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Newsletter 246, 28th
February 2014
Chemistry Update
Calendar of Events
UCAS Interview Afternoons
Date: Tuesday 11 March
Time: 12pm - 4pm
Location: DS/008
SCI Careers Options Seminar
Date: Wednesday 5 March
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Location: TBC
RSC Awards Symposium
Date: Wednesday 12 March
Time: 2pm
Location: A101
Speakers: Morris Bullock,
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory; Rafael Luque,
University of Cordoba
Organic Synthesis Group
Plenary Session
Date: Friday 14 March
Time: 2.30pm—4pm
Location: A122
Inside this Issue
Date of Next Issue:
28th
March 2014
Award Allows Creation of
‘Virtual Air’ archive at York
2
Chemistry Graduate Features in RSC 175 Faces of Chemistry
3
From Surgery to Laboratory and Back again
4-5
Opening of WACL 6
Chemistry@York Newsletter 7
Waste Not Want Not 8-9
Post-doctoral Research Associate Posts
10
Graduate Research Seminar: Summer Term
Green Chemist Gives Café Scientifique Talk
11
Green Chemistry ACS Webinar
Eleanor Dodson Acknowledged in Nature
12-13
Marooned on a Desert Island 13-14
Bruker Poster Competition 15
St Clare’s Primary School, Middlesbrough, visit SABIC
Food Waste @ York 16
Malaysia Demonstration
Activity
17
Organic Synthesis Group Plenary Session
18
Green Impact 18-19
From the Archive 20
Opening of the York
Atmospheric Chemistry
Laboratories
Date: Monday 17 March
Time: 6pm; Public Lecture by
Professor Ravishankara,
Earth System Research
Laboratory
Organic Colloquia
Date: Wednesday 19 March
Time: 2.30pm - 5.30pm
Location: A101
Speakers: Professor Chris
Moody and Dr Nathan Brown
Bruker Poster Competition
Date: Thursday 20 March
Time: All Day
Location: A101 / A102
RSC Awards Symposium
Date: Wednesday 26 March
Time: 1pm
Location: A101
Speakers: George Schatz,
Michele Vendruscolo, Andrew
Baldwin, Jane Clarke, Bob
Crabtree
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Atmospheric chemists developing a ‘virtual air’ archive have
received a major government funding boost. The award of
nearly £208,000 from the Natural Environment Research
Council (NERC) will be invested in new computing
infrastructure at York, allowing retrospective analysis of stored
samples of air.
The award is part of £4.6m NERC funding announced by the
Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, which in
turn forms of part of the Government’s Big Data investment.
The aim is to allow the UK research community to take advantage of existing environmental data for
science and impact.
The York project, Big Data for Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry: Understanding and Science
(BACCHUS), is led by Professor Alastair Lewis and Professor Mathew Evans from the University’s
Department of Chemistry.
The funding will support tools for visualisation, analytical software, new computing and large capacity
storage facilities. The new infrastructure will help combine the massive datasets generated by York's
atmospheric chemistry modelling with state of the art analytical chemistry instruments in the lab, to
create a virtual archive of atmospheric composition.
Professor Lewis said: “Our work is all about measurement of organic compounds in air. A
conservative estimate would have of the order of 1,000 in urban air in the gas phase, and perhaps
10,000 in airborne aerosols.
“As we discover the structures of new compounds in air, we intend to go back through our virtual
archive and automatically search out these new species. It appears to offer us a way back in time,
without the problems associated with physical degradation of stored samples.
“The ability to extrapolate new discoveries on tiny chemical details back through a past history of
atmospheric samples could have a revolutionary effect on our science.”
The 24 successful Big Data projects will help with problems including those where large file sizes are
present, there are a wide variety of data types, data needs to be analysed in real time, or where
large quantities of data held on paper need to be made digital.
David Willetts, Minister for Universities & Science, said: “Making the most of large and complex data
Award Allows Creation of ‘Virtual Air’ archive at York
is a huge priority for government as it has the potential to transform public and private sector
organisations, drive research and development, increase productivity and innovation, and enable
market-changing products and services.
“This funding will help the UK grasp these opportunities and get ahead in the global race.”
Professor Duncan Wingham, NERC’s Chief Executive said: “This will enable a new kind of science
by allowing researchers to run potentially complex environmental models, to capture real-time data
from sensors embedded in the natural environment, and to support the synthesis of this information
impacting on science, policy and the economy.”
