Contract: ANCS 81CB/2008. Acronym: CATMET
Period: 2008-2010
Reasearch Field: CHEMISTRY
Priority Areas: NEW MATERIALS. NANOTECHNOLOGY
This bilateral project belongs to the new materials and nanotechnology priority areas. The project is particularly focused on novel catalytic systems for metathesis based on transition metal complexes and organometallic compounds, as well as on the synthesis of highly performing organic products and polymeric materials for targeted applications in biology, medicine, microelectronics and other industrial domains. 

PARTNERS
Partners within this bilateral cooperation are the Institute of Organic Chemistry „C.D. Nenitescu” of the Romanian Academy and the North-West University, Potchefstroom (Department of Chemistry and the Chemical Resource Beneficiation), two institutions of long-standing high standards in research and education. Assembling a joint research team of internationally recognized specialists from South Africa and Romania, the project looks at combining the complementary expertise of the involved researchers as well as at the best possible use of the facilities available in the two research institutions.
ROMANIA:   Institute of Organic Chemistry “C.D. Nenitescu” of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest
         Project Co-director: Dr. Eng. Valerian Dragutan

SOUTH AFRICA: North-West University, Potchefstroom, Department of Chemistry
                              North-West University, Potchefstroom, Chemical Resource Beneficiation
                              Project Co-director: Prof. Dr. Hermanus C.M. Vosloo.