Iron-catalysed, general and operationally simple formal hydrogenation using Fe(OTf)(3) and NaBH4

An operationally simple and environmentally benign formal hydrogenation protocol has been developed using highly abundant iron(iii) salts and an inexpensive, bench stable, stoichiometric reductant, NaBH(4), in ethanol, under ambient conditions. This reaction has been applied to the reduction of terminal alkenes (22 examples, up to 95% yield) and nitro-groups (26 examples, up to 95% yield). Deuterium labelling studies indicate that this reaction proceeds via an ionic rather than radical mechanism

Point de vue d'une bâtonnière provinciale

Wienhofer Marie-Christine. Point de vue d'une bâtonnière provinciale . In: Diplômées, n°237, 2011. Avocates aujourd'hui. pp. 69-72

Torn at the seam: migration, deportations, and humanitarian concerns on the island of Hispaniola

In 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Tribunal rendered Sentence 168-13, which infamously made many Dominicans of Haitian descent effectively stateless. This Sentence also called for a national regularization plan. These actions were the culmination of decades of problems related to migration flows between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In June 2015, the International Law and Organizations Program’s International Human Rights Clinic at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) analyzed the legislation that followed Sentence 168-13 through a report entitled Justice Derailed. For the 2015-2016 academic year, the SAIS International Human Rights Clinic decided to create a follow-up report, broadening the research focus to fully understand the outstanding nationality and migration issues in a post-June 2015 Hispaniola. While the report’s primary focus is the aftermath of the Naturalization Law and Regularization Plan, as well as the resumption of deportations from the Dominican Republic, it also analyzes the historical and current factors impacting migratory flows

In silico tracking of individual species accelerating progress in macromolecular engineering and design

The beneficial use of computer simulations to track the microstructural evolution of individual species is highlighted in view of macromolecular engineering and design, considering two case studies on catalytic polymerization, and both “low” (100) chain lengths, that is, i) atom transfer radical copolymerization of n-butyl acrylate and styrene aiming at the synthesis of functional macrospecies of “identical’ chain length; and ii) chain shuttling polymerization of ethylene and 1-octene toward the production of segmented block copolymers with “soft” and “hard” segments. Model parameters are validated and/or tuned based on literature data. The modeling strategy supports the future identification of chemical structure– polymer property relationships and is based on the combination of principles from polymer reaction engineering, chemistry, and physics