Production of Fine Chemicals

Monday, June 6, 2011: 1:30 PM-5:20 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 1 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Organizer:
Eric E. Stangland
Chairs:
Aditya Bhan and Wolfgang F. Hoelderich Sr.
1:30 PM
Highly Regio- and Stereoselective Hydrothiolation of Thiols with Alkynes Catalyzed by Well-Defined Supported Rh-Complex Catalyst
Yong Yang, Pennsylvania State University; Robert M. Rioux, Pennsylvania State University
1:50 PM
Effect of the MgO Activation Conditions on its Basicity and Catalytic Properties
Carlos R. Apesteguia, Universidad Nacional del Litoral; Juana I. Di Cosimo, Universidad Nacional del Litoral; Verónica K. Diez, Universidad Nacional del Litoral; Cristián A. Ferretti, INCAPE (UNL-CONICET); Pablo A. Torresi, Universidad Nacional del Litoral
2:50 PM
Rhodium-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Hydrothiolation of Thiols with Alkynes
Yong Yang, Pennsylvania State University; Robert M. Rioux, Pennsylvania State University
3:10 PM
3:40 PM
Biorenewable chemicals obtained using mesoporous molecular sieves containing niobium
Agnieszka Feliczak-Guzik, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan; Izabela Nowak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
4:00 PM
Mechanistic insight into the glucose isomerization reaction using tin-containing zeolites
Yuriy Roman-Leshkov, California Institute of Technology; Manuel Moliner, California Institute of Technology; Sonjong Hwang, California Institute of Technology; Eranda Nikolla, California Institute of Technology; Jay A. Labinger, California Institute of Technology; Mark E. Davis, California Institute of Technology
4:20 PM
Monoglyceride synthesis by glycerolysis of methyl oleate on MgO: catalytic and theoretical investigation of the active site
Cristián A. Ferretti, INCAPE (UNL-CONICET); Silvia A. Fuente, (UNS-CONICET); Ricardo M. Ferullo, (UNS-CONICET); Norberto J. Castellani, (UNS-CONICET); Carlos R. Apesteguía, INCAPE (UNL-CONICET); Juana I. Di Cosimo, Universidad Nacional del Litoral
4:40 PM
High activity solid base catalysts for alkenyl aromatic isomerisation
S. David Jackson, University of Glasgow; Kathryn Girling, University of Glasgow
5:00 PM
CVD deposited Pd/ZnO nanowires for selective hydrogenation of acetylene alcohols
Evgeny V. Rebrov, Queen's University Belfast; Lidia Protasova, Eindhoven University of Technology; Jaap C. Schouten, Eindhoven University of Technology; Kwang-Leong Choy, University of Nottingham; Swee-Yong Pung, University of Nottingham; Volker Engels, University of Cambridge; Maciej Cabaj, Cambridge University; Andrew Wheatley, Cambridge University