EuCheMS Lecture 2012: David Milstein and Nazario Martín

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Professor David Milstein of the Weizmann Institute of Science will give the EuCheMS 2012 lecture on the topic "Discovery of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry." The lecture will be held at the 4th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Prague on the 30th August 2012. The venue and exact title of Prof. Nazario Martin's lecture will be announced soon.

Professor David Milstein is head of Kimmel Center for Molecular Design at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). His main fields of research are catalytic design, green chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and sustainable energy. This also includes new metal-promoted transformations, activation of strong bonds, pincer-type complexes, new modes of metal-ligand cooperation in bond activation and catalysis, design of "green" synthetic reactions, new approaches for hydrogen generation from sustainable resources and for light-driven water splitting.

He has undertaken many visiting lectures at universities worldwide, including University of California at Berkeley (UCB), USA, CNRS and ENS in France, Chinese Academy of Sciences and others. He acts as a member of numerous editorial and advisory boards for international journals. Further information is to be found on his web page.

Professor Nazario Martín is full professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and vice-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience of Madrid (IMDEA-Nanoscience). His main research interests span a range of targets with emphasis on the molecular and supramolecular chemistry of carbon nanostructures such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphenes, π-conjugated systems as molecular wires and electroactive molecules, in the context of electron transfer processes, photovoltaic applications and nanoscience. Actually, his group has been pioneering in obtaining enantiomerically pure fullerenes by using asymmetric catalysis, and have prepared the most efficient purely organic receptors for fullerenes and carbon nanotubes.

He has been a member in many relevant scientific committees for international events, has co-edited six books and he has been invited as guest editor for eight special issues in well-known international journals. Professor Martín has been visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, and the Universities of Angers and Strasbourg, France. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of several journals. More information is available at his website.

The EuCheMS Lecture honours outstanding achievements by a European chemist. It also serves to enhance the image of European chemistry and to promote scientific cooperation in Europe. It is delivered at a scientific event outside the lecturer’s own country.

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