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25th Organic Reactions Catalysis Society Meeting Program

March 2 - 6, 2014, at the Westin La Paloma in Tucson AZ Sunday, March 2

1:00p – 3:00p Udall Board meeting 3:00p – 7:00p Canyon Foyer Registration 4:00p – 7:00p La Paloma

Dining Room Welcome reception

7:00p – 9:00p Canyon I Exhibitor booth setup

Monday, March 3 6:30a – 8:30a Verbena Speaker breakfast 8:30a – 10:30a Verbena Guest breakfast 7:30a – 12:00p 1:00p – 5:00p

Canyon Foyer Registration

8:00a – 12:00p 1:30p – 5:00p

Canyon I Exhibition

12:00p – 1:30p Canyon Foyer Poster setup 8:15a – 12:00p Canyon II Oral presentations Session chairs: Girish Srinivas and Bala Subramaniam 1:30p – 5:00p Canyon II Oral presentations Session chairs: Chris Jones and Will Medlin 5:00p – 7:00p Canyon Foyer Poster session I Technical program details Title Authors (Presenting and Corresponding*) 8:15a – 8:30a Canyon II Opening remarks Susannah Scott, Chair of ORCS 2014 8:30a – 9:15a Canyon II 2013 Paul Rylander Award Lecture:

Twenty-Five Years of Homogeneous Catalysis for the Production of Bulk and Fine Chemicals: A Personal Account

Sponsored by BASF Johannes de Vries, Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, University of Rostock, Germany, and Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

9:15a – 9:40a Canyon II Synthesis, Optimization and Catalytic Activity Screening of Industrially Relevant Ruthenium-based Metathesis Catalysts

Angelino Doppiu,* Frederic Caijo, Fabien Tripoteau, Savinien Bompard, Christophe Crévisy and Marc Mauduit*, Umicore, Germany; OMEGA CAT SYSTEM and Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, France

9:40a – 10:05a Canyon II An Unexpected Pressure Effect in the Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of a Complex Benzylamine

Setrak Tanielyan, Gabriela Alvez, Norman Marin, Robert Augustine,* Seton Hall University, USA

10:05a – 10:35a Canyon I Coffee break Sponsored by Parr Instrument Co. 10:35a – 11:00a Canyon II Oxidative Cleavage of Long-Chain Olefins

to Carboxylic Acids with Hydrogen Peroxide

Renat Kadyrov*, and Dagmar Hackenberger, Evonik Industries AG, Germany

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11:00a – 11:25a Canyon II Catalytic Hydrocarbon Oxidation Dominik Munz, Thomas Strassner,* Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

11:25a – 11:50a Canyon II Environmentally Benign Oxidation of Alkylphenols to p-Benzoquinones: A Comparative Study of Various Ti-containing Catalysts

Oxana Kholdeeva,* Irina Ivanchikova, Nataliya Maksimchuk, Maxim Mel’gunov, Jong-San Chang, Matteo Guidotti, Alexei Shutilov, Vladimir Zaikovskii, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Russia; KRICT, Korea; CNR-ISTM, Italy

12:00p – 1:30p Lunch break 1:30p – 2:15p Canyon II Keynote Lecture: Homogeneous and

Heterogeneous Catalysis in Micro-and Mini-Flow Reactors

Klavs Jensen, MIT, USA

2:15p – 2:40p Canyon II Continuous Process for the Production of Hexafluoroisopropanol

John Hagedorn, Gregory Shankwitz, Susanne Wolff, Stephen Tieri, James Schultz, Tiberiu Leib, and Sourav Sengupta,* DuPont, USA

2:40p – 3:05p Canyon II Oxidative Coupling of Methane to Ethane and Ethylene in Small Scale Parallel Reactors

Erik-Jan Ras,* Santiago Gomez-Quero, Avantium, The Netherlands

3:05p – 3:35p Canyon I Coffee break Sponsored by Parr Instrument Co. 3:35p – 4:00p Canyon II Oxidative Dehydrogenation of n-Butane:

