Chem - Session 2p

Tuesday, June 9, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:20 PM
Seacliff Room (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)
Chair:
Raghunath V. Chaudhari
1:30 PM
Discovery and Optimization of Novel High-performance Polyolefin Catalysts
Margarete Leclerc, Symyx Technologies; Anne LaPointe, Symyx Technologies
1:50 PM
Oxidation of Ethanol over Zeolite-supported Silver Catalysts
Rashid S. Al-Hajri, Imperial College London; David Chadwick, Imperial College London
2:10 PM
Direct Phenol Synthesis from Benzene/O2 and Active Oxygen Species on a Novel Tremendously Active Re-Pt/ZSM-5 Catalyst
Mizuki Tada, Institute of Molecular Science; Linsheng Wang, University of Tokyo; Sachin Malwadkar, University of Tokyo; Yang Yong, Institute of Molecular Science; Takashi Oikawa, Mitsui Chemicals; Yasuhiro Iwasawa, University of Tokyo
2:30 PM
Characterization of Cu-Au, Ni-Au bimetallic catalysts by TOF-SIMS and SEM-EDS techniques
Tomasz P. Maniecki, Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz; Paweł Mierczyński, Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz; Katarzyna Bawolak, Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz; Wojciech K. Jozwiak, Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry, Technical University of Lodz
2:50 PM
Dehydrogenation of Paraffins using PtSn/Mg(Al)O:  Catalyst Design and Characterization
Georges G. Siddiqi, University of California Berkeley; Pingping Sun, University of California Berkeley; Vladimir Galvita, University of California Berkeley; Alexis T. Bell, University of California Berkeley
3:10 PM
3:40 PM
Pd-promoted Selective Gas Phase Hydrogenation of p-Chloronitrobenzene over Alumina-supported Au
Catherine Louis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie UPMC; Mark A. Keane, Heriot Watt University
4:00 PM
New Reaction Kinetic Data on Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Activated Ketones over Pt-Cinchona Catalysts
Jozsef L. Margitfalvi, Institute of Nanochemistry and Catalysis, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Emilia Tálas, Institute of Nanochemistry and Catalysis, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
4:20 PM
The Effect of Modifiers in Liquid-phase Hydrogenation:  Use of Selective Poisons to Enhance Selectivity
S. David Jackson, University of Glasgow; Paloma E. Garcia, University of Glasgow; Ailsa Lynch, University of Glasgow; Andy Monaghan, University of Glasgow
4:40 PM
Hydrogenation of Nitrile Butadiene Rubber:  Innovation of the Current Commercial Technology
Garry L. Rempel, University of Waterloo; Qinmin Pan, University of Waterloo; Jialong Wu, University of Waterloo; Zhenli Wei, University of Waterloo
5:00 PM
Design of a Versatile Bisalen Motif for Cooperative Co-Salen-mediated Epoxide Ring-Opening
Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christopher S. Gill, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tait Takatani, Georgia Institute of Technology; C. David Sherrill, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christopher W. Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology