Programme
Thursday, 11th December
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09.30 Peter Edwards, Oxford
The Impact of Energy Materials on Climate Stabilization
10.00 Jim Dye, Michigan State
Alkali Metals are alive and well at 200
10.30 Coffee
11:00 Hans-Jörg Himmel, Heidelberg
Dihydrogen addition and elimination reactions of dinuclear group 13 element compounds
11.30 Roy Harrison, Birmingham
Air pollution: past, present and future perspectives
12.00 - 13:30 Lunch
13.30 Edwin Constable, Basel
Photonic devices
14.00 Catherine Housecroft, Basel
Metal complexes as ligands: macrocycles, polymers and networks
14.30 Rab Mulvey, Strathclyde
Synergic surprises from bimetallic molecules: low polarity metallation, inverse crowns and hot anion trapping
15.00 Lutz Gade, Heidelberg
New strategies in catalyst development based on modular chiral bis(pyridylimino)isoindolato (BPI) ligands
15:30 - 15:50 Tea
15:50 Luis Oro, Zaragoza
Cooperation between iridium centres in organometallic and hydrogenation reactions
16.20 Nick Long, Imperial
Organometallic chemistry for biomedical imaging: the role of metalscorpionates in positron emission tomography
16.50 Robin Clark, UCL
Inorganic pigments: from mixed valence species to anatase
17.20 How-Ghee Ang, EnRI, Signapore
EnRI and A New Generation of Energetic Materials
17.50 Close
19:00 Reception
19.30 Dinner (Requires Registration)
Friday, 12th December
9.00 Jim Turner, Mike George & Martyn Poliakoff, Nottingham
How slow, how fast?
9.30 Wojciech Grochala, Warsaw
Is there chemical life beyond argon? Theoretical prediction of small metastable neutral molecules which contain a chemically bound helium atom
10.00 Martin Schröder, Nottingham
Metal Organic Framework Materials for Gas Storage
10.30 - 10:50 Coffee
10.50 Brian Johnson, Cambridge
From Clusters to Nano-catalysts
11.20 Andrew Weller, Oxford
Putting vacant sites to work: low-coordinate rhodium phosphine organometallics
11.50 Pierre Braunstein, Strasbourg
Recent structural and reactivity aspects of the metal-ligand interplay
12.20 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 Richard Winpenny, Manchester
Linking Rings for Quantum Information Processing
14.00 Lee Cronin, Glasgow
Synthesis of polyoxometalate clusters; from molecular building blocks to protein sized inorganic architectures
14.30 Matthew Rossiensky, Liverpool
Complex oxides by design – anion mobility and property coupling
15.00 Arndt Simon, Stuttgart
A new d metal chemistry of the lanthanides
15.30 - 15:50 Tea
15.50 Dominic Wright, Cambridge
Isoelectronic relationships in main group radicals and carbene analogues. How far can we go?
16.20 David Garner, Nottingham
Dithiolenes - no longer non-innocent
16.50 Malcolm Chisholm, Ohio State
The influence of incorporating M-M quadruple bonds on opto-electronic properties of oligothiophenes
17.20 Closing Remarks
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