Fran has just attended the conference “Green Solvents for Synthesis” in Boppard, Germany, which was organized by Dechema. She gave a talk on aminocarbohydrates as ocean-sourced renewable feedstocks – focusing on group results using water or ionic liquids as the solvent. It was a good meeting and she got to meet a number of chemists working in this area and the editor of the journal Green Chemistry.
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Chris and Fran have just returned from their travels in Europe after attending the GRC on Green Chemistry (in Barga, Italy). This meeting was fantastic in terms of science, location, people……in fact it was probably one of the best conferences we have ever been to! Thank you to all who made it the event it was.
Fran gave a talk on the first morning entitled “Chemical transformations of aminocarbohydrates”, which prompted some good discussion and we’ve come away with lots of great new ideas. Chris and Fran also presented their posters over the course of the week, and got to meet some fantastic people.
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Chris presents his poster in Toulouse
Chris, Fran and Justin attended this international conference during the past week. We saw lots of great talks and presented our posters alongside many other delegates……we also ate far too much good food and drank too much wine thanks to the generous hospitality of our hosts. Next time (July 2014) the conference is being held in Ottawa, Canada. The website for the next ISHC is found here.
Fran presents her poster in Toulouse
Check out the following link on the Green Chemistry journal’s site to read about Fran’s author profile, how she became interested in green chemistry, and how she very well could have become a singing sensation instead (without having to go on “Idol”!)
C.K.
Cover of recent Green Chemistry issue
Green Chemistry @ MUN 