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HOT papers in Green Chemistry

Here are the latest HOT papers published in Green Chemistry, as recommended by the referees:

Mineral neogenesis as an inspiration for mild, solvent-free synthesis of bulk microporous metal–organic frameworks from metal (Zn, Co) oxides
Cristina Mottillo, Yuneng Lu, Minh-Hao Pham, Matthew J. Cliffe, Trong-On Do and Tomislav Friščić  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40520F


 

Metal-containing zeolites as efficient catalysts for the transformation of highly valuable chiral biomass-derived products
Cecilia Paris, Manuel Moliner and Avelino Corma  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40267C

Both the papers listed above are free to access for the next 4 weeks!

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17th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference

The 17th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference was held June 18­–20, 2013 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. The theme of the conference, which was organized by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute, was “Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering in the 21st Century”. The conference increased its attendance over last year, with almost 500 registrants. The conference offered 30 technical sessions, and 2 poster sessions, along with 3 keynote addresses. Lectures in the extensive program included those by Green Chemistry Editorial Board member Dr. Peter Dunn of Pfizer and Advisory Board members Dr. Rinus Broxterman of DSM, Dr. Michael Kopach of Eli Lilly and Company, and Professor Richard Wool of the University of Delaware.

The first keynote speaker was Milton Hearn of Monash University, who presented a talk entitled “Green Chemistry—Time for a Transition?” In his lecture, Professor Hearn highlighted how green chemistry tools are a crucial part of addressing global challenges such as increasing energy consumption and threats to the global food supply.

The second keynote speaker was Michael Pcolinski of BASF Corporation, who presented a lecture on “Creating Chemistry for a Sustainable Future”. Dr. Pcolinski spoke of BASF’s and the wider chemical industry’s efforts to increase the sustainability of their business activities. He described analysis tools developed at BASF to estimate the ecological efficiency, social impact, and sustainability of potential projects.

The third keynote speaker was James Hutchison of the University of Oregon, who presented a talk entitled “Greener Nanoscience: Advancing sustainable Solutions Through Molecular Level Design”. Professor Hutchison described efforts in his lab to create proactive approaches to reduce the hazards of and environmental exposure to nanomaterials. To address this goal, his lab is searching for ways to make the synthesis of nanoparticles greener, elucidate design principles for safer nanomaterials, and create nano-enabled products that may help reduce waste in consumer products. He also highlighted the development of methods to identify hazards early in the nanoparticle development process, work carried out in collaboration with Professor Robert Tanguay of Oregon State University. Professor Tanguay described this need in a recent Green Chemistry Review.

Among many other exciting topics, other broad themes of the conference included efforts in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries to make their activities more sustainable. For example, Dr. Leanna Shuster presented work at GSK on development of a guide to reduce the environmental impact of reagents used by their synthetic chemists, which was also recently presented in a Green Chemistry article (DOI: 10.1039/c3gc40225h). In addition, the effort to bring together the toxicology and green chemistry communities to design safer materials was also a hot topic. A session organized by Dr. Karen O’Brien of Advancing Green Chemistry and Dr. John Peterson Myers of Environmental Health Sciences included several speakers who are also authors on a recent Green Chemistry paper (DOI: 10.1039/c2gc35055f) describing TiPED, a tool for chemists that can  identify molecules that may disrupt the endocrine system early in the chemical development process.

All in all, this year’s Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference was a great success, bringing together scientists from diverse backgrounds in industry, academia, government, and non-governmental organizations to address challenges of sustainability and environmental and health challenges in the 21st century and beyond.

By Jennifer Griffiths

See page 2 for Albert Matlack’s view on the Conference…

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Green Chemistry impact factor reaches another record high of 6.8

We are delighted to announce that Green Chemistry’s Impact Factor* has risen to a new high of 6.8!

Walter Leitner, Chair of the Green Chemistry Editorial Board said of the news: “Once again, the impact factor for Green Chemistry has seen a significant increase, reaching an all-time high of 6.8. This is due to the excellent research of the community and the dedication of the authors to share their exciting results, the enormous efforts by the referees to ensure the highest quality, the distinguished profile of the journal and the tremendous and exceptionally professional job of the management office! Taking the impact factor as tool (not the goal) for a journal to measure the reception of its content by the community, I think we can all be proud of this development.”

We would like to thank all our authors, referees, readers and Editorial and Advisory Board  members for their help and support on the Journal.

Green Chemistry was launched 15 years ago and ever since has led the way publishing cutting edge research on the development of alternative sustainable technologies. We invite you to submit your latest research on sustainable chemistry and technology to Green Chemistry. 

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Read more about the 2012 Impact Factors on the RSC Publishing Blog.

*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. Data based on 2012 Journal Citation Reports®, (Thomson Reuters, 2013).

