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03/14/2025
Thomas Seidensticker receives Jochen-Block-Preis 2025
The German Catalysis Society awards Dr. Thomas Seidensticker the Jochen Block Prize 2025.
02/27/2025
Sustainable Diesel from Rapeseed Oil Esters by Sequential Semi-Hydrogenation, Double Bond Isomerization, and Metathesis
Rapeseed oil methyl esters (RME) have been converted to biofuel with a boiling point curve that fulfills the EN 590 specifications for modern diesel…
02/19/2025
Mechanistic Insights Into the Methoxycarbonylation of Technical Grade Oleochemicals: Catalytical and Structural Analysis of Conjugated Fatty Acid Methyl Esters
Mechanistic Insights Into the Methoxycarbonylation of Technical Grade Oleochemicals: Catalytical and Structural Analysis of Conjugated Fatty Acid…
02/15/2025
Switchable Hydrophilicity Amine Product Extraction: Efficient Separation of Tertiary Amines via Carbon Dioxide-Induced Polarity Switch in Homogeneous Catalysis
A combined approach is presented for the homogeneously catalyzed synthesis of tertiary amines and their subsequent carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced…
10/30/2024
TU founders want to make the chemical industry more sustainable
The chemical industry has so far been dependent on fossil raw materials, but their use is harmful to the climate and their resources are finite. Scien
10/06/2024
Poster prize for Bernd Rienhoff at the Jahrestagung FG Nachhaltige Chemie 2024
Bernd Rienhoff was awarded a poster prize for his poster “CO2-Induced Separation of Primary Amines from Amine-Mixtures and Homogeneous…
08/06/2024
Successful Design Project on the Synthesis of Glycerol Carbonate
After six weeks of dedicated and hard work under the supervision of Florian Lehmann and Bernd Rienhoff, this terms´ Design Project group has…
07/08/2024
Neural Network-Based Tensor Completion: Advancing Predictions of Activity Coefficients and Beyond
Although existing tensor completion methods have progressed in predicting two- and three-dimensional data, they still struggle to capture nonlineariti
06/26/2024
Catalytic processes for the selective hydrogenation of fats and oils: reevaluating a mature technology for feedstock diversification
The selective hydrogenation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and their derivatives to their monounsaturated counterparts is a critical catalytic
