PROGRAM

NOVEMBER 8

8:45 REGISTRATION AND CHECK IN

9:15 WELCOMING ADDRESSEES

Salvador Milà, Minister of Environment and Housing, Autonomous Government of Catalonia. Spain
Francisco Belil, President of FEIQUE (Federation of Spanish Chemical Industries). Spain
Josep Castells, General Director of IUCT. Spain

9:55 OPENING REMARKS

Carles Estévez, Scientific Director. IUCT. Spain
Santiago Luís, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló. Spain

10:00 GLOBAL PLENARY: Green chemistry: Current Status and Future Challenges

Paul T. Anastas , Director of the Green Chemistry Institute of the American Chemical Society. USA

10:50 COFFEE BREAK

SESSION I: GREEN CHEMISTRY IN INDUSTRY

Chairman: Joan Bladé. URQUIMA-GRUPO URIACH. Spain

11:20 Green Chemistry & Sustainability - a solution for the future of industrial applications

Rainer Höfer, Functional Products Research & Technology. COGNIS. Germany

12:00 PANEL 1. GREEN CHEMISTRY RESEARCH POLICIES

Armand Vilaplana, CEMA director
Paul T. Anastas, Director of the Green Chemistry Institute of the American Chemical Society. USA
Rafael Beaus, General Manager of AFAQUIM
Carles Estévez, Chairman. Scientific Director of IUCT

 

13:30 LUNCH

 

SESSION I: GREEN CHEMISTRY IN INDUSTRY (Cont.)

15:30 Sustainability at work within DSM

Jacques G.H. Joosten. Director Corporate Technology. DSM. Netherlands

16:10 Environmentally benign production of amino acids via biotechnology

Stefan Buchholz, Project House ProFerm. DEGUSSA. Germany

17:00 Industrial Processes between green approach and competition: Synthetic Vanillin

Vittorio Messori Borregaard . Italy

 

NOVEMBER 9

SESSION II: GREEN CHEMISTRY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Chairman: Carles Estévez. IUCT. Spain

9:00 GLOBAL PLENARY: Green Industrial Applications of Ionic Liquids

Kenneth Seddon The Queen's University of Belfast . UK .

9:50 Green Chemistry Through Entropic Control of Materials Construction

John Warner . University of Massachusetts Lowell . USA

10:30 COFFEE BREAK - POSTER SESSION

10:50 Sustainable Development and Renewable Feedstocks

Jürgen O.Metzge r . Institut für Reine und Angewante Chemie. Germany

11:30 The Green Chemistry of Dimethyl Carbonate. Reactions with Amines

Maurizio Selva INCA. Italy

12:10 PANEL 2. INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES ON EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA COLLABORATION

Allan A. Jensen, Force Technology. Denmark
John Warner, University of Massachusetts USA
Santiago Luis, Universitat Jaume I. de Castelló. Spain. Chairman

13:40 LUNCH

 

SESSION II: GREEN CHEMISTRY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (Cont.)

Chairman: Santiago Luís. Universitat Jaume I de Castelló. Spain

15:40 Green Chemistry. Views and Strategies

Ramon Mestres Universitat de Valencia. Spain

16:20 The development of solid catalysts for epoxidation with diluted hydrogen peroxide

José M. Fraile Universidad de Zaragoza-C.S.I.C. Spain

17:00 Green Catalytic Processes with Ionic Liquids/Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Media

Giancarlo Franciò I nstitut für Technische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie. Germany

17:40 CLOSING

Josep Font*, General Manager of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry. Spain
Carles Estévez, IUCT.Spain

* not yet confirmet

 

NOVEMBER 10

2 nd SPANISH MEETING ON SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY

NOVEMBER 10, 2004

BARCELONA SPAIN

  Chairman: Ramon Mestres. Universitat de València. Spain

9:00 Environmentally Friendly Amino Acid Based Surfactants

Ma Rosa Infante, CSIC(Superior Council of Scientific Investigations). Spain

9:40 Efficient Production of Glycoconjugates via Green Biocatalytic Glycosidation for Monitoring Interaction

María J. Hernáiz . Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain

10:20 COFFEE BREAK - POSTER SESSION

10:50 Green Strategies in Combinatorial Chemistry

Rodolfo Lavilla, Universitat de Barcelona. Spain

11:30 Catalytic Epoxidation of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters obtained from vegetable sources

Matteo Guidotti, CNR-ISTM and Centro di Eccellenza CIMAINA. Italy

12:10 Decontamination of solid matrices by supercritical carbon dioxide

Julien Galy, CEA Valrhô. France

12:50 Supercritical water: A clean environment for selective catalytic oxidation

Eduardo García, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló

 

13:30 LUNCH

 

15:00 Poster Oral Presentations

17:00 Closing

Ramon Mestres, Universitat de València. Spain
Santiago Luís, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló. Spain