2^nd International Conference on Past and Present Research Systems of Green Chemistry September 14-16, 2015 Orlando, USA

Bob Crabtree was educated at New College, Oxford with Malcolm Green, did his Ph.D. with Joseph Chatt at Sussex University and spent four years in Paris in Hugh Felkin's lab at the CNRS Natural Products Institute, headed at that time by Derek Barton. In 1977 he came to the US as an Assistant Professor at Yale, where he is now Whitehead Professor of Chemistry. He has been A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, received the ACS and Royal Soc. of Chem. Awards for organometallic chemistry and has been Chair of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of ACS. He has also received the Mack (Ohio State), Karcher (Oklahoma), Job (Memorial U) and Kolosapoff (Auburn U, 2010) Awards, been an H.C. Brown Lecturer at Purdue University, Dow lecturer at Berkeley, Sabatier Lecturer at Toulouse, Williams Lecturer at Oxford, Osborn Lecturer at Strasbourg, Mond Lecturer (UK) and visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris, Toulouse and Montpellier.

Madeleine M. Joullié was born in Paris, France, but grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She came to the United States to study chemistry and obtained a B.S. degree in chemistry from Simmons College in Boston. She went to the University of Pennsylvania, earning an M.S. in 1950 and a Ph.D. in 1953, under the guidance of Professor Allan R. Day. Madeleine Joullié then joined the faculty at Penn, where she was one of the first woman professors to earn tenure in chemistry in the Ivy League. Her research interests are in the areas of heterocyclic, medicinal, and natural products chemistry. Her laboratory has focused on the chemistry of the cyclopeptide alkaloid and didemnin families of natural products, as well as the development of compounds for the visualization of latent fingerprints as a forensic tool in law enforcement. Professor Joullié has held several visiting professorships and been recognized by many awards. She is currently the Class of 1970 Term Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, and continues her teaching and research efforts.

Her research interests are in the areas of heterocyclic, medicinal, and natural products chemistry

Moinuddin Sarker, Ph.D., MCIC, FICER, MInstP, has been working as the Vice President (VP) of Research and Development and Head of Science Team (VP and CTO), at the Natural State Research (NSR), Inc at Stamford, CT and the inventor of NSR’s award winning technology to convert municipal waste plastics into liquid hydrocarbon fuel. He has a M. Sc. (1992) and Ph. D. degree in Chemistry from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, UK (1996). He has more than 23 years of professional research experience in different universities and research organizations all over the world including the US, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Taiwan, Bangladesh and the UK. During his research work, he carried out research in four different synchrotron radiation sources around the world: CRCL lab. Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, UK (1991-1996), Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (SRRC), Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C (1996-1999), Berlin Electron Storage Ring Company for Synchrotron Radiation (BESSY II) (2000) and Advance Photon Sources (APS), Chicago, USA (2001-2004). He has three patent pending and 100 research publications to his credit in pier reviewed journals and conferences. Dr. Sarker is a distinguished member of 30 professional organizations such as American Association of Naval Engineer (ASNE), Association of Consumer Growth (ACG), Society of Automobile International (SAE), American Chemical Society (ACS), American Physical Society (APS), American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE), International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), Canada and many more. Dr. Sarker has been invited speaker various conferences in around the USA and World. Dr. Sarker is the inventor of the technology and product entitles: “Method for converting waste plastics to lower – molecular weight hydrocarbons, particularly hydrocarbon fuel materials and the hydrocarbon material produced thereby” (US and International Patent Pending). In 2010, Dr. Sarker has received, the International Renewable Energy Innovator of the year Awards 2010 at Washington DC and presented by Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), USA. Currently Dr. Sarker serve as a President of AEE-CT Chapter (Association of Energy Engineers, CT Chapter) since 2012.

waste conversion to energy, including an academic history comprised of multidisciplinary fields

Robin Polt began doing chemistry in Prof. Marty O’Donnell’s lab at IUPUI. After that he was trained in the art of Organic Synthesis in the laboratories of Professors Gilbert J. Stork at Columbia University and Dieter Seebach at the ETH in Zürich. He has continued to develop useful synthetic methods for amino acids, amino alcohols, glycosides and glycopeptides. Polt has mentored undergraduates, Ph.D. students from the USA, Czech Republic, China, India, Iran, Ireland, Kenya, Korea, Mexico and Sri Lanka, as well as post-doctoral students who have taken positions in academia, industry and government labs.