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Cheryl Alexander completed her chemistry
degree at York despite mobility problems. She
now teaches chemistry in a secondary school,
with the help of her assistance dog, Orca.
Cheryl has now been chosen as one of the
Royal Society of Chemistry 175 Faces of
Chemistry.
Cheryl says “My heartfelt thanks to my
supervisor, Professor Paul Walton, who went
above and beyond the call to support me. It is
certain that without him, I should not have
graduated.”
York Chemistry Graduate Features in RSC 175 Faces of Chemistry
Green Gown Award Winner’s Video Now Online
The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence has recently emerged top in
the Research and Development category of the annual Green Gown
Awards, and now you can watch out winner’s case study video at:
http://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/research/green/greengownvideo/
Professor Dave Smith has led an international team which have developed the agents that bind and
potentially remove the anti-coagulant heparin. His experience in seeing his partner in hospital
recovering from a double lung transplant prompted him to design and synthesise new chemical
agents that could revolutionise post-operative patient care.
Professor Smith says: ‘I was sitting at my husband Sam’s bedside while he recovered from a double
lung transplant when the idea first came to me. I spent a long time talking to surgeons about all the
drugs they used, and some of the problems they caused, and as I sat there, looking at all the tubes, I
realised that perhaps my research team could help.”
One of the drugs used during major surgery is heparin which helps to prevent the blood from clotting.
Once the patient is in recovery, however, the surgeons want clotting to resume to aid the healing
process. To do this they use a ‘heparin rescue agent’, called protamine, to remove heparin from the
patient’s bloodstream. But in some cases, this can cause side effects such as patients going into
anaphylactic shock. As a result, doctors must use protamine cautiously, which can lead to inefficient
clotting.
“I realised that my research group had developed expertise which could lead to chemical agents to
bind, and perhaps remove the heparin. These chemical agents can be carefully designed to
minimise side effects and so improve patient care,” Professor Smith says.
From Surgery to Laboratory and Back again
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He designs small drug-like molecules, which assemble spontaneously into larger nanostructures in
order to bind the heparin using multivalent (many-bonds) interactions. In the latest research,
published in Chemical Science, Professor Smith and his team, which includes researchers from
University of Liverpool, University of Trieste, and Freie Universität Berlin demonstrate that this
approach works in vitro in human plasma, reversing the effect of heparin and allowing clotting to
begin.
Importantly, the system is biodegradable unless bound to heparin, with the molecules slowly
breaking down, leading to nanostructure disassembly and inactivation. This means that, in principle,
plenty of this compound could be used, because any excess will be less likely to cause side effects.
Professor Smith adds: “This could revolutionise the way in which surgeons reverse the effects of
heparin once surgery is complete. I call this ‘self-assembled multivalent’ approach to medicine as
‘SAMul’ nanomedicine – in honour of Sam who gave me the initial inspiration.”
The next stages of the research will involve further optimisation of the agents to maximise their
binding and further minimise their toxicity prior to in vivo testing and eventual clinical trials.
Nanostructure binding heparin
Sam in hospital post transplant
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Opening of the York Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories
Monday 17 March 2014, 12pm
Public Lecture—6pm
Speaker: Professor Ravishankara, Earth System Research
Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Title: Ozone Layer Depletion and the Montreal Protocol: Can this
protocol be pushed further?
Location: Ron Cooke Hub Auditorium.
Admission: Admission to public lecture is by free ticket only. Book
tickets at http://tinyurl.com/ku5mdnr
Abstract
The ozone layer is an invisible shield that protects Earth’s inhabitants from sun’s harsh ultraviolet
radiation. The potential depletion of this layer due to emission of man-made ozone depleting gases
(such as refrigerants) was hypothesized in the early 1970s. Over the course of a decade and a half,
this hypothesis was essentially proved to be correct through a sequence of scientific findings; some,
such as the Antarctic ozone hole, were unanticipated. In response to the scientific findings that
clearly linked ozone losses to human activity, the countries of the world adopted the Montreal
Protocol. Further, as more accurate scientific information emerged, the Protocol was amended and
adjusted many times. The most recent scientific findings suggest that the Montreal Protocol is indeed
a success story and it is working as anticipated in reducing the ozone depleting gases; indeed the
ozone layer is also showing signs of recovery.
How did the decision-making work with science to forestall a major potential environmental
problem? What were the key reasons for the success of the Protocol? Were there factors that
hastened the embrace of science findings? Were there missed opportunities for better decision
making? Were new problems created by the protocol? Were other chemicals missed in the treaty?
