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- Beyond Benign
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- Green Chemistry at The University of Oregon
- Institute for Green Science at Carnegie Mellon University
- Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
Upcoming Seminars
Below are listed upcoming seminars related to green chemistry and green engineering. For a full listing of departmental seminars, see the lists provided in the Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.
August 27, 2012 ZACA Reaction (Zr-Catalyzed Asymmetric Carboalumination of Alkenes) as an Emerging
Tool for Asymmetric Synthesis of Feebly Chiral Compounds of High Enantiomeric Purity
Dr. Ei-ichi Negishi, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University
Memorial Field House, Room 2100
4:00 pm
September 18, 2012 Green Laundry Chemistry
Nathan S. Gaubert
Spartan Chemical Company
Memorial Field House, Room 2100
5:30 pm
October 3, 2012 Toxicology and Product Sustainability: Assessing Hazard, Risk, and Alternatives in
Product Design
Dr. Ann Marie Gebhardt, Vice President and General
Manager
Dr. Margaret Whittaker, Managing Director and
Chief Toxicologist
ToxServices LLC
Bowman-Oddy Labs, Room 1059
4:00 pm
October 15, 2012 Sustainability at the University of Michigan Through Pollution Prevention and
Green Chemistry
Dr. Sudhakar Reddy
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Bowman-Oddy Labs, Room 1059
4:00 pm
November 19, 2012 Ligand Design and Behavior in Olefin Metathesis and Dioxygen Reduction
Catalysts
Dr. Johanna Blacquiere
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington
Bowman-Oddy Labs, Room 1059
4:00 pm
November 27, 2012 Production of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural from Glucose Using Biomass-Derived Solvents
Dr. Jean Marcel R. Gallo
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nitschke Auditorium
Noon
November 28, 2012 Industry Impact of Green Chemistry
Becky Kaufold
Spartan Chemical Company
Memorial Field House, Room 2100
6:30 pm
November 29, 2012 Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reductive C-C Bond Formation and C-H Functionalization
Dr. Ming-Yu Ngai
Department of Chemistry
Harvard University
Wolfe Hall, Room 1205
4:00 pm
December 3, 2012 Sustainable Nanocomposites towards Electrochemical Energy Storage and
Environmental Remedation
Dr. Jiahua Jack Zhu
Department of Chemical Engineering
Lamar University
Nitschke Hall, SSOE Seminar Room
Noon
December 4, 2012 Membrane Based Technologies for Sustainable Products and Processes
Dr. Saurav Datta
Argonne National Laboratory
Nitschke Hall, SSOE Seminar Room
Noon
December 6, 2012 Late Transition Metal Catalysis in Polymer Science
Dr. Damien Guironnet
BASF Corporation
Wolfe Hall, Room 1205
4:00 pm
December 7, 2012 Efficient Conversion of Biomass to Biocrude, Biochar and Syngas using Hydrothermal
Treatment
Hema Ramsurn
Department of Chemical Engineering
Auburn University
Nitschke Hall, SSOE Seminar Room
Noon
December 11, 2012 Mechanistic Insights into Polymerization: Precision Ring Opening Metathesis
Polymerization and Polar Monomer Insertion Reactions
Dr. Stefan Kilyanek
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bowman-Oddy Labs, Room 2059
11:00 am
December 13, 2012 Glycol-Functionalized Ionic Liquids for Biomass Utilization: Enzymatic Hydrolysis
and
Derivatization
Dr. Hua Zhao
Department of Chemistry
Savannah State University
Nitschke Hall, SSOE Seminar Room
Noon
