Porous organic polymers (POPs) have received an increased level of research interest in many practical applications such as gas storage, separation, controlled release of drugs, catalysis, sensors etc due to their huge surface area, well-defined pore size distribution, high hydrothermal, mechanical stability. From the past several years various methodologies including direct templating, block copolymer self-assembly, and direct synthesis have been applied for the synthesis of porous polymers.Very recently, metal or metal oxide nanoparticles have emerged a growing interest in the catalysis research area owing to their large surface-to-volume ratio.By any means,if we can develop new porous organic polymer and different types of metal or metal oxide nanoparticles can be immobilized onto the nanoporous channel and surface of this newly developed polymer that can be used as a new heterogeneous catalyst preventing leaching of catalytic active sites (metal nanoparticles) gaining long-lived recyclable use.

 

Hence, we propose to design a new porous organic polymer and metal oxide nanoparticles composites which can be used as new heterogeneous catalyst for transforming different types of organic transformations of some of the key biomass-derived platform molecules into liquid fuels for the 

transportation sector and related high added value chemicals including    a) Levulinic Acid  Hydrogenation to  γ-valerolactone,
b) Catalytic Transfer  Hydrogenation / Hydrogenolysis  for Reductive  Upgrading  of Furfural and 5 - (Hydroxymethyl) Furfural,

c) Selective Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol to Diol derivatives over bimetallic nanocatalysts.

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