Activity and Kinetics over VOx/Al2O3 Catalysts

Neetika Madaan,* Rommy Haufe, Raveendran Shiju, Gadi Rothenberg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and LANXESS, Germany

4:00p – 4:25p Canyon II Intrinsic Kinetics of Ethanol Dehydration over Lewis Acidic Ordered Mesoporous Silicate, Zr-KIT-6

Qing Pan, Anand Ramanathan, W. Kirk Snavely, Raghunath V. Chaudhair, Bala Subramaniam,* University of Kansas, USA

4:25p – 4:50p Canyon II The New ChemPren Process for the Conversion of Waste Plastic to Chemicals and Fuel

Rebecca Fushima, and Anne Gaffney,* The Langmuir Research Institute, and AMG Chemistry and Catalysis Consulting, USA

5:00p – 7:00p Canyon Foyer Poster session I (Odd-numbered posters)

Tuesday, March 4 7:30a – 12:00p 1:00p – 5:00p

Canyon Foyer Registration

8:00a – 12:00p 1:30p – 5:00p

Canyon I Exhibition

8:30a – 12:00p Canyon II Oral presentations Session chairs: Anne Gaffney and Doug Grotjahn 1:00p – 4:30p Lantana Short course: In Situ Characterization of Catalysts in the Liquid State (separate registration required)4:00p – 6:00p Canyon Foyer Poster session II

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Technical program details Title Authors (Presenting and Corresponding*) 8:30a – 9:15a Canyon II Murray Raney Award Lecture:

Architecture and Preparation of Supported Nickel Catalysts

Sponsored by W.R. Grace C. Martin Lok, Avantium, The Netherlands

9:15a – 9:40a Canyon II Applying Topological and Economical Principles in Catalyst Design: New Alumina-Cobalt Core-Shell Catalysts

Vincenzo Calderone, Raveendran Shiju, Daniel Curulla Ferré, Amadeus Rose, Johannes Thiessen, Andreas Jess, Els van der Roest, Barbara Wiewel, Gadi Rothenberg,* University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Total Research and Technology, Belgium; University of Bayreuth, Germany

9:40a – 10:05a Canyon II Direct Synthesis of 1-Butanol from Ethanol in a Plug-flow Reactor: Reactor and Reaction Kinetics Modeling

Toni Riittonen, Tapio Salmi, Jyri-Pekka Mikkola, Johan Wärnå,* Åbo Akademi University, Finland; Umeå University, Sweden

10:05a – 10:35a Canyon I Coffee break Sponsored by Parr Instrument Co. 10:35a – 11:00a Canyon II Biaryl and Stilbene Synthesis via

Catalytic Decarboxylative Cross-coupling Nelly Rameau, Stéphane Cadot, Anthony Paquet, Catherine Pinel,* Laurent Djakovitch, IRCELyon, France

11:00a – 11:25a Canyon II Polymer-Supported Reusable Phosphine Ligands for Palladium-Mediated Homogeneous Catalysis

Tatyana Khamatnurova, Mitchel Johnson, David Santana, Dongmei Zhang, Jakkrit Suriboot, David Bergbreiter,* Texas A&M University, USA

11:25a – 12:10a Canyon II Keynote Lecture: Mechanism-Guided Improvement of Palladium Catalysts for Cross-Coupling

Nilay Hazeri, Yale University, USA

12:10p – 1:00p Canyon I Grab-n-Go lunch Provided by ORCS Short course details Title Instructor 1:00p – 1:50p Lantana Solution Calorimetry Methods for the

Study of Catalytic Solid-Liquid Interfaces: Basic Principles and Examples

Robert Rioux, Pennsylvania State University, USA

1:55p – 2:45p Lantana IR and UV-Vis Spectroscopy of Solid Catalysts in Contact with Liquids

Friederike Jentoft, University of Oklahoma, USA

2:45p – 3:15p Lantana Foyer Coffee break 3:15p – 4:30p Lantana 1. Simple and Safe High-Pressure NMR

Spectroscopy for Solution Phase Catalysis; 2. Identifying and Characteriz-ing Catalytically Relevant Species Using In Situ and In Operando XAFS Methods

John Linehan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

4:30p – 6:30p Canyon Foyer Poster session II (Even-numbered posters)

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Wednesday, March 5 7:30a – 12:00p 1:00p – 5:00p

Canyon Foyer Registration

8:00a – 12:00p Canyon I Exhibition 8:00a – 12:00p Canyon Foyer Poster takedown 8:30a – 12:00p Canyon II Oral presentations Session chairs: John Holladay and Michèle Besson 12:00p – 5:00p Canyon I Exhibitor booth break down 1:30p – 4:00p Canyon II Oral presentations Session chairs: Bert Chandler and Chuck Orella 6:00p – 7:00p Sonoran Awards banquet reception 7:00p – 9:00p Sonoran Conference banquet and awards ceremony Technical program details Title Authors (Presenting and Corresponding*) 8:30a – 9:15a Canyon II 2014 Paul Rylander Award Lecture

Challenges in Catalytic Manufacture of Renewable Pyrrolidinones from Fermentation-Derived Succinate

Sponsored by BASF James White, 3RiversCatalysis, USA

9:15a – 9:40a Canyon II Exploratory Catalyst Screening Studies on the Base-free Conversion of Glycerol to Lactic Acid and Glyceric Acid in Water using Bimetallic Au-Pt Nanoparticles on Acidic Zeolites

Rajeesh Purushothaman, Jacco van Haveren, Álvaro Mayoral, Ignacio Melián-Cabrera, Hero J. Heeres,* University of Groningen and Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands; Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

9:40a – 10:05a Canyon II Glycerol Hydrogenolysis to Propylene Glycol by Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Catalyst

Yuanqing Liu, Nagaraju Pasupulety, Kamalakar Gunda, Garry Rempel, Flora Ng,* University of Waterloo, Canada

10:05a – 10:35a Canyon I Coffee break Sponsored by Parr Instrument Co. 10:35a – 11:00a Canyon II Cellulose Capitalization to Bio-chemicals

in the Presence of Magnetic Nanoparticle Catalysts

Iunia Podolean, Alina Negoi, Natalia Candu, Madalina Tudorache, Vasile Parvulescu,* Simona Coman,* University of Bucharest, Romania

11:00a – 11:25a Canyon II Hemicellulose Hydrolysis in the Presence of Heterogeneous Catalysts

Tapio Salmi,* Dmitri Murzin, Johan Wärnå, Päivi Mäki-Arvela, Bright Kusema, Bjarne Holmborn, Stefan Willför, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

11:25a – 11:50a Canyon II A Ru-containing Polymeric Catalyst for the Process of Cellulose Conversion into Polyols

Valentina Matveeva, Esther Sulman, Oleg Manaenkov,* Anastasia Filatova, Olga Kislitza, Alexander Sidorov, Valentin Doluda, Olga Makeeva, Alexey Bykov, Tver State Technical University, Russia

12:00p – 1:30p Lunch break 1:30p – 2:15p Canyon II Keynote Lecture: A Few of My Favorite

Rings: Catalysis Inspired by Lactones and Lactams

Vy Dong, University of California – Irvine, USA

2:15p – 2:40p Canyon II Unprecedented Catalyst Control of the Casey Larsen, Gulin Erdogan, Erik Paulson, Douglas

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Monoisomerization of 1-Alkenes to trans-2-Alkenes

Grotjahn,* San Diego State University, USA

2:40p – 3:05p Canyon II Porous Poly(vinyl alcohol) Composite Membranes for Immobilization of Glucose Oxidase

Ernesto Silva Mojica, Mehdi Lohrasbi, Steven S.C. Chuang*, University of Akron, USA

3:05p – 3:35p Canyon Foyer Coffee break Sponsored by Parr Instrument Co. 3:35p – 4:00p Canyon II Catalytic Transfer Dehydrogenation of

Geraniol to Geranial over Palladium and Copper Supported Catalysts

Thierry Gerez, Michèle Besson,* Catherine Pinel, Jean-Michel Joerger, Vivien Henryon, IRCELYON and ACTIVATION, France

