Green Chemistry @ MUN

Lots of milestones were passed and hoops jumped through 🙂

Keegan Start (MSc candidate, Kozak group) and Tim Anderson (PhD candidate, Kozak group) gave their departmental seminars.

Dr. Nelaine Mora-Diez (Thompson Rivers University, BC) was awarded the Anderson Award Lecture and on the same day Tim Anderson received his graduate teaching award for his dedicated teaching in Chem 3211 (Inorganic Chemistry).

Courtney Laprise (M.Sc., co-supervised by Kerton and Kozak) successfully completed her degree and will be pursuing a degree in Education next year.

Dr. Jennifer Murphy (co-supervised by Kerton and Hawboldt) successfully defended her doctorate degree, and Hart Plommer submitted his thesis for examination. Dr. Murphy is moving to Ontario to start a position at Windsor University as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Nick Vukotic

Both groups had several papers accepted/published:

K. A. Andrea, H. Plommer and F. M. Kerton*, “Ring-Opening Polymerizations and Copolymerizations of Epoxides Using Aluminum- and Boron-Centered Catalysts”, European Polymer Journal, 2019, In Press, Special Issue on Ring-Opening Polymerization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2019.08.029

K. A. Andrea, and F. M. Kerton*, “Functionalized Polycarbonates via Triphenylborane Catalyzed Polymerization-Hydrosilylation” RSC Advances, 2019, 9, 26542 – 26546, DOI: 10.1039/c9ra05947d  OPEN ACCESS

K. A. Andrea, E. D. Butler, T. R. Brown, T. S. Anderson, D. Jagota, C. Rose, E. M. Lee, S. D. Goulding, J. N. Murphy, F. M. Kerton* and C. M. Kozak*, “Iron Complexes for Cyclic and Polycarbonate Formation: Selectivity Control from Ligand Design and Metal-Center Geometry” Inorganic Chemistry, 2019, 58, 11231−11240.

Y. Liu, L. N. Dawe and C. M. Kozak*, “Bimetallic and Trimetallic Zinc Amino-bis(phenolate) Complexes for Ring-opening Polymerization of rac-Lactide” Dalton Trans. 2019, Accepted, In Press.

….and there are several more under-revision, under review or about to be submitted. So keep an eye on our publication list and blog for more news!

It has been a very busy month – congratulations to all on their achievements.