Executive Summary : | Pioneering discovery of innovative catalytic systems in the last few years had been globally acknowledged to be as ground breaking development, both by the scientific community as well as by the industrial fraternity on an international market scale. One of the notable discovered areas from was nitration of aromatic and aliphatic substrate. This research area has drawn the attention of the investigators due to versatile utility of aromatic nitro compounds as chemical feedstock for the synthesis of azo dyes, pharmaceuticals, perfumes, fertilizers and plastics. Synthesis of these nitro compounds largely depend on toxic metals, mixed acid reagents and as a result suffered from lack of regio selectivity, incompatibility of functional groups and limited scope of the reaction. Developing efficient, cost-effective and greener method of nitration is the need of the hour. In this context, Investigators have endeavored a sustainable and economically effective catalyst to facilitate such functionalization towards augmenting the functional efficiency of synthetic molecules by careful site-selective functionalization at the desired locations. In this INPRINT project, investigators would utilize their innovative idea of nitro compound synthesis for the construction of various energetic materials. These high energy materials would be utilized as propellant or explosives in space and defense research. Investigators are particularly interested in high nitrogen containing. The applicability of this traditional chemistry has been limited mainly by the selectivity issue and lower efficiency of the reactions. The key advantages of this process are faster reactions, cleaner product formation, safer reactions, short reaction time, easy scale-up, and the integration of typically separate processes. Combining newly developed reaction protocol with continuous flow chemistry system the investigators will produce a library of high energy materials in industrial scale. Engineering and organic chemistry skills are required for the success of the proposed multidisciplinary research area. From the chemistry perspective, this proposal involves an in-depth knowledge of inorganic chemistry and organic synthetic chemistry. With regard to engineering, significant expertise related to micro reaction technology, continuous processing, process intensification, and process evaluation tools is mandatory. Such a unique combination is provided by the combined background of applicants. |