Swiss Summer School 2021: Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry: Conference Report

摘要: mer-school21. scg. ch), and was co-organized by SCS and NCCR Catalysis and co-chaired by Bill Morandi and Jérôme Waser. The topic was received with great interest across communities, and the participant slots and waiting list filled up quickly. We opened the Swiss Summer School 2021 with lectures presented by Nobel Laureate Robert Grubbs and Eva Hevia, and, for the first time ever, a Careers in Chemistry session, with presentations described in Table 1. Here, the 79 participants learned what a career in chemistry can look like from the perspective of three firms.Six academic lecturers from Caltech, Princeton, Ben-Gurion University, University of Bern, and ETH Zurich shed light on the many facets of catalysis and sustainable chemistry each with two hour-long lectures. The professors covered topics from olefin metathesis to enzymatic catalysis, as described in Table 2. During the lectures from seven industry representatives (see Table 3), the participants learned about the practicalities of catalysis and sustainable chemistry in industry, from the use of machine learningincatalysisdiscovery, tothefulldrugdevelopmentprocess. Participants and lecturers alike had many opportunities to discuss in depth, as the lecturers (see Fig. 1) were present for a minimum of one day of the summer school. Robert Grubbs from