Can this protocol be used to further other goals? What were the lessons learned from this process?
In this talk I will describe the evolution of the science of the ozone layer over the past four
decades. I will overlay these science finding on the international and national policy changes in
limiting, curbing, and eliminating the emissions of ozone depleting substances. Then I will examine
possible utility of the ozone regime in dealing with other related issues.
A very exciting year for Chemistry at York is summarised in a bumper edition of our
Undergraduate Admissions and Chemistry Highlights newsletters
Our 2014 newsletters, Undergraduate Admissions and Chemistry Highlights, summarising some of
our most notable achievements and developments over the past year are now available online.
Articles on major teaching awards, substantial research funding (on topics including insulin, biofuels,
ionic liquids and renewable chemicals) and significant progress on our £29 million development
programme, including the completion of our Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, all help to
show what an outstanding year we have had.
The newsletters also give an insight into our commitment to continually improving and developing
our undergraduate courses, for example, through the work of our Staff-Student Consultative
Committee and our significant investment in new instrumentation in our teaching laboratories.
The celebration of our golden anniversary is also highlighted, together with an architect’s drawing
showing the next phase of our proposed new building programme. An exciting time indeed, for
Chemistry@York!
Chemistry@York Newsletter 2014
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2014 is the European year against food waste and the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence
(GCCE) have just been awarded a five–year research grant by EPSRC to investigate the conversion
of waste biomass and waste CO2 into commercial polymers. The grant was awarded to Professors
James Clark and Michael North and Dr Thomas Farmer, and at £3 Million was the equal largest
grant awarded of the only four projects selected for funding from a call for proposals in the area of
‘Materials Substitution for Safety, Security and Sustainability’.
The GCCE based researchers have extensive expertise in the extraction of chemicals from waste
biomass, especially using energy efficient and green techniques such as microwave processing and
supercritical fluid extraction and in carbon dioxide utilization. In addition, through the Biorenewable
Development Centre, they have the ability to scale processes up to pilot plant scale. Waste biomass
refers to various inedible plant materials such as orange peel, pine needles and sawdust. This
project which is being led by the University of York will allow the GCCE staff to work with experts in
polymer chemistry and process engineering at Imperial College and experts in process intensification
at Newcastle University to develop industrially viable routes to replacements for petrochemically
derived polymers starting from various sources of waste biomass. The work will be carried out in
collaboration with industrial partners including Lotte Chemical UK Ltd, Econic Technologies Ltd,
Plaxica Ltd and Bayer AG.
The award of this grant to the GCCE is particularly timely as it was awarded just a month after
Professor North moved to York to take up the Chair of Green Chemistry and will start in the same
month that the GCCE moves into a brand new purpose built building within the Department of
Chemistry.
Speaking about the award of all four projects, Minister for Science and Universities, David Willetts
said: “The four successful winning research projects are led by University College London, the
University of Bristol, Cranfield University and the University of York, with industry partners adding a
further £2.8 million of investment. The research teams will assess the viability of using different
materials in the manufacturing supply
chain, considering their properties,
cost, performance, and scalability.
They will develop how production
processes or technology will need to
adapt to using these newer materials.
By the end of the study the research
will enable manufacturers to adopt
alternatives.”
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Waste Not Want Not
Over 90% of polymers with a production volume of greater than 150 million tonnes per annum are
currently sourced from crude oil. Within the UK, the polymers industry directly employs 286,000
people and has annual sales of £18.1 billion which accounts for 2.1% of UK GDP. It produces
around 2.5 million tonnes of polymer every year and is achieving an annual growth of 2.5%. The UK
is in the top 5 polymer producers in the EU and its exports are worth £4.6 billion to the UK economy.
These polymers are ubiquitous in everyday life and have many applications including: medical,
transport, electrical, construction and packaging; the latter accounting for over a third of all polymers
produced. This dependence on petrochemicals for polymer production has environmental and
economic risks and will, ultimately, become unsustainable as supplies of crude oil become
exhausted. Therefore, there are good reasons to develop new processes for polymer production
using renewable resources and for the UK, such resources must not compete with food production.
