31-Mar-2017
- Featuring the lectures of eminent chemists
Stephen
Hashmi,
Gideon Grader
and
Raed Abu-Reziq, the 6th
edition of the “FineCat - Symposium on heterogeneous catalysis for fine
chemicals” will be hosted in
Sicily's
Royal Palace 'Sala Rossa' on April 5th.
Professor of organic chemistry at Heidelberg University,
Hashmi
is one of Europe's leading chemists: he has given significant
contributions to the field of gold catalysis. Professor of chemical
engineering at Haifa's Technion,
Grader
leads Technion energy program advancing ceramic materials for energy
applications. Associate professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem,
Abu-Reziq has achieved
important results on bridging homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.
Sicily's Royal Palace is the oldest royal residence in Europe, the home of
the rulers of the Kingdom of Sicily and imperial seat with Frederick II
and Conrad IV. It was the seat of the Kings of Sicily during the Norman
domination and has served ever since as the main seat of power for all
rulers of Sicily, up to becoming (in 1947) Seat of the Sicilian
Parliament.
"
We gratefully acknowledge the
willingness of President of Sicily's Parliament, the Hon. Giovanni
Ardizzone, and the Hon.s Giancarlo
Cancelleri and Giampiero
Trizzino who filed the request to the President on our behalf".
say the chairmen of the Symposium, Mario Pagliaro and Leonardo
Palmisano.
Say also the chairmen:
"Hosting
the meeting in the Royal Palace will
allow international delegates
the unique opportunity to exchange ideas in chemistry research frontiers
in a rather unique milieu ".
After the end of the meeting works, the delegates will be accompanied by a
guide working at the Parliament, for a guided tour of the Palace.
Established in 2012, following publication of the
Catalysis
Science & Technology themed issue "
Heterogeneous
catalysis for fine chemicals", the FineCat Symposium is jointly
organised by the Institute of Nanostructured Materials of Italy’s Research
Council and Palermo's University DEIM Department.
Its standing is testified by current and previous speakers at previuous
meetings (Valentine Ananikov, Bert Sels, Manfred Reetz, Irina Beletskaya,
Pedro Maireles Torres, Oliver Kappe, Rodrigo de Souza, David
Cole-Hamilton, Paolo Fornasiero, Jose Antonio Lopez-Sanchez, Serge
Kaliaguine, Claudio Banchini, Tyler McQuade, Elio Santacesaria, Graham
Hutchings, Gadi Rothenberg and Laura Prati).
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