Interuniversity Consortium Chemistry

The Ca Foscari University of Venice and National Interuniversity Consortium, Chemistry for the Environment, Venice, Italy... 

The Interuniversity Consortium Chemistry for the Environment, INCA, and the University of Ca Foscari are gratefully acknowledged for the support to this work. 

We gratefully acknowledge support for this work by the MURST (Ministero Universita e Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica) and the Interuniversity Consortium Chemistry for the Environment . 

For example (a) Summer School on Green Chemistry, Interuniversity National Consortium Chemistry for the Environment (INCA). http //www.incaweb.org/education/summer school on green chemistry/, (accessed Nov 18, 2008). (b) Green Chemistry in Education Workshop, University of Oregon. http //chemistry.gsu.edu/CWCS/green.php (accessed Nov 18, 2008). 

The Ministero dell Uni verstita e della Ricerca, Rome and the Interuniversity Consortium for Environmental Chemistry, Rome, are tlianked for partial support of this work. 

In Italy, the Interuniversity National Consortium Chemistry for the Environment (INCA) was founded in 1993 and rapidly become an internationally recognized reference center for green chemistry. The many initiatives include the periodical School on Green Chemistry, the organization of the first International lUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry and the Green Chemistry Publication Series. INCA is also the hub center for IGN, as indicated above. 

Michele Aresta MRSC, Doctor Industrial Chemistry, University of Milan, Milan-IT President of the Scientific Council of the Interuniversity Consortium on Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis, Italy IMM chair at NUS Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Singapore Honorary Chair at the Chemical Engineering Faculty, University of Tianjin, Tianjin, China. 

Saverio Russo is a senior professor of industrial chemistry at Genoa University, Italy. He has been, and still is, project leader of several research programs supported by the European Union, Italian Ministry of University, and Chemical Companies. He has been working for more than 40 yeare in the field of macromolecular science and technology, mainly on advanced polymeric materials synthesis, characterization and applications. Polyamide 6 by the anionic routes has been one of the major topics of his research. He is author of more than 250 scientific publications, mostly in international journals, and six patents. Prof Russo has been member of the Scientific Committee of INSTM (Interuniversity Consortium of Materiab Science and Technology) and director of its S Hon on Functional and Structural Polymeric Materials. He was the co- itor of four volumes of Comprehensive Polymer Science, Peigamon, 1989 and two supplement volumes (1992 and 1996). He was the organizer and co-chairman of two lUPAC Symposia of Free Radical Polymerization Kinetics and Mechanism, in 1987 and 1996. 

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