Carbon dioxide is a particularly promising renewable resource, especially the use of waste carbon
dioxide from sources such as power stations, chemical plants, cement and metal works. The EPSRC
project will therefore develop the chemistry and engineering required to transform waste biomass
and carbon dioxide into commodity polymers, specifically: polyalkanes, polyethers, polyesters,
polycarbonates and polyurethanes. For this to be sustainable, the biomass and other reactants must
be sustainably sourced and we will investigate the use of terpenes, sugar derivatives and
unsaturated acid derivatives obtained from agricultural and forestry waste. For example, during the
2011-2012 growing season, the EU processed 1.9 million metric tonnes of citrus producing
approximately 950,000 metric tonnes of waste and low value by-products. After removal of water this
left 190,000 metric tonnes of residue from which about 10,000 metric tonnes of limonene could be
isolated for use as a polymer feedstock. In addition to carrying out the required chemical research,
the engineering necessary to scale up the syntheses to pilot plant and production scale will be
carried out.
The chemical and mechanical processes associated with isolating materials from biomass and
converting them into polymers will inevitably require energy and other chemicals, the production of
which will generate carbon dioxide. Therefore, lifecycle analysis will be used to determine all of the
carbon dioxide emissions associated with polymer production from both petrochemical and biomass
sources. Comparison of the data will provide a quantitative understanding of how much better the
sustainable route is than the petrochemical route and will illustrate which aspects of the synthesis
are responsible for most of the carbon dioxide emissions. This, combined with energy usage and
cost data will allow the project team to concentrate their efforts on minimising these emissions
through for example the use of microwave heating rather than conventional heating and the use of
alternative solvents such as supercritical carbon dioxide.
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Closing date 14 March 2014
The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence has recently secured funding from the EPSRC to lead a
UK based consortium to develop research in the area of sustainable polymer production over a 5
year period.
Two postdoctoral research associate positions are available and the successful applicants will be
based predominantly in the Green Chemistry Centre at the University of York but may have the
opportunity to spend periods of time on placements at the partner institutions to enhance their range
of expertise and obtain a better understanding of the complementary work packages.
Relevant academic or industrial experience is essential, together with strong analytical and
interpersonal skills. You will be a good team player with the ability to work to tight deadlines and who
can demonstrate excellent organisational and communication skills both within the Green Chemistry
group and with external companies.
These posts are offered on a full-time basis but part-time working or job share will be considered.
The posts are available for 2 years initially with scope for extension within the lifetime of the project.
For an informal enquiry please contact Professor James Clark, Tel: +44 (0) 1904 322559 or email
[email protected] or Professor Michael North, Tel: +44 (0) 1904 324546 or e-mail
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Two Post-doctoral Research Associate Posts (Sustainable
Polymer Production)
The next Graduate Research Seminar will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 11 June 2014.
These seminars are predominantly for postgraduate students and early post-docs, although
everyone is welcome.
If any PhD student would like to give a presentation on their work, please email
We would also welcome offers from students who would be interesting in chairing one of the
sessions.
Graduate Research Seminar: Summer Term
Dr Helen Parker from the Green Chemistry
Centre of Excellence gave a talk to the
Stockton-on-Tees Café Scientifique entitled
‘Money can't grow on trees but can metals?’.
The talk, which attracted an audience of more
than 80 people, focused on unusual and
unconventional places to extract rare metals.
Dr Douglas Wilson, chair of Stockton Café
Scientifique, commented that the Green
Chemistry Centre at York University “should be
excited by the way Helen interacted with the
public on a wide range of biological, geological
and technical issues in relation to the topic.
Helen's lecture was superb, with excellent
illustrations, detailing current research and
commercial and scientific vistas for recycling
rare earths.”
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Green Chemist Gives Café Scientifique Talk
Green Chemistry ACS Webinar— 6 March
From Waste to Wealth Using Green Chemistry
Business & Innovation Channel: Green Chemistry Series
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014 @ 7pm GMT
Fee: Free to Attend
The amount of waste that modern society produces is astounding. Could it be put to better use? Join
Professor James Clark, Dr Avtar Matharu, Dr Andy Hunt and Lucie Pfaltzgraff from the Green
Chemistry Centre of Excellence as they profile different case studies on how modern technologies
can be used to maximize the chemical potential of food and e-waste.
http://acswebinars.org/waste-wealth
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Eleanor Dodson Acknowledged in Nature Article on Eminent
Female Crystallographers
An article published in Nature on 29 January 2014 celebrates the "egalitarian, collaborative culture"
in x-ray crystallography that has fostered the success of women in this field. The work of Professor
Eleanor Dodson, of YSBL, is recognised alongside that of Nobel laureates Dorothy Hodgkin (1964)
and Ada Yonath (2009).