4:00p – 4:25p Canyon II Controlling Selectivity in Hydrogenation of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes over Supported Pd and Pt Catalysts with Thiolate Monolayers

Rudy Kahsar, Daniel Schwartz, Will Medlin,* University of Colorado, USA

4:25p – 4:50p Canyon II Hydrogenated Tri-layer High Performance Elastomer: Substrate Synthesis, Catalytic Latex Hydrogenation, and Catalyst Recovery

Hui Wang, Lijuan Yang, Garry Rempel,* Qinmin Pan, University of Waterloo, Canada

Thursday, March 6

8:30a – 12:00p Canyon II Oral presentations Session chairs: Catherine Pinel and Jaime Blanton Technical program details Title Authors (Presenting and Corresponding*) 8:30a – 9:15a Canyon II Keynote Lecture: Catalyst Deactivation:

Mechanisms and Mitigation Alan Allgeier, DuPont Central Research and Development, USA

9:15a – 9:40a Canyon II Hydrogenation of 4-Nitroacetophenone over Rh/silica: Understanding Selective Hydrogenation of Multifunctional Molecules

Kathryn Currall and David Jackson,* University of Glasgow, Scotland

9:40a – 10:05a Canyon II Highly Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitro- to Azoarenes under Ambient Conditions

Carlos Morales-Guio, Igor Yuranov, and Lioubov Kiwi-Minsker,* Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

10:05a – 10:35a Canyon Foyer Coffee break Sponsored by Parr Instrument Co. 10:35a – 11:00a Canyon II Isomerisation of α-Pinene Oxide to

Campholenic Aldehyde over Supported Ionic Liquid Catalysts (SILCAs)

Eero Salminen,* Päivi Mäki-Arvela, Pasi Virtanen, Tapio Salmi, Jyri-Pekka Mikkola, Åbo Akademi University, Finland; Umeå University, Sweden

11:00a – 11:25a Canyon II Synthesis, Characterization, Reactivity of η3-AllylPd(L)(X), and Their Application in Aryl Amination Reactions

Reji Nair,* Christoff Neikerk, Gulin Erdogan, Alice Lu, Douglas Grotjahn*, Scripps Research Institute, and San Diego State University, USA

11:25a – 11:50a Canyon II Maximizing Efficiency of Catalysis in Manufacturing Processes

Hideo Shimizu,* Takasago, USA

11:50a – 12:00p Canyon II Closing remarks Susannah Scott

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Poster presentations

No. Title Authors Affiliations 1 Reductive Amination without the

Aldehyde: Use of a Ketolactol as an Aldehyde Surrogate

Alan Allgeier,* Denise Andersen, Michael Bartberger, Emilio Bunel, Robert Larsen, Pingli Liu, Thomas Storz, Jason Tedrow

DuPont Central Research, Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Amgen Inc, Argonne National Laboratory, Alcon, Incyte, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals

2 Nickel-Based Activated Carbon Monolith Catalysts (ACMC-Ni) and Raney®-Ni for Nitrobenzene Hydrogenation

Andrew Boyd, Kathryn Connor, Adam Frick, Robert Gulotty Jr,* Frank Herkes, Joseph Keller, Andrea Man, Stephanie Matthews, Lee Mitchell

Applied Catalysts, Applied Ceramics, USA

3 Boosting the Selectivity to Alkenol in Liquid-Phase Alkynol Hydrogenation

Artur Yarulin, Igor Yuranov, Fernando Cárdenas-Lizana, Lioubov Kiwi-Minsker*

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

4 Descriptor-Performance Relationships for Heterogeneous Catalysis

Erik-Jan Ras,* Gadi Rothenberg Avantium, and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

5 Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethylbenzene to Styrene over P-based Aluminosilicates: Impact of Support Hydrostabilization on Catalyst Life

Sebastiaan Meijer, Valeriya Zarubina, Christiaan Nederlof, Hero Jan Heeres, Freek Kapteijn, Michiel Makkee, Ignacio Melián-Cabrera*

University of Groningen, and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

