Contaminant metals represent a significant threat to global water systems, with severe implications for human health. Treatment technologies utilizing porous materials embedded with nanomaterials offer a promising approach for the effective removal of these contaminants. In this study, charcoal was produced from yerba mate sticks, a form of industrial waste.
Hydrazones as organometallic equivalents have emerged as a general and sustainable strategy to utilize naturally abundant aldehydes and ketones as feedstocks while only releasing water and nitrogen gas as byproducts. Yet the addition of these carbanion equivalents to carbonyl compounds has been limited to the use of precious metals as catalysts and hazardous solvents under an inert atmosphere. Herein, we report the development of a manganese-based catalyst system for the addition of aldehydes to carbonyl compounds producing secondary and tertiary alcohols with yields of up to 91%.
To recognize a single inventor for the successful application of research in chemistry and/or chemical engineering that contributes to the material prosperity and happiness of people.
The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. Up to $1,000 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed.
The Canadian National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (CNC-IUPAC) established a program of travel awards in 1982 to enable young scientists who are currently working at a Canadian institution to present their work at IUPAC-sponsored conferences. Preference will be given to nominees who are attending an IUPAC sponsored conference outside of Canada. Applicants should be within 10 years of having obtained their PhD.
Sonochemistry (Latin sonus ‘sound’) is an emerging branch of chemistry which uses ultrasonic waves (ultrasound) as the activation mode instead of conventional thermal energy, often using a piezoelectric material to perform (ultra)sonication.1
The certificate Sustainable Chemistry & Benign by Design offered by Leuphana Professional School at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany provides in four modules interdisciplinary knowledge about the design and redesign of chemicals at university Master's level. Based on findings from environmental chemistry and toxicology, you will explore the molecular (re)design of chemicals with reduced ecological and toxicological impacts, the potential and applicability of Benign by Design. In addition, experimental and in-silico methods for the molecular (re)design of chemicals are addressed.
The Graduate Certificate of Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technologies provides expert training in ‘green technologies’ focused on chemistry and chemical manufacturing, combined with an understanding of sustainability issues to support the transformation of industry.
The principles of green technologies are aligned to sustainability issues to advance the reduction or elimination of hazardous substances involved in the design, manufacture and application of diverse chemical products.
The environmental, economic and social benefits are also examined.
