Conference Technical Program
2016 Organic Reactions Catalysis Society Meeting
March 27-31
Miami, FL
Monday
Title
Authors
8:20-8:30
Opening remarks
Will Medlin, ORCS Chair
8:30-9:15
Rylander Award lecture
Hydrogenation of Sodium Oleate in Aqueous
Emulsion with Hoveyda-Grubbs 2nd Generation
Catalyst
Highly Organic Phase Soluble PolyisobutyleneBound Cobalt Phthalocyanines as Recyclable
Catalysts for Nitroarene Reduction
Coffee break
BDO: Catalyst Technologies and Raw
Materials; which technology will prevail?
Supported colloidal ÒNanoSelectÓ catalysts: the
role of the stabilizer in the catalyst preparation
and its effect on the performance
Functionalized Carbons Designed for Removal
of Pd from Pharmaceutical Mixtures
Joe Zoeller
9:15-9:40
9:40-10:05
10:05-10:35
10:35-11:00
11:00-11:25
11:25-11:50
12:00-1:30
Lunch break
1:30-2:15
Keynote Lecture
Hydrogenation of amide acetals and iminium
esters: Catalytic reduction of amides under very
mild conditions
Non-metal Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Polar
Substrates in Organic Molecules using
Thermally Frustrated Lewis Pairs
2:15-2:40
2:40-3:05
3:05-3:35
3:35-4:00
Coffee break
Transition Metal Oxides are Efficient Catalysts
1
Affiliations
Eastman Chemical (retired)
1
Hui Wang , Max Hamilton , Garry L.
Rempel1*
University of Waterloo
Chih-Gang Chao* and David E.
Bergbreiter
Texas A&M University
sponsored by Parr
D. Ostgard
Evonik
Peter T. Witte*, Ramon van Maanen,
Christien Groen
BASF
Girish Srinivas*, Steven D. Dietz,
Steven C. Gebhard and Michael V.
Mundschau
TDA Research
Tehshik Yoon
University of Wisconsin
Renat Kadyrov
Evonik
Adrian Houghton, Sean Whittemore,
Abhi Karkamkar, Don Camaioni,
Mark Bowden, Bojana Ginovska,
Greg Schenter, Tom Autrey*
sponsored by Parr
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory
O. Beswick1, I. Yuranov1, Linda
1
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
4:25-5:00
for Selective Reduction of Nitroarenes to
Anilines under Mild Conditions
Ru/Fe-catalyzed Reduction of CO2 with C-C
bond Formation
Whither goest catalysis?
5:00-7:00
Poster session
4:00-4:25
Nikoshvili2, and L. Kiwi-Minsker1,2*
Lausanne, 2Tver State University
Yuehui Li, Kathrin Junge, Matthias
Beller*
Robert Augustine
Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Jens Norskov
Stanford University
Seton Hall University
Tuesday
8:20-9:15
9:15-9:40
Raney Award lecture
Synthesis of 1,4-Diazabicyclo [2,2,2] Octane
With Alkaline Earth Phosphate Catalysts
9:40-10:05
Renewable Isoprene by Dehydrodecarboxylation
of Mevalonolactone
10:05-10:35
Coffee break
Functionalized polymer-supported pyridine
ligands in palladium catalyzed C(sp3)-H
Arylation
Aromatic Oxidations with H2O2 Catalyzed by
Divanadium-Substituted γ-Keggin
Polyoxotungstate: New Reactions and
Mechanistic Insights
10:35-11:00
11:00-11:25
11:25-12:10
Keynote lecture
1
1
Li-Chen Lee1, Jian He2, Jin-Quan
Yu2*, Christopher M. Jones1*
1
Oxana A. Kholdeeva1,2, Olga V.
Zalomaeva1, Vasilii Y. Evtushok1,2,
Irina D. Ivanchikova1, Nataliya V.
Maksimchuk1,2, Gennadii M.
Maksimov1, Igor Y. Skobelev1, Jordi
J. Carbó3, Josep M. Poblet3
Huw Davies
1
Tuesday afternoon: Reactor design and selection short course, 1:30-4:30
5:00-7:00
Poster session
Air Products and Chemicals (ret’d),
3RiversCatalysis, LLC, 3Honeywell
(ret’d)
Dupont
James E Wells , Fredrick C
Wilhelm1, James F White2*, Nance K
Dicciani3
Joseph McAuliffea, Will Bazellab,
Torren R.Carlsonb, Maggie Cervina,
Rohan Durbalb James Ngaia,
Annalisa Hargisb, Yu-Ling Hsiaob,
Joseph Murphyb, Karl Sanforda ,
Sourav K. Senguptab, Gregory
Whiteda and Joachim C. Ritterb*
sponsored by Parr
2
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Scripps Research Institute
2
Boreskov Institute of Catalysis,
Novosibirsk State University,
3
Universitat Rovira i Vigili Marcel·lí
Domingo
2
Emory University
Wednesday
8:30-9:15
9:15-9:40
9:40-10:05
10:05-10:35
10:35-11:00
Rylander Award lecture
Hydrogenation of Chloronitrobenzene over
AuPd/TiO2 Catalysts
Pd-Containing Catalysts for Suzuki CrossCoupling Based on Polymeric Matrix of
Hypercrosslinked Polystyrene
Coffee break
Lattice-Mismatched PtFe Nanocatalysts for
Aqueous Phase Oxidation of Biomass to ValueAdded Chemicals
11:00-11:25
Selective aqueous-phase hydrogenation of
levulinic acid to pentanediol over bimetallic
catalysts: the influence of the promoter
11:25-11:50
Mechanistic Investigation of Acetic Acid
Ketonization over Stable ZrO2-based Catalysts
under Hydrothermal Reaction Conditions
Lunch
Keynote lecture: Continuous Reactors for
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
12:00-1:30
1:30-2:15
2:15-2:40
Amination of 1,6-Hexanediol
2:40-3:05
Selecting the appropriate test for a given
catalytic problem
Coffee break
Hybrid Polymer/Oxide Hollow Fibers as
Versatile and Scalable Flow Reactors for
3:05-3:35
3:35-4:00
Anil Guram
Art of Elements, LLC
Yu-Wen Chen*, Ya-Ting Chu
National Central University Taiwan
Linda Zh. Nikoshvili1*, Nadezhda A.