6 Mild Upgrading of Pyrolysis Oil by Combining Acid-catalyzed Alcoholysis and Selective Water Adsorption

Rajeesh Pazhavelikkakathpurushotha-man, Zheng Zhang, Teddy Buntara, S.R.A. Kersten, Hero Jan Heeres, Ignacio Melián-Cabrera*

University of Groningen, and University of Twente, The Netherlands

7 PAT Application to Kinetic Analysis in the Expedited Development of a Three-Step, One-Stage Synthesis of the Dipeptide Intermediate of HCV Protease Inhibitor Faldaprevir

Nizar Haddad,* Bo Qu, Heewon Lee, Jon Lorenz, Rich Varsolona, Suresh Kapadia, Max Sarvestani, XuWu Feng, Carl Busacca, Dominique Hebrault, Simon Rea, Leen Schellekens, Chris Senanayake

Boehringer-Ingelheim, and Mettler-Toledo, USA

8 Effect of Reaction Conditions for Ru/C Catalyzed Selective Hydrogenolysis of Xylitol Aqueous Solutions to Glycols in a Trickle-bed Reactor

Florian Auneau, Maeva Berchu, Guillaume Aubert, Catherine Pinel, Michèle Besson,* Daniela Todaro, Marco Bernardi, T. Ponsetti, R. Di Felice

IRCELYON, France, and Chemtex Italia, Politecnico di Torino, and Univ. degli Studi di Genova, Italy

9 Glycerol Esters from Real Waste Cooking Oil using a Robust Solid Acid Catalyst

Venkatesh Subbiah, Peter van Zwol, Alexandre Dimian, Vitaly Gitis, Gadi Rothenberg*

University of Amsterdam, Solarix, and Yellow Diesel, The Netherlands, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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10 Aqueous Heck Arylation of Acrolein Derivatives: The Role of Cyclodextrin as Additive

Walid Al Maksoud, Mohamad Jahjah, Eric Monflier, Anne Ponchel, Bastien Leger, Stéphane Menuel, Catherine Pinel,* Laurent Djakovitch*

IRCELYON, and Université Artois, France

11 Hydrocarbon Chemistry on Zeolite Surfaces

Matthew Wulfers, Friederike Jentoft* University of Oklahoma, and University of Delaware, USA

12 Calorimetric Measurements to Interrogate the Thermodynamics of Liquid-phase Metal-catalyzed Reactions of Renewable Feedstocks

Yu Noda, Eric Moschetta, Robert Rioux* The Pennsylvania State University, USA

13 Hydrogenation of Bio-based Carboxylic Acids: Catalysis and Kinetic Studies

Arely Torres, Bala Subramaniam, Raghunath Chaudhari*

University of Kansas, USA

14 Selective Hydrogenation of Chloronitrobenzene on Bimetallic AuPd/TiO2 Catalysts

Yu-Wen Chen*, Ya-Ting Chu National Central University, Taiwan

15 Activated Carbons Designed for Removal of Pd from Pharmaceutical Mixtures

Girish Srinivas,* Steven Dietz, Steven Gebhard, Michael Mundschau

TDA Research, Inc., USA

16 Homologation of Methanol into Ethanol with Homogeneous Catalysts

Girish Srinivas,* Michael Mundschau, Jeffrey Martin, Steven Gebhard

TDA Research, Inc., USA

17 RuIII-based Magnetic Nanoparticles - A Highly Efficient Catalyst for the Selective Oxidation of Levulinic Acid to Succinic Acid

Iunia Podolean, Madalina Tudorache, Vasile Parvulescu,* Simona Coman

University of Bucharest, Romania

18 Organocatalysts Immobilized on Magnetically Recoverable@Silica Nanoparticles: Highly Selective Catalysts for the Asymmetric Epoxidation of Trans-Methylcinnamate

Natalia Candu, Cristina Rizescu, Madalina Tudorache, Vasile Parvulescu,* Simona Coman

