Archive for the ‘Poster Prize’ Category

UKCC 2022: RSC Poster Prize Winners

 

 

Catalysis Science & Technology, alongside Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, Chemical Science, ChemComm & RSC Advances, were delighted to sponsor 5 Poster Prizes at The 8th UK Catalysis Conference

 

Poster Prize Winners

 

Catalysis Science & Technology

Shima Zainal, University of Manchester                              

“NMR relaxation studies of porous zirconium dioxide in the catalytic transfer hydrogenation of methyl levulinate with ethanol”

 

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering

Deema Khunda, University of Warwick 

“Microplasma–catalysis synergy in dry reforming of methanes”

 

Chemical Science

Gary Morrison, Almac Group   

“Continuous flow photooxidation of alkyl benzenes using ultra-fine bubbles for mass transfer enhancement”

 

ChemComm

Mariia Konstantinova, University of Sheffield

“Hydrothermal Catalytic Conversion of NaHCO3 with Glucose Reductant”

 

RSC Advances

Jaidene Parks, University of Bath

“Bismuth (III) complexes of maltol analogues and their application as antimicrobial ring-opening polymerisation catalysts”

 

Each winner was awarded a certificate and a RSC book voucher. Many congratulations again to our winners, and to all of the poster participants. We were proud to sponsor such excellent contributions and look forward to their future developments.

 

 

 

 

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Chinese Chemical Society 10th National Conference on Inorganic Chemistry Prize Winners

Catalysis Science & Technology would like to say a big congratulations to the winners of the poster prizes at the Chinese Chemical Society 10th National Conference on Inorganic Chemistry held in China on 18 – 21 August 2019.

Over 2000 delegates attended the conference and  Catalysis Science & Technology along with sister Royal Society of Chemistry journals Energy & Environmental Science, Green Chemistry, PCCP  and Sustainable Energy & Fuels were delighted to award a total of 15 poster prizes as pictured below.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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The International Symposium on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals 2018 – C&FC2018

Catalysis Science & Technology would like to say a big congratulations to the winners of the poster prizes at the The International Symposium on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals 2018 held in Bangkok, Thailand on 10 – 14th December 2018.

The winners of the best poster awards are:

Ms. Hitomi Hayashibara, Tokyo Metropolitan University
In Situ Generation of Highly Active Vanadium(V)-Alkylidene Catalysts for Ring- Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Cyclic Olefins by Phenoxy Ligand Exchange

Ms. Ayumi Kuramochi, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Direct Coupling of Nonprotected Alkynylboronate with Conjugated Dienes

Mr. Hyun-Suk Um, Seoul, National University
Stereoselective Allylic Reduction Using a Novel Sulfinate

Ms. Ayumi Kuramochi

Mr. Hyun-Suk Um

Ms. Hitomi Hayashibara

Congratulations to All

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PBSi 2018 International Conference On Phosphorus, Boron and Silicon – Prize Winner

Catalysis Science & Technology would like to say a big congratulations to the winner of the poster prize at the second edition of the PBSi 2018 International Conference on Phosphorus, Boron and Silicon held in Barcelona on 10th – 12th December 2018.

The winner of the best poster presentation is Luong Phong Ho, Technische Universität Braunschweig for “Main Group Element Complexes Bearing Anionic N-Heterocyclic Carbenes”.

Congratulations to Luong Phong Ho

 

 

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TOCAT8, Yokohama – Prize Winners

Catalysis Science & Technology would like to say a big congratulations to the winners of the poster prizes at the 8th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT8) that was held from 5 – 10 August 2018 in Yokohama, Japan.  CS&T provided a Luncheon Seminar at the meeting titled “Meet the Editor: Insights into Peer Review”, as well as prizes for the best poster submissions.

The winners of the prizes are below. Congratulations to all!

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Prize Winners at CatBior 2017

The 4th International Congress on Catalysis for Biorefineries took place in Lyon between 11-15 December 2017. Royal Society Chemistry journals Catalysis Science & Technology and Reaction Chemistry & Engineering sponsored the event and provided prizes for the best poster submissions.

The winners of the prizes were Fatima-Zahra Azar and Clément Journoux-Lapp. Congratulations to both!

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FineCat 2017: Great symposium at Royal Palace

Jointly organized by Italy’s Research Council and Palermo’s University, the 6th edition of the “FineCat – Symposium on heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemicals” was held in Sicily’s Royal Palace in Palermo on April 5th.

Gideon Grader at FineCat017 (Palermo, 5 April 2017)The scientific works (watch the video) were opened by Professor Gideon Grader, a Professor of chemical engineering at Haifa’s Technion where he leads the University’s energy program.

In an inspirational lecture Professor Grader discussed the mechanisms discovered by his group to create the unique mesoporous core-shell architecture of nanostructured materials with multifunctional, specific properties – an highly desirable finding which facilitates new possibilities and applications in all fields of catalysis due to the combination of high surface to volume ratio and low mass transfer resistance to and from the catalytic sites.

