Programme

14-15 January 2020
X2, School of Chemistry, University Park 

Day 1 - Tuesday 14 January 

12.30pm	Arrival and coffee
1pm	Welcome
	Prof Peter Licence - CDT Director
1.10pm	Chain length effects on the size, stability and electronic structure of redox-active organic-inorganic hybrid polyoxometalate micelles
	Sharad Amin
1.30pm	Air stable dialkylphosphine surrogates from zinc phosphide
	Thomas Barber
1.50pm	The development of a catalytic Mitsunobu reaction
	Rhydian Beddoe
2.10pm	Novel extreme B-glycosyl-hydrolases enable the isolation of flavours and valuable nutraceuticals from natural sources
	Lidia Delgado
2.30pm	Tea & Coffee
2.50pm	Hydrothermal carbonisation for the treatment of digestate
	Sarah Farthing
3.10pm	Effects of electric fields on the stability and reactivity of iron-sulfur clusters
	Samuel Gaughan
3.30pm	Transition metal catalysed C-H activation: reactivity and selectivity control and late-stage functionalization
	Prof Igor Larrosa, University of Manchester
4.30pm	Close

Day 2 - Wednesday 15 January   

9am	Arrival and coffee
9.30am	Biocatalytic approaches to complex targets
	Dr Elaine O'Reilly, University College Dublin
10.30am	Redox driven nano-confinement of polyoxometalates within single walled carbon nanotubes
	Jack Jordan
10.50am	Preparation of novel rhodium NHC complexes and their application towards catalytic fluorination
	Patrick Morgan
11.10am	Coffee break
11.30am	The interaction of C. jejuni's major outer membrane protein  with biological and synthetic ligands
	Jennifer Okoye
11.50am	Molecular metal oxides for high energy battery cathodes
	Neelam Mughal
12.10pm	Polymer from pyrolysis producsts
	John Ryan
12.30pm	Lunch and poster session
1.40pm	Development of exoelectrogenic process for aerobic C1 gas fermentations
	Vera Salgado
2pm	Renewable polyacrylamides
	Rhona Savin
2.20pm	Sustainable nanomaterials
	Prof Brian Korgel, The University of Texas at Austin
3.20	Drinks reception and poster prize announcement
4pm	Close