Industrial and academic chemistry

By the mid-1960s, the ACS took particular interest in the divergent paths of academic and industrial chemistry. Students of chemistry were being trained to do highly specialized basic research. However, many of their goals included careers in research and peer recognition, which were problematic for industry because publication is limited by its proprietary nature. As the major employers of new Ph.D. chemists, companies found too many of them to be overspecialized, inflexible, and ill-prepared for the team research and economic context of industrial... 

The development of novel materials and the search for new bioactive compounds, such as natural products and analogues, drugs, diagnostics and agrochemicals, in academic and industrial chemistry is closely connected to the efficient preparation of such compounds. Thus, the view of synthesis has altered in recent years the development of new, highly selective methods will still be an important task, but the main focus of today s chemists is on efficiency [1], Multi-step syntheses with more than 20 steps have to be avoided since they are neither economically nor ecologically justifiable. Thus, modern syntheses must deal carefully with our resources and our time, must reduce the amount of waste formed, should use catalytic transformations and finally must avoid all toxic reagents and solvents. 

We hope that this text proves useful both in academic and industrial chemistry departments, and may provide the basis for productive group discussions of synthetic problems. We shall always be pleased to receive comments and suggestions from readers as to how we can improve on the concept for future volumes. 

Being part of both academic and industrial chemistry, organic chemistry in general and homogeneous catalysis in particular are subject to rapid and steady... 

Twenty-five years ago. Lutz Haber lamented that an account specifically devoted to the changing relations of academic and industrial chemistry in the leading countries has... 

The second important theme of this article is the cooperation between academic and industrial chemistry. It is demonstrated by the cooperation between Adolf Baeyer, at the University of Munich, and BASF in the field of the synthesis of artificial indigo. 

I was indeed fortunate to have grown to chemical maturity under Sir Robert Robinson, and in an environment where heterocyclic chemistry was certainly not neglected. This being so, it is natural that I feel the dissemination and rationalization of knowledge in heterocyclic chemistry to be of vital importance. Recently several good heterocyclic texts have appeared, but a need exists for a medium in which current advances in the subject can rapidly be presented to a wide audience. The present series aims to make available to graduate students and research workers in academic and industrial laboratories up-to-date reviews of a wide variety of heterocyclic topics. 

However, urged by increasing environmental concern, academic and industrial researchers are in restless search of more efficient, cleaner ways to synthesize and produce chemicals. One obvious approach to environmentally friendly chemistry is the replacement of stoichiometric... 

Jan C.J. Bart (PhD Structural Chemistry, University of Amsterdam) is a senior scientist with broad interest in materials characterisation, heterogeneous catalysis and product development who spent an industrial carrier in R D with Monsanto, Montedison and DSM Research in various countries. The author has held several teaching assignments and researched extensively in both academic and industrial areas he authored over 250 scientific papers, including chapters in books. Dr Bart has acted as a Ramsay Memorial Fellow at the... 

The chemistry of diazines remains an area of intense interest, both academic and industrial, with applications in many areas, from biomedical to materials science and electronics. They are versatile, having very varied reactivity, giving many opportunities for manipulation of substituents. Nucleophilic substitutions, electrophilic substitution in oxy and amino derivatives, organometallic and transition metal-catalysed coupling reactions are all subjects of substantial research effort. There are obvious similarities in reactivity of the three diazine systems but also many interesting and practically important, often subtle, differences. 

The field of heterocyclic chemistry has grown significantly in the past decade, especially in areas involving the development of new synthetic methodologies and the discovery of medicinally active compounds. Much of the progress has come from discoveries made in academic and industrial laboratories. 

The innovative approach to the design of clean chemical reactions and processes has proved very successful, as shown by the increase in the number of applicants to the school year after year. From 1998 to 2005 nearly 500 chemistry researchers, between the ages of 25 and 35, from both academic and industrial backgrounds, have attended the school. 

In order to produce the expected and desired results, programs and strategies must be devised for the development and application of chemistry, and must involve explicit support from national governments to networked organizations that are involved in research, educational/academic, and industrial systems. This interaction is fundamental to the production of long-term and durable benefits. 

This book should be of interest to academic and industrial researchers involved in the fields of organometallic, coordination and bioinorganic chemistry, transition metal catalysis, and organic synthesis. 

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