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A little video about life on Campus at MUN
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For those interested in communicating chemistry
There are really good lectures including many demonstrations available online.
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You can find out all the info you need on: http://www.aidw2013.com/
There will be a plenary on Friday evening…..which we will likely miss (….but hopefully arrive in time for the mixer). We will be heading home on the Sunday.
Thanks to Glen and Steve for organizing the AIDW this year!
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Wishing all our friends around the world holidays filled with happiness, health and good fortune in the New Year.
Here’s hoping that Santa brings you everything on your list 😀
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Dr. Kozak features in FoS Alumni magazine
Chris appears in volume 3 of the faculty of science alumni’ magazine. He is featured to celebrate his Suncor Young Innovator award.
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The journal Dalton Transactions has accepted a paper from the Kozak group describing the work of Rebecca (PhD 2012), Amy (B.Sc. 2010) and Hua (M.Sc. in progress) on lithium complexes that polymerize rac-lactide. We thank our co-authors Celine Schneider and Louise Dawe for help with valuable solid-state NMR and X-ray diffraction studies.
Chris and his research make an appearance in the president’s annual report/highlights. There is a link to the full report through today.mun.ca Congratulations to Chris on this honour (builidng on his Suncor Young Innovator award)
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Yesterday, the profs got good news from the publishers 😀
Dr. Kerton’s paper was accepted by Organometallics and Dr. Kozak’s paper was accepted by Dalton Transactions.
The Organometallics paper is about the synthesis and reactivity of some aluminum complexes. Some of the compounds were prepared for the first time by Marcus Drover (during his SWASP in summer 2010) and Stephanie Barbon (in summer 2011 as an NSERC USRA/ICE student). Kinetic studies were performed by Nduka on their activity in ring-opening polymerization of caprolactone. He also discovered that the chloride complex could initiate the copolymerization of carbon dioxide and cyclohexene oxide. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om300757u
The Dalton Transactions paper contains research results from Rebecca’s PhD thesis on copolymerization of carbon dioxide with propylene oxide and addition reactions between styrene oxide and carbon dioxide. This is the second paper published from the Kozak group Cr catalysts for this reaction (Paper 1: Inorg. Chem. 2012) and also builds on results obtained using related Co complexes (Catalysis Communications 2012).
A big thank you to Louise Dawe for her expertise in X-ray crystallography and to all the students involved!
Al complexes for ring-opening polymerization of caprolactone and activation of carbon dioxide
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Rebecca successfully defended her thesis yesterday! It was titled “Multimetallic Lithium and Chromium Complexes of Amine-bis(phenolate) Ligands and Polymerization Catalysts”
She gave a very professional overview of her thesis at the beginning of the oral exam and was ‘grilled’ by her external examiner (Kevin Smith, UBC Okanagan, an expert on Cr chemistry) and internal examiners (Christina Bottaro and Yuming Zhao).
A large audience of group members were in attendance so I’m sure she enjoyed the support!
Fran has just attended the conference “Green Solvents for Synthesis” in Boppard, Germany, which was organized by Dechema. She gave a talk on aminocarbohydrates as ocean-sourced renewable feedstocks – focusing on group results using water or ionic liquids as the solvent. It was a good meeting and she got to meet a number of chemists working in this area and the editor of the journal Green Chemistry.
Green Chemistry @ MUN 