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The 13th Atlantic Theoretical Chemistry Symposium will be held at Memorial University August 3-4. We will have 30 presentations from local, regional, national, and international speakers. Members of department are welcome to attend the lectures free of charge. The program book is available here:
http://www.mun.ca/compchem/atcs/ATCS_Program_Book.pdf
Some of the group may want to attend some talks 😀
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:
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Jessica Besaw (co-author on Green Chem. 2012, Hydrolysis of Chitosan paper; NSERC USRA in Kerton group 2010) is the recipient of a Julie Payette award (one of 24 nationwide). Find out more by reading the news on the Faculty of Science website
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Kozak-Shaver catalysts feature in ACCN magazine
News article/interview on Fe catalysts developed at MUN in conjunction with UPEI – now in-licensed with GreenCentre Canada.
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.
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Dr. Kerton is part of the review panel for NSERC strategic project grants in manufacturing and Dr. Kozak’s license agreement with GreenCentre Canada – both feature in news announcements from the faculty of science.
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A poster that was recently presented at the Sustainable Chemistry Summit in Montreal, which summarizes our recent results (past two years), general research themes, availability of equipment and expertise is available through this link. We hope that you enjoy it 😀
If you require further information, do not hesitate to contact Dr. Kerton or Dr. Kozak directly.
Al complexes for ring-opening polymerization of caprolactone and activation of carbon dioxide
Cover Art for European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
Graphical Abstract / Table of Contents Entry for the article
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.
Dr.s Kozak and Kerton are featured on the University’s homepage
CFI funding announcements with a special feature on our research surrounding biodegradable polymers and carbon dioxide activation
Green Chemistry @ MUN 