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Fantastic New Green Technology from Phil Jessop’s group @Queen’s could lead to cheaper desalination and cleaner water for many people around the world in a few years time
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The summer is drawing to a close and so a big thank you to Jen and April for their hard work in the group this summer. Last week, they presented posters on their research at the University. Well done!
Special congratulations to Jen Murphy who won a poster prize for her presentation.
We wish you all the best for your studies next year.
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Chris and Fran have just returned from their travels in Europe after attending the GRC on Green Chemistry (in Barga, Italy). This meeting was fantastic in terms of science, location, people……in fact it was probably one of the best conferences we have ever been to! Thank you to all who made it the event it was.
Fran gave a talk on the first morning entitled “Chemical transformations of aminocarbohydrates”, which prompted some good discussion and we’ve come away with lots of great new ideas. Chris and Fran also presented their posters over the course of the week, and got to meet some fantastic people.
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Congratulations to graduate student Rebecca Dean on her recent paper on chromium-catalyzed copolymerization of CO2 and cyclohexene oxide, which will shortly appear in the journal Inorganic Chemistry.
Table of Contents Graphic from the paper
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Chris presents his poster in Toulouse
Chris, Fran and Justin attended this international conference during the past week. We saw lots of great talks and presented our posters alongside many other delegates……we also ate far too much good food and drank too much wine thanks to the generous hospitality of our hosts. Next time (July 2014) the conference is being held in Ottawa, Canada. The website for the next ISHC is found here.
Fran presents her poster in Toulouse
Check out the following link on the Green Chemistry journal’s site to read about Fran’s author profile, how she became interested in green chemistry, and how she very well could have become a singing sensation instead (without having to go on “Idol”!)
C.K.
Cover of recent Green Chemistry issue
Filed under: Group News, Science, Students | Tags: Amine-bis(phenolate) Ligands, Capricious Coordination Chemistry of Cobalt Complexes, Cobalt Chemistry, Crystal Structures, Kobold
A paper describing the collective work of three undergraduates in the Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group has been accepted for publication in the journal Polyhedron. The work was done by Lisa Saunders (who is headed for grad school at Queen’s U.) during a USRA project, Michelle Pratt during a MUCEP work term (who is starting at MUN medical school this September) and Sarah Hann, who was employed as a summer research assistant in the group and is currently a med. student at MUN.
The paper is entitled: “Structural Variations in the Coordination Chemistry of Amine-bis(phenolate) Cobalt(II/III) Complexes” and should appear on-line shortly. Thanks to Lisa, Michelle and Sarah for their hard work on these capricious cobalt complexes, and to Andreas Decken (UNB Crystallography Service) and Louise Dawe (C-CART XRD lab) for their expertise. 
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Jenna and Khaled have just returned from Golden, Colorado where they attended the Summer School. They had an amazing experience, despite delays with flights when trying to get there. They have learned a lot of useful information, which they can apply to their research, and have made lots of useful contacts for the future. They also presented posters on their research. Good job representing the MUN green chemistry group 😀
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Congrats to past and present group members (Marcus, Jen and Landon) on their University and Departmental awards!. Well done 🙂
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Thank you and congratulations to Marcus Drover (Mr. April) for having his entry selected for inclusion in the first calendar prepared by the inorganic division of the CSC. It is available for download in pdf format, if you click HERE! We hope that future students will submit entries and also be selected for inclusion – what a great artistic way to tell the world about your chemistry research!
Green Chemistry @ MUN 