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The RSC journal Catalysis Science and Technology has selected our paper on Cr-catalyzed CO2/epoxide copolymerization as a “Hot Article” for January. The paper describes work performed by Hua Chen during her M.Sc. studies with Dr. Kozak. Thank you Hua for your hard work on this paper and thanks to Louise Dawe, whose ninja-like crystallographic skills were vital to solving the structure of one of the catalysts discussed in the paper. Access to the article can be found here.
Jen has set up a group facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/599271933454991/
This is for current and also past members. Please go there and request to join if you haven’t already received an invite 😀
Also, if you are friends with any other ex-group members, please pass on this info
Thank you Jen
Jenna (PhD candidate, Kerton group) is contributing pieces to the RSC journal blogs. Today, her short summary of North’s paper on novel Al complexes for carbon dioxide activation was published. You can find it here.
Dr. Kozak and Dr. Kerton have both had papers accepted during the holidays for a forthcoming special issue of the RSC journal Catalysis Science & Technology. This issue will focus on the important topic of conversion of carbon dioxide into value-added organics, which is guest edited by Arjan Kleij, a world leader in this area from the Institut Català d’Investigació QuÃmica, Tarragona, Spain.
Dr. Kerton is also a co-author on a paper published by Prof. Ning Yan at the National University of Singapore, which is about the direct conversion of chitin into a N-containing furan (3A5AF).
Congratulations to all the co-authors on these papers!
Thank you to the Walsh Family and particularly Andrew (SWASP 2013, Kerton Group) for these extra photos:
Group Photo – Aug 13 2013
For students who were away (Yi, Dalal etc.) and new students – we’ll take a new photo in September 🙂
The Green Chemistry Group’s Wonderful WISE girls 2013
Kata (Kozak group) and Greg (Kerton group) had an awesome experience last week at the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable energy in Golden, Colorado.
Here are a couple of photos:
Just a short post to say hello and welcome to the group to our WISE SSEP students. We hope you enjoy your time in our group and also all the other fun activities and friendship that WISE SSEP involves. Have a great summer!
Dr. Kozak is looking forward to giving an invited lecture in the Transition Metal Complexes in Homogeneous Catalysis Symposium at the 2014 International Conference on Coordination Chemistry in Singapore.
Dr. Kerton is a member of the editorial board for the new journal Sustainable Chemical Processes.
Sustainable Chemical Processes is a peer reviewed open access journal covering both scientific and engineering aspects of sustainable approaches in chemistry. It is published by Chemistry Central, the sister company to Biomed Central. These are world-leading open access publishers.
Please consider publishing a paper in this wonderful new venture. Feel free to contact Dr. Kerton or anyone else associated with the journal if you have any questions.
Green Chemistry @ MUN 