INVITED SPEAKERS (As of March 2008)

Plenary Speakers:	Tentative Topics
Chi-Ming Che, Hong Kong	The unique phosphorescent square planar metal complexes from photocatalysis, materials science applications to medicines
Harry Gray, USA	Bioinorganic solar photochemistry
Achim Müller, Germany	Porous nanocapsules: Coordination chemistry at the surfaces, in the pores and the cavities
Giovanni Natile, Italy	Mechanistic insights in the cellular uptake and processing of cisplatin and related compounds
Lawrence Que, Jr., USA	The nonheme oxoiron(IV) reaction landscape
Ilme Schlichting, Germany	To be announced
Richard R.Schrock, USA	Catalytic reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia with protons and electrons
Sason Shaik, Israel	A tale of two states: From iron oxo diatomic to cytochrome p450 and other oxidation catalysts

Session Speakers:
Polly L. Arnold, UK	F-block carbene complexes and routes to functionalise the uranyl cation
Jesper Bendix, Denmark	The electronic structure of complexes featuring multiple bonded mono-atomic ligands
Steve Bergens, Canada	Mechanistic surprises from direct observations of intermediates in Noyori-type ketone hydrogenations
Manfred Bochmann, UK	Structure and reactivity of highly electrophilic organometallics
Carsten Bolm, Germany	Metal catalysis for C-C-bond formations
Penny Brothers, New Zealand	New developments in boron porphyrins and corroles: unusual chemistry for both boron and the ligands
Paul J. Chirik, USA	Iron alkylidene and imido chemistry
Christophe Copéret, France	Design and understanding of heterogeneous catalysts through a molecular approach
Kees Elsevier, The Netherlands	Palladium- and platinum-NHC complexes applied to catalysis
Pablo Espinet, Spain	PD coordination in catalytic processes: Works at the wormhole
Makoto Fujita, Japan	Self-assembled molecular spheres
Lutz Gade, Germany	New strategies in catalyst design based on modular stereodirecting ligands
Mark Gandelman, Israel	New families of bi- and tridentate click ligands for catalysis
Michael T. Green, USA	Understanding C-H bond activation in heme proteins: The role of thiolate ligation in cytochrome P450
Haruo Inoue, Japan	Photochemical oxygenation sensitized by ru-porphyrin through activation of water as both an electron and oxygen atom donor
Martin Kaupp, Germany	A quantum chemical view on coordination chemistry: From quantitative predictions to qualitative insight
F. Richard Keene, Australia	Metal complexes as structure-selective binding agents for nucleic acids
Rhett Kempe, Germany	Highly enantioselective catalysts with easy to make ligands
Lechoslaw Latos-Grazynski, Poland	Carbaporphyrinoids: exploring organometallic chemistry in a macrocyclic environment
James Mayer, USA	Uncovering the diversity of metal-mediated hydrogen atom transfer reactions
Karsten Meyer, Germany	Structure and reactivity of iron nitride complexes
Joel S. Miller, USA	New molecule-based magnets and reduction leading to oxidation - redox-induced electron transfer (RIET) reactions
Philip Mountford, UK	Neutral, cationic and zwitterionic scorpionate complexes of main group and transition metal compounds: Aspects of bonding, reactivity and polymerization catalysis
José J.G. Moura, Portugal	Molybdenum and tungsten enzymes: New insights for the catalytic mechanism
Mikio Nakamura, Japan	Unusual electronic structure in iron(III) porphyrinates and their oxidized products
Daniel G. Nocera, USA	A catalysis for solar storage in chemical fuels
Jun Okuda, Germany	Stereoselective polymerization catalysts based on bis(phenolato) metal complexes
Chris Orvig, Canada	Carbohydrate conjugates of metallic radionuclides for imaging and therapy
Claudio Pellecchia, Italy	New post-metallocene catalysts for olefin polymerization
Jonas C. Peters, USA	Small molecule transformations at low valent iron
Abraham Shanzer, Israel	Illuminating structural motifs in microbial iron transport
Edward Solomon, USA	O₂ reduction to H₂O by the multicopper oxidases
Edit Tshuva, Israel	Titanium complexes of dioxo ligands for biological applications: Structure, properties, and reactivity of new cytotoxic reagents
Milko E. van der Boom, Israel	Molecular-based mono- and multilayers: Sensors, communication and boolean logic
Sabine Van Doorslaer, Belgium	The power of pulsed EPR to study chiral homogeneous catalysts
Gerard Van Koten, The Netherlands	(Non)-covalent anchoring of organometallics to supports and enzymes for catalysis and sensoring
Arkadi Vigalok, Israel	Reductive elimination of carbon-halogen bonds
Thomas R. Ward, Switzerland	Artificial metalloenzymes based on the biotin avidin technology: enantioselective catalysis and beyond
Karl Wieghardt, Germany	Electronic structure of transition metal complexes containing 1,2 -diimine(1-) and 1,2-diketone(1-) radical ligands

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