Heidelberg University’s organic chemistry Professor A. Stephen K. Hashmi, gave a fascinating lecture on new aspects of gold catalysis applied to the synthesis of a variety of functional products. Professor Hashmi described the latest findings concerning the new synthetic methods to access both gold(I) and gold(III) catalytic species, the identification of highly reactive catalysts, and the development of gold-catalyzed reactions including additions to allenes and alkenes, benzannulations, cycloisomerization, rearrangement as well as oxidation and reduction reactions.

Already used for the production of bulk chemicals, gold catalysis is poised to be introduced in the production of the basic ingredients of a wide variety of valued added products ranging from pharmaceuticals through liquid crystals and organic light emitting diodes (OLED) for computer, TV and mobile phone screens.

Raed Abu-REziq at FineCat017 (Palermo, 5 April 2017)Professor Raed Abu-Reziq, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, presented the results of his team concerning the development of new nanostructured materials, nano- and microreactors as platforms for heterogeneous catalysis. He showed how advanced sol-gel processing nanochemistry can be used to encapsulate, for example, ionic liquids and convert them from liquid to solid state.

Catalytic microreactors, he explained, have a potential to bridge between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis by the microencapsulation of catalyst dissolved or dispersed in non-volatile phase such as a ionic liquid.

Francesco Parrino, a post-doctoral researcher in the Schiavello-Grillone research group of Palermo’s University, presented the new results obtained in photocatalytic bromine synthesis. An eco-friendly and economic process capable to replace current industrial production via oxidation of bromide ions using gaseous chlorine is highly desirable, he explained opening his presentation.

Giuseppe Bagnato, a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom, presented posters in the field of catalytic membrane reactor technology which he is now working to integrate in biorefinery.

His poster entitled “Hydrogenation of Bio-Oil: A Thermodynamic Study ” was awarded the best poster presentation prize – an online subscription to Catalysis Science & Technology, the RSC flagship catalysis journal with which the organisers of FineCat have partnered since the first edition of the Symposium in 2012.

Giuseppe was presented with a certificate signed by the journal’s Executive Editor, Dr Anna Simpson.

A full report of the conference proceedings can be found here.

The 7th edition of FineCat will be held in Sicily on 8th April 2018.

 

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15th National Youth Catalysis Conference – China

Catalysis Science & Technology is proud to announce that it awarded poster prizes at the 15th National Youth Catalysis Conference, “Multidisciplinary and multi-scale catalytic science and technology”, in China. The conference was held on 19th July 2015, at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in Hefei. Plenary lectures were given by Professor Qingbai Xu (Tsinghua University), Professor Ye Wang (Xiamen University), Professor Wenjie Shen (Dalian Insitute of Chemical Physics, CAS), Professor Jiaguo Yu (Wuhan University of Technology) and Professor Baoning Zong (SINOPEC research institute of petroleum processing). Professors Wang, Shen and Yu are pictured below (left-right), together with the prize winners, Professor Weixin Huang (USTC, the local Chair) and Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor, Professor Ding Ma (Peking University).

The Winners:

Di Xin (Dalian University of Technolgy)

Ding Liangbing (University of Science and Technology of China)

Song Xiaojing   (Jilin University)

Han Lupeng (East China Normal University)

Su Xiaojuan (Ningxia University)

Chen Lang (Hunan University)

Su Diefeng (Zhejing University)

Wei Mingming (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS)

Wang Dandan   (Xiamen University)

Gu Jing (Nanjing University)

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Congratulations to the poster prize winners at NSC2014

Congratulations to the poster prize winners at NSC2014 (16th Nordic Symposium on Catalysis). Green Chemistry and Catalysis Science & Technology were pleased to sponsor a poster prize each at the symposium, which were awarded as follows:

Green Chemistry poster prize
awarded to Aron Dombovari, University of Oulu
for “Photocatalytic processing of algae

Catalysis Science & Technology poster prize
awarded to Jacob O. Abildstrøm, Technical University of Denmark
for “Investigation of Mesoporous TS-1 for the Catalytic Formation of N-oxides

The prize winners received a certificate and a book from Royal Society of Chemistry Books.

You can read more about the Poster Award and find out about the Nordic Symposium on the UiO website.

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An exuberant event: 20th Organometallic EuCheMS Conference

 

  

Sara Coles is a guest web-writer for Catalysis Science & Technology. She currently works for Johnson Matthey in Royston, UK. 


The 20th EuCheMS Conference on Organometallic  Chemistry was held from 30th June–4th July 2013, and co-sponsored by the RSC’s Catalysis Science & Technology and Dalton Transactions. This was the main international European conference on organometallic chemistry for 2013 and attendees came from all over the UK, Europe and further afield (notably the USA, Japan and various African countries). 

