Filed under: Conferences, Group News, Group Photos, Science, Students | Tags: Canadian Chemistry, chemistry, CSC, green chemistry, poster
Chris, Fran, Khaled and Nduka have been enjoying the science and Albertan hospitality at the CSC
Chris and Fran spoke in the metal-mediated polymerization symposium organized by Mike Shaver and Paul Hayes. Nduka presented his poster in the same symposium on Sunday evening and Khaled presented his poster in the Industrial division on Monday night.
Thanks to all the organizers and volunteers for a fantastic meeting.
Filed under: Group News, Science, St. John's | Tags: biodegradable plastics, green chemistry, Memorial University, polycarbonate, polylactide, research, sustainable development
Chris was interviewed on the Rogers TV St. John’s local television program “Out of the Fog” yesterday. The segment discussed the problems with currently used plastics and how biodegradable and renewably-sourced plastics, such as those being investigated in the MUN Green Chemistry Group, may be able to address some of the long term environmental issues.
Filed under: Group News, Science | Tags: biorefinery, canada, ChemSusChem, chitin, chitosan, DAAD RISE, glucosamine, green chemistry, Memorial University, research, sustainable development
Congratulations to Khaled on his Departmental Seminar yesterday.
He received two bits of exciting news today:
1) His research on the production of levulinic acid and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural has made it into the top ten most accessed articles in Green Chemistry for April 2012.
2) His full paper on the formation of an amidofuran from N-acetyl D-glucosamine has been accepted for publication in the prestigious journal ChemSusChem. (Impact Factor, 6.3). In this work, we note that the presence of main-group elements (B & Cl) in your feedstock can have a significant effect on the reaction outcomes.
Also, congratulations to Linda (one of our DAAD RISE summer researchers who visited our group in summer 2011) – who is a co-author on the ChemSusChem paper.
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Several undergraduates with connections to the Green Chemistry & Catalysis Group have attended ChemCon at Cape Breton University, which ends today.
My spies tell me that all Memorial students had a great time and gave fantastic presentations. In particular, congratulations to Marcus Drover on his Sepracor award for best overall presentation by an undergraduate. This award comes with funding to attend the CSC next year in Quebec.
Also, ChemCon will be hosted by Memorial University next year!
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Congratulations Rebecca, Nduka and Khaled for their “Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies” awards. All three students are in the process of writing their theses in the Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group. This award from the School of Graduate Studies is competitive and comes in recognition of continued academic excellence throughout their program. Well done!
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Congratulations to Marcus, Lisa and Michelle on completing their BSc.(Hons) degrees. Marcus and Lisa have been awarded NSERC postgraduate scholarships and will be heading off to graduate school in September.
Welcome Jen and April! They are funded for summer research through the Faculty of Science Summer Undergraduate Research Awards (SURA). Jen is working with Dr. Kerton and Dr. Dawe on a coordination chemistry and catalysis project, and will hopefully have the opportunity to learn hands-on X-ray crystallographic methods. April is working with Dr. Kozak and Dr. Bottaro on a mass spectrometry and catalysis project – hopefully April will enjoy her first research experience.
Dr. Kerton and Dr. Kozak are still on sabbatical in the UK but have lots of travels planned for the conference season. The first is the CSC in Calgary, which Khaled and Nduka (4th year Phd students, Kerton group) will also attend.
Here’s hoping for a successful, research-filled summer!
Filed under: Conferences, Group News | Tags: chitosan, earthy day, poster, research, sustainable development
Prof Art Ragauskas has been organizing an online poster celebration to celebrate Earth Day since 2010.
This year our group took part for the 1st time, as Khaled submitted a poster on his research surrounding the hydrolysis of chitosan. It is available here.
Thank you to Khaled for sharing his research with a wider audience and to all those involved in organizing this event.
Filed under: Group News, Science, Students | Tags: caprolactone, chemistry, DAAD RISE, kinetics, lithium complexes, MALDI-TOF, ROP
A second paper by group members has been accepted today for publication. This time in Dalton Transactions.
The paper is called: Ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone by lithium piperazinyl-aminephenolate complexes: Synthesis, characterization and kinetic studies
Dalton Trans., DOI:10.1039/C2DT30276D
Nduka is a PhD candidate in our group and Christian was a visiting student from Germany who joined our group last summer on a DAAD RISE scholarship. They worked really hard to get all the kinetic data and the MALDI-TOF spectra presented in this paper. Thanks also to Louise for the two structures included.
Filed under: Group News, Science, Students | Tags: green chemistry, Publication, RSC Advances, students
Their manuscript has just been accepted for publication in RSC Advances. (This is a new interdisciplinary journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry)
RSC Adv., DOI:10.1039/C2RA20578E
Khaled is a PhD candidate in the MUN Green Chemistry & Catalysis Group. Marcus obtained his results during an NSERC USRA in the group during summer 2011 and Jen held a SWASP position in the group at the same time.
Filed under: Conferences, Group News, Students | Tags: AIDW2012, Atlantic Canada, Graduate Studies, Inorganic Chemistry, Poster Prize
HSAB Periodic Table of Cupcakes!
Justin Bélanger (M.Sc. candidate, Kozak group) received a prize for 2nd place in the graduate student poster competition at the recent Atlantic Inorganic Discussion Weekend (AIDW) held in Charlottetown, PEI. Well done Justin for representing the MUN Green Chem. & Catalysis Group!
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