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HOT papers in Green Chemistry

Here are the latest HOT papers published in Green Chemistry, as recommended by the referees:

The electrocatalytic hydrogenation of furanic compounds in a continuous electrocatalytic membrane reactor
Sara K. Green, Jechan Lee, Hyung Ju Kim, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Won Bae Kim and George W. Huber  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC00090G

C3GC00090G  graphical abstract

 

Unusual reactions mediated by FMN-dependent ene- and nitro-reductases
Katharina Durchschein, Mélanie Hall and Kurt Faber  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40588E

C3GC40588E graphical abstract

 

Comparative performance evaluation and systematic screening of solvents in a range of Grignard reactions
Asha Kadam, Mylinh Nguyen, Michael Kopach, Paul Richardson, Fabrice Gallou, Zhao-Kui Wan and Wei Zhang  
Green Chem., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40702K

C3GC40702K graphical abstract

 

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The 2nd International Symposium on Green Chemistry Renewable Carbon and Eco-Efficient Processes (ISGC2)

From left to right: Sarah Ruthven, Professor Tao Zhang, Cinthia Mena Duran and Professor Walter Leitner

The 2nd International Symposium on Green Chemistry Renewable Carbon and Eco-Efficient Processes (ISGC2) was held from May 21–24th in La Rochelle, France. The conference aimed to cover the crucial problems arising from the conversion of renewable carbon and also the recent advances in the search of innovative processes for the conversion of biomass and wastes with high eco-efficiency.

The speakers included Green Chemistry Editorial Board members Professors Walter Leitner, Chao-Jun Li, Paul Anastas and Shu Kobayashi, and Advisory Board members Professors James Clark, Avelino Corma and Philip Jessop.

Professor Walter Leitner, Chair of the Green Chemistry Editorial Board, and Sarah Ruthven, Editor of Green Chemistry, presented the Green Chemistry sponsored poster prizes. The winners were Cinthia Mena Duran for her poster ‘Applications of Starbons’ and Guangyi Li for the poster ‘Synthesis of renewable diesel with 2-methylfuran and hydroxyacetone’. Congratulations to Cinthia and Guangyi on receiving these prizes.

Green Chemistry is pleased to be publishing a themed issue containing selected papers from the ISGC2 conference, which will be appearing later this year.

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The 10th Congress on Catalysis Applied to Fine Chemicals

The 10th Congress on Catalysis Applied to Fine Chemicals will be held in Turku, Finland on June 16–19th. The congress is devoted to the application of any type of catalyst (homogeneous, heterogeneous, enzymatic) to the synthesis of fine chemicals, with special emphasis on the selectivity issues. The aim is to bring together researchers from both academia and industry, working in the synthesis of fine chemicals with various catalysts, to share their expertise in the field as a way to open new collaborations that help to solve the forthcoming problems in the chemical industry, and to implement more sustainable synthetic methods based on catalytic processes. Click here to register today!

Plenary Lectures include:

Kurt Faber, University of Graz
 • Adding Value: Biocatalytic Carboxylation of Aromatics and Asymmetric Hydration of Alkenes

David Milstein, The Weizmann Institute of Science
 • Design of Sustainable Catalytic Reactions Based on Cooperative Pincer Systems

Peter McBreen, Université Laval
 • Single-Diastereomer Studies of Enantioselective Reactions on Metal Surfaces

Aurel Wolf, Bayer Technology Services GmbH
 • CO2 as C1 Building Unit for Chemicals and Polymers

Angelo Vaccari, University of Bologna
 • Examples of Environmentally Friendly Applications of the  Heterogeneous Catalysis  in Fine Chemistry

Dr. Heikki Hassila, Pharmatory Oy, Oulu Finland
 • Enzymatic Tools for Preparation of Chiral APIs and Key Building Blocks

Deputy Editor Anna Simpson will be attending CAFC10, if you would like to meet her there, please email green-rsc@rsc.org

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Green Chemistry issue 6 is now available online

Issue 6 of Green Chemistry is now available to read online.

C3GC40388B cover imageThe front cover this month features work by Mihai Irimia-Vladu and co-workers from Linz, Austria. In their work, they report the use of the natural resin shellac in organic field-effect transistors. Biocompatible and sustainable electronic-grade materials such as shellac are integral for the development of electronics for biointegration and ‘use-and-throw’ applications.

Read the full article:
Natural resin shellac as a substrate and a dielectric layer for organic field-effect transistors
M. Irimia-Vladu, E.D. Głowacki, G. Schwabegger, L. Leonat, H.Z. Akpinar, H. Sitter, S. Bauer and N.S. Sariciftci  
Green Chem., 2013, 15, 1473-1476,  DOI: 10.1039/C3GC40388B

 

C3GC37141G cover imageThe inside front cover this month features work by Bert F. Sels and co-workers from Heverlee, Belgium. In their work, they look at how ordered porous inorganic–organic nanocomposites and nanohybrids enable the acquirement of tailor-made properties, resulting in highly performing catalysts for applications in fine chemistry and biomass conversion.

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Tailoring nanohybrids and nanocomposites for catalytic applications
F. de Clippel, M. Dusselier, S. Van de Vyver, L. Peng, P.A. Jacobs and B.F. Sels  
Green Chem., 2013, 15, 1398-1430, DOI: 10.1039/C3GC37141G

 

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