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Kristen Elise Gardner-Fasanya
California Institute of Technology, United States of America

John Gladysz
Texas A&M University, United States of America

Sir David W.C. MacMillan
Princeton University, United States of America

Moderator: Adam Smith
Nobel Prize Outreach, Sweden

The circular economy requires that chemicals and materials be broken down and reassembled into useful building blocks, ideally those that were used to manufacture the same chemicals and materials. This requires bond-breaking and bond-making, which does not happen spontaneously. Thus, catalytic bond activation plays an essential role in these transformations. This panel will analyze trends and needs in this very active area of current research.