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News about the new science building
University news story about the location of the new science building – possible move in date 2018?
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
Congratulations to Lisa Saunders (former SWASP student in the Kerton group, USRA and Honours student in the Kozak group) for being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her research in Cathy Crudden’s group at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON.
Congratulations also to Dr. Zhenzhong Hu (PhD student supervised by Dr. Kerton) for being awarded an FQRNT Bourse de recherche postdoctorale (postdoctoral fellowship) for his research in Parisa Ariya’s group at McGill University in Montreal, QC.
Well done and we wish you continued success!
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We are now proud owners of www.greenchemistrynewfoundland.ca
Please let everyone know 🙂
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Congratulations to Marcus Drover for being awarded a Vanier CGS award. This means he was ranked as one of the top new doctoral graduate students in any discipline (science, engineering, health/medicine, social sciences and humanities) across Canada! These scholarships are valued at $50,000 per year for three years…..don’t forget to save some of those funds for during a future postdoc, Marcus! 😉 and good luck with your current research.
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- Xmas 2010
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- Montreal Group Meal Summer 2011
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- Xmas 2011
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- Group Photo, Summer 2011
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- Presenting poster at CSC 2011, Montreal
Marcus is currently pursuing graduate studies in chemistry at UBC under the supervision of Prof. Jen Love and Prof. Laurel Schafer.
He graduated from MUN with a BSc (Hons) degree in 2012. He performed research with several supervisors during his time here. He held SWASP and MUCEP positions in Dr. Kerton‘s group during 2010 (studying Aluminum coordination chemistry). He also worked with Dr. Pansare on organic chemistry in summer 2010 too (Canada Summer Jobs). In summer 2011, after his 3rd year at MUN, he worked in Dr. Kerton‘s group again – this time on biomass conversion – whilst being supported by an NSERC USRA. During the academic year 2011/2012, he worked in Dr. Kerton’s group in collaboration with Dr. Celine Schneider, studying Li and Bi coordination chemistry, and both solution and solid-state multinuclear NMR spectroscopy. An image based on his honours project was selected for inclusion in the student calendar of the Inorganic Division, Chemical Institute of Canada. In summer 2012, he had a second NSERC USRA award and worked with Prof. Laurie Thompson on coordination complexes and supramolecular assembly.
Publications which Marcus co-authored during his time in the Kerton group include:
1. M. W. Drover, K. W. Omari, J. N. Murphy and F. M. Kerton*, “Formation of a renewable amide via direct conversion of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine”, RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 4642-4643, DOI:10.1039/C2RA20578E
Graphical Abstract from RSC Advances paper (2012) – First Author, Marcus Drover
2. N. Ikpo, S. Barbon, M. Drover, L. N. Dawe and F. M. Kerton*, “Aluminum methyl and chloro complexes bearing monoanionic aminephenolate ligands: synthesis, characterization and use in polymerizations”, Organometallics, 2012, 31, 8145-8158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om300757u
3. M. Drover and co-authors, Lithium complexes of amine-phenolate ligands, Manuscript in preparation.
4. M. Drover and co-authors, Bismuth complexes of amine-phenolate ligands, Manuscript in preparation.
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Fran, Nduka (PhD 2008-2013) and Jenna (PhD 2011-2015) wrote a short review article on copolymerization of carbon dioxide with epoxides late last year and early this year. It has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Dalton Transactions on the topic of “Advances in Metal-Catalysed Polymerisation and Related Transformations”. Although Aluminum catalysts are generally less-reactive than some state of the art catalysts for such reactions, there is significant scope to develop new systems based on this cheap metal. For example, Aluminum can catalyse many different types of polymerization reactions and so one could imagine preparing terpolymers (polymers made up of 3 different sub-units/monomers) or even more complex materials.
Here is a link to the article: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/dt/c3dt00049d
Graphical Abstract for Perspective on Al catalysts for carbon dioxide-epoxide copolymerizations
Biomimetic approach to CO2 capture in the news
Cool research from Newcastle University made it onto the BBC news website. The article also has a nice picture/scheme of conventional CO2-removal technologies using liquid amines. The new approach uses Nickel (which is the element used by sea urchins when they make CaCO3 from CO2)
New Core Sciences Building on the horizon at MUN
The department of chemistry will be moving to a new home in ~5 years time! Exciting times are ahead for our research team.
…on your award (1st place!) at the 20th annual Chemistry Colloquium Contest! Sorry we didn’t post this sooner but we were waiting for a departmental press release first.
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