develop useful synthetic methods for amino acids, amino alcohols, glycosides and glycopeptides

Steven J. Langford received his BSc (Hons I) and Ph.D. from the University of Sydney in 1994. After postdoctoral work in the UK under the auspices of a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart FRS investigating the formation of topologically interesting molecular assemblies for molecular device development, and at the University of UNSW as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow investigating electron transfer processes in giant multichromophoric systems, he joined the School of Chemistry at Monash University in 1998. Here, his interests in diverse areas such as nanoscaled devices, photosynthetic mimicry, sustainable chemistry, molecular logic gates and motor neuron disease were developed. He was appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry in 2006, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science (2009-2012) and Head of School of Chemistry in 2010 at Monash. Since 2012, he has also been Director of Monash’s Green Chemical Futures. His research interests focus on concept transfers from nature, particularly in the areas of solar energy conversion, fluorescence and molecular device functionality. He has published over 150 research articles and was awarded the 2006 Young Investigator Award by the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines.

My interests focuss around the energy transduction properties of photosynthetic systems and the potential use of the principles involved to design and evaluate wholly synthetic systems that mimic all or part of this process for applications as molecular batteries, molecular logic, energy transduction devices and for solar energy conversion. Stable funding through the NCG Schemes since 2002 has allowed our independent research to flourish in the area of self-assembling multichromophoric systems. Figure 1 illustrates some examples of assemblies and arrays from my group which exploit the oxophilic nature of Sn(IV)porphyrins for light harvesting

Ingrid Mergelsberg has completed her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany and her postdoctoral studies from the Rochester University, NY and Hoffmann LaRoche in Basel, Switzerland. She has published more than 30 papers and patents and has 27 years of experience in Chemical Development within the Pharmaceutical Industry always looking for opportunities to integrate the principles of green chemistry and engineering into the business of drug discovery and productions. She currently is a Director of Process Chemistry at Merck. She has served as a co-chair of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable for two years and is currently leading the Green Chemistry working group and co-chairing the API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) leadership group at the International Consortium for Innovation and Quality in the Pharmaceutical Industry (IQ Consortium).

Process Chemistry

Hai-Feng Ji received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Chinese Academy of Science, China, in 1996. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at Drexel University. His research interests focus on micro/Nano sensors, MEMS devices, surface modification for sensors, and Nano assembly of organic molecules. He is currently a co-author of more than 120 peer-viewed journal articles and book chapters.

His research interests focus on micro/Nano sensors, MEMS devices, surface modification for sensors, and Nano assembly of organic molecules

Abel E. Navarro received his Ph.D. degree in Biomolecular Chemistry at New York University. Now, as a junior Faculty at BMCC, he is developing new bioremediation alternatives for the elimination of pollutants from wastewaters as biodegradable and recyclable materials that can compete with the currently available techniques. Dr. Navarro has a publication record of more than 35 articles in specialized and peer-reviews journals, he is Associate Editor in different journals and has participated and chaired session in several conferences. The authors would like to thank CSTEP and the Science Department at BMCC for the financial support. A.N. is recipient of the BMCC Faculty Development Grant and BMCC Presidential Scholar.

He is developing new bioremediation alternatives for the elimination of pollutants from wastewaters as biodegradable and recyclable materials that can compete with the currently available techniques

John Glaser holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Georgia and has conducted research at the US Environmental Protection Agency for 32 years. He holds position as editor and advisory board member on several scientific journals. He has a collection of book and journal articles ranging from oil spill remediation development to environmental analytical criteria and beyond to applications of remote sensing to environmental issues.

Environmental Protection

Amy holds the world's first Ph.D. in Green Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Beyond Benign, a non-profit organization dedicated to green chemistry education. Amy worked as an Assistant Professor and Director of Outreach and Community Education at the Center for Green Chemistry at UMass Lowell until 2007 when she started Beyond Benign. Amy has industrial experience as an analytical chemist for the Gillette Company and as a scientist for Rohm and Haas. Through Beyond Benign, she leads many initiatives aimed at transforming chemistry education in K-12 and higher education.

