ACSAICHETuesday, April 8, 2008

8:30 AM-11:45 AM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 350, Oral
Green Chemistry & Engineering
Alternative Solvents and Bioapplications
Organizer:Raymond L. Smith
Organizer, Presiding:Michael A. Gonzalez
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AMGreen chemistry considerations in the design of ionic liquids
Richard E. Engler, J. Vincent Nabholz
9:00 AMGuanidine/alcohol and amidine/alcohol switchable solvent mixtures
Hillary A. Huttenhower, Lam Phan, Daniel Chiu, David J. Heldebrant, Ejae A. John, Xiaowang Li, Pamela Pollet, Charles A. Eckert, Charles L. Liotta, Philip G. Jessop
9:25 AMScreening ionic liquids for green chemistry
David A. Gallagher, Andreas Klamt, Michael Diedenhofen
9:50 AMIntermission
10:05 AMDevelopment and characterization of renewable copolymers, poly(glycerol-fumarate) and poly(trimethylene-malonate) from by-products of biorefineries
Mathew D Rowe, Keisha B. Walters
10:30 AMEnvironmentally-friendly glycerol disposal using bacterial-mediated fermentation
Andrew T Ford, Bart HJ. van den Berg, Rafael Hernandez, William E. Holmes, W. Todd French
10:55 AMSilica surface modifications for bioapplications
Fei Shen, Jan Genzer, Orlando J. Rojas, Patrick V. Gurgel, Ruben G Carbonell
11:20 AMGreen catalytic hydrogenolysis of glycerol to propylene glycol over a promising silica supported copper catalyst
Zhiwei Huang, Fang Cui, Jing Chen, Xinzhi Zhang, Chungu Xia

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