…to Rebecca Dean (Kozak Group) and Khaled Omari (Kerton Group) on their poster prizes at the Sustainable Chemistry Summit this past weekend. The MUN Green Chemistry and Catalysis group won 2 of the 3 prizes available.
This meeting organized by GreenCentre Canada will be held for the 2nd time in 2013. We are already looking forward to it. It was a fantastic experience and a chance to meet not only other University researchers but those from industry, entrepeneurs, tech-transfer specialists, NGO and government reps, consultants….the list goes on. Thank you GreenCentre for organizing this.
Here is a video that was produced in the run-up to this meeting and it tells you a little bit about Green Chemistry:
Thank you and good luck to all our summer research assistants. Congratulations to Stephanie on her presentation at the ICE workshop at Université de Montréal, and to Nduka, Lisa and Jenn. S on their EJIC paper.
UPDATE: Congratulations to Hassan on his recently accepted paper in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis.
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.
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
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November 2009 – Congratulations to Samantha Payne (2nd year PhD Candidate, Kerton Group) on her award of a ‘Provincial Government Special Scholarship for Students to Pursue Graduate Studies Related to Resource Development’. Samantha is also a current holder of an NSERC PGS-D award. She has been studying the solubility of bio-sourced chemicals in ‘green’ solvents and is currently investigating environmentally friendly transformations of xylitol and xylose (also known as wood sugars).
September 2009 – Welcome back to Chad, Amy and Elliott who begin work on their Honours’ projects and a belated welcome to Dr. Abudureyimu Kadeer (Xinjiang, China). Also, a special welcome to our MUCEP students – Michelle and Hanbyal
MUN GCCG July 2009: back row to front row, left to right - Nduka, Chad, Elliott, Khaled, Chris, Hassan, Zhenzhong, Xin, Fran, Kamrul, Uttam, Samantha, Jen, Rebecca, Amanda, Jill, Stephanie and Lisa
This summer there are 18 people in the group. We range from the Profs (Chris and Fran) to a High School Student (Jen participating in WISE SEPP). There are 9 graduate students (8 in the PhD program) and 7 undergraduates (funded through NSERC USRAs and SWASP)
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Hopefully, this will be an easier way to keep our group webpages updated. Time will tell!
News:
- July 2009, Welcome to our WISE SSEP student, Jennifer Smith.
- June 2009, Members of the group presented their research at the CSC in Hamilton. Amy Reckling won a poster prize! Dr. Kerton’s research is highlighted in the big story about research growth at Memorial. Here is her short story. Chad and Hassan’s work from last summer has been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications, DOI:10.1039/B909866F .
- May 2009, Congratulations to Chad Petten on his poster prize at APICS ChemCon 2009 (held at St. FX). Also, welcome to all our summer students: Amanda Zimmerman (NSERC USRA, ICE, from UBC), Stephanie Granville (NSERC CGS-M holder, soon to depart for grad school), Elliott Chard, Chad Petten (NSERC USRA), Nicole Brown, Lisa Saunders and Jillian Walsh.
- April 2009, Congratulations to Samantha Butt and Rebecca Dean on their NSERC PGS-D awards. Also, congratulations to Dr. Kerton on the renewal of her NSERC Discovery Grant and to Dr. Kozak (the principal applicant) on a successful NSERC RTI application for a new multinuclear NMR spectrometer.
- March 2009, 8 members of the group attended the MIDW at Moncton. Congratulations to Christina Price (Kerton Group, SWASP 2008, 1st year student at time of research) on her poster prize.
- January 2009, Charlotte Willans (PhD 2006, Kerton Group @ York) has begun her independent research career at the University of Leeds, UK. Congratulations and Good Luck to Charlotte!
Lab refurbishments and the departmental ventilation work (on the 5th floor) is progressing well – some photos are available here
Several pages have been updated and some photos uploaded (December 30th, January 30th)
Green Chemistry @ MUN 