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Didillon, B. (1991) Chimie organometallique de surface sur metaux. Application a I hydrogenation de substrats polyfonctionnels. PhD Thesis, University of Lyon (France). 

This volume, together with the first volume entitled Carbohydrates and Sustainable Development, Part 1 - Renewable Resources for Chemistry and Biotechnology, demonstrates that a variety of industrial products can be accessed using renewable and low-cost biomass. Both volumes are based on selected papers presented at Carbohydrates as Organic Raw Materials V - Building a Sustainable Future (CORM V), held in Lisbon in January 2009. The conference was chaired by Amelia Pilar Ranter (University of Lisboa) and Yves Queneau (University of Lyon, INSA Lyon), in collaboration with Frieder W. Lichtenthaler (Technische... 

Amelia P. Rauter, University of Lisbon Yves Queneau, University of Lyon... 

Acknowledgements. This work was made possible by the support of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Lyon 1. The author warmly acknowledges his colleagues of the team PASTAGA who were involved in this work, namely Dr. D. Lafont, Dr. M.R. Sancho, S. Chierici, V. Maunier and P. Lemattre. Thanks are also addressed to colleagues from other laboratories for fruitful discussions, help and encouragement, namely Professor B. Roux, M. Gelhausen, Dr. A. Coleman, Dr. A. Baszkin and Dr. Y. Chevalier. 

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In 1962, Pierre Eymard, a graduate smdent at the University of Lyon, synthesized a series of khellin derivatives. Khellin is a biologically active substance that occurs in the fruit of the wild Arabian Khell plant and which has been used for centuries by herbalists for the treatment of kidney stones. Eymard arranged to have his new compounds biologically evaluated at the Ecole de Medecine et de Pharmacie in nearby Grenoble. When attempts to produce a solution of these khellin compounds failed, advice was sought from H. Meunier of the nearby Laboratoire Berthier. In view of Berthier s recent peripheral interest in valproic acid as a solvent for bismuth compounds, Meunier recommended valproic acid as a nontoxic inert solvent. 

Alain Berthod received his PhD in 1979 from the University of Lyon. He took an assistant professor s position at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) working in electrochemistry. In 1983 he was promoted as associate professor and in 1993 as research director. He focused on the developing and the use of micellar solutions and microemulsions in chromatography. His interests lie in the separation of chiral molecules and enantiorecognition mechanisms. He has contributed to the development of the countercurrent chromatography technique that uses a sup-port-free liquid stationary phase. He was member of the editorial board of major analytical chemistry and chromatography journals. He is editor-in-chief of Separation Purification Reviews (Taylor Francis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). 

Although organomagnesium compounds are among the earliest reported organometallic compounds they were regarded as curiosities until 1900. At that time Victor Grignard, then a graduate student, worked in the laboratory of Professor Barbier at the University of Lyon in France. His task was to optimize conditions for what is now known as the Barbier reaction (equation 1). ... 

Once the toxicity parameters were computed to a spreadsheet yielding a table of 30 rows (effluents) and 9 columns (bioassays), we ran a principal component analysis (PCA) to check the diversity patterns of effluents and the correlation between tests. The PCA calculations were carried out using the ADE 3.6 statistical package on a Macintosh computer. ADE was developed by the University of Lyon II and by the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) common biometry laboratory. The new version ADE version 4 running on Mac and PC computers is now available on this university s internet site at http //pbil.univ-lvon 1. fr/ADE-4/... 

Professor Jaroslaw Lewkowski was born in 1966 in Lodz (Poland). In 1990, he obtained his M.Sc. degree from the University of Lodz, Poland, studying the electrochemical oxidation of 5-hydro-xymethylfurfural derivatives at the nickel oxide/hydroxide electrode. He then joined Professor Skowronski s group from the University of Lodz, Poland, cooperating simultaneously with Professor Descotes team from the University of Lyon 1, France. In 1996, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Lodz, investigating the selective conversions of furfural, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, and their derivatives. 

Wieslawa Kudelska was born in Poland (1951) she studied pharmacy at the Medical University of Lodz, Poland (1969-74), where she also carried out her Ph.D. work (1974—82). She joined Professor G. Descotes group at the Claude-Bernard University of Lyon, France (1985). In 1988, she spent one year in USA working as a postdoctoral research fellow with Professor J. Loz at Laboratory for Carbohydrate Chemistry, Harvard University. From 1974 to 2004, she was employed at the Medical University of L6dz, Faculty of Pharmacy. Since 2004, she is a professor at the Jan Dlugosz University of Czestochowa, Poland. Her scientific interests are centered on carbohydrate chemistry. 

ANDRE COLLET, University of Lyon, Lyon, France... 

Poncet-Vincent S. Desodorisation de fair par photocatalyse au contact de Ti02 degradation de l acide pentanoi que, du limonene et du sulfure d hydrogene. Thesis. France University of Lyon, 1999 309-399. 

Victor Grignard (1871-1935) of the University of Lyon was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1912 for his discovery of these reagents. 

University of Lyon I, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69621 Villeurbanne, France. 

M4. Manuel, Y., Les proteines du liquid cephalorachidien. University of Lyon, Lyon, France, 1965. 

In late 1978 and early 1979, Dr. Robert Faurisson, then professor at the University of Lyon, France, published his two famous revisionist articles in the renowned French newspaper Le Monde, challenging the gas chamber myth, which caused a major uproar in France.8... 

GUY BERTRAND, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France HENRI BRUNNER, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany DAVID E. CANE, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA ANDRE COLLET, University of Lyon, Lyon, France GAUTAM R. DESIRAJU, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India... 

University of Lyon, Laboratoire d Automatique et de G6nie des Procedes (LAGEP), UMR 5007 CNRS - Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbaime, France... 

Laboratoire de Physico-Chinfie des Materiaux Solides, Facultd des Sciences de Tunis, Manar II, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia University of Lyon, Institut National de Recherche et d Analyse Physico-chimique, Pole Technologique Sidi-Thabet, 2020 Sidi-Thabet, Tunisia... 

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