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1. UAIPD #14-0012
Dr. Silas Blackstock
Redox-Auxiliary Catalysis

2. Current Problems
• Products must be stronger oxidants than the
reactant to enable a chain reaction
• Reactions must run at high temperatures
• RA reactions cannot be triggered electronically

3. • New approach to electron-transfer catalysis of
chemical reactions
• Appends a redox unit to a reaction site
• Then removes an electron from the redox unit,
which triggers a reaction
Technology

4. • Product no longer needs to be a stronger oxidant
than the reactant
• RA group is very stable and does not decompose in
the oxidized form
Advantages

5. • Dr. Silas Blackstock
– Professor
– More than 50 publications
• Departments
– Chemistry
– Center for Materials Information Technology
Inventor

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