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ACS Publications Forum: Scientific Diversity in Inorganic/Organic Chemistry in Europe
ACS Publications Forum: Scientific Diversity in Inorganic/Organic Chemistry in Europe
October 10, 2018
7:45-8:15 Registration
8:15-8:30 Opening Remarks
8:30-10:10 Session 1
Session Chair: Dr. Corinna Hess, Technical University of Munich
8:30-8:55 "Carbon Dioxide Utilzation: Using Well-Defined Metal Complexes as
Catalysts"
PROF. CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS, University of Oxford,
United Kingdom
8:55-9:20 "From the Norbornyl Cation Story to Basic Organometallic and
Inorganic Coordination Chemistry at Iron and Uranium - Touring
the Periodic Table from Top to Bottom"
PROF. KARSTEN MEYER, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-
Nürnberg, Germany
9:20-9:45 "Ylide-functionalization: A Powerful Tool in Main Group Chemistry
and Catalysis"
PROF. VIKTORIA DÄSSCHLEIN-GESSNER, Ruhr University
Bochum, Germany
9:45-10:10 "Exploiting Physical Organic Principles in Reaction Design"
PROF. RYAN GILMOUR, Westfälische Wilhelms University
Münster, Germany
10:10-10:30 Intermission & Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session 2
Session Chair: Prof. Paul Chirik, Editor-in-Chief,
Organometallics
10:30-10:55 "Charge Accumulation by Multielectron Transfer and New
Photoactive Metal Complexes"
PROF. OLIVER WENGER, University of Basel, Switzerland
10:55-11:20 "Synergistic Cooperation between Mechanistic Investigations and
Catalysis: Toward Rational Design"
DR. MÓNICA PÉREZ-TEMPRANO, Institute of Chemical Research
of Catalonia, Spain
11:20-11:45 "Mechanochemical Activation in Asymmetric Synthesis
and Catalysis"
PROF. CARSTEN BOLM, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
11:45-12:10 "Functions of Inositol Pyrophosphate Messengers Revealed with
Chemical Tools"
PROF. DOROTHEA FIEDLER, Leibniz Institute of Molecular
Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany
12:10-13:30 Lunch & Poster Session
13:30-15:10 Session 3
Session Chair: Prof. Peter Comba, Director,
International Academic Forum Heidelberg
13:30-13:55 "Structure and Bonding of Multinary Heavy Element Clusters"
PROF. STEFANIE DEHNEN, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
13:55-14:20 "When Boron Nucleophiles Meet Unexplored Reactivity"
DR. ELENA FERNÀNDEZ, University of Rovira, Spain
14:20-14:45 "Video Movies of Catalytic Processes: New Organometallic Players
on the Catalysis Scene"
PROF. VALENTINE ANANIKOV, Zelinsky Institute--Russian Academy
of Sciences, Russia
14:45-15:10 "Multicomponent Perfluoroalkylation Reactions by Visible-Light
Photoredox Catalysis"
DR. GÉRALDINE MASSON, CNRS University of Paris Saclay,
France
15:10-15:30 Intermission & Coffee Break
15:30-17:10 Session 4
Session Chair: Prof. William Tolman, Editor-in-Chief,
Inorganic Chemistry
15:30-15:55 "Inorganic Chemistry Inspired by Nature: Small-Molecule
Activation for Energy-Related Catalysis"
PROF. FRANC MEYER, University of Gottingen, Germany
15:55-16:20 "Is Your Mechanism Correct? A Critical View on Computational
Catalysis"
DR. KATHRIN HOPMANN, University of Tromsø, Norway
16:20-16:45 "The O-Directed Free Radical Hydrostannation Reaction of
Dialkyl Acetylenes: Scope, Reaction Mechanism and Applications
in Complex Molecule Total Synthesis"
PROF. KARL HALE, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
16:45-17:10 "X-ray Spectroscopic Studies of Biological Dinitrogen Reduction
in Molybdenum and Vanadium Nitrogenases"
PROF. SERENA DEBEER, Max Planck Institute for Chemical
Energy Conversion, Germany
17:10-19:00 Meet and Greet Editors Reception and Poster Session
Poster awards will be presented at a ceremony during
the ACS on Campus program on October 11.