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It was a great honor for us to organize ChiCat, a symposium devoted to Chiral Reactions in Heterogeneous Catalysis and to be the hostsofmore than 120 scientists coming from everywhere in the industrialized world, to celebrate together one century of existence ofInstitut Meurice. This school was established in 1892when an industrial chemist, named Albert Meurice, decided to educate practical chemists according to the perceived needs ofthe industry ofthat time. This is exactly what we are still trying to do. It is the reason why, thirty years ago, we started a research activity in catalysis, and why we progressively devote this research to the applications of catalysis in the field of fine chemicals. In this respect, we are very close to another initiative of Albert Meurice, who started the first production of synthetic pharmaceuticals in Belgium during World War I. This business later on became a part ofthe Belgian corporation DCB, still very active in pharmaceuticals today. The school created by Albert Meurice merged in the fifties with another school that had been created to meet the same needs in the field of the food industries, mainly distilleries and breweries. This merger was done in the frame of the establishment of CERIA. For people in catalysis, ceria stands for cerium oxide, but for those who engineered the concept, CERIA stood for Center of Education and Research for the Food and Chemical Industries.
List of contents
The Place of Heterogeneous Catalysis in the Chirality Field.- Commercial Outlook for Chirality. Quo Vadis ?.- Strategies for Asymmetric Synthesis. What is the Role of Heterogeneous Catalysis?.- Homogeneous Enantioselective Catalysis.- Scope and Limitations of the Application of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysis.- Hydrogenation Systems: Toward a better Understanding.- Modification of Supported and Unsupported Nickel Catalysts by ?-Amino and ?-Hydroxy Acids for Chiral Reactions.- Enantio-Differentiating Hydrogenation of Simple Alkanones with Asymmetrically Modified Heterogeneous Catalyst.- Enantio-Differentiating Hydrogenation of 2-Butanone : Distinction between CH3and C2H5 with a Modified Nickel Catalyst.- Chiral Hydrogenation of Estrone and Estrone-3-Methyl Ether.- Enantioselective Hydrogenation of ?.-Ketoesters : A Molecular View on the Enantio-Differentiation ..- Studies on the Platinum Cinchona Alkaloid Catalyst for Enantioselective ?.-Ketoester Hydrogenation.- Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ethyl Pyruvate Using Pt-Containing Zeolites Modified with (-)-Cinchonidine.- Hydrogenation Systems: Broadening the Scope.- Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions Using Chiral Auxiliaries and Producing Enantiomers in Excess.- Enzymatic Resolution of Biologically Active Precursors versus Asymmetric Induction in Heterogeneous Catalysis.- Enantio- and Diastereoselective Reduction of Disubstituted Aromatics.- Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis with C2 Symmetric Amine-Modified Rhodium/Silica.- An Investigation of the Mode of Hydrogen Addition in Stereoselective Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenations.- Heterogeneous Enantioselective Hydrogenation and Dihydroxylation of Carbon - Carbon Double Bond Mediated by Transition Metal Asymmetric Catalysts.- More Advanced Reaction.- ChiralDioxo-Molybdenum Complexes Anchored to Modified USY-Zeolites. Application to Selective Epoxidation of Olefins.- Effect of Sulfoxide Loading on the Selectivity and Activity of Zeolite Y for Dehydration Reactions.- Novel Chiral Ruthenium-bis( oxazolinyl)pyridine and bis( oxazolinyl)bipyridine Complexes : Asymmetric Cyclopropanation of Styrene with Diazoacetates.- Polymer Supported N-Alkylnorephedrines as Highly Enantioselective Chiral Catalysts for the Addition of Dialkylzincs to Aldehydes.- Author Index.
