Our group now has the following members:
Kerton Graduate Students: Hassan Kalviri, Zhenzhong Hu, Nduka Ikpo, Samantha Payne, Khaled Omari and Ali Elkurtehi
Kozak Graduate Students: Rebecca Dean, Elliott Chard, Justin Belanger and Kamrul Hasan (currently writing his thesis)
Hattenhauer Undergraduate Students: Emma Yoshioka (SWASP)
Kerton Undergraduate Students: Marcus Drover (NSERC USRA), Stephanie Barbon (NSERC USRA and ICE), Jennifer Murphy (SWASP), Landon Hiscock (Volunteer)…also, Linda Dodot and Christian Hoffmann (DAAD RISE Worldwide from mid-July)
Kozak Undergraduate Students: Lisa Saunders (NSERC USRA), Michelle Pratt (NSERC USRA) and Jennifer Smith (SWASP)
*** May 27, 2011: Congratulations to Marcus on his inorganic poster prize at APICS ChemCon last weekend! ***
Congratulations to Stephanie Barbon, Marcus Drover, Michelle Pratt and Lisa Saunders on their NSERC USRA awards. Stephanie is joining our group for the summer from the University of Western Ontario through the Inorganic Chemistry Exchange (ICE) program.
Also, welcome to Ali Elkurtehi who is joining the group as a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Kerton
The Equipment/Facilities page for the group has been updated (at last) – we still plan on making a little video for you over the summer 😀
Congratulations to Chris Kozak on the renewal of his NSERC Discovery Grant for 5 years. His students are investigating (i) Catalytic transformations using Fe catalysts and (ii) CO2 as a chemical feedstock. Well done Chris! Time to celebrate 🙂
Also, Chris and Justin attended the AIDW in Fredericton (organized by UNB) – they had a fantastic time and learnt about a lot of exciting chemistry going on in the region.
Christina gave her 490B presentation and is nearing completion of her honours project. Good luck in your future career, Christina!
Congratulations to Kamrul on the acceptance of his epoxidation paper in Green Chemistry.
A great radio program on Green Chemistry: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00dtz7p/Discovery_Can_Chemistry_Save_The_World_Episode_1
Happy New Year!
2011 has started off well for the MUN Green Chemistry & Catalysis group: Hassan’s paper on nanoparticle synthesis has been accepted by Green Chemistry and Xin’s paper on dichloromethane activation has been accepted by SYNLETT.
Group Xmas Meal 2010
The group Xmas meal was at Boston Pizza (Kelsey Drive) on Saturday Dec. 11th. Thanks to all who came out and for the Secret Santa gifts! The photo is from the beginning of the meal 😉
Xin’s article entitled ‘Catalytic Alkylation of Aryl Grignard Reagents by Iron(III) Amine-bis(phenolate) Complexes’ (DT-ART-09-2010-001239) has been accepted for publication in Dalton Transactions. Congratulations Xin and Chris!
***Newsflash*** December 2nd: It has been designated a HOT paper
Filed under: Group News
Newsflash: Amy (NSERC USRA) and Dana’s (SWASP, after 1st year undergrad!) research efforts from Summer 2008 (Fe catalysed cross-coupling) have just been accepted for publication in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
ICE 2010/2011 – Applications are now due (deadline: October 22, 2010) with your departmental representative, see Chris’ ICE page for more details and an application form.
- Students from MUN have previously been placed at: Queen’s, Ottawa, Western, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and UVic
- One Queen’s (2007), one UVic (2008) and one UBC (2009) student have spent a summer at MUN. Students placed at MUN have seen their results published in Chemical Communications and Dalton Transactions.
In the news – Samantha and Hassan’ s participation in the Green Chemistry Summer School made it onto the University’s news site
September 2010 – Welcome to Justin and Elliott starting their graduate studies with Chris and to Christina starting her honours project with Fran. Our MUCEP students: Marcus and Michelle (Welcome Back!), and Nick (Welcome!)
May 2010 – Chris, Fran, Uttam, Kamrul, Rebecca, Xin and Amy attended the CSC in Toronto
June 2010 – Congratulations to Khaled on his postgraduate RDC (Research Development Coorporation NL) Ocean Industries Scholarship/Award – $30k for two years! Also, congratulations to Christina Price on her undergraduate RDC Ocean Industries Scholarship. Fran and Chris attended the International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis in Poznan, Poland.
July 2010 – Congratulations to Hassan and Samantha on their selection to attend the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy. Zhenzhong attended the Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry Conference in Hong Kong. He received a travel award from the organizers, congratulations!
Samantha’s green chemistry manuscript is at the proofs stage: Green Chem., DOI:10.1039/C0GC00205D.
Also, welcome to Kelly, WISE-SSEP student working alongside Lisa, Michelle and Rebecca! We hope you have a fun summer of chemistry!
Group Photo Summer 2010
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April/May 2010 – Welcome to our summer students: Jessica Besaw (NSERC USRA), Lisa Saunders (NSERC USRA), Marcus Drover (SWASP) and Michelle Pratt (SWASP) – all are joining us after completing their 2nd year at MUN.
Congratulations to Rebecca, Samantha and Khaled on their awards
Graduate Students Award Ceremony, May 2010
April 2010 – Thank you to our MUCEP students from the past year: Hanbyal Kim, Lisa Saunders and Michelle Pratt. Congratulations to our Honors’ students on completing their 490 A/Bs: Amy Reckling, Chad Petten and Elliott Chard. Well done! and best wishes for the future.
Breaking News…Congratulations to Amy on her NSERC scholarship for next year at U. of Ottawa.
March 2010 – Congratulations to Lisa Saunders (SWASP 2009) on her undergraduate poster prize and Rebecca Dean (PhD 2007 – present) on her graduate talk prize at the AIDW March 13th/14th (hosted by St. Mary’s University)
Green Chemistry @ MUN 