Bristol Centre for Organometallic Catalysis
The Bristol Centre for Organometallic Catalysis (BCOC), at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, builds together a cross-disciplinary grouping whose objective is to innovate in the field of homogeneous catalysis. Homogeneous catalysis is an elegant method of chemical synthesis and can provide new products and processes as well as efficient and clean solutions to many current problems in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.
The Centre provides a forum for new ideas by organising workshops and invited lectures on homogeneous catalysis by world experts from academia and industry. These activities bring industrial catalysis chemists into regular contact with staff at the School and consequently foster collaboration. The major objective of the centre is to promote synergy in catalysis research. Organometallic catalysis is a fundamental academic discipline as well as a core industrial technology and as such is pursued in university and industrial laboratories with equal vigour.
Members of the Centre include: Professors Varinder Aggarwal, Roger Alder, Robin Bedford, Donna Blackmond (associate member at Imperial College London), Jeremy Harvey, Guy Lloyd-Jones, Guy Orpen, and Paul Pringle, and Drs David Lindsay and Duncan Wass.