Marc Taillefer wins the European Sustainable Chemistry Award

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Marc Taillefer has been chosen as the 2012 laureate of the European Sustainable Chemistry Award. Marc Taillefer heads a research team at the Institut Charles Gerhardt (ICG) in Montpellier, France, and is also vice-president and chairman of the Organic Chemistry Division of the Société Chimique de France.

Dr Taillefer is being recognised for his seminal contribution to the field of homogeneously catalysed coupling reactions leading to C-C, C-N, C-O, C-P bonds. Those “Ullmann type arylations, ” catalysed by copper and iron complexes, avoid the use of more expensive catalysts based on palladium.

The European Sustainable Chemistry Award, a EuCheMS initiative, is designed to

• recognise individuals or small research groups which make an outstanding contribution to sustainable development by applying green and sustainable chemistry,

• promote innovation in chemistry and chemicals that will deliver clear improvements in the sustainable production and use of chemicals and chemical products,and
• demonstrate that chemistry and chemicals can play a central role in delivering society’s needs, while minimizing and solving environmental problems.

 

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