Catalysis in Organic Chemistry: A Themed Issue Dedicated to Professor Johannes G. de Vries
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 April 2026 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Professor Johannes G. de Vries is an internationally renowned expert in the areas of homogeneous catalysis and transformations of renewable resources. He received his PhD in bioorganic chemistry from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1979. He then conducted postdoctoral research at Brandeis University in the United States. After that period, he returned to Europe in and started to work Sandoz Forschungsinstitut in Vienna, Austria as a lab leader in medicinal chemistry. In 1985 he moved to London, UK to work at Sandoz Institute for Medical Research as a senior scientist in medicinal chemistry. From 1988 to 2013 he worked in DSM in Geleen, the Netherlands, where he was the Principal scientist in homogeneous catalysis. Also, from 1999 to 2018 he had a part-time job as a professor in homogeneous catalysis at the University of Groningen.
From 2014 to 2021, Professor de Vries served as the head of the Renewable Resources Catalysis Department at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) in Rostock, Germany, where his research focused on the catalytic conversion of renewables into valuable chemicals.
His research interests include but are not limited to (asymmetric) hydrogenationcatalytic transfer hydrogenation; carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions (e.g., Heck and Suzuki reactions); amination; carbonylation and isomerization reactions; enzyme–transition metal synergistic catalysis; high-throughput experimentation; and catalytic transformations of renewable resources and platform chemicals.
Professor de Vries has received numerous awards for his outstanding contributions, including the Paul N. Rylander Award from the American Chemical Society's Organic Reaction Catalysis Society in 2013, in recognition of his achievements in the field of organic reaction catalysis.
In view of the retirement of Prof. Dr. Johannes de Vries to mark his outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry, especially in the areas of industrial catalysis, homogeneous catalysis and transformation of renewable resources, this Special Issue is organized. We would be pleased if you have relevant research articles/reviews in the fields of homogeneous (asymmetric) catalysis and/or transformations of renewable resources.
Dr. Sergey Tin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- homogeneous catalysis
- enantioselective catalysis
- transformation of renewable resources
- industrial catalysis
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