The CHOCO group is leading the Nordic Consortium for CO2 Conversion (NordCO2), a Nordic University Hub financed by NordForsk and the 9 participating Universities. NordCO2 has just released its first annual report, which is for the year 2018. Read it at: NordCO2_AnnualReport2018
The CHOCO team welcomes Dr. Ainara Nova (UiO) as an Assoc. Prof-II (20% position) in the CHOCO group. Ainara will work together with us on computational catalysis and give courses, for example about microkinetic modelling. She will also increase the number of female PIs in computational chemistry at the department by 100%. đ
The CHOCO group has obtained funding from the Arctic Centre for Sustainable Energy for starting research on biomass (which we will couple with CO2 to make oil-free chemicals). 
We will characterize different types of biomass for this purpose, together with our new collaborator Prof. Kirsten Krause at BFE.
CHOCO PI Kathrin has just published an Editorial in Organometallics:Â “How To Make Your Computational Paper Interesting and Have It Published“. Read it here
CHOCO PI Annette Bayer will present a talk on CO2 as a resource at the âArctic Frontiersâ conference, Thursday 24.1, 11:30, The Edge (Kjøpmannskontoret), Tromsø, Norway. For more information, click here.
CHOCO PI Kathrin will be sitting in the APECS panel discussing ‘Scientific Publishing’ and its impact on your career, Tuesday 22.1, 18:30, Fram centre. Read more here.
The CHOCO group is thrilled to announce that our resarcher Dr. Janakiram Vaitla received a 3-year mobilty grant from the Research Council of Norway for his application: “Catalytic Enantioselective Sigmatropic Rearrangements of Vinyl Sulfonium Ylides”. This grant will allow Janakiram to travel to the United States to work with Prof. Huw Davies.
CHOCO PI Kathrin has been appoined member of the editorial team at the ACS journal Organometallics. Organometallics publishes high-quality articles on the synthesis, structure, reactivity, and applications of organometallic compounds. Kathrin will contribute her expertise on computational modelling of organometallic systems to assist the journal in selecting high-quality submissions in the field.
New publication from the CHOCO group in Angewandte Chemie: IronâCatalyzed Carbenoid Transfer Reactions of Vinyl Sulfoxonium Ylides: An Experimental and Computational Study
Congratulations to Dr. Janakiram Vaitla, very well deserved.
