{"id":2123,"date":"2021-08-13T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T09:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/?page_id=2123"},"modified":"2021-08-13T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T09:46:56","slug":"joakim-b-jakobsen-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/exchange-blog\/joakim-b-jakobsen-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Joakim B. Jakobsen (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-indent: 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-799\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/344\/2019\/01\/Joakim_B\u00f8gelund-e1548667596765.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the late summer of 2020, I moved to Rostock (Germany) for an exchange stay at the Leibniz-Institut f\u00fcr Katalyse (LIKAT) under t<span style=\"text-indent: 0em\">he supervision of Prof. Matthias Beller and Dr. Ralf Jackstell. At LIKAT, they recently acquired an experimental plasma-setup, w<\/span><span style=\"text-indent: 0em\">here stable gases such as CO<\/span><sub style=\"text-indent: 0em\">2<\/sub><span style=\"text-indent: 0em\"> can be activated non-catalytically using high voltage electricity. At the group of Prof. Troels Skrydstrup, I worked with homogeneous electrochemical CO<\/span><sub style=\"text-indent: 0em\">2<\/sub><span style=\"text-indent: 0em\"> reduction Therefore, going to Rostock would be an excellent opportunity to get familiar with a different, but still related topic and equipment. At LIKAT, I was tasked to provide proof of principle on the hydrogenation of CO<\/span><sub style=\"text-indent: 0em\">2<\/sub><span style=\"text-indent: 0em\"> to CO using the plasma-setup. Subsequent work would evolve around the utilization of the produced gaseous products in several reactions. During my stay, I managed to optimize different parameters of both the plasma-setup and the plasma\u2011conditions to obtain CO<\/span><sub style=\"text-indent: 0em\">2<\/sub><span style=\"text-indent: 0em\"> hydrogenation to CO with a high selectivity (minor by-products being CH<\/span><sub style=\"text-indent: 0em\">4<\/sub><span style=\"text-indent: 0em\"> and MeOH). In the same setup, I also investigated the direct splitting of CO<\/span><sub style=\"text-indent: 0em\">2<\/sub><span style=\"text-indent: 0em\"> to CO and O<\/span><sub style=\"text-indent: 0em\">2<\/sub><span style=\"text-indent: 0em\"> and to my delight, this was indeed possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gratifyingly, it was also possible to utilize the produced CO directly in palladium-catalyzed alkoxycarbonylations and rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylations.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the laboratory work, I had time to visit some of the other group members and enjoy Rostock. In November, I had the pleasure to attend \u201cDie Lichtwoche\u201d, which is a tradition in Rostock, where the November darkness is replaced by colorful lights on several of the city\u2019s buildings, such as the main building of the University of Rostock and Kr\u00f6peliner Tor.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, most attractions in Rostock were closed due to COVID-19, thus, I mainly experienced the city from walks and by glancing through windows. However, I managed to go on several trips to explore the countryside outside of Rostock such as the beautiful sand beach Warnem\u00fcnde and Germanys largest island R\u00fcgen. All in all, I really enjoyed my stay in Rostock and I surely appreciated the opportunity to go physically, in times when it was difficult to travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late summer of 2020, I moved to Rostock (Germany) for an exchange stay at the Leibniz-Institut f\u00fcr Katalyse (LIKAT) under the supervision of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":0,"parent":867,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2123","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2123\/revisions\/2124"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nordco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}