Kerton, Francesca M. - Memorial University of Newfoundland

个人简介

Dr. Kerton is Professor of Green Chemistry at Memorial University. She was born in the ‘Steel City’ of the UK (Sheffield) to Welsh parents, leading to a love of the Yorkshire countryside and fanaticism for Welsh rugby. Her family moved via Nottingham to the South East of England with her Father’s work. She obtained her first class B.Sc. Hons degree (Chemistry Major, Environmental Science Minor, 1995) at the University of Kent in the UK. This is the main university in the area in which she grew up – ‘The Garden of England’ . She performed research supervised by Dr. Mike Went in the area of thio-macrocycle synthesis and coordination chemistry. She then moved to the University of Sussex to obtain her D.Phil. degree (1999) under the supervision of Dr. Gerry Lawless, and co-supervision by Dr. Steve Armes. Her two major achievements were (i) the isolation and structural characterisation of the first titanocene, and (ii) the first synthesis of a conducting polymer in a supercritical fluid. She then moved to Canada to perform postdoctoral research (lanthanide chemistry, ligand design and small molecule activation) with Dr. Mike Fryzuk before returning to her homeland to take up an academic position at the University of York. Here she shared lab space with Dr. Robin Perutz and became more heavily involved with Green Chemistry including collaborations with Dr. James Clark, Dr. Jeff Hardy, Dr. Gideon Grogan and Dr. Chris Rayner (Leeds). She also received a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship in September 2002. In September 2005, she moved back to Canada and took up a position as an assistant professor at Memorial University and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2010 and full professor in 2015. In June 2007 and 2013, she received Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund Awards for research in the field of Green Chemistry. In July 2012, she was featured in the ‘Meet Our Authors’ section of the Green Chemistry journal’s blog and in 2013, their research was featured on the inside cover of the same journal. In 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing published her text on Alternative Solvents for Green Chemistry and the second edition was published in 2013. In 2013, she received funding from Hebron for her research into renewable chemicals. She currently collaborates with Chris Kozak (incl. CFI LOF 2013 for polymer analysis equipment), Kelly Hawboldt (Engineering), Christina Bottaro, Chris Rowley (All at Memorial Univ) and Yann Sarazin (Rennes) and Ning Yan (Singapore). She was an invited North American New Horizons Fellow in 2014 and attended an exciting, interdisciplinary meeting in Mexico City sponsored by the US Academy of Sciences, Mexican Academy of Sciences (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias) and the Royal Society of Canada. She was awarded the Dean of Science’s Distinguished Scholar Award and Medal in September 2016, and received a third CFI award in 2017 (in collaboration with Chris Kozak). She is the 2019 recipient of the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award, and is a member of the advisory board for Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, a relatively new Royal Society of Chemistry journal that publishes work in a range of areas including the interface of chemistry and engineering.

研究领域

1. Catalysis (including organometallic chemistry) 2. 'Green' polymers and materials (including biorenewable and degradable materials) 3. Renewable feedstocks (including transformations of carbon dioxide and carbohydrates) Much of our research encompasses aspects of Materials Science including nanoparticles, biorenewable materials and polymer chemistry.

