Sunday (August 17) Afternoon
- 2:00 pm-6:00 pm - Registration
- 6:00 pm-7:00 pm - Dinner
Sunday Evening--7:00 pm-9:30 pm
- 7:00 pm-7:30 pm - Opening Remarks
7:30 pm - Environmentally Benign Organic Synthesis: An Overview
Session Leader: Ronald Breslow (Dept. of Chemistry, Columbia University, NYC, New York, USA)
- Paul T. Anastas (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC ) - "Principles of Green Chemistry; Theory and Practice"
- Roger Sheldon (Delft University, The Netherlands) - "Catalytic Methods for Environmentally Benign Organic Synthesis"
Monday Morning --- 9:00 am-12:30 pm
New Developments in Environmentally Friendly Catalysis
Session Leader: Malcolm Green (Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University, Oxford, England)
- James H. Clark (University of York, UK) - "Clean Synthesis Using Supported Reagent Catalysts"
- Colin Suckling (University of Strathclyde, Glascow, UK) - "Some Paradigms for Clean Synthesis: Does Biocatalysis Make the Grade?"
- Mark Burk (Chiroscience Inc., Cambridge, UK) - "Optimal Catalyst Choice for Reduction of Waste in Asymmetric Synthesis"
Monday Afternoon - Poster Session
Monday Evening---7:00 pm-9:30 pm
Industrial Examples of Environmentally Friendly Catalysis
Session Leader: Wolfgang Hoelderich (Univ. of Technology, RWTH-Aachen, Germany)
- Christian W. Kohlpaintner (Hoechst A.G., Oberhausen, Germany) - "Process Excellence and the Environment: Two-Phase Catalysis at Hoechst"
- Martin Studer (Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel, Switzerland) - "Selective Catalytic Hydrogenation: A Mature Technology for Cleaner Production"
- Leo Manzer (DuPont Co., Wilmington, Delaware, USA) - "The Environmental Challenge: Exciting New Opportunities for Catalytic Science and Engineering"
Tuesday Morning --- 9:00 am -12:30 pm
Developments in Environmentally Favorable Process Chemistry
Session Leader: Timothy Lester (DEFT Technology and Design, Middlesex, UK)
- David Askin (Merck Co., Rahway, NJ, USA) - "Synthetically Challenging Molecules of Pharmaceutical Interest"
- Guido Steffan (Bayer Co., Leverkusen, Germany) - "Process-Integrated Environmental Protection by Optimization of Classical Processes"
- Holger Geissler (Hoechst AG, Frankfurt, Germany) - "Process Development in Industrial Chemistry: Towards a Cleaner Environment"
Tuesday Afternoon - Poster Session
Tuesday Evening---7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Green Chemistry and Biocatalytic Synthesis
Session Leader: David Crout (University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)
- Alan J. Russell (Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, USA) - "Supercritical Biotechnology: Biocatalysts Perform Best Under Pressure"
- John Woodley (University College of London, UK) - "The Efficient Design of Biotransformation Processes"
Wednesday Morning --- 9:00 am-12:30 pm
Design and Development of Biodegradable Products
Session Leader: Al Sattelberger (Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA)
- Thomas Federle (Proctor & Gamble Co., Cinncinati, Ohio, USA) - "Biodegradability: The Why and How"
- Graham Swift (Rohm & Haas Co., Spring House, PA, USA) - "Designing Biodegradable Polymers"
- Ralph Timmermann(Bayer Co., Krefeld, Germany) - "Renewable and Fossil Raw Materials: Scope and Limitations of Biodegradable Materials"
Wednesday Afternoon - Poster Session
Wednesday Evening---7:00 pm-9:30 pm
Clean Synthesis Using Microwaves
Session Leader: Pietro Tundo (University of Venice, Venice, Italy)
- Jack Hamelin (University of Rennes, Rennes, France) - "Solvent-Free Organic Synthesis Using Focused Microwave Irradiation"
- Ajay K. Bose (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA) - "Microwave-Assisted Accelerated Reactions for Environment-Friendly Organic Synthesis"
Thursday Morning --- 9:00 am-12:30 pm
Special Topics in Environmentally Benign Organic Synthesis
Session Leader: William Nelson (Hazardous Waste Research & Information Center, Champaign, IL, USA)
- John Warner (Univ. Massachussetts, Boston, MA, USA) - "Non Covalent Derivatization: Applications of Molecular Self-Assembly for Pollution Prevention"
- Kenneth R. Seddon (Queens University of Belfast, UK) - "Ionic Liquids: Neoteric Solvents for Clean Synthesis"
- Jean-Louis Luche (Univ. Savoie, France) - "Ultrasound in the Design of Clean and Simple Synthetic Methods"
- Dennis Riley (Monsanto Co., St. Louis, MO, USA) - "Economic Impact on Investment Policy: Implications for Development of Green Chemistries"
Thursday Afternoon - Poster Session
Thursday Evening---7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Atom Economy: Principles and Practice
Session Leader: Joseph J. Breen (Westat, Inc. Rockville, Maryland, USA)
- Michael K. Stern (Monsanto Co., St. Louis, MO, USA) - "Environmental Chemistry at the Monsanto Company"
- Barry M. Trost (Standford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA) - "On Inventing New Reactions for Atom Economy"
Friday Morning --- 7:30 am
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