A new paper co-authored with postdoc Laura D’Andrea has been published in Organics (MDPI), stemming from work supported by VILLUM FONDEN (grant 50405).

Pd EnCat™ 30 is a widely used encapsulated palladium catalyst valued for its high performance, easy recovery, and reusability in hydrogenation and cross-coupling reactions. Despite these attractive properties, published recyclability data for Suzuki coupling reactions had been limited to only a handful of cycles — leaving its full potential unexplored.

In this study, D’Andrea and Steinmann systematically tracked the performance of Pd EnCat™ 30 across repeated Suzuki cross-coupling cycles, measuring isolated product yields at each stage. The results show that the catalyst remains viable for a minimum of 30 reaction cycles, a result with clear implications for cost reduction and more sustainable chemical production.