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GreenCentre Canada has just announced their Top 10 News Stories of 2013 and research from the MUN Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group made number 7 on their list. GreenCentre Canada is a commercialization centre that partners academic research in green chemistry with industrial partners for bringing the technology to market. Technology developed by us, in partnership with colleagues at University of Prince Edward Island, was in-licensed by GreenCentre. You can read more about our iron catalysts for radical-mediated polymerization and carbon-carbon cross-coupling here and here.
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Prof Ian Fleming (no, not the Ian Fleming who wrote the James Bond books), a colleague in Ocean Sciences, has received an award for his outstanding research on evolutionary ecology for fish. More on this award and story can be found on the FoS site: Faculty of Science | News.
Congratulations Ian!
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Khaled graduated from Dr. Kerton’s group around 1 year ago and has just completed a 1 year postdoc on biochar and bio-oils at Cape Breton University (MacQuarrie Group and B. W. Bioenergy). He is moving from Nova Scotia to Ontario today. He has received via NSERC a visiting fellowship position at the Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre/Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in London, Ontario. His new career title is “Canadian Government Laboratory Visiting Fellow”. He will be working on functional characterization and compositional analysis for plant germplasm.
Congratulations Khaled! and continued success in your research and career.
Dr. Khaled Omari – Group Alumnus and NSERC awarded Canadian Government Laboratory Visiting Fellow
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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.
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Can. J. Chem. announces new Best Paper Award | Inorganic Division.
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St. John’s winters aren’t as harsh as people think. We’re the warmest in Canada today!
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.
More information on the application process and grad studies in chemistry at Memorial Univ. can be found on this departmental site.
If any questions aren’t answered there, drop Fran or Chris a line
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 Química, 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!
Green Chemistry @ MUN 