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A concise introduction for students and researchers in academia and industry who want to learn how to use ""green"" and renewable feedstocks in organic chemistry, including industrial applications and problem sets.

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Prof. Albrecht Berkessel was Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cologne University (Germany) from 1997 until his retirement in 2021. His research interests comprise mechanistic and synthetic aspects of metal-based and organocatalysis, the chemistry of renewable carbon resources, as well as medicinal chemistry. In the last five years at Cologne University, he has developed and taught the course ""Bioorganic Chemistry and Catalysis for Renewable Resources"" on M.Sc./graduate student level. Albrecht Berkessel is the recipient of the Horst-Pracejus-Award 2019 of the German Chemical Society, in recognition of his numerous outstanding contributions to enantioselective synthesis, in particular his pioneering work on carbene catalysis, and asymmetric epoxidation of terminal olefins. Prof. Johannes G. de Vries was research director of the department ""Catalysis with Renewable Resources"" at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock (Germany) from 2014 until 2021. From 1988-2013, he worked for DSM in Geleen (The Netherlands), lastly as a principal scientist in the area of homogeneous catalysis. He was also part-time Professor of Homogeneous Catalysis at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) from 2011 to 2018, where he taught a course on ""Fuels and Chemicals from Renewable Resources"". His research interests are in the areas of homogeneous catalysis and catalytic conversion of renewable resources and platform chemicals. He is deputy editor of the journal Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis (Wiley), and the recipient of the 2013 Paul N. Rylander Award from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (ORCS) for outstanding contributions to the science of catalysis in organic chemistry. Dr. Horst Beck has retired but is still active as consultant for renewable raw materials. He started his professional industrial career in 1988 at Henkel Teroson in Heidelberg (Germany). In 2002, he relocated to the Henkel headquarters in Düsseldorf (Germany) and took over a leading R&D-function for consumer and craftsmen adhesives. He was promoted to research fellow in 2006. He built up a new research platform on renewable raw materials for adhesives and sealants in 2015. His research interests are in the area of sustainable chemistry for a circular economy and especially on renewable raw materials for materials science such as reactive monomers or building blocks for polymers.

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