Wei Zhang is the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his PhD and did his post-doctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh with late Prof. Paul Dowd. His previous positions include Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Senior Chemist at DuPont Agricultural Products, and Director of Discovery Chemistry at Fluorous Technologies, Inc. Prof. Zhang’s research is in the areas of fluorous chemistry, free radical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and green chemistry. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers including three in Chem. Rev., three Tetrahedron Reports, and a book “Green techniques for organic and medicinal applications” (Willey 2012). He is currently an editor of Green Processing and Synthesis and associate editor of Molecular Diversity. In addition to the Center for Green Chemistry, Dr. Zhang is also leading the effort on the Green Chemistry Ph.D. program, the first such program in the United States. He is the Board Member of ACS Green Chemistry Institute Curriculum Committee and Green Chemistry Commitment.

Zhang’s research is in the areas of fluorous chemistry, free radical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and green chemistry

Pollet is currently at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town as Professor of Energy Materials and Systems and Director of the DST Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) Systems Competence Centre (an industry oriented and led R&D Centre with a strong emphasis on demonstrator/prototype development and energy materials manufacturing). Professor Pollet is known in the field (both in academia and industry) to be a dynamic, energetic, enthusiastic, positive and visionary individual with expertise and experience in the research fields of Hydrogen Energy, PEMFC, Fuel Cell Electrocatalysis and Electrochemical Engineering. He has excellent leadership, communication and networking skills. He was formerly a co-founder and an Associate Director of the Birmingham Centre for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research, and Operations and Delivery Director of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Doctoral Training Centre in Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and their Applications led by Professor Kevin Kendall FRS in the UK. He was responsible for the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Carbon Abatement Technologies Demonstration Programme (HFCCAT) Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle project and PEMFC, MEA and Fuel Cell Electrocatalysis activities at the University of Birmingham. He successfully implemented a Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Supply Chain (EPSRC project) within the Western Central England with over 60 SMEs involved in the development and manufacturing of

Birmingham Centre for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research

Sivakumar Manickam is a Professor of Chemical and Nanopharmaceutical Process Engineering at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. His research group is focusing on the Process Engineering and Development of Nanomaterials especially Nanopharmaceuticals and Nanoformulations using novel, greener and energy efficient ultrasound and hydrodynamic cavitation techniques. Besides, his group is involved in the wastewater treatment techniques as well as in nanobiosensor development. He is also heading the Manufacturing and Industrial Processes Research Division and is the Director of the Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (CENTAM). He was also the recipient of JSPS fellowship, Japan; the Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK) and member of the Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), UK. He has published more than 175 peer reviewed journal and conference papers and book chapters. Recently he edited a book on “Cavitation – A novel energy efficient technique for the generation of nanomaterials”. He is chairing the 2nd Asia-Oceania Sonochemical Conference during July 2015.

He is also heading the Manufacturing and Industrial Processes Research Division and is the Director of the Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (CENTAM).

Rakeshwar Bandichhor holds a doctorate in Chemistry from University of Lucknow/University of Regensburg, Germany and worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Regensburg, Germany, University of Pennsylvania and Texas A&M University. Rakeshwar has more than 150 papers including patents and book chapters published/accepted in various International Journals and contributed to more than 60 academic national and international conferences. He has won the various awards in his career; few of them are: • Chairman Excellence Award , 2010 • Best Cost Leadership Award , 2010 • Anveshan Award , 2011 • ISCB AWARD OF APPRECIATION FOR INDUSTRY SCIENTIST-2012, • Bharat Jyoti Award, 2012 • Roll of Honor Award by in Green Chemistry area, 2012 • Travel grant award, UK, 2013 • Green Innovation Award 2013 by IGCW-2013 He was a Chief Guest in RSC-DST sponsored Green Chemistry workshop at Delhi University, 2011. He was instrumental to organize Catalyst 2013 Symposium featuring Noble Laureat at Dr. Reddy’s. His interview is published in Nature Medicine 2013, 19, 1200-1203, in Process India (February issue 2014) and Business Standards (March 2014). He has also contributed in a concept paper “Reengineering Chemistry” by Tata Strategic Management Group and IGCW-2013.

