Researchers ’film’ novel catalyst at work

Catalysis scheme developed at the University of Bonn is inexpensive, sustainable, and effective. At the experimental setup ( from left ): - Peter Vöhringer, Luis Domenianni, Jonas Schmidt and Andreas Gansäuer. Photo: Volker Lannert/University of Bonn all images in original size . A novel catalysis scheme enables chemical reactions that were previously virtually impossible. The method developed at the University of Bonn is also environmentally friendly and does not require rare and precious metals. The researchers recorded the exact course of the catalysis in a kind of high-speed film. They did this using special lasers that can make processes visible that last only fractions of a billionth of a second.