Competition: Your ideas for a sustainable future
Share your ideas for a sustainable future competition
Your Formula fans! Would you like to help enhance awareness, improve general knowledge, and communicate the importance of advancing sustainable chemistry in our planet? And get an iPad mini as well? Then, we invite you to share your ideas for a sustainable future!
Chemistry makes an irreplaceable contribution in every aspect of our modern-day lives in ways that often we take for granted. It plays an essential role in sectors as diverse as agriculture, automotive, clothing, communication, construction, food, health, leisure, mobility, plastics, space, transport, etc.
And with a world with depleting resources and growing population, the need for more sustainable practices in both consumer and industrial industries are becoming more important.
That’s why we are looking for a fun and creative answer to the question:
“What is chemistry’s role in building a sustainable future?”
You can submit your concept as:
- A Youtube video
- A slideshow or
- An image (such as a poster, an infographic or an advertisement).
The best entry will be selected by a judging panel and the number of times the entries are ‘liked’, ‘retweeted’ and ‘shared’ on social media (Facebook, Youtube and Twitter).
Students and young professionals (between 18 to 30) from the EU are invited to join and submit entries. The contest runs until 15 July.
What are you waiting for?
David Spichiger, SCS
14.06.2013
ChemSusChem 2/13 Cover Profile from ETHZ
Invited for this month’s cover is the group of Helma Wennemers at the ETH Zürich. The image shows an immobilized peptidic catalyst that allows for asymmetric enamine catalysis in continuous flow.
Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/cssc.201200740
What are the main challenges in the broad area of your research ?
Organocatalysis provides attractive tools for the stereoselective synthesis of a broad range of synthetically valuable com- pounds. From a practical standpoint, major challenges are the necessity of typically high catalyst loadings and the poor reus- ability of the catalysts, which limit the use of organocatalysts on a large scale.
What is the most significant result of this study?
This is the first example of highly stereo- and chemoselective enamine catalysis in a continuous flow reactor on a scale of >100g (>450mmol). The turnover numbers (TONs) of the peptidic catalyst are the highest yet achieved in enamine catal- ysis and open the door to practical applications.
Who contributed to the idea behind the cover?
The cover was designed by Yukihiro Arakawa who got the first inspiration for the design from his little son Mizuyuki who likes to play with a toy train very much.
What other topics are you working on at the moment?
Our research group is engaged in developing small molecules for functions that are fulfilled in nature by large macromole- cules. This involves the development of asymmetric catalysts, bioinspired materials, cell penetrating compounds, and tem- plates for the controlled formation of metal nanoparticles.
Cover Profile Article in ChemSusChem 2013, 6, 212
(c) 2013 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH& Co. KGaA, Weinheim
David Spichiger, SCS
14.06.2013
ChemistryViews Hitlist - May 2013
- Close to 2nd REACH Deadline – Interview with Christel Musset, 07 May 2013,
Author: Vera Köster (photo ECHA) - John LaMattina: 30 Years in Pharma, 05 March 2013, Author: Jonathan Rose
- Border Between Ionic Liquids and Electrolyte Solutions, 07 August 2012,Author: Vera Köster
- 2011 ISI Journal Impact Factors, 09 July 2012, Author: ChemViews
- 2010 ISI Journal Impact Factors, 09 July 2012, Author: ChemViews
- From Pharmacy to the Pub – A Bark Conquers the World Part 1, 07 May 2013,
Author: Klaus Roth / Sabine Streller
- Picture Competition - A Year in the Lab: The Chemist’s View, 01 May 2013, Author: JungChemikerForum (JCF), ChemistryViews, Vereinigung für Chemie und Wirtschaft (VCW)
- Oxygen Releasing Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering, 10 April 2013, Author: Peter Creaton
- Anti-tumoral Nanodiamonds, 07 May 2013, Author: Melania Tesio
- Tips and Tricks for the Lab: Column Troubleshooting and Alternatives, 07 August 2012, Author: Sarah Millar
- Tips and Tricks for the Lab: Column Choices, 03 July 2012, Author: Sarah Millar
- What is Shale Gas? How does Fracking Work?, 05 February 2013, Author: Vera Köster
- Fermentation Process in Wine Making – ChemistryViews.org IYC Video Competition;
30 September 2011, Author: Werner Nowaczyk - What is the InChl Code?, 09 April 2013, Authors: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
- ChemCar Competition 2012, 28 September 2012, Authors: Charlotte Brückner and Sarah Millar
Vote for the new EuCheMS Logo
EuCheMS will implement an new logo. After the phase of collecting proposals the best six logo sets go into the next round. Your opinion is appreciated.
Go to http://www.euchems.eu and have a look at the six most favorable proposals. By sending an email or by going to the EuCheMS facebook site you can express your opinion
Please note that at this moment you are asked to look at the overall appearance of logo only. Once the final decision is done, details might be changed in terms of colour nuance, fonts etc
David Spichiger, SCS
10.06.2013
Prof. Karl Gademann in den Vorstand der SCNAT gewählt
Prof. Karl Gademann, Universität Basel, ist an der Delegiertenversammlung der Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT) am 24. Mai 2013 in Bern neu in den Vorstand gewählt worden.
Prof. Karl Gademann ist Professor für organische Chemie an der Universität Basel und aktueller Präsident der Platform Chemistry der SCNAT. 2012 wurde er mit dem renommierten Latsis-Preis ausgezeichnet. Karl Gademann nimmt ab Januar 2014 Einsitz in den Vorstand. Er wurde zusammen mit der Physikerin Felicitas Pauss neu in den Vorstand der SCNAT gewählt.
Wir gratulieren Karl Gademann zu dieser Wahl und wünschen Ihm viel Erfolg in der neuen Funktion.
More information:
http://www.scnat.ch
David Spichiger, SCS
05.06.2013
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