FineCat 2015 - Book of Abstract E-Book

Mario Pagliaro

• Herausgeber: Mario Pagliaro
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The Book of Abstract of 4th edition of the "FineCat Symposium on heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemicals" includes the Abstracts of all presenting delegates, including eminent chemists including Manfred Reetz, Irina Beletskaya, Oliver Kappe, Pedro Maireles Torres, Päivi Elisa Mäki-Arvela and Rodrigo de Souza.Innovation presented at FineCat 2015 includes fields as important as the directed evolution of enantioselective enzymes, the low cost manufacturing of medicines for developing countries, new visible-light photocatalysis for synthetic organic chemistry and a unified view of heterogeneous catalysis for the oleochemical platform.

Leseprobe

FineCat 2015

Symposium on heterogeneouscatalysis for fine chemicals

Palazzo Steri, Sala delle CapriateUniversity of Palermo, ItalyApril 8–9, 2015

CNR’s Institute of Nanostructured Materials&University of Palermo’s DEIM Department

www.qualitas1998.net

NARCISSUS

Edited by: Mario Pagliaro

www.simplicissimus.it

We thank Giuseppe Modica for reproducing the picture on the cover entitled “Colori di Palermo”

Edizione digitale: aprile 2015

ISBN: 9788869094255

Edizione digitale realizzata da Simplicissimus Book Farm srl

Contents

Welcome from the Congress Chairmen

Acknowledgements

The FineCat Symposium

The 2015 Symposium

Poster Prizes and Poster Presentation

Conference Venue and Social Program

A personal note from the Chairman

Sicily’s Solar Pole

Palermo, Sicily

Useful Info

Presenting Authors

Organizing Committee:

Scientific Program

Timeschedule

Abstracts

Invited Lectures (IL-1 to IL-5)

Oral Presentations (OP-1 to OP-9)

Poster Presentations (PO-1 to PO-8)

Roberto Triolo, a 40 year legacy for young scientists

Palermo, March 2015

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of Italy’s chemical community we warmly welcome you to Palermo for the 4th edition of the “FineCat Symposium on heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemicals”, that will be hosted in the splendid Steri Palace, hall of Palermo’s University Rectorate, on April 8th and 9th.

Dedicated to the memory of University of Palermo’s Professor Roberto Triolo, and featuring the plenary lectures of eminent chemists Manfred Reetz and Irina Beletskaya, the Symposium aims to provide a new, high-level learning and networking opportunity amongst researchers working at the development of solid catalysts for the clean and economically viable production of fine chemicals.

To cite only a few selected topics, the scientific program highlights exciting innovation in fields as important as the directed evolution of enantioselective enzymes, a comparative view of homogeneous and heterogeneous metal catalysis in many central reactions, catalytic reactions in advanced flow systems, encapsulated chiral nanoparticles, new visible-light photocatalysts, and really much more.

The other contributions are no less impressive. May we thus kindly recommend timely attendance of all sessions of the tightly scheduled scientific program.

The beauty of the Symposium’s venue, the social dinner at Tasca d’Almerita Real Estate and the surrounding 2,700 years old city of Palermo will hopefully contribute towards a better conference experience.

Enjoy the meeting and your stay!

Mario Pagliaro and Leonardo PalmisanoChairman and Co-Chairman, FineCat 2015

Acknowledgements

First, we would like to thank the Rector of Palermo’s University, Prof. Roberto Lagalla, for hosting the Symposium once again in the magnificent conference venue of Palazzo Steri.

The organization of the Symposium would not have been possible without the advice and assistance of Rosaria Ciriminna, Marzia Sciortino, Maria Luisa Bondì, Pasquale Agozzino, Fabrizio Lo Celso and Fabio Triolo.

We wish to express our sincere appreciation to each of them also for the energy, good will and enthusiasm put in the organization of the Symposium.

Our thanks go also to Mr Lorenzo Giuggiolini of Simplicissimus Book Farm (Loreto, Italy) for his usually excellent editorial support in producing this Book of Abstract that is also available as eBook in all main digital bookstores on the Internet.

Finally we thank each delegate for choosing to attend the Symposium.

From the invited speakers through poster presenting Authors, each of them accepted to share knowledge about new clean chemical technologies that will increasingly allow us to switch from wasteful conversions to zero-emission, catalytic processes increasingly based on renewable raw materials as feedstock, including the use of light as ultimate energy source.

M.P and L.P.

The FineCat Symposium

Following the successful 2012, 2013 and 2014 Symposia featuring the lectures of Graham Hutchings, Gadi Rothenberg, Tyler McQuade Claudio Bianchini, David Cole-Hamilton, Paolo Fornasiero, and Serge Kaliaguine, the 4th FineCat Symposium will be held on April 8–9, 2015 once again in the splendid conference venue of the Steri Palace, hall of Palermo’s University Rectorate.

The Symposium is dedicated to the memory of University of Palermo’s Professor Roberto Triolo.

The meeting -- whose idea was born out of the 2011 themed issue of Catalysis Science & Technology, «Heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemicals» -- aims to provide good learning and networking opportunities among researchers working at the development of efficient solid catalysts for the clean production of fine chemicals.

Research in heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemicals synthesis, preparative chemistry and drugs discovery, is flourishing; as heterogeneous catalysis emerges as the valuable tool in making the fine chemicals industry environmentally and economically more sustainable.

Fine chemicals -- polyfunctional molecules with specific properties imparting them high added value -- indeed, in most cases are in synthesized via highly selective homogeneous synthetic methods, most of which were stoichiometric, and not catalytic.

Ten years after the highlight paper,1 of Cole-Hamilton in which David lamented that no heterogenized homogeneous catalysts was known to have found practical application, we witness a number of commercial processes that use efficient and highly selective solid mediators.2

New solid catalysts can not only be easily separated, recovered, and recycled; but also effectively applied to continuous chemical syntheses carried out under flow, thereby opening the route to flow chemistry made practical both on the lab and on industrial scale.

In the meanwhile, too, biomass feedstock -- glycerol from biodiesel and fatty alcohols, for example -- is emerging to replace raw materials of petrochemical origin, thereby closing the materials cycle that makes processes truly sustainable.3

Research presented at FineCat 2015 will hopefully further advance this progress.

Showcasing work of some the leading researchers in the field -- including eminent chemists Manfred Reetz, Irina Beletskaya, Pedro Maireles Torres, Oliver Kappe and Rodrigo de Souza -- the FineCat 2015 Symposium will cover some of the latest developments in field.

We are thankful to all delegates for the excellent Abstracts received.