Chemistry Meeting

Bob Crabtree was educated at New College, Oxford with Malcolm Green, did his Ph.D. with Joseph Chatt at Sussex University and spent four years in Paris in Hugh Felkin's lab at the CNRS Natural Products Institute, headed at that time by Derek Barton. In 1977 he came to the US as an Assistant Professor at Yale, where he is now Whitehead Professor of Chemistry. He has been A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, received the ACS and Royal Soc. of Chem. Awards for organometallic chemistry and has been Chair of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of ACS. He has also received the Mack (Ohio State), Karcher (Oklahoma), Job (Memorial U) and Kolosapoff (Auburn U, 2010) Awards, been an H.C. Brown Lecturer at Purdue University, Dow lecturer at Berkeley, Sabatier Lecturer at Toulouse, Williams Lecturer at Oxford, Osborn Lecturer at Strasbourg, Mond Lecturer (UK) and visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris, Toulouse and Montpellier.

Research Design and synthesis of inorganic, coordination or organometallic molecules with unusual structures and properties.

Craig L Hill trained at MIT (PhD; Whitesides) and Stanford (NSF PD; Holm) and is the Goodrich C. White Professor of Chemistry at Emory University. He studies catalysis (green oxidations; multielectron processes, decontamination, others), mechanisms and materials. He has trained ~130 graduate students and postdocs. Google Scholar lists ~340 journal publications that are cited 20,065 times (H index = 72). Three of these already exceed 1000 citations. He has been the recipient of three ACS awards, many others and is a member of two academies.

He studies catalysis (green oxidations; multielectron processes, decontamination, others), mechanisms and materials

John Littleton studied Pharmacology and Medicine as an MD PhD student at Kings College, London University in England. He continued academic research at Kings College, mostly in CNS target validation, as a Professor in the Pharmacology Department until 1993. At this time he spent a year at the University of Kentucky on a Wellcome Foundation fellowship where he started to develop an interest in novel technologies for plant drug discovery. He returned to Kentucky in 1995 to further develop the plant drug discovery aspect of his research, using novel methods of mutagenesis and high throughput screening in plant cell cultures. He co-founded the biotechnology company, Naprogenix Inc, in 2002 to commercialize these methods. With support from NIH (SBIR/STTR awards) and Kentucky (matching funds for these) Naprogenix and the University of Kentucky have refined the technology to its current state. The technology now utilizes the expression of protein targets in plant cells, followed by mutagenesis and selection for clones generating metabolites which interact with the target. Dr Littleton lives in downtown Lexington with his wife Susan Barron, who is a Professor in Psychology at the University, and his teenage daughter Elise.

The technology now utilizes the expression of protein targets in plant cells, followed by mutagenesis and selection for clones generating metabolites which interact with the target

Lothar Brecker received his diploma and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Dortmund in 1993 and 1996, respectively. After working at Graz University of Technology and Research Center Borstel, he became an associate professor at the University of Vienna. There he actually serves as vice head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and deputy director of the Chemistry Studies Program. His main research activities are in the fields of using NMR to study enzyme ligand binding, interactions between small molecules, and structure determination of natural products. He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals.

His main research activities are in the fields of using NMR to study enzyme ligand binding, interactions between small molecules, and structure determination of natural products

Dr. Sarker, the President, CEO and CTO of Waste Technologies, LLC (WTL) since 2013, is the sole owner of the company. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, UK. He also has a Masters and a Bachelors degree, both in Chemistry, from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Dr. Sarker has been the Vice President of Research & Development for NSR since 2005 where he invented the technology which makes up US Patent # 8,927,797 B2 “Method for converting waste plastics to lower – molecular weight hydrocarbons, particularly hydrocarbon fuel materials and the hydrocarbon material produced thereby.” An additional 5 patents are pending. This work has garnered numerous awards both nationally and internationally. In addition to having published more than 110 research articles he acts as Editor-in Chief for 15 renowned international journals; World Research Journal of Physical Chemistry, International Journal of Chemical Research, and the World Research Journal of Environment and Waste Management and Editor of 155 and 175 of peer reviewer of national and international journals. Dr, Sarker wrote 6 books including chapters on Waste Plastic to Fuel. Dr. Sarker is a distinguished member of the following associations, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, Member of Institute Physics (MInstP), UK, American Chemical Society (ACS), American Physical Society (APS), American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE), International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Advanced Photon Sources User Group (APS), Chicago, Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), CleanTech Forum International, Connecticut Technology Council, Alliance for Clean Energy of New York (ACENY), Society of Automobile Engineering (SAE) International, Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), Vermont Renewable Energy, Sierra Club, Greenpeace International, Bangladesh Chemical Society (Life Member), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (CINS) and many more. In addition, Dr. Sarker was elected President of Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)-CT Chapter in August, 2012-14 and advisor board member of CT Green Building Council (CTGBC) since 2013. Dr. Sarker also heads a humanitarian effort in Bangladesh; The Moinuddin and Anjuman Foundation, Inc., (www.moinandanjufoundation.com) which helps provide essentials for the poor and underprivileged in Bangladesh and around the Globe. .

