Group News & Updates
Mahdi has won the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines/ JPP Young Investigator Award, 2010: Professor Abu-Omar will receive the award at SPP's International Conference, ICPP-6, te be held in New Mexico in July (ICPP link).
Mechanistic insight from global kinetics fitting of catalyzed olefin polymerization: Novstrup, Travia, and our team of chemists and chemical engineers demonstrate the power of using multi-response data set including NMR kinetics and GPC in deciphering organometallic catalysis of olefin polymerization. Read More>>
Welcome to our newest group members: Shuo Liu, Scott Hicks, and Keith Steelman have joined our scientific family. Shuo and Scott will work on catalytic conversion of biomass, and Keith is joining our polymerization and discovery informatics project.
Moly Salalen complexes: Facile synthetic route to these novel compounds and their unusual use in hydrosilylation reactions. Read More>>
Oxo catalyst for deoxygenation of diols and biomass-derived compounds: We report on the Diol-to-Alkene Reaction (DARe) with hydrogen catalyzed by MTO. Read More>>
Congratulations to our newest Ph.D : Dr. Rex Corbin is know a staff chemist at Crane Naval Base in Indiana.
DOE awards an Energy Frontiers Research Center (EFRC) at Purdue: The U.S. Department of Energy funds $20 million to create the Purdue Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). Mahdi is named associate director of the center. Our group will be developing transition-metal catalysts for converting lignocellulosic biomass to gasoline and valuable feedstock. Read the Full Story>>
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