Program
Coordination chemistry combines the traditional areas of inorganic and organic chemistry and it is ever present in all aspects of the chemical, physical and biological sciences. Coordination chemistry provides the means, for example, by which plants, humans and other animals take up essential metallic elements from the environment. Industrialists now use coordination chemistry on a daily basis as an environmentally friendly way of extracting metals from their ores in hydrometallurgical extraction processes, and for purification and isolation of metals. The pharmaceutical industry uses coordination chemistry in various medications, and in procedures such as MRI scanning and radioimaging. Under development are new coordination compounds capable of trapping and storing gases such as hydrogen and methane and, with the aid of the sun, facilitating the conversion of water into hydrogen and oxygen or sunlight directly into electrical energy.
Conference themes:
• Materials chemistry, including materials for gas storage
• Metals in synthesis, including metal extraction
• Solar energy conversion
• Metals in catalysis
• Supramolecular chemistry
• Metals in biological systems
Confirmed plenary lecturers include
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• Prof. Daniel Nocera, MIT, USA
• Prof. David Parker, University of Durham, UK
• Prof. Ken Raymond, University of California, USA
• Prof. Nils Metzler-Nolte, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
• Prof. Polly Arnold, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Prof. Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan
• Prof. Vivian Yam, University of Hong Kong, P. R. China
• the 2010 Burrows Awardee (to be awarded), Australia or New Zealand
Confirmed keynote lecturers include
• Prof. Annie Powell, Universität Karlsruhe, GER
• Dr. Jason Davis, University of Oxford, UK
• Prof. Mark Humphrey, Australian National University, AUS
• Prof. Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo, JAP
• Prof. Mir Wais Hosseini, University of Strasbourg, FRA
• Prof. Peter Steel, University of Canterbury, NZ
• Prof. Chris Orvig, University of British Columbia, CAN
• Prof. Richard Eisenberg, University of Rochester, USA
• Prof. Cameron Kepert, University of Sydney, AUS
• Prof. Richard Keene, James Cook University, AUS
• Prof. Peter Comba, Universität Heidelberg, GER
• Dr Paul Donnelly, University of Melbourne, AUS
• Prof. Klaus Koch, Stellenbosch University, SA
• Prof. Jose Antonio Real Cabezos, University of València, ESP
• Dr. Mark Gandelman, Israel Institute of Technology, IS
Overview
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Overview of key activities |
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Sunday 25 July 2010
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Welcome reception
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Monday 26 July 2010
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Exhibition opens
Conference sessions
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Tuesday 27 July 2010
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Exhibition
Conference sessions
Poster session
Pre-planning dinner
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Wednesday 28 July 2010
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Exhibition
Conference sessions (half day)
Free afternoon
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Thursday 29 July 2010
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Exhibition
Conference sessions
Poster session
Conference dinner
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Friday 30 July 2010
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Conference sessions (half day)
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* The organisers reserve the right to change the program prior to the event without notice.