University of Bucharest, Romania

19 Liquid-Phase Methanol Synthesis Esfir Sulman,* A. Bykov, M. Rubin Tver State Technical University, Russia

20 Oxidation of 2,3,6-Trimethylphenol and 2-Methylnaphthalene to Obtain Different Vitamin Precursors

Esfir Sulman,* Elena Shimanskaya, Olga Matveeva, Valentin Doluda

Tver State Technical University, Russia

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21 Process and Mechanism for the Carbonylation of Methanol to Acetic Acid Using Methyl Pyridinium Iodide and Rh in the Absence of Added Methyl Iodide

Joseph Zoeller,* Andrew Vetter, Mary Moore, Monika Wiedmann

Eastman Chemical, USA

22 Recovery of Wilkinson’s Catalyst from Hydrogenated Nitrile Butadiene Rubber Latex

Lijuan Yang, Hui Wang, Garry Rempel,* Qinmin Pan

University of Waterloo, Canada

23 Bimetallic Low Percentage Catalysts for Selective Production of Synthesis-gas

Svetlana Tungatarova,* Tolkyn Baizhumanova, Manapkhan Zhumabek, Adil Baiguzhin, Darkhan Koshekbayev

Sokolsky Institute of Organic Catalysis and Electrochemistry, and Chemical Solutions, Kazakhstan

24 Polyoxide Catalysts for Selective Catalytic Oxidation of Methane

Svetlana A. Tungatarova,* Tolkyn Baizhumanova, Kaisar Kassymkan, Valikhan Bishimbayev, Kambar Lepesov

Sokolsky Institute of Organic Catalysis and Electrochemistry, and National Center for Technology Foresight, Kazakhstan

25 HDO Catalysts Developed on Water-Stable Zirconia-Based Carriers

Wenqin Shen,* Franz Petzold, Karen Libby, Wayne Turbeville

Clariant BU Catalysts, USA

26 Catalyst Pre-treatment Facilitates Rapid and Efficient Hydrogenation of Various Functional Groups in a Novel Flow Reactor

Gábor Szirbik, László Kocsis, Richard Jones*

ThalesNano, Hungary

27 Design and Implementation of a New Hydrogenation and Pressure Facility (HPF)

Robert Oliver,* Brian Conway, Chris Helal, Manj Lall, Bruce Bechle, Steve Coffey, Susan Lilley, Teresa Makowki

Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, USA

28 Accelerate Synthesis and Optimization Work by Automated, High-throughput/High-output Solutions

Eva Wu* Chemspeed, USA

29 Ru/Re/Sn-supported Catalyst for Hydrogenation of γ-Butyrolactone to 1,4-Butanediol

Setrak Tanielyan,* Balaraju Miryala, Ramesh Bhagat, Gabriele Alvez, Norman Marin, Robert Augustine, Leo Manser, James White

Seton Hall University, Catalytic Insights, and 3RiversCatalysis, USA

30 Exploring the Effect of the Basicity of 6,6´ Substituents on Catalytic Water Oxidation by 2,2´-Bipyridyl Ruthenium Complexes

Jayneil Kamdar, David Marelius, Douglas Grotjahn,* Curtis Moore, Arnold Rheingold

San Diego State University, and University of California – San Diego, USA

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31 Anchored Wilkinson Catalyst: Hydrogenation of α- and β-Pinenes

Norman Marin, Gabriela Alvez, Nicole Biunno, Ramesh Bhagat, Setrak Tanielyan, Robert Augustine*

Seton Hall University, USA

32 Acrylic Acid Production through Lactic Acid Dehydration over Alkali Phosphate-modified K-L Zeolite

Setrak Tanielyan,* Kasireddy Mohan Reddy, Santosh More, Ramesh Bhagat, Robert Augustine, Cenan Ozmeral, Rajesh Dasari, Ramnick Singh, Joseph Glas

Seton Hall University, and Myriant Corp., USA

33 In-Situ Infrared Study of Oxidative Polymerization of Aniline to Polyaniline

Mehdi Lohrasbi, Nader Hedayat, Steven Chuang*

University of Akron, USA

34 Gas-Phase Hydrodeoxygenation of Propanoic Acid over Supported Palladium: Reaction Kinetics and the Effect of Particle Size

