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Scientists from around the world gathered to promote the goals of Green Chemistry

Prof. C.-.J. Li (McGill, Canada), Prof. W. Leitner (RWTH Aachen and MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany), Prof. J. Warner (Warner Babcock Institute, USA and Monash University, Australia), Prof. P.T. Anastas (Yale University, USA), Prof. A.-V. Mudring (Stockholm University), Prof. A. Riisager (DTU, Denmark), Prof. R. Fehrmann (DTU, Denmark), Prof. R.D. Rogers (University of Alabama, USA), Ass.-Prof. Adam Slabon (Stockholm University)

Program of the Green and Sustainable Chemistry Symposium for download.

Find out more about Green Chemistry guest professors hosted by our group.

Professor Paul T. Anastas held his inaugural lecture at Stockholm University in the presence of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

The King flanked by, from left, Anja-Verena Mudring, Professor of Physical Materials Chemistry at Stockholm University, Paul T. Anastas, holder of the King Carl XVI Gustaf Guest Professorship in Environmental Science, and Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Vice-Chancellor of Stockholm University. Photo: Ingmarie Andersson/Stockholm University

On Thursday 13 February, The King visited Stockholm University to listen to a lecture about green chemistry with Professor Paul T. Anastas, the new holder of the King Carl XVI Gustaf Guest Professorship in Environmental Science.

Find the full program of the Introduktionsföreläsning here.

find out more in

S.P. Kelley, V. Smetana, S. D. Emerson, A.-V. Mudring, R.D. Rogers, Benchtop Access to Anhydrous Actinide N-donor Coordination Complexes using Ionic Liquids, Chem. Commun. 2020.

DOI: 10.1039/C9CC09852F.

find out more in

S. P. Kelley, V. Smetana, J.S. Nuss, D. A. Dixon, M. Vasiliu, A.-V. Mudring, R. D. Rogers, Dehydration of UO₂Cl₂∙3H₂O and Nd(NO₃)₃∙6H₂O with a Soft Donor Ligand and Comparison of Their Interactions through X-ray Diffraction and Theoretical Investigation, Inorg. Chem., 2020, 59, 2861-2869.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03228.

Pentacoordinated uranyl centers and triazolate bridges establish new boundaries for the quasicrystal hunt

A fivefold  UO₂²⁺ node is a path to dedecagonal quasicrystal approximants in coordination polymers 

Science Advances, 2020, 6, eaay7685.

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay7685

 

X. Wang, M. Valldor, E. T. Spielberg, F.W. Heinemann, K. Meyer, A.-V. Mudring

Paramagnetic Iron-Containing Ionic Liquid Crystals

in the Journal of Molecular Liquids

DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.112583

D. Prodius, K. Gandha, A.-V. Mudring, I. Nlebelim

Sustainable Urban Mining of Critical Elements from Magnet and Electronic Wastes, ACS Sus. Chem. Eng., 2020, 8, 1455-1463.

DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b05741.

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T. Alammar, I.Z. Hlova, S. Gupta, V.K. Pecharsky, A.-V. Mudring:

Mechanochemical synthesis, luminescent and magnetic properties of lanthanide benzene-1,4-dicarboxylate coordination polymers (Ln_0.5Gd_0.5)₂ (1,4-BDC)₃(H₂O)₄; Ln = Sm, Eu, Tb

New J. Chem., 2020, 44, 1054-1062.

DOI: 10.1039/C9NJ02583A

 

find out more about the fascinating world of complex intermetallics in

A. Ovchinnikov, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring:

Metallic alloys at the edge of complexity: Structural Aspects, chemical bonding and physical properties

J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 2020

DOI: 10.1088/1361648X/ab6b87

With colleagues from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, we would like to wish Prof. Arndt Simon a Happy 80th Birthday today:

V. Babizhetskyy, V. Levytskyy, V. Smetana, M. Wilk-Kozubek, O. Tsisar, L. Piskach, O. Parasyuk, A.-V. Mudring:

New cation-disordered quaternary selenides Tl₂Ga₂TtSe₆ (Tt = Ge, Sn)

Z. Naturforsch. B, 2020  DOI: 10.1515/znb-2019-0169