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The 11th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (Eurobic 11) will be in Granada, Spain, from September 12-16, 2012.

The sessions will take place in the Conference Centre of Granada, in a beautiful part of the city within a few minutes walking distance to local hotels. The event is being hosted by the Inorganic Chemistry Department at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Granada, under the auspices of the University of Granada (UGR).

The conference will cover all topics of biological inorganic chemistry and includes lectures from the following plenary speakers

John H. Dawson, University of South Carolina, USA
Henryk Kozlowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Luis Liz Marzan, University of Vigo, Spain
Claudio Luchinat, University of Florence
Juan Manuel García Ruiz, Granada, Spain
Roland K.O. Sigel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Montserrat Filella, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Thomas Hamelryck, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael John Hannon, University of Birmingham, UK

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Registration to the conference is still open and you can find out more details by visiting the Eurobic11 website.

About 2000 chemists arrived in Calgary to share research, catch up with old acquaintances and make new friends.  This was my third CSC meeting, and the conference is a highlight of my year. I therefore was not expecting the question I was asked at immigration; ‘Why would you travel all the way to Calgary from the UK to attend a conference?’ ‘He’s clearly not been to a CSC meeting’, I thought to myself as I collected my passport back and entered Canada, looking forward to my next few days at the conference.

Calgary Tower

The CSC meeting covers all branches of chemistry however, I attended mainly for the inorganic sessions.  The meeting programme provided an excellent range of inorganic themes, including hydrogen activation, physical methods for coordination chemistry, main group chemistry, solar fuels, metals in biology, ligand design, inorganic molecular modelling, optical and electronic materials, solid state chemistry, and catalysis. Reflecting the impact that inorganic chemistry has on many different areas of chemical research, 9 of these symposia were arranged jointly with other Canadian Society for Chemistry divisions. Two chemists were honoured at CSC2012 by Symposia in their name: Barry Lever and Howard Alper.

Keeping up with the conference was helped by a number of people using Twitter to spread the excitement of the event (#CSC2012 if you want to take a look on Twitter), and Twitter was used to good effect. Anyone not able to attend could get the flavour of the meeting from the tweets, and those at the meeting could make sure they did not miss out on anything that had just been announced (free frisbees available in the Exhibition!). The organisers also posted photos from the conference on Flickr.

Don’t miss these two inorganic conferences in Canada in July

6th International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry

Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (ISACS8)

To get a flavour of CSC meeting, take a look at these recent articles from some of the delegates at the conference.

Cycloruthenated sensitizers: improving the dye-sensitized solar cell with classical inorganic chemistry principles
Kiyoshi C. D. Robson, Paolo G. Bomben and Curtis P. Berlinguette
Dalton Trans., 2012, Advance Article
DOI=10.1039/C2DT30825H

Synthesis and reactivity of 2-azametallacyclobutanes
Alexander Dauth and Jennifer A. Love
Dalton Trans., 2012, Advance Article
DOI=10.1039/C2DT30639E

Non-innocent ligand behaviour of a bimetallic Cu complex employing a bridging catecholate
Tim J. Dunn, Linus Chiang, Caterina F. Ramogida, Michael I. Webb, Didier Savard, Miyuki Sakaguchi, Takashi Ogura, Yuichi Shimazaki and Tim Storr
Dalton Trans., 2012, Advance Article
DOI=10.1039/C2DT30444A

Rigid NON- and NSN-ligand complexes of tetravalent and trivalent uranium: comparison of U–OAr2 and U–SAr2 bonding
Balamurugan Vidjayacoumar, Sougandi Ilango, Matthew J. Ray, Terry Chu, Kristopher B. Kolpin, Nicholas R. Andreychuk, Carlos A. Cruz, David J. H. Emslie, Hilary A. Jenkins and James F. Britten
Dalton Trans., 2012, Advance Article
DOI=10.1039/C2DT30247K

Heterobimetallic lanthanide–gold coordination polymers: structure and emissive properties of isomorphous [nBu4N]2[Ln(NO3)4Au(CN)2] 1-D chains
Ryan J. Roberts, Xiaobo Li, Tye F. Lacey, Zhong Pan, Howard H. Patterson and Daniel B. Leznoff
Dalton Trans., 2012,41, 6992-6997
DOI=10.1039/C2DT30156C

Ni(II), Pd(II) and Pt(II) complexes of PNP and PSP tridentate amino–phosphine ligands
Michael J. Sgro and Douglas W. Stephan
Dalton Trans., 2012,41, 6791-6802
DOI=10.1039/C2DT30373F

Were you at the CSC meeting? Share your stories of the conference with us in the comments below.

We are pleased to invite you to ISBOMC12 which will be held at the Scarborough campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. UTSC is one of the three sister campuses making up the University of Toronto (St. George, Scarborough and Mississauga). The conference covers all aspects of bioorganometallic chemistry and includes lectures from these keynote speakers.

Kay Severin
Shunsaku Kimura
Takashi Hayashi
Bernhard K. Keppler
Rudolf K. Thauer
Peter Sadler

There is still time to register and submit an abstract; the deadline is March 31, so hurry!

This year’s meeting was a great success and we are proud to announce the winner of the Dalton Transactions Poster Prize was John Clark from the University of Bath. His poster detailed research into new lithium battery technology working with Grahame Gardiner and M. Saiful Islam and was titled ‘Lithium Ion Transport and Defect Chemistry of Mixed-Metal Phosphate Materials for Lithium Battery Applications’. Well done John.

This was the 31st RSC solid state meeting, you can find out more about the group by visiting their webpage or joining them at MyRSC.

The RSC Solid State Group will be hosting its 31st Christmas meeting  on 19th – 20th December 2011 at the University of Liverpool.

For more information about the groups activities visit their webpage or find them on MyRSC.

Invited talks will be given by Prof. Paul Attfield (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Martin Dove (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr Andrew Goodwin (University of Oxford) and Dalton Transactions Associate Editor, Prof. Russell Morris (University of St. Andrews).

Abstracts are invited for both oral and poster presentations and the deadline for abstract submission is 11th November.  Further information can be found here:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/chemistry/conferences/ssg/index.html