Green Chemistry area

Buxing Han received Ph.D. degree at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1988, and did postdoctoral research from 1989 to 1991 at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been a professor at Institute of Chemistry, CAS since 1993. His research interests include physicochemical properties of green solvent systems and applications of green solvents in green chemistry. He has published more than 500 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as Science, Acc. Chem. Res., Nat. Commun., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Eur. J., Chem. Commun., Green Chem., ChemSunChem, J. Phys. Chem. B, Langmuir, and has presented more than 100 plenary or invited lectures at different conferences. The published papers have been cited more than 14000 times. He is an elected Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Titular Member of Division III, IUPAC, Chairman of the Chemical Thermodynamics and Thermal Analysis Committee, Chinese Chemical Society, and is the former Chairman of IUPAC Subcommittee on Green Chemistry. He is serving more than 10 peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Chem. Sci., Green Chem., ChemSusChem, J. Supercritical Fluids

His research interests include physicochemical properties of green solvent systems and applications of green solvents in green chemistry

Ju Chou obtained her Ph. D. degree in chemistry from Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun in China in 1995. She came to the United State in 1997 as a postdoc and later received excellent training in nanomaterial synthesis and characterization at University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently is an associate professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers (Dunk City) in Florida. Her research focus on biosensor, nanomaterials and toxic metal analysis

Her research focus on biosensor, nanomaterials and toxic metal analysis

Olga V. Shuvaeva, Dr. of Sci., Head of Environmental Chemistry Chair (department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University), Senior Researcher at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. The field of research interests: trace elements (mainly mercury and arsenic) transformation and transport study in environmental and biological systems using separation techniques (HPLC and capillary electrophoresis), atomic-absorption and atomic-emission analytical methods (ETA and FAAS, ICP AES) as well as their combinations, the author of about 100 papers in reputed journals.

The field of research interests: trace elements (mainly mercury and arsenic) transformation and transport study in environmental and biological systems using separation techniques (HPLC and capillary electrophoresis), atomic-absorption and atomic-emission analytical methods (ETA and FAAS, ICP AES)

Yadav has completed his PhD from M.S.University, Baroda and postdoctoral studies at Rice University, Houston, USA. He was the director of the prestigious Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad for over a period of 9 years and presently is serving as CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow at the same Institute a premier scientific research organization. He has published more than 1050 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. He received several prestigious awards and honors for his excellent contributions as a research scientist. A few are listed below: CSIR Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the year 1991 for his versatile and potential research ideas in the area of Organic Chemistry and its applications. Fellow of the world Academy of Science (FTWAS) from the Academy of Science for Developing worlds Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (FNASc) in the year 1993, Fellow of Indian National Academy of Sciences (FNA) in the year 1998 and Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) in the year 2010, for his overall scientific achievements. Highest honor as Laureate of the 22nd Khwarizmi International Award, IROST-UNESCO, Iran in the year 2008 from the President of Iran, for his outstanding scientific contributions for the overall benefit of the society.

A few are listed below: CSIR Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the year 1991 for his versatile and potential research ideas in the area of Organic Chemistry and its applications

Falah H. Hussein is the professor in University of Babylon. He completed his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Nottingham University, England and M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from University of Salahaddin, Iraq. He has served several positions as Head Assistant of Chemistry Department-College of Science- Sulaimaniyah University, 1979-1980; President of Al-Qadisya University, 1994 and many more. He has more than 50 publications. He is also prestigious members of Head of Scientific Consultant Burean Committee, International Solar Energy Society,

Environmental Pollution; Physical Chemistry; Thermodynamics

Suvardhan Kanchi was born in 1979. He studied chemistry at the Sri Venkateswara University, India. He holds an M.Sc degree (2001-2003) in Applied Chemistry and Ph.D., (2005-2010) in Analytical Chemistry from the same University. He joined with Prof. T.S. Chin’s team Feng Chia University, Taiwan as a Post Doctoral Fellow and was involved in the nano-confinement of gold nanoparticles and their characterization techniques. In the same lab, he developed green energy waste (bio-hydrogen/bio-diesel residue) into activated carbons and their characterization to evaluate the adsorption capacity of inorganic and organic wastes from aqueous solution. He is currently working as a Research Scientist at Durban University of Technology, Durban South Africa and his interest mainly involves in fabrication of biosensors to study electrochemical aspects of high intensity artificial sweeteners and developing protocols for the separation of organic molecules from food stuffs. Recently, he designed lab-made microbial fuel cell and generating electricity from waste waters and algae. He is lecturer and author & co-author of around 25 publications and editorial board member for 8 international journals. He is acting as a reviewer for more than 20 international journals. He is a life member in Indian Society of Analytical Scientists (ISAS), India and Senior Member in Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological& Environmental Engineering Society, Hong Kong.

Chemistry