2010 Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry in Ireland
Provisional Programme
Friday 17th September 2010
School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Queen's University Belfast
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Registration and coffee in the Chemistry Foyer |
| Session 1 | Chair: Stuart James |
| 11.00 - 11.50 | Martin Albrecht (University College Dublin) Challenging the norm: Catalytic opportunities from abnormal carbene bonding |
| 11.00 - 12.10 |
Peter Nockemann (Queen’s University Belfast) |
| 12.10 - 12.30 | Leigh Jones (National University of Ireland, Galway) A family of Double-Bowl Metallocalix[6]arenes |
| 12.30 - 12.45 | Poster short presentations |
| Lunch | |
| 12.45 - 13.45 | Posters and Sandwiches in LG.201 |
| Session 2 | Chair: Grace Morgan |
| 13.50 - 14.20 | Patrick C. McGowan (University of Leeds) Functionalised Organometallic Molecules as Potential Anticancer Drugs |
| 14.20 - 14.40 | Celine J. Marmion (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) Exploiting Chromatin as a New Molecular Target for the Development of Novel Metallochemotherapeutics |
| 14.40 - 15.00 | Andrew Kellett (Dublin Institute of Technology) Bis-Phenanthroline Copper(II) Complexes of Aromatic and Aliphatic Dicarboxylates are Potent In Vitro Antitumour Agents with ‘Self-Activating’ Metallo-Nuclease & DNA Binding Properties |
| 15.00 - 15.20 | John McGinley (National University of Ireland Maynooth) Tetrazoles in Macrocyclic and Macromolecular Systems |
| Afternoon Tea | |
| 15.20 - 15.50 | Poster and afternoon tea in LG.201 |
| Session 3 | Chair: TBC |
| 15.50 - 16.20 | Prof. Sylvia Draper (Trinity College Dublin) When Chemistry Stacks-Up: A Bottom-up Approach to Graphene Fragments |
| 16.20 - 17.30 | Robin Perutz (University of York) The Detection and Roles of Sigma Bond Complexes of Transition Metals |
| Drinks Reception and Posters | |
| 17.30 - 18.30 | Poster and Reception in LG.201 |
