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Catalysis Science & Technology, a high impact “top-tier” multidisciplinary journal from the RSC, that focuses on both the fundamental science and technological aspects of catalysis is available for FREE during 2011 and 2012.
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I am delighted to announce that Cynthia Friend from Harvard University, has been appointed co-Editor-in-Chief of Catalysis Science & Technology.
Cynthia has been the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University since 1998, and Professor of Materials Science since 2002. The recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Fellowship (2008) and the ACS George C. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon Chemistry (2009), Cynthia’s research interests include the development of mechanistic frameworks for selective catalytic syntheses using coinage metals and their alloys and the investigation of hybrid metal/metal oxide materials for chemical and photocatalysis.
Professor Cynthia Friend
Together with co-Editor-in-Chief Professor Piet van Leeuwen and the members of the Editorial Board, Cynthia will guide the development of Catalysis Science & Technology to ensure that the journal meets the needs of the different international catalysis research communities, and we are delighted to have her on board.
Article submissions to the journal opened October 2010, and expect to see the very first articles published Spring 2011. As with all RSC journals launched since 2008, the first two volumes of Catalysis Science & Technology will be freely available online.
You can register for free access to Catalysis Science & Technology articles now by filling in our simple online access form.
For information on how to submit an article to the journal or if you would like more information please contact us at catalysis-rsc@rsc.org.
Metal-free polymers have the potential to replace toxic metal catalysts in hydrocarbon oxidation reactions, according to an international team of chemists in the RSC journal Chemical Science.
Yong Wang, at the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany, and colleagues replaced some of the carbon atoms in graphitic carbon nitride with boron. The resulting polymeric material was better than previous biomimetic homogeneous oxidation catalysts at oxidising substituted aromatics.
Oxidations of sp3 hybridised C-H bonds are challenging because the oxidised products are more reactive than the starting materials and so they tend to over-oxidise. This was not a problem for Wang’s catalyst, which was highly selective at forming ketones or aldehydes.
Synthesis of boron doped polymeric carbon nitride solids and their use as metal-free catalysts for aliphatic C–H bond oxidation
Yong Wang, Haoran Li, Jia Yao, Xinchen Wang and Markus Antonietti
Chem. Sci., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0SC00475H , Edge Article
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I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Paul Kamer, University of St. Andrews, UK, as Associate Editor for Catalysis Science & Technology. Paul’s appointment brings to three the number of Associate Editors for the journal, who welcome manuscripts for consideration for publication in the journal: Professor Paul Chirik, Professor Paul Kamer and Professor Noritaka Mizuno.
Professor Paul Chirik, Cornell University
Paul Chirik is currently the Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, NY, USA. His work is focussed on homogeneous catalysis and small molecule activation using transition metal complexes. The goal of this research is the discovery of energy-efficient chemical transformations that minimize byproducts, separation of waste and eliminate precious metals. Paul is moving to Princeton (NJ, USA) in January 2011 to take up the position of Edward S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry.
Professor Paul Kamer, University of St. Andrews
Paul Kamer did his PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Utrecht. As a postdoctoral fellow of the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) he carried out postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Leiden. He was appointed Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and full Professor of homogeneous catalysis in 2005. In 2005 he received a Marie Curie Excellence Grant and moved to the University of St Andrews. His current research interests are (asymmetric) homogeneous catalysis, biocatalysis, combinatorial synthesis, and artificial metalloenzymes.
Professor Noritaka Mizuno, University of Tokyo
Noritaka Mizuno received his Bachelor’s degree in synthetic chemistry at the University of Tokyo in 1980. He received his PhD from the same university in 1985 for his research on the heterogeneous oxidation catalysis of heteropoly compounds. In 1989 he moved to the Professor Richard G. Finke lab at the University of Oregon as a postdoc and then in 1990, returned to Japan as an Associate Professor at Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University. In 1994, he moved to the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, and then to the Department of Applied Chemistry of the same university, where he has been a full Professor since 2001. His research interests are mainly directed toward catalysis of metal oxide clusters such as heteropoly compounds and zeolitic materials and their syntheses.
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ChemComm is delighted to invite nominations for the very first ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship. The lectureship, which will be awarded annually, will recognise an emerging scientist in the early stages of their independent academic career. Deadline for nominations: 28th February 2011.
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Today is a milestone for the newest journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, Catalysis Science & Technology, as we officially open for submissions.
Catalysis Science & Technology will provide a home for top research articles from the entire international catalysis community, including biocatalysis, heterogeneous catalysis and homogeneous catalysis. There will be much flexibility in the style, format and length of articles we publish, including Perspective review articles and original research papers as communications or full papers.
There are currently two Associate Editors for the journal who will look after submissions: Professor Paul Chirik (Cornell/Princeton) and Professor Noritaka Mizuno (Tokyo). They welcome submissions using our online submission system from all areas of catalysis. For the best chance of appearing in the first issues of the journal, thereby increasing the profile of your article, we encourage you to send your article as soon as possible.
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Please join us in the celebration of this new journal from the RSC, and submit your next manuscript to Catalysis Science & Technology!
More information available from the journal website.
Congratulations to Toritse Bob-Egbe (Imperial College London, UK) for winning the inaugural Catalysis Science & Technology Poster Prize at the recent Dalton Discussion 12 meeting on Catalytic C-H and C-X Bond Activation, which was held in Durham from the 13th-15th September this year.
The title of the Toritse’s winning poster was ‘Development of Chiral 4-(DAAP)-N-oxide Catalysts for the Sulfonylative Kinetic Resolution of Amines’.
I am delighted to announce Piet van Leeuwen as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Catalysis Science & Technology. Piet has extensive research experience in the field of homogeneous catalysis and has collaborated, throughout his career, with partners from industry to create more sustainable and environment-friendly industrial processes. Piet will work alongside a second Editor-in-Chief, to be appointed from the heterogeneous community, to guide the content of the new journal.
Professor Piet van Leeuwen
Piet van Leeuwen has been Group Leader at the Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ) in Tarragona, Spain, since 2004. He has chaired and directed many activities in the field of catalysis in the Netherlands, especially keen on integrating activities in the catalysis area. He worked with Shell Amsterdam for twenty six years heading the section for basic research in homogeneous catalysis. Since 1989, part-time, and since 1994 full time, he initiated and led the homogeneous catalysis group at the University of Amsterdam as a Professor of Homogeneous Catalysis until 2007. He held a chair of Industrial Homogeneous Catalysis at the Technical University of Eindhoven from 2001 till 2006, where he was also director of the National Research School Combination on Catalysis. He has authored 350 refereed articles and reviews, many book chapters, edited several books, and is author of a textbook on homogeneous catalysis.
Editor-in-Chief Piet van Leeuwen says that he is ‘looking forward to working with this exciting new journal, Catalysis Science & Technology, the new home for high-quality research in catalysis’.
Article submissions will open from October 2010, with issue one scheduled for publication early in 2011. And, as for all RSC journals launched since 2008, the first two volumes will be freely available online. For information on how to submit an article to the journal or if you would like more information please contact us at catalysis-rsc@rsc.org.
You can register for free access to Catalysis Science & Technology articles now by filling in our simple online access form.
More news on the Catalysis Science & Technology Editorial Board – coming soon.
