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
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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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
In the field of heterogeneous catalysis, the characteristics of the support can make a substantial difference in the operating conditions of a system and on its performance. Boron nitride (BN), in its hexagonal, graphite-like morphology, has proven to be a promising support for a number of catalysts and processes, including the synthesis of ammonia over barium/ruthenium catalysts thanks also to its higher chemical and thermal stability.
Chinese researchers led by Liqiang Xu focused on the synthesis of such supports, developing ultrathin nanosheets (<20 layers) with high specific surface area that could potentially be complementary to their carbon counterparts.
The group developed a convenient solid phase synthesis starting from boron oxide, zinc powder and N2H4 2HCl that yielded nanosheets with thickness varying from 2 to 6 nm. Notably, when zinc was absent, no BN was produced. Replacing zinc with iron or manganese resulted in lower yields or thicker nanosheets.
To test the properties of the new boron nitride support, the nanosheets were impregnated with platinum and employed in the oxidation of carbon monoxide with interesting results. Not only did the system reached almost full conversion with catalyst concentration as low as 2, 1 and 0.04%, but the respective temperature at which it was achieved (respectively 165, 210 and 310 °C) was lower than with conventional BN or alumina supports.
The material was also functionalised with gold nanoparticles, but to obtain interactions strong enough to anchor them to the surface, a supplementary functionalisation of the material was required. After hydrothermal treatment of the nanosheet with hydrogen peroxide, the Au nanoparticles dispersed more efficiently and allowed for higher loading.
In the Authors` view, these Au/BN nanosheet could find applications in optical materials, sensors and photocatalysis.
Find the full communication here.
Convenient synthesis and applications of gram scale boron nitride nanosheets
Liancheng Wang, Changhui Sun, Liqiang Xu and Yitai Qian
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00191D
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
Read the full article to find out more…
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 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!
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
Read more about this thermoregulation at:
Supramolecularly controlled surface activity of an amphiphilic ligand. Application to aqueous biphasic hydroformylation of higher olefins
Natacha Six, Antonella Guerriero, David Landy, Maurizio Peruzzini, Luca Gonsalvi, Frédéric Hapiot and Eric Monflier
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00156F
In this Catalysis Science & Technology Hot article Liqiang Xu and co-workers from Shandong University, China, make hexagonal boron nitride submicro-boxes and test their photocatalytic properties.
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High yield synthesis of novel boron nitride submicro-boxes and their photocatalytic application under visible light irradiation
Meng Wang, Menghua Li, Liqiang Xu, Liancheng Wang, Zhicheng Ju, Guangda Li and Yiti Qian
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00111F
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