Yuliana Lugo-José, John Monnier, Christopher Williams*

University of South Carolina, USA

35 Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of the First Bis(Protic) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Pincer Platinum, Palladium, and Nickel Complexes

David Marelius, Evan Darrow, Curtis Moore, Arnold Rheingold, Douglas Grotjahn*

San Diego State University, and University of California – San Diego, USA

36 An Efficient Single Step Hydrogenation of Succinic acid to 1,4-Butanediol over Ru-Re-Sn/C

Setrak Tanielyan,* Balaraju Miryala, Ramesh Bhaghat, Gabriele Alvez, Norman Marin, Robert Augustine, Leo Manser, James White

Seton Hall University, Catalytic Insights, and 3RiversCatalysis, USA

37 Hydrogenolysis of Lignin to Value-Added Aromatic Products

Ashley McVeigh,* Florent Bouxin, Mike Jarvis and David Jackson

University of Glasgow, Scotland

38 Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Ethyl Benzoylformate, from Mechanisms and Kinetics to Continuous Reactor Technology

Gerson Martin, Päivi Mäki-Arvela, Johan Wärnå, Dmitry Murzin, Tapio Salmi*, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Åbo Akademi University, Finland

39 Water Adsorption on Au-based Catalysts: Implications for O2 Activation and CO Oxidation Catalysis

Johnny Saavedra, Basu Panthi, Chris Pursell, Bert Chandler*

Trinity University, USA

40 Gold and Copper Imidazolyl- and Pyridylphosphine Complexes and their Reactivity

Melinda L. Pope, Curtis Moore, Arnold Rheingold, Douglas Grotjahn*

San Diego State University, and University of California – San Diego, USA

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41 Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Group 8 Transition Metal Bifunctional Catalysts

Erik Paulson, Douglas Grotjahn* San Diego State University, USA

42 Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation by Supported Au Nanoparticle Catalysts: Evaluating the Number of Actives Sites by Means of Thiol Poisoning and Titration

Basu Panthi, Johnny Saavedra, Christopher Pursell, Bert Chandler*

Trinity University, USA

43 Simple, Scalable, and Efficient Synthesis of γ-Keto-α,β-unsaturated Esters via Grubbs Metathesis

Reji Nair, Thomas Bannister* Scripps Research Institute, USA

44 Hydrogenation of Succinimide to 2-Pyrrolidone over Solid Catalysts

Setrak Tanielyan,* Santosh More, Robert Augustine, Thidarat Tosukhowong, Cenan Ozmeral, Kirk Roffi, Mark Shmorhun, Joseph Glas

Seton Hall University, and Myriant Corp., USA

45 Continuous Hydroformylation with Nanofilterable Rh Catalyst Bound to Polysiloxane Ligands in a Stirred Membrane Reactor

Zhuanzhuan Xie, Bibhas Sarkar, Geoffrey Akien, Raghunath Chaudhari, Bala Subramaniam*

University of Kansas, USA

46 Silica-supported Vanadium Catalysts for the Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols

Bethany Wigington, Susannah Scott* University of California – Santa Barbara, USA

47 Polyolefins as Supports and Solvents in Ru-Catalyzed Metathesis Chemistry

Jakkrit Suriboot, Christopher Hobbs, Yanfei Yang, Hassan Bazzi, David Bergbreiter*

Texas A&M University, and Angelo State University, USA

48 Dehydrogenation of 1-Butene to 1,3-Butadiene over Zinc Ferrite

Ron Spence,* Stephy Wilson, Keith Whiston, David Jackson

University of Glasgow, Scotland, and Invista Textiles, England

49 Mechanistic Studies of Dehydration of Glucose with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts

Long Qi, Geoffrey R. Akein, István T. Horváth*, and Susannah L. Scott*

City University of Hong Kong, China, and University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

50 Direct Synthesis of 1-Butanol from Ethanol in a Plug Flow Reactor: The Chemistry

Toni Riittonen*, N. Kumar, Tapio Salmi, J.-P. Mikkola, and Johan Wärnå

Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Umeå University, Sweden