Adaptable, New Building is Catalyst for Discovery

To facilitate the ever-evolving advancements in the chemical field today, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is opening the new Warren and Katharine Schlinger Laboratory for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The state-of-the-art, sustainable Schlinger Laboratory will provide a custom-designed, adaptable facility for a number of Caltech's chemists and chemical engineers. The laboratory will house research groups in synthetic chemistry and chemical engineering, enabling new research in catalysis, materials, and the atmosphere. The laboratory has been named in honor of Warren and Katharine Schlinger, benefactors of the Institute for more than 60 years. Support for the building and its research was provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Will and Helen Webster, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins, the John Stauffer Charitable Trust, Barbara Dickinson, and the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation. Jacqueline Barton, chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor, states, "We are excited to bring together chemists and chemical engineers under one roof for new discovery and innovation. This new laboratory is a realization of the vision of Warren and Katharine Schlinger to create a state-of-the-art facility linking chemists with chemical engineers." Synthetic chemists Brian Stoltz, the Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry, and Sarah Reisman, assistant professor of chemistry, along with their research groups, will focus on the design of new catalysts and new routes to the preparation of pharmaceuticals.