Scientific Programme
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Contributions of the Participants
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Topics

• Asymmetric synthesis and metal-mediated catalysis

• Structural, mechanistic and theoretical aspects of organometallic
  chemistry

• Biological and environmental aspects of organometallic chemistry

• Application of organometallics in materials science


Confirmed Speakers

Plenary Lecturers

• Carsten Bolm (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
   "Iron-catalyzed organic reactions"

• Jean-François Carpentier (University of Rennes, France)
  “Discrete ansa-lanthanidocenes based on indenyl and fluorenyl ligands:
   Coordination peculiarities and unique catalysts for new polymer
   materials”

• Robert H. Crabtree (Yale University, USA) – opening lecture
  “CH Activation, carbenes and molecular recognition in Catalysis”

• Nils Metzler-Nolte (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
   “Labelling of bioactive peptides with organometallic compounds: from
   basic chemistry to biomedical applications”

• Per-Ola Norrby (Göteborg University, Sweden)
  "Mechanistic investigations in homogeneous catalysis"

• Kyoko Nozaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  "Palladium-catalyzed coordination polymerization of polar vinyl
  monomers"

• Elena S. Shubina (A.N.Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement
  Compounds, Russia)
  "Hydrogen bonding as a conductor of transition metal hydrides
  protonation"

• Antonio Togni (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  “Catalytic enantioselective heterofunctionalizations”


Invited Lecturers

• Heinz Berke (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
  “Ionic hydrogenation as a true alternative to wilkinson type
   hydrogenations”

• Bernhard Breit (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany)
  “Self-assembly of bidentate ligands for combinatorial homogeneous
   catalysis”

• Göran Hilmersson (Göteborg University, Sweden)
   "Reductions and couplings promoted by SmI2/water/amine"

• Giulia Licini (University of Padova, Italy)
   "Multidentate ligands for a selective and effective catalysis"

• Philip Mountford (University of Oxford, UK)
  “Highly active ethylene polymerisation catalysts derived from group 4
   imido compounds: from catalyst discovery to fundamental aspects of
   reaction site selectivity”

• Kilian Muniz (Louis Pasteur University Strasbourg, France)
  “Transition metal catalysed diamination of alkenes”

• Matthias Tacke (University College Dublin, Ireland)
  “Novel titanocene anticancer drugs”

• Rudolph Willem (University of Brussels, Belgium)
  "A very efficient grafted tin trichloride catalyst. How High Resolution
   Magic  Angle Spinning NMR (hr-MAS NMR) addresses catalyst purity and
   catalytic processes at the liquid-solid interface."

• Peter Wyatt (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
  "Synthesis of lanthanide complexes for photonics applications using
   fluorinated ligands"