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.
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.
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