Dalton Transactions is delighted to be sponsoring the 2011 Inorganic Conference of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry in Perth in December.
The meeting promises to be a great event, with plenary speakers such as Neil Champness, Munetaka Akita and Luisa De Cola. Find out more about who else is speaking: http://www.ic11.org.au/node/13
Early bird registration has been extended to 1st October 2011, so there is still time to sign up!
If you’d like to find out about the recent 5th EuCheMS Conference on Nitrogen Ligands in Granada then take a look at the blog posts of Denise Parent, Managing Editor of NJC:
Denise Parent’s ‘Editors Picks’ of the meeting include work by Joost Reek, Sandeep Verma, Roland Sigel and Hideki Masuda, find out more by reading some of their recent publications:
Pincer ligands with an all-phosphorus donor set: subtle differences between rhodium and palladium
Richard C. Bauer, Yann Gloaguen, Martin Lutz, Joost N. H. Reek, Bas de Bruin and Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 8822-8829
Carbene insertion into transition metal–carbon bonds: a new tool for catalytic C–C bond formation
Nicole M. G. Franssen, Annemarie J. C. Walters, Joost N. H. Reek and Bas de Bruin
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 153-165, Perspective
Photophyical properties of ligand localized excited state in ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes: a combined effect of electron donor–acceptor ligand
Sandeep Verma, Prasenjit Kar, Amitava Das and Hirendra Nath Ghosh
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10266D
Dalton Discussions 13 will be held at the University of Sheffield in September next year. The meeting focuses on Inorganic Photophysics and Photochemistry – Fundamentals and Applications.
The aim of the meeting is to bring together people from a wide range of disciplines – from theory and ultrafast spectroscopy to medicinal chemistry and biology – but all with a shared interest in the use of light.
Dalton Discussions are an excellent forum for scientists to present and discuss their work, allowing an invaluable exchange of views and ideas. Researchers submit their abstracts to the Scientific Committee, then selected authors are chosen to present their work at the meeting. Prior to the meeting the authors submit their work as an article, which is then peer reviewed and circulated amongst the participants. At the meeting itself the author has 5 minutes to summarise their article and then the floor is opened to questions and debate – the real focus of Dalton Discussions.
The call for papers is now open, submit your oral abstract now to be part of Dalton Discussions 13.
Key note speakers:
Professor Majed Chergui, Switzerland
Professor Luisa de Cola, Germany
Professor Richard Eisenberg, USA
Professor Peter Ford, USA
The key themes of the meeting have been identified as solar energy, energy and electron transfer, applications of strongly emissive complexes and bond breaking and isomerisation.
Deadlines:
Oral abstract deadline 9 October 2011
Poster abstract deadline 6 July 2012
Early bird registration deadline 6 July 2012
Standard registration deadline 3 August 2012
Visit the DD13 website for more information.
This week I attended the 15th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC), organised under the auspices of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry.
This was my fourth ICBIC, and as I have been before at previous meetings, I was very impressed with both the quality of the science presented, and the breadth of science covered. There were too many session headings to list here (the full programme can be found on the conference website), but to give an idea of the breadth of biological inorganic chemistry presented, the different sessions covered therapeutics (treatments for malaria, cancer and Alzheimer’s); enzymes (nitrogenase, oxygenase, peroxidase); trafficking (Cu, Ni, Fe); imaging; sensing; bioorganometallic chemistry; and metallomics – with all this great chemistry to cover, the conference spanned 6 days. Sadly, I was only able to attend the first half of the conference.
I knew to expect a warm welcome for delegates at this conference: the biological inorganic chemistry community is very friendly and welcoming. However, we were also blessed to be welcomed by perfect weather in the beautiful city of Vancouver. We could not have wished for a better location for the meeting – I had heard some very good things about Vancouver, but the reality surpassed the imagination!
With about 700 delegates, ICBIC15 was busy enough to have a buzz about it, but not too busy to feel anonymous (and to ensure everyone could have one of the great cakes served during the morning coffee break – I noticed that I am not the only one with a weakness for cinnamon buns).
The organisers had made a conscious decision to open up the presentations, by having a larger number of contributed talks than there has been in recent ICBICs. This seemed to have worked very well, as it helped to encourage a good number of talks by early career members of the community. While it is always a pleasure to listen to more established chemists, there is something particularly special about hearing from those who are just starting to build their scientific presence and reputation.
The first ICBIC was held 35 years ago, and to celebrate, a number of Jade Anniversary lectures were given by Harry Gray, Ed Solomon, Ken Raymond, Jan Reedijk and David Garner, to name but a few. The Jade speakers had the significant challenge of covering 35 years of chemistry in 20-30 minutes, but they were all up to the challenge!
The organising committee, in particular Chris Orvig, are to be congratulated for selecting an exciting programme of scientific talks and social events for us all to enjoy, and Sheri and Alison for ensuring all worked well behind the scenes for the week. Everything ran smoothly and seemingly effortlessly, a sure sign of excellent organisation.