Palladium and ruthenium were by far the most represented metals. The presenters were split between those primarily studying fundamentals such as mechanism or characterisation techniques, and those with a focus on practical applications. Several were sponsored or supported by industrial or commercial companies, and others were clearly interested in developing commercialisable products. During the poster sessions, it was clear that some of the students were thinking about industry either in terms of their careers or of commercialising the products that they were working on. 

Popular catalytic themes included synthesis of novel compounds and complexes; the improvement of existing routes (including some current industrial processes); and waste reduction. Several presenters mentioned valorisation of waste biomass, a hot topic in the current climate. The cost of catalysts came up a few times. Often, though, the cost of the catalytic metal is secondary to other factors such as the cost of the ligand or of ultrapure solvents or reagents that must be added. It does not always follow that an expensive metal means a more expensive process – in fact the reverse is often the case. 

The conference was well attended and the main lecture theatre was full for the final presentation (by Bruno Chaudret, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Toulouse, France) at the end of day three. There was standing room only and the mood was exuberant after an inspiring three days. 

There was an unscheduled additional presentation for Professor David Cole-Hamilton, of the University of St Andrews, in celebration of his long career in chemistry. The RSC prepared a special issue of Dalton Transactions, co-ordinated by Professors Duncan Bruce and Derek Woollins. Poster prizes were judged by the Young Plenary lecturers and were presented by Professor Dr Eric Meggers. There were nine winners and the prizes were books on organometallic chemistry contributed by Springer and the RSC. 

The social activities included a musical interlude following Professor Ei-ichi Negishi’s presentation on Sunday evening. This was followed by a whisky tasting on Monday and to finish off the conference in style on Wednesday evening, a banquet and Scottish ceilidh were held in the glorious Scottish sunshine in the famous Old Course Hotel of St Andrews. 

For those who were able to stay, there was an additional morning of chemistry at the RSC Awards Symposium on Thursday 4th July. 

The 21st EuCheMS meeting will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, from 5th–9th July 2015 and is being co-organised by the Czech and Slovak chemistry societies. The website is www.eucomcxxi.eu and will contain more information shortly. 

Read some papers by speakers at the event in Catalysis Science & Technology: 

Amination and dehydration of 1,3-propanediol by hydrogen transfer: reactions of a bio-renewable platform chemical
Sophie D. Lacroix, Annie Pennycook, Shifang Liu, Thomas T. Eisenhart and Andrew C. Marr 
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2012, 2, 288-290, DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00339A 

Organometallic hydrogen transfer and dehydrogenation catalysts for the conversion of bio-renewable alcohols
Andrew C. Marr
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2012, 2, 279-287, DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00338K 

Direct coupling of alcohols to form esters and amides with evolution of H2 using in situ formed ruthenium catalysts
Martin H. G. Prechtl, Kathrin Wobser, Nils Theyssen, Yehoshoa Ben-David, David Milstein and Walter Leitner 
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2012, 2, 2039-2042, DOI: 10.1039/C2CY20429K 

NOBIN-based phosphoramidite and phosphorodiamidite ligands and their use in asymmetric nickel-catalysed hydrovinylation
Mike Schmitkamp, Walter Leitner and Giancarlo Franciò 
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2013, 3, 589-594, DOI: 10.1039/C2CY20657A 

Controlling selectivity in the reaction network of aldoxime hydrogenation to primary amines
Ewa Gebauer-Henke, Walter Leitner, Angelina Prokofieva, Henning Vogt and Thomas E. Müller 
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2012, 2, 2539-2548, DOI: 10.1039/C2CY20356A 

A latent ruthenium based olefin metathesis catalyst with a sterically demanding NHC ligand
Anita Leitgeb, Mudassar Abbas, Roland C. Fischer, Albert Poater, Luigi Cavallo and Christian Slugovc 
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2012, 2, 1640-1643, DOI: 10.1039/C2CY20311A 

A computational perspective of olefins metathesis catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbene ruthenium (pre)catalysts
Raffaele Credendino, Albert Poater, Francesco Ragone and Luigi Cavallo 
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 1287-1297, DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00052G 

Gold(I)-catalyzed synthesis of furans and pyrroles via alkyne hydration
Pierrick Nun, Stéphanie Dupuy, Sylvain Gaillard, Albert Poater, Luigi Cavallo and Steven P. Nolan 
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 58-61, DOI: 10.1039/C0CY00055H 

Secondary phosphine oxides as pre-ligands for nanoparticle stabilization
Eoin Rafter, Torsten Gutmann, Florian Löw, Gerd Buntkowsky, Karine Philippot, Bruno Chaudret and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen 
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2013,3, 595-599, DOI: 10.1039/C2CY20683H 

NHC-stabilized ruthenium nanoparticles as new catalysts for the hydrogenation of aromatics
David Gonzalez-Galvez, Patricia Lara, Orestes Rivada-Wheelaghan, Salvador Conejero, Bruno Chaudret, Karine Philippot and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen 
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2013,3, 99-105, DOI: 10.1039/C2CY20561K

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