The article, written by Dorothy Hodgkin biographer Georgina Ferry (inspired by 2014's International
Year of Crystallography), looks at how and why female scientists have thrived in crystallography and
argues that the features of this field that have attracted, retained and encouraged women have
lessons to offer for the future of women's progress in science more generally.
Highlighted in particular are "diverse and egalitarian" cultures within laboratory groups, going as far
back as the group of William and Lawrence Bragg (co-discoverers of X-ray crystal analysis) a
century ago. Protégés (and protégées) of the Braggs, including Bernal and Hodgkin, went on to
create gender-balanced, egalitarian groups of their own elsewhere: environments in which women's
careers could flourish and researchers of both genders would view such equality as the norm.
Another factor believed to have influenced the appeal of crystallography to female scientists is the
collaborative ethos inherent in a field involving extensive interdisciplinarity. Working with colleagues
across other fields such as mathematics, physics and biology is mentioned as an attraction by one
crystallographer interviewed, as is the broad range of skills required, from growing crystals to
carrying out complex computational analyses.
However, the picture is not all rosy. Crystallography's reputation as a technical discipline, and one
sometimes perceived to be 'women's work', meant that for a while, other scientists (particularly
chemists) saw it as a laboratory service rather than a science in its own right. While this is no longer
the case in the modern context, as the spotlight has moved onto the meaning and relationships of
structural features, rather than the structures themselves, the proportion of women in the field today
does not reflect a significantly better degree of gender equality here than in other areas.
Eleanor Dodson, who started her career as Dorothy Hodgkin's technician, was one of the main
instigators behind CCP4, the collaborative computing project that currently shares more than 250
software tools with protein crystallographers worldwide. She remains the only female recipient of the
International Union of Crystallography's prestigious Ewald Prize, and the IUCr's online list of eminent
crystallographers is more than 90% male.
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The problems that women face across STEMM disciplines - the demands of balancing career with
family and the multitude of other obstacles to career progression for junior scientists - are as much of
a reality to crystallographers as to any of their colleagues in other fields of science. This is a good
reason to analyse the factors behind the success of the prominent women in this discipline .
Find the full article online at :
http://www.nature.com/news/history-women-in-crystallography-1.14588
Find out more about the International Year of Crystallography at:
http://www.iycr2014.org/
Marooned on a Desert Island
Several of the atmospheric chemistry research team have just got back from a field work campaign
on the US owned island of Guam in the tropical western pacific. The campaign involved flying
around the open ocean on the FAAM BAe-146 aircraft, taking measurements at a variety of altitudes.
The main focus of the campaign was to quantify the release of halocarbons from the ocean and,
along with 2 US aircraft track their progress the free troposphere and into the stratosphere. In
general all went well and a large amount of data was collected.
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However, there was a major hiccup! Due to a problem with one of the aircraft engines, some of us
were marooned on the Micronesian island of Weno, in the state of Chuuk. We went for what was a
refuel and a night stop (to give the pilots a rest) and ended up staying for 8 nights. A spare part was
shipped out immediately from the UK but there are only 2 commercial flights a week from Guam to
Chuuk, so we were waiting for over a week for the part to arrive. A welcome break, we had the
opportunity for lots of kayaking, snorkelling and watching the sunset!
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Bruker Poster Competition: Thursday 20 March 2014
The Bruker Poster Competition will be taking place on Thursday 20th March. Posters by 3rd year
PhD students will be on display throughout the morning in room A102.
The posters will be judged and scored by a panel of academic staff. All staff and students are
welcome to go along and look at the posters and chat to participants.
In the afternoon, there will be a departmental seminar during which the winners will be announced
and will be presented with their prize by Dr Rob Hill, our guest from Bruker.
This will be followed by a lecture from our guest speaker, Professor John Seddon from Imperial
College, London.
Times will be confirmed - look out for posters around the department.
St Clare’s Primary School, Middlesbrough, visit SABIC
St Clare’s RC Primary School in Acklam, Middlesbrough, recently worked on topics from Plastics
Playtime. The class tested and classified plastics before investigating their thermal insulation and
shock resistance properties and then designed, made and tested packaging for a fragile object,
using plastics and other materials. This was followed by a site visit to SABIC which was very
successful – the children enjoyed it and showed great interest in working in the industrial
environment.
Triumphant Children from St Clare’s find their
egg has survived undamaged in their
protective packaging!