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J. N. Murphy, C. M. Schneider, K. Hawboldt and F. M. Kerton, “Hard to Soft: Biogenic Absorbent Sponge-like Material from Waste Mussel Shells” Matter, 3, 2029-2041, 2020 A. I. Elkurtehi and F. M. Kerton “Synthesis of Amino-Phenolate Manganese Complexes and Their Catalytic Activity in Carbon Dioxide Activation and Oxidation Reactions” Can. J. Chem. 2020, Accepted, Invited for a Special Issue dedicated to Professor Bob Morris. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2020-0348 K. A. Andrea and F. M. Kerton “Iron-catalyzed reactions of CO2 and epoxides to yield cyclic and polycarbonates”, Polymer Journal, 2020, In Press (Special Issue: CO2: Capture of, utilization of, and degradation into) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41428-020-00395-6 C. M. Laprise, K. A. Hawboldt, F. M. Kerton* and C. M. Kozak* “Synthesis of a Renewable, Waste-Derived Non-Isocyanate Polyurethane From Fish Processing Discards and Cashew Nutshell-Derived Amines”, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2020, 2000339 (Special Issue: Polymers for a Sustainable Future) https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.202000339 H. Plommer, L. Stein, J. N. Murphy, N. Ikpo, N. Mora-Diez and F. M. Kerton “Copolymerization of CHO/CO2 catalyzed by a series of aluminum amino-phenolate complexes and insights into structure-activity relationships”, Dalton Transactions, 2020, 49, 6884 – 6895 DOI: 10.1039/D0DT00726A K. A. Andrea, H. Plommer and F. M. Kerton, “Ring-Opening Polymerizations and Copolymerizations of Epoxides Using Aluminum- and Boron-Centered Catalysts”, European Polymer Journal, 2019, 120, 109202 Special Issue on Ring-Opening Polymerization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2019.08.029 K. A. Andrea, and F. M. Kerton*, “Functionalized Polycarbonates via Triphenylborane Catalyzed Polymerization-Hydrosilylation” RSC Advances, 2019, 9, 26542 – 26546, DOI: 10.1039/c9ra05947d OPEN ACCESS K. A. Andrea, E. D. Butler, T. R. Brown, T. S. Anderson, D. Jagota, C. Rose, E. M. Lee, S. D. Goulding, J. N. Murphy, F. M. Kerton* and C. M. Kozak*, “Iron Complexes for Cyclic and Polycarbonate Formation: Selectivity Control from Ligand Design and Metal-Center Geometry” Inorganic Chemistry, 2019, 58, 11231−11240. J. N. Murphy, C. M. Schneider, L. K. Mailänder, Q. Lepillet, K. Hawboldt and F. M. Kerton, “Wealth from waste: Blue mussels (Mylitus edulis) offer up a sustainable source of natural and synthetic nacre”, Green Chemistry, 2019, 21, 3920 – 3929, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/GC/C9GC01244C J. L. Vidal, V. P. Andrea, S. L. MacQuarrie and F. M. Kerton, “Oxidized Biochar as a Simple, Renewable Catalyst for the Production of Cyclic Carbonates from Carbon Dioxide and Epoxides”, ChemCatChem, 2019, 11, 4089–4095 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201900290, Women of Catalysis Special Issue 👩🏼‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩‍🔬 and Hot Topic: Carbon Dioxide H. Plommer, J. N. Murphy, L. N. Dawe and F. M. Kerton, “Morpholine-Stabilized Cationic Aluminum Complexes and Their Reactivity in Ring-Opening Polymerization of ε‑Caprolactone”, Inorganic Chemistry, 2019, 58, (8), 5253–5264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00347 K. A. Andrea and F. M. Kerton, “Triaryl Borane Catalyzed Formation of Cyclic Organic Carbonates and Polycarbonates”, ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 1799 – 1809 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b04282 K. A. Andrea, T. R. Brown, J. N. Murphy, D. Jagota, D. McKearney, C. M. Kozak and F. M. Kerton, “Characterization of oxo-bridged iron amino-bis(phenolate) complexes formed intentionally or in situ: Mechanistic insight into epoxide deoxygenation during the coupling of CO2 and epoxides”, Inorganic Chemistry, 2018, 57, 13494 – 13504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02109 J. Gong, M. J. Katz and F. M. Kerton, “Catalytic Conversion of Glucose to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural using Zirconium-Containing Metal-Organic Frameworks using Microwave Heating”, RSC Advances, 2018, 8, 31618 – 31627, DOI: 10.1039/C8RA06021E. OPEN ACCESS J. N. Murphy, K. Hawboldt and F. M. Kerton, “Enzymatic processing of mussel shells to produce biorenewable calcium carbonate in seawater”, Green Chemistry, 2018, 20, 2913 – 2920, DOI: 10.1039/C8GC01274A G. Margoutidis, V. H. Parsons, C. S. Bottaro, N. Yan and F. M. Kerton, “Mechanochemical amorphization of α-chitin and conversion into oligomers of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018, 6, 1662–1669, DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02870. F.M. Kerton and N. Yan Ed.s (2017) Fuels, Chemicals and Materials from the Oceans and Aquatic Sources, Wiley Series in Renewable Resources, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK. ISBN: 978-1-119-11716-2 (and two chapters therein). Y. Liu, C. Staehler, J. N. Murphy, B. J. Furlong, and F. M. Kerton, “Formation of a renewable amine and an alcohol via transformations of 3-acetamido-5-acetylfuran”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2017, 5, 4916–4922, DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b00323 A. I. Elkurtehi and F. M. Kerton, “Coupling Reactions of Carbon Dioxide with Epoxides Catalyzed by Vanadium Aminophenolate Complexes”, ChemSusChem, 2017, 10, 1249-1254, DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201601548 A. I. Elkurtehi, A. G. Walsh, L. N. Dawe, and F. M. Kerton, “Vanadium aminophenolate complexes and their catalytic activity in aerobic and H2O2-mediated oxidation reactions”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2016, 3123–3130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201600068 D. Alhashmialameer, J. Collins, K. Hattenhauer, and F. M. Kerton, “Iron amino-bis(phenolate) complexes for the formation of organic carbonates from CO2 and oxiranes”, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2016, 5364 – 5373, DOI: 10.1039/C6CY00477F. OPEN ACCESS