RSC Publishing will be at the Fall ACS meeting in Denver at the end of the month. Find out more by reading the ACS blog post, or visit us at Booth 1100…
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RSC Publishing at the ACS in Denver
17 Aug 2011
Issue 6 now online!
16 Aug 2011
Issue 6 of Catalysis Science & Technology is now online, and with an editorial by David Jackson (University of Glasgow), 2 Perspective review articles and 3 mini-reviews in addition to a great selection of original research it is well worth reading!
The issue also contains a truly brilliant cover image from Javier Pérez-Ramírez at ETH Zurich. The cover is called ‘The Hierarchical Zeolite Show, starring desilication’ and is based on their mini-review in the issue.
It shows an elephant and a lion performing tricks in circus ring, and as Professor Pérez-Ramírez explains ‘the post-synthetic modification of zeolites is like a circus, a variety of complementary tasks need to be orchestrated to offer a successful show’. See the pdf of the Issue 6 cover here, or read the article…
Design of hierarchical zeolite catalysts by desilication
Danny Verboekend and Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 879-890
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Synthetic nickel electrocatalyst for hydrogen production
15 Aug 2011
Check out this recent Science paper on ‘A Synthetic Nickel Electrocatalyst with a Turnover Frequency Above 100,000 s−1 for H2 Production’.
Morris Bullock, Daniel Du Bois and colleagues from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the USA make a nickel catalyst which produces hydrogen at 10 times the rate of the enzyme hydrogenase, and much faster than commercially available catalysts.
Read the C
hemistry World article here to find out more.
Catalysis Science & Technology is looking forward to Europacat X
12 Aug 2011
The Managing Editor of Catalysis Science & Technology, Dr Jamie Humphrey, together with several members of the Editorial & Advisory Boards, will be attending Europacat X in Glasgow at the end of August.
RSC Publishing will have an exhibition stand, so look out for us there, and also for the poster prize session we will be sponsoring.
If you would like to meet up with Jamie, please email him: Jamie Humphrey
International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
08 Aug 2011
Catalysis Science & Technology will be sponsoring a poster prize at the International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis in Berlin in September.
The symposium aims to unite researchers from the heterogeneous, homogeneous and biocatalysis fields who work with nanosize particles.
Keynote speakers include Jan-E. Bäckvall, Tobin Marks, Silvia Bordiga and Catal. Sci. Technol. Advisory Board member Mizuki Tada, amongst others.
To find out more about the meeting, visit the ISHHC XV website.
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Professor Negishi’s lecture at OMCOS 16
05 Aug 2011
Kuiling Ding introducing Professor Ei-ichi Negishi, Nobel Laureate, at OMCOS 16
Catalysis Science & Technology was delighted to sponsor Professor Ei-ichi Negishi’s plenary lecture at the 16th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis in Shanghai at the end of July. Professor Negishi spoke on the ‘Magical Power of d-Block Transition Metals—Pd-Catalyzed Cross Coupling
and Zr-Catalyzed Asymmetric Carboalumination of Alkenes’.
Professor Negishi was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 together with Richard Heck and Akira Suzuki, for his work on palladium-catalysed cross-coupling.
Editorial Board member Kuiling Ding, from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry did a fantastic job of introducing the sponsored lecture and announcing Catalysis Science & Technology.
Catalysis Science & Technology also sponsored a poster prize, which was awarded to Thomas Dröge, who works with Frank Glorius at the University of Münster.
Thomas commented ‘I had an amazing time in Shanghai and finished with an unexpected poster prize. I feel honored and was a great moment to receive the Catalysis Science & Technology poster award. The quantity (1000 participants and around 520 poster) and quality of the posters was tremendous. Not only the excellent lectures, held by outstanding chemists, but even more the scientific talks with other organometallic chemists were great and inspiring’
Thomas’ winning poster was entitled “Efficient Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Indoles and Indolines by C-H Bond Activation”
If you’d like to find out more about his research, visit the group’s webpages, or read this Frank Glorius review article from Issue 1 of Catalysis Science & Technology:
Superparamagnetic nanoparticles for asymmetric catalysis—a perfect match
Kalluri V. S. Ranganath and Frank Glorius
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 13-22
or this recently published review in Chemical Society Reviews:
Towards mild metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation
Joanna Wencel-Delord, Thomas Dröge, Fan Liu and Frank Glorius
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CS15083A
Catalysis in the refining of Fischer-Tropsch syncrude
29 Jul 2011
Read this excellent book review by Malcolm Green on Arno de Klerk and Edward Furminsky’s recent book entitled ‘Catalysis in the refining of Fischer-Tropsch syncrude’
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2011/May/Reviews/FischerTropschRevival.asp
If you’re interested in the Fischer-Tropsch reaction, check out these recent Catalysis Science & Technology articles:
Structure sensitivity of the Fischer–Tropsch reaction; molecular kinetics simulations
Rutger A. van Santen, Mohammed Minhaj Ghouri, Sharan Shetty and Emiel M. H. Hensen, Minireview
Studying Fischer–Tropsch catalysts using transmission electron microscopy and model systems of nanoparticles on planar supports
P. C. Thüne, C. J. Weststrate, P. Moodley, A. M. Saib, J. van de Loosdrecht, J. T. Miller and J. W. Niemantsverdriet, Perspective
Support effects on the structure and performance of ruthenium catalysts for the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis
Juan María González Carballo, Elisabetta Finocchio, Sergio García, Sergio Rojas, Manuel Ojeda, Guido Busca and José Luis García Fierro
Review article: Molecular kinetics of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction
27 Jul 2011
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Structure sensitivity of the Fischer–Tropsch reaction; molecular kinetics simulations
Rutger A. van Santen, Mohammed Minhaj Ghouri, Sharan Shetty and Emiel M. H. Hensen
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00118C
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Catalysis Science & Technology poster prize at CASE 2011
22 Jul 2011
Catalysis Science & Technology was delighted to sponsor a poster prize at the Catalysis and Sensing for our Environment symposium in Birmingham last week.
Congratulations to Antonio Feula, who won the prize for his poster. Antonio works in John Fossey’s lab at the University of Birmingham.
To find out more about the symposium, visit the CASE 2011 webpage, and check out the photos!
Hot Review Article: Biocatalysis for asymmetric synthesis of alcohols
21 Jul 2011
In this Catalysis Science & Technology Hot article Robert S. Phillips and Musa M. Musa review recent developments in using biocatalysts to make asymmetric hydrophobic alcohols.
They particularly look into the use of non-aqueous media with alcohol dehydrogenases, which allows enzymes to be more versatile.
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Recent advances in alcohol dehydrogenase-catalyzed asymmetric production of hydrophobic alcohols
Musa M. Musa and Robert S. Phillips
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00160D