redox transformations.

More details about the projects in the CRC can be found on the webpage.