Even on a grey day the SABIC site proved a
great hit with the pupils of St Clare’s, Acklam
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Food Waste @ York, 28 March 2014
Multi-disciplinary Symposium on Food Waste Valorisation
Join us in the Green Chemistry Centre’s new Industrial Engagement Facility on the upper floor of F
Block for our first food waste valorisation symposium! Bringing together speakers from across
Europe and from industry and local SMEs, we will be bridging the gap between academia and
industry to help get food waste out of landfill and into the supply chain. The afternoon session is a
showcase of the work being conducted in the Green Chemistry Centre on food waste valorisation,
including getting pectin from citrus peels, using agricultural waste to make detergents and creating
mesoporous materials from waste starch.
For more information, contact Katie Privett ([email protected])
08:00-09:45 Value from food waste – exclusive to SMEs
09.45-10.15 Coffee and networking with EUBIS and internal researchers
10:15-10:45 Keynote: TBA
10:45-11:00 Major projects overview – Professor James Clark
11:00-12:30
Session 1: Insights from EUBIS food waste network
11:00 Piergiuseppe Morone, University of Rome, Italy
11:30 Anastasia Zabaniotou, Aristole University of Thessaloniki, Greece
12:00 Andrzej Sobkowiak, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Session 2: Food waste at York
13:30-15:00
13:30 Lucie Pfaltzgraff – The OPEC project
13:40 Dr Tom Dugmore – WasteValor Case Studies
13:50 Dr Alice Fan – Utilising waste cellulouse
14:00 Dr Tom Farmer – CMF from renewable resources
14.10 Questions and coffee
14:20 Tom Attard – Waxes from agricultural residues
14:30 Dr Avtar Matharu/Dr Mustafa Ozel - Introduction to WetWaste
14:40 Andri Constandinou – Cyrene
14:50 Dr Vitaliy Budarin – Starbons
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Malaysia Demonstration Activity
Dr Jacqui Hamilton and PhD student Rachel
Holmes have just returned from a 5-week “proof-
of-concept” demonstration activity in collaboration
with the Universities of Malay, East Anglia,
Cambridge and Royal Holloway, London. The
main driving force was to develop the
infrastructure for future high quality atmospheric
measurements at a new scientific facility under
construction in Bachok, Malaysia. This included
climbing 7 flights of stairs up the Tower, several
times a day to check on York’s new GC-GC×GC
which performed extremely well on its first outing.
The Tower
York's GC-GC×GC
The Organic Synthesis Group is holding a plenary session on Friday 14 March at 14:30 in A122.
The following final year PhD students will be talking about their research:
Kristaps Ermanis (PAC Group)
"Towards Phorboxazole B"
Christiana Kitsiou (RJKT Group)
“Direct Imine Acylation:Rapid Access to Diverse Heterocyclic Scaffolds”
Tom Ronson (RJKT/IJSF Group)
“Synthesis of skipped-unsaturated organic systems by cross-coupling approaches: a focus on
an arene mimetic of phacelocarpus 2-pyrone A”
Refreshments will be served afterwards.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Organic Synthesis Group Plenary Session
To all staff
Do you have any green / energy / recycling ideas?
If so, the Chemistry Green Impact Team would love to hear from you!
Please email [email protected] (and ideas will be credited, or remain anonymous if you so
wish)
Many thanks
A Message from the Green Impact Team
A Reminder from the Green Impact Team
Please Recycle Unwanted CDs!
All departments can send unwanted CDs for recycling by placing in CD/DVD confidential waste
bags, available from the mail room at [email protected].
Please Recycle Unwanted CDs!
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University Reuse Policies
Please use the recycling bins around the department instead of throwing rubbish in the bin (as the
vast majority will get recycled). If you feel you need more recycling bins, please get in touch at
See the following webpage for more information:
http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/estates/operations/waste_management/recycling/
You may be surprised at how much can get recycled - for example, clingfilm, plastic pocket wallets.
See here for an illuminating video on how much the University can actually recycle!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2aQtq1u5Mkwaste video
See below to read about the University's waste and recycling policies.
http://www.york.ac.uk/about/sustainability/recycling/
See the links on the left under 'Sustainability'.
Furniture reuse scheme - instead of getting rid of your office furniture, please advertise here first,
there is a good chance someone will take it off your hands!!
http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/supplies/fru/index.cfm
Also check to see if you can use any of the goods offered - for free!
There is also a 'Small Ads' webpage where you can advertise your second-hand goods and pick up
a bargain!
http://www.yorkgsa.org/site/forums/
There are also red BHF clothes banks situated at every college.
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From the Archive
The imminent departure of Brian Smith gives an opportunity for some photos of Brian's predecessor
Steve Moehr.
