Green Chemistry Editorial Board member

Walter Leitner has been supervisor of the central high pressure and large scale synthesis facilities of the Max-Planck-Institut f�r Kohlenforschung since 1998. In 2000 he was appointed acting director and in 2002 full professor for Technische Chemie und Petrolchemie at the Institut f�r Technische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie at the RWTH Aachen. His interests are: mechanisms and models in homogenous catalysis; oganometallic compounds as selective reagents and catalysts; CO2-activation; catalysis in supercritical CO2