Method for converting waste plastics to lower – molecular weight hydrocarbons, particularly hydrocarbon fuel materials and the hydrocarbon material produced thereby

David Schiraldi has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Oregon, worked in the chemical/polymer industry for 20 years, then moved to the Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering at Case Western Reserve University 14 years ago, where he is the department Chairman. He has published approximately 200 peer-reviewed papers, holds 20 U.S. patents, has launched a startup company, is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, and is on the advisory boards of a number of journals and academic departments.

Composites, including Aerogel composites, structure-property relationships, transport phenomena and packaging materials, condensation polymers, bio-based polymer synthesis, polymer flammability and sustainable FR agents, polymer blends and complex polymer systems.

Andy was born and raised in St. Louis, MO. After earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Lake Forest College, he joined Array BioPharma in Longmont, CO in 2001. He then joined Albert Padwa’s laboratory at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia studying dipolar cycloaddition approaches to alkaloid natural product synthesis. Upon completion of his doctorate in 2008, he joined Pfizer and has worked on small molecule drug discovery projects within the Neurosciences, Rare Diseases, and Inflammation & Immunology therapeutic areas. He has authored over 25 peer-reviewed publications and several patents. His other interests include ice hockey, poker, and boating.

Organic Synthesis, Organic Chemistry, Chemistry, NMR

Miguel Yus has completed his PhD in 1973 at the University of Saragossa (Spain) and postdoctoral studies from the Max Planck Institute in Mülheim Ruhr (Germany). After returning to the University of Oviedo (Spain) he became Associate Professor in 1978 and full Professor in 1987 at the same university. In 1988 he moved to his current position at the University of Alicante (Spain). He has been invited professor at the ETH Zürich, and the universities of Oxford, Harvard, Uppsala, Tucson, Okayama, Paris, Strasbourg, Bologna, Sassari, Tokyo, and Kyoto. He is coauthor of more than 500 papers and 5 patents.

Atom and Step Economy in Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Abel E Navarro received his PhD degree in Biomolecular Chemistry at New York University. Now, as a junior Faculty member at BMCC, he is developing new bioremediation alternatives for the elimination of pollutants from wastewaters as biodegradable and recyclable materials that can compete with currently available techniques. Navarro has a publication record of more than 50 articles in specialized and peer-reviewed journals and is members of several Editorial Boards. Navarro would like to thank BMCC and PNICP (project ECIP-1-P-042-14) for the financial support. This project was also sponsored by UPRRP Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainability and the HSI-STEM grant from the US Department of Education.

Abel E Navarro is developing new bioremediation alternatives for the elimination of pollutants from wastewaters as biodegradable and recyclable materials that can compete with currently available techniques

Mohamed El-Far, worked in biochemistry field for 40 years, published over 80 peer-reviewed papers. He received Fulbright and British council fellowships several times as well as German DAAD grant to establish PDT Program at Munchen, also received US-AID grant to establish PDT unit in Egypt. He is serving on the editorial boards and Hon. Editor to three international journals. He acts as UNESCO expert in science and technology. Dr. El-Far served as visiting professor to University of California as well as Utah laser center also Mayo clinic for several years. He also served as a visiting professor to Cardiff and Swansea Universities, UK. He is a member of International Photodynamic Association and Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Selected recently as expert and consultant for biochemistry in the national committee of suprime council of Universities in Egypt, which is the highest nation honor.

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