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Challenges in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (ISACS7)

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for Challenges in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (ISACS7) which is being held on 12 – 15 June 2012 at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Register now to guarantee your place for this major conference whilst benefiting from the fantastic early bird savings currently available.

The oral abstract submission deadline is fast approaching so make sure you submit your abstract by 27 January 2012 to present your work alongside Nobel Prize Winners Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki.

For further details on this significant event, please visit the dedicated webpage.

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Biotrans2011 poster prize winner

Congratulations to Robert ter Halle who was awarded the Catalysis Science & Technology  poster prize for his poster on ‘Sustainable biocatalytic processes for the synthesis of pharmaceutical and cosmetic intermediates’, presented at BioTrans2011. The conference of industrial process and development attracted participants from academia and industry from all over Europe focusing on both applied and fundamental aspects of biocatalysis. Robert was awarded both a certificate and a copy of Metal-catalysis in Industrial Organic Processes!

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Catalysis Science & Technology at ISHHC XV

Carolin Ziebart, ISHHC XV poster prize winner

Catalysis Science & Technology was delighted to sponsor a poster prize at the International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis in Berlin in September.

The prize was awarded to Carolin Ziebart from the Leibniz-Institut für Katalysee.V., Rostock, Germany. The winning poster was entitled ‘Homogeneous catalyzed Hydrogenation of Bicarbonates and Carbon Dioxide to Formates, Alkyl Formates and Formamides with a well-defined Iron Catalyst’.

Congratulations to Carolin who works in Ralf Jackstell’s group, on homogenous catalysed carbon dioxide hydrogenation with non-noble metals.

A summary of the meeting can be found here: http://www.ishhc15.de/

Read our earlier blog to find out more about the meeting.

homogenous catalysed Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation with non-noble metals
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EuropaCat: Glasgow, 28 August 2011

For a week at the end of August, Glasgow, renowned world-wide for its rich heritage of Victorian architecture, and former European City of Culture, was home to EuropaCat, the biennial conference organised by EFCATS – the European Federation of Catalysis Societies.

Was Glasgow ready for the arrival of 1200 chemists talking about catalysis?  Thanks to the hard and efficient work of the local organisers, the answer was a definite yes! The organisers had planned every detail, resulting in a well run and welcoming conference – from the army of conference helpers in their yellow T-shirts to the meal cards charged with a £10 daily allowance which could be used at a number of venues on campus at all times during the day.  With this attention to detail, we all felt very well looked after. 

Every day began with a plenary in the magnificent Bute Hall, designed by the Victorian architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott, with an interior decoration based on the heraldic colours of the Marquess of Bute, whose financial gift to the university funded its building in the early 1880s.  The plenaries, given by recognised leaders in their fields, each provided an authoritative overview, and Minireviews based on two of these have recently been published in Catalysis Science & Technology – if you missed out on attending EuropaCat, why not take a look at these Minireviews to get a flavour of the conference.

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, 1, 891-911 DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00118C  

Heterogenization of homogeneous catalytic systems, Alana E. C. Collis and István T. Horváth, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 912-919 DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00174D
 
The cover of Issue 6, Catalysis Science & Technology

Issue 6 Catalysis Science & Technology

Between them, the Plenaries illustrated the many advances that have been made in catalysis research in recent years. In addition to some fantastic science, we also were entertained by some molecular movies from Rutger van Santen, and a detailed analysis of the cover illustration of Issue 6, 2011, Catalysis Science & Technology, by Javier Perez-Ramirez (Design of hierarchical zeolite catalysts by desilication, Danny Verboekend and Javier Pérez-Ramírez, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 879-890, DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00150G).

Free copies of this issue were available in the exhibition, and proved to be very popular … and I suspect that a number of people were attracted by its imaginative cover (incidentally, the author, Javier Perez-Ramirez drew the illustration himself!).

The parallel sessions that followed the plenaries were held in a number of lecture theatres throughout the university buildings, which presented the delegates with an opportunity to see more of the university.  These sessions covered a broad mix of catalysis topics, including catalyst preparation, characterisation, deactivation and industrial, computational and homogeneous catalysis, and included a number of keynote lectures.  The talks were all of a very high standard, and it was great to see students as well as professors speak about their work. 

We sponsored the poster session on Tuesday evening, held in the Glasgow University Union, which was very well attended. The posters took over the building for the evening – wherever you went, there seemed to be more posters on display … and this poster session was just one of three held during the conference! This very high level of student participation is very encouraging for the future of catalysis research. 

Many thanks are due to the local organisers, in particular David Jackson (who unfortunately was unable to attend) and Justin Hargreaves, for organising a very enjoyable meeting. 

The next EuropaCat will be held in 2013 in France.

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Catalysis Science & Technology is looking forward to Europacat X

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

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International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis

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

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

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Catalysis Science & Technology poster prize at CASE 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!

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Catalysis Science & Technology at Europacat X

Jamie Humphrey, Managing Editor for Catalysis Science & Technology will be at Europacat X, in Glasgow at the end of August.

Keynote speakers include Istvan Horvath, Matthias Beller, Rutger van Santen and Charles Campbell. Find out more about the conference by visiting the Europacat website, or contact us if you’re going to be there.

See what other conferences the team will be attending by seeing our earlier blog post…

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Great opportunity to present your research!

A chance for networking and discussion

A chance to meet fellow postgraduates and postdocs from the wider UK inorganic and organometallic community this year at the Dalton Transactions Younger Researchers Symposium. The meeting, organised in associated with Johnson Matthey, is taking place in University of Warwick on 20-21 September 2011.

Registration for the symposium is FREE of charge and accommodation and the conference dinner cost comes to a mere £67 – a bargain indeed! Speakers include the 2010 Dalton Transactions Europe/Africa Lectureship Winner, Professor Karsten Meyer, Dr Erwin Reisner and Dr Michaele Hardie. More information available at the event webpage.

Register now! Deadline for abstracts: 22 July 2011

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