Earth Abundant Catalysis

For its inherent sustainability, low toxicity, and favourable environmental effects compared to heavy metal catalysis, earth-abundant metal catalysis is hailed. The variety of changes that earth-abundant metals, beyond those of their equivalents in precious metals, may undergo is something that is sometimes underestimated. Recently, there has been a resurgence in interest in using earth-available and maybe more sustainable materials for catalysis. Although many earth-abundant elements, such as Mn and Fe, were investigated in the early years of organometallic chemistry, precious metals, such as Ru, Rh, Ir, Pd, and Pt, have historically predominated these techniques in organic chemistry—at least in part because of their predictable and robust 2-electron reactivity patterns. Instead, several main-group and first-row transition metals exhibit behaviour that is ostensibly more complex, showing a penchant for 1-electron chemistry, quick ligand exchange, simple spin crossover, or intricate solution-phase speciation.

Committee Members
Speaker at Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology 2026 - Stanislaw Dzwigaj

Stanislaw Dzwigaj

Sorbonne University, France
Speaker at Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology 2026 - Dai Yeun Jeong

Dai Yeun Jeong

Asia Climate Change Education Center, Korea, Republic of
Speaker at Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology 2026 - Sergey Suchkov

Sergey Suchkov

N.D. Zelinskii Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Speaker at Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology 2026 - Enrico Paris

Enrico Paris

CREA-IT & DIAEE, Italy
CAT 2026 Speakers
Speaker at Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology 2026 - Rabeharitsara Andry Tahina

Rabeharitsara Andry Tahina

GPCI-ESPA Antananarivo University, Madagascar
Speaker at Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology 2026 - Jiri Dedecek

Jiri Dedecek

J Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry , Czech Republic
Speaker at Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology 2026 - Uday Som

Uday Som

Research and Development Engineer, Japan
Speaker at Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology 2026 - Vladimir G Chigrinov

Vladimir G Chigrinov

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Russian Federation
Speaker at Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology 2026 - Osman Adiguzel

Osman Adiguzel

Firat University, Turkey
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