Challenges in Catalysis for Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals III

The third meeting on Challenges in Catalysis for Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals took place on 2nd November 2011. Around ninety delegates, evenly spread across academia and industry, attended the event in London, which was organised jointly by the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Fine Chemicals Group and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Applied Catalysis Group. Following the first two meetings of the series in 2007 (1) and 2009 (2), the themes focused on the practical aspects of applied catalysis including scale-up, flow chemistry and one-pot multi-step procedures. Four of the seven oral presentations and a third of the poster presentations featured work on platinum group metals (pgms). The following brief review brings together the pgm aspects of the work presented.