Benign-by-design flow methodologies for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) synthesis

The design of benign and environmentally sound methodologies has been the driving force of scientists in recent years towards more sustainable methodologies.

Attractive and innovative protocols that nowadays are even part of industrial ventures including biomass-derived porous carbonaceous materials, designer nanomaterials for catalytic applications and catalytic strategies for biomass/waste conversion into useful materials, chemicals and fuels have been recently developed in our group at RUDN in recent years. These topics have extensively covered the preparation and design of (nano)materials, biocatalysts and photocatalysts and their utilisation in heterogeneously (bio)(photo)(electro)catalysed processes, flow chemistry as well as in biomass/waste valorisation practices.

Faculty of Sciences, Ordzhronikidze St., 3 (room 708), 13.30-15.00.

Speaker: prof. Rafael Luque, RUDN University

Rafael Luque (PhD 2005, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain) is Distinguished Professor from RUDN University, with significant experience in biomass and waste valorization practices to materials, fuels and chemicals as well as nanoscale chemistry, green chemistry and catalysis (950+ publications, h-index 117, >60,000 citations, 7 patents, 10 edited books). He serves on the Advisory/Editorial Board of several RSC, Elsevier, Springer-Nature and Bentham journals (>10). He has been named 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics).