Liquid Phase Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis: Industrial Applications and Academic Perspectives

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Shannon Stahl is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison USA since 1999. After undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA he attended the California Institute of Technology USA for doctoral studies. He worked on Pt-catalyzed oxidation of methane to methanol in the laboratory of Prof. John E. Bercaw and obtained his Ph.D. in 1997. From 1997-1999 he conducted postdoctoral research in the lab of Prof. Stephen J. Lippard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA investigating the enzyme methane monooxygenase. He has published >120 research articles and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Humboldt Senior Research Award ACS Cope Scholar Award Sloan Research Fellowship and he is a Fellow of the AAAS. His research group specializes in the development and mechanistic characterization of catalytic aerobic oxidation reactions. Paul Alsters is a Principal Scientist at DSM Ahead R&D B.V. - Innovative Synthesis (Geleen The Netherlands). He received his Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht The Netherlands in 1992 working on C-O coupling reactions of organopalladium compounds under the guidance of Prof. G. van Koten. He did postdoctoral work on asymmetric titanium mediated nucleophilic additions to aldehydes in the laboratory of R.O. Duthaler at Ciba-Geigy in Basel Switzerland. He joined DSM in 1993. His main areas of interest are development of scalable break-through methods for new or existing products and liquid-phase catalysis with an emphasis on C-X or C-C coupling reactions and oxidation catalysis. His research activities frequently operate at the interplay of catalysis/synthesis and other sciences in particular materials science. He is the (co-)author of >70 articles or book chapters and (co-)inventor of >20 patents.