Hartwig pushes plastics to propene
Link to talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee9PYHtiaiE I've wanted to highlight this video series for a while, and thought this recent talk by John Hartwig was a great opportunity. Did you know that ACS hosts seminars by researchers around the world on their youtube channel? These get depressingly low views, and I think they're one of the best resources out there to (a) see some chemistry around the world or (b) reference how to put together a presentation. There's a half hour video interview with Roald Hoffmann, my chemistry hero! (The interviewer is Erick Carreira, btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsQy-2etChw) So I highly recommend giving the channel a look, as there's almost certainly something of interest to any chemist who reads this blog. Some of the relevant papers for this work are listed below: Conk et al., "Catalytic deconstruction of waste polyethylene with ethylene to form propylene." Science 2022 , 377 , 1561-1566. https://www.science.o...