9th Green Chemistry Conference Program


Wednesday, September 14, 2011

8:30  

Registration

 
9:30  

Opening ceremony

Dña. Elisa Robles
Directora General de Economía, Estadística e Innovación Tecnológica. Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Dña. M. Luisa Marina
Vicerrectora de Investigación, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Dña Regina Revilla
Presidenta Asociación Española de Empresas de Biotecnología ASEBIO.

Dr. D. Julio Álvarez-Builla
Decano de la Facultad de Farmacia de la Universidad de Alcalá

D. Carles Estévez
Presidente de la Red Española de Química Sostenible.

 
10:00  

Panel: Business creation opportunities in Green Chemistry

Julio Álvarez-Builla, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Xavier Castells,
IUCT, Spain
Cristina González,
Suschem, Feique, Spain
Jesús Joglar,
Bioglane, Spain

 
 
11:00  

Coffee break and Posters

 
11:45  

Francesc L. Winterhalder, ESADE, Spain
Achieving Sustainability Goals: the Role of Green Chemistry

 

Session 1 - Green Synthetic Methods

Chairman:Ramon Mestres

12:30  

Miguel Yus, University of Alicante, Spain
Efficiency in Chemistry: From Hydrogen Autotransfer to Multicomponent Reactions

 
13:15  

Alfonso Cornejo, Public University of Navarra, Spain
New NHC-pyridine and NHC-pyridine-oxazoline tridentate chiral ligands. Application in transfer hydrogenation and enantioselective Ru-catalyzed cyclopropanation with reversal topicity.

 
13:30  
Lunch
 

Session 2 - Solvents I

Chairman: Ernesto de Jesús

15:00  

Jairton Dupont, Institute of Chemistry – UFRGS, Brazil
From Molten Salts to Ionic Liquids: A “Nano” Journey

 
15:50  

Akio Kamimura, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Combination use of ionic liquids and microwave irradiation: a new method for feedstock recycling of polymers

 
16:10  

Belén Altava, University Jaume I Castelló, Spain
Synthesis of novel chiral Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTCILs). Application in organocatalytic aldol reaction

 
16:30  

Coffee break and Posters

 

Session 3 - Solvents II

Chairman: Julio Álvarez-Builla

17:15  

Tom Welton, Imperial College London, U.K.
Ionic Liquids: Solvents for sustainable chemistry

 
18:00  

Ejaz Ahmed, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Synthesis of Inorganic Materials using Room Temperature Ionic Liquids: a Green Chemistry Approach

 
18:20  

José Ignacio García, University of Zaragoza-CSIC, Spain
Glycerol: A renewable source of more benign solvents

 
19:05  

Victorio Cadierno, University of Oviedo CSIC, Spain
Selective estragole to trans-anethole isomerization in environmentally friendly media

 
19:25  

End of session

 
19:45  

Green Chemistry Network of Spain (REDQS) annual meeting.

 

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Session 4 - Green Chemistry. Industrial Applications

Chairman: Pedro Cintas

9:30  

C. Oliver Kappe, Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Austria
Sustainable Organic Synthesis in Continuous Flow Environments

 
10:15  

Orlando J. González-Bello, Tecnalia, Spain
Process Intensification based on Structured Technologies: Fabrication method of Microchannel Reactor and its potential use in industrial reactions

 
10:35  

José L. Adrio, Neuron, Spain
TriBioPlast®: Biopolymers produced by fermentation

 
10:55  

José R. Ochoa-Gómez, Tecnalia, Spain
An industrial approach to the manufacturing of glycerol carbonate: Some synthetic alternatives

 
11:15  

Coffee break and Posters

 
12:00  

Víctor Deroncelé, Plasmia Biotech, Spain
Chemo-enzymatic strategies for the synthesis of nucleosides

 
12:20  

Anna Surribas, Leitat, Spain
Novel industrial applications of enzymatic conversions

 
12:40  

Luke Humphreys, GlaxoSmithKline, U.K.
Sustainable Chemistry at the Innovative Medicines Initiative

 
13:00  

Lunch

 

Session 5 - Green Photocatalysis I

Chairman: Antonio de la Hoz

15:00  

Norbert Hoffmann, Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, France
Photocatalytic Transformations of Furfural and its Derivatives

 
15:50  

Julia Pérez-Prieto, University of Valencia, Spain
Pyrene Fluorophore in Halogenated Solvents

 
16:10  

María González-Béjarn, University of Ottawa, Canada
Synthesis by Plasmonic Photocatalysis

16:30  

Coffee break and Posters

 

Session 6 - Green Photocatalysis II

Chairman: Julia Pérez-Prieto

17:15  

Michael Oelgemöller, James Cook University, Australia
From the Solar Production of Chemicals to Microphotochemical Synthesis

 
 
18:00  

Paula Miró, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Mechanistic studies on the photodegradation of non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs by using different oxidation processes

 
18:20  

End of session

 
18:30  

SUSCHEM-Spain Roadmap Discussion Group Meeting

 

Friday, September 16, 2011

Session 7 - Catalysis

Chairman: José Ignacio García

9:30  

Isabel W. Arends, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Enzymes as Oxidation Catalysts for the Green Chemist

 
10:15  

Edina Kulcsár, University of Pannonia, Hungary
Use of ionics liquids in a lipase-facilitated supported liquid membrane

 
10:35  

Luis Salvatella, University of Zaragoza-CSIC, Spain
A theoretical study on the stereoselectivity source in asymmetric Cu-bisoxazoline-catalysed vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol reactions

 
11:00  

Coffee break and Posters

 
11:45  

Manuel Ojeda, Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (ICP-CSIC), Spain
Selective oxidation of furfural to maleic anhydride with VOx/Al2O3 catalysts

 
12:05  

Alba Mª Ortiz, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
How to recover a homogeneous catalyst by filtration?

 

Friday, September 16, 2011

Session 8 - Greener Chemicals. Synthesis and Applications

Chairman: Ramón Alajarín

12:25  

Tomoo Mizugaki, Osaka University, Japan
Selective conversion of glycerol into valuable chemicals using heterogeneous Cu-Al catalysts

 
12:45  

Laura Molinero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Synthesis and characterisation of renewable chemical sunscreen active ingredients: a-monoglycerides of cinnamic acids

 
13:05  

Ana Isabel Sánchez,University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Perspectives for the Replacement of Perfluorinated Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) of Industrial Use

 
13:25  

Carles Estévez, IUCT, Spain
The design of green chemicals:A complexity catastroph?

 
13:45  

Closing ceremony

 
14:00  
Lunch