Nemygina1, Valentina G. Matveeva1,
Lioubov Kiwi-Minsker1,2, Esther M.
Sulman1
sponsored by Parr
1
Xin Jin, Meng Zhao, Pallavi Bobba,
Chun Zeng, Prem S. Thapa, Bala
Subramaniam, Raghunath V.
Chaudhari*
Louis Corbel-Demailly1, Alicia
Wilhelm1, Amandine Cabiac2,
Emmanuelle Guillon2, Michèle
Besson1, Catherine Pinel1*
University of Kansas
Juan A. Lopez-Ruiz1, Alan R.
Cooper1, Qiuxia Cai1,2, Donghai
Mei1, Karl O. Albrecht1*
1
Martin D Johnson*, Scott A May,
Joel R Calvin, Timothy M Braden,
Douglas P Kjell, Ryan J Linder,
Nikolay Zaborenko, Matthew H
Yates, Shon R Pulley
Sourav K. Sengupta*, Joachim C.
Ritter, William B. Bazela, Alan M.
Allgeier, and Yu-Ling Hsiao
Erik-Jan Ras*, Roel Moonen, Pieter
Imhof
sponsored by Parr
Eli Lilly
Eric G. Moschetta1, Solymar
Negretti2, Kathryn M. Chepiga2,
1
Tver Technical University,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne
2
1
CNRS-Université Lyon, 2IFPen-Lyon
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, 2Zhejiang University of
Technology
Dupont
Avantium
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Emory University
2
Heterogeneously Catalyzed Organic Reactions
4:00-4:25
4:25-4:50
Green Reactor Technologies for Process
Intensification of Biodiesel Processes: Cost,
Energy Savings and Emissions Abatement
Asymmetric Hydrogenation of α-Amino Ester:
A Spectroscopic View
Banquet
Nicholas A. Brunelli1,2, Ying
Labreche1, Yan Feng1, Fateme
Rezaei1, Ryan P. Lively1, William J.
Koros1, Huw M. L. Davies2, and
Christopher W. Jones1*
Aashish Gaurav, Flora Ng*, Garry
Rempel
University of Waterloo
Long Zhang, Mehdi Lohrasbi, Uma
Tumuluri and Steven S.C. Chuang*
University of Akron
Gadi Rothenberg
University of Amsterdam
Glen A. Ferguson, Michael B.
Griffin, Daniel A. Ruddy, Mary J.
Biddy, Gregg T. Beckham*, and
Joshua A. Schaidle*
Ashley McVeigh, Florent Bouxin,
Michael C. Jarvis and S David
Jackson*
sponsored by Parr
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
Elie Derrien1, Jialu Li1, Philippe
Marion2, Catherine Pinel1, Michèle
Besson1*
Rebecca A.L. Baylon1, Colin Smith1,
Junming Sun,1* Changjun Liu1, and
Yong Wang1,2*
T. Salmi1*, V. Hrobar1, P. MäkiArvela1, K.Eränen1, F. Sandelin2
1
Thursday
8:30-9:15
9:15-9:40
9:40-10:05
10:05-10:35
10:35-11:00
11:00-11:25
11:25-11:50
11:50-12:00
Keynote lecture: Break the Bark: New
Catalytic Routes From Biomass to Chemicals
The role of the support and reaction conditions
on the mechanism of vapor phase m-cresol
hydrodeoxygenation over Pt/TiO2 and Pt/C
catalysts
Conversion of Lignin to Functionalized
Aromatic Monomers Over Pt/alumina
Coffee break
Valorization of sugars in hemicellulose
hydrolysates by catalytic aerobic oxidation
Rational Design of ZnxZryOz Catalysts for the
Conversion of Ethanol to Isobutene with
Improved Selectivity and Stability
Kinetics and Modelling of Esterification of
Levulinic Acid – Batch and Continuous
Operation
Closing remarks
Will Medlin, ORCS Chair
University of Glasgow
CNRS Univ. Lyon, 2Solvay Research
and Innovation Center Lyon
1
Washington State University, 2Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory
1
Åbo Akademi, 2TF-Engineers
Finland