You know when you have attended a good conference when you feel reluctant to leave and say goodbye, to the friends who you saw again and to those you met for the first time. 2013 seems too long to wait for the next ICBIC… ICBIC16 will be held 14-19 July 2013 in Grenoble, France.
Where you also at ICBIC15? What was your favourite part of the meeting? Tell us about your own ICBIC experience by posting a comment below…..
AGICHEM 2011 (Anglo-German Inorganic Chemistry): 8th International Conference on Inorganic Chemistry will take place on the 21-23 September 2011 in Heidelberg, Germany.
This is the latest in a series of meetings jointly organized by the GDCh’s and RSC’s inorganic divisions and brings together a great cross section of inorganic themes, presented by leading researchers in their areas.
Now open for registration. For more information see the website.
I am delighted to report that Caroline Knapp was the winner of the Dalton Transactions Poster Prize for the second time at the recent Coordination Chemistry Discussion Group (CCDG) meeting! The annual meeting of the CCDG was held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK from the 7-8 July 2011. Caroline is a member of Jose Goicoechea’s group at the University of Oxford. Congratulations Caroline!
Find out more about Caroline’s research on Zintl ions in her recent Dalton Transactions articles :
A versatile salt-metathesis route to heteroatomic clusters derived from phosphorus and arsenic Zintl anions
Caroline M. Knapp, Joseph S. Large, Nicholas H. Rees and Jose M. Goicoechea
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 735-745
Reactivity studies of group 15 Zintl ions towards homoleptic post-transition metal organometallics: a ‘bottom-up’ approach to bimetallic molecular clusters
Caroline Knapp, Binbin Zhou, Mark S. Denning, Nicholas H. Rees and Jose M. Goicoechea
Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 426-436
The meeting itself was a great success featuring a wide spread in coordination chemistry from actinides to artificial photosynthesis and magnetism to MOFs. The meeting saw excellent talks by keynote speakers, such as Polly Arnold (Edinburgh) and Jean-Francois Carpentier (Rennes), in addition to some great postgraduate presentations. I particularly enjoyed the great conference dinner ‘by the pitch’ at Delia Smith’s restaurant in Norwich City Football Club! Thanks to all those at UEA who organised this year’s exciting CCDG meeting.
If you attended the meeting yourself, do let us know how you got on by posting a comment below….. What talk did you find most interesting? Did you enjoy eating in the stadium?
I am delighted to announce that Christian Färber from Germany was the winner of the Dalton Transactions Poster Prize at the recent EuCOMC meeting in beautiful Toulouse. Christian is based at the University of Kassel in Germany in the group of Ulrich Siemeling.
The title of Christian’s winning poster was: Zwitterionic Nitron as an Instant N-Heterocyclic Carbene
Why not find out more about Christian’s research by reading the papers below?
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N-heterocyclic carbenes which readily add ammonia, carbon monoxide and other small molecules
Ulrich Siemeling, Christian Färber, Clemens Bruhn, Michael Leibold, Detlef Selent, Wolfgang Baumann, Moritz von Hopffgarten, Catharina Goedecke and Gernot Frenking
Chem. Sci., 2010, 1, 697-704 DOI: 10.1039/C0SC00451K, Edge Article
A stable crystalline N-heterocyclic carbene with a 1,1′-ferrocenediyl backbone
Ulrich Siemeling, Christian Färber and Clemens Bruhn
Chem. Commun., 2009, 98-100 DOI: 10.1039/B813809E, Communication
Where you also at the EuCOMC meeting in Toulouse this year? Tell us how you got on by leaving a comment below!
The 8th International School of Organometallic Chemistry is taking place in Camerino, Italy in August.
The school is run under the aegis of EuCheMS and the Italian Chemical Society, and this year it will focus on ‘organometallics as a fundamental tool for the discovery of new applications’.
Speakers include Thomas R. Ward, Eric Clot, Michael P. Coogan and Licheng Sun. Visit the ISOC website for more information…
ISOC 8th International School of Organometallic Chemistry
Camerino, Italy
27 – 31 August 2011
The abstract deadline for the Dalton Transactions Younger Researchers Symposium is TODAY (Friday 22nd July). If you want to present a poster prize, or be considered for the oral presentation you need to register by the end of the day.
The symposium in a great opportunity to meet postgraduates and postdocs working in inorganic and organometallic chemistry, and registration is FREE of charge (accommodation and the conference dinner cost comes to just £67).
Registration for delegates who do not wish to present their work will remain open until 19th August.
How to submit an abstract:
Visit the website and register now!
Dalton Transactions is sponsoring poster prizes at the Chinese Chemical Society’s inorganic chemistry conference in Haerbin, Heilongjiang Province, next week.
Speakers include Lee Cronin, Rong Cao, Robin D. Rogers and Mitsuhiko Shionoya.
More information can be found at the conference website, or by visiting the Chinese Chemical Society’s website.
