Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 2009

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

August 5th, 2:30: Professor Atsuhiro Osuka (Kyoto University); Exploration of Novel Porphyrinoids with Intriguing Electronic Properties
October 1st: Professor Kari Rissanen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Halogen Bonding and Metal Ion Coordination in Supramolecular Complexes
Monday, October 12th, 2:30 pm, Todd-Hamied Room: Professor Allen Rodgers (University of Cape Town); Physicochemical Approaches to the Study of Urolithiasis
October 15th: Professor Emma Raven (University of Leicester); The Many Faces of Heme in Biology
October 29th: Dr Melinda Duer (University of Cambridge); Probing the structure of organic-inorganic biocomposites
November 5th: Inorganic CPGS talks
November 12th: Professor Russell Morris (University of St Andrews); Metal-organic frameworks for chemistry and medicine - Can we design them?
November 19th: Dr Stephan Hofmann (University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering); The physical and chemical state of nanoparticulate catalysts during carbon nanotube and silicon nanowire CVD
December 10th: Professor Fiona Meldrum (University of Leeds); Designer Crystals: Bio-Inspired Approaches to Controlling Crystallisation

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 2009

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

April 21st, Tuesday: Professor Phil Gale (University of Southampton); New Anion Receptors and Transporters
April 23rd, 3:00 pm Pfizer Lecture Theatre: Professor Lutz Gade (University of Heidelberg); Construction Principles in the Development of New Molecular Catalysts
April 30th, Wolfson Lecture Theatre: Professor Fraser Armstrong (University of Oxford, Lewis Lecture); Rapid and efficient production and oxidation of hydrogen by air-sensitive metalloenzymes: electrochemistry, mechanisms, and implications for life and energy
May 7th: Professor Dimitri Coucouvanis (University of Michigan); Model Chemistry, theoretical calculations and recent advances in understanding the chemistry of nitrogenase
May 11th, Monday, 11:00 am, Pfizer Lecture Theatre, RSC Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship: Professor William J Evans (University of California Irvine); Organometallic f-Element Chemistry and the Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions
Wednesday June 17th, 10:00, Unilever Lecture Theatre: Dr Rob Duchateau (Eidhoven); Single-component catalysts: the key to fundamental understanding of catalytic behaviour
Wednesday June 17th, 10:40, Unilever Lecture Theatre: Dr Alex Steiner (Liverpool); Polyanions and polycations from cyclophosphazenes
Wednesday June 17th, 11:35, Unilever Lecture Theatre: Dr Carl Redshaw (UEA); Macrocyclic Chemistry: Catalysis and beyond
Wednesday June 17th, 12:15, Unilever Lecture Theatre: Dr Paul Wright (St Andrew's); Discovery and Design of Functional Nanoporous Solids
October 15th: Professor Emma Raven (University of Leicester); The Many Faces of Heme in Biology

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 2009

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

January 15th, 16.45, Wolfson Lecture Theatre: Professor Eric Anslyn (University of Texas); Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry
January 22nd: Professor Euan Brechin (University of Edinburgh); Single-Molecule Magnets and Magnetic Refrigerants
February 19th: Milko van der Boom (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Molecular-based Mono- and Multilayers: Sensors, Communication and Boolean Logic
February 26th: BP Symposium - 3rd Year PhD talks
March 11th Wednesday: Professor Rory Waterman (University of Vermont); Mechanistic Variety in Zirconium-Catalyzed Bond-Forming Reactions
March 12th: Zoe Pikramenou (University of Birmingham); Photoinduced processes in Cyclodextrin Nanowires and Lanthanide Nanoparticles
March 26th: Dr Lee Cronin (University of Glasgow); From Polyoxometalate-based building blocks to Functional Nanoclusters, Frameworks and Self-Fabricating Materials
April 2nd: Prof Geoff Cloke (University of Sussex); Uranium Sandwiches; Activating Small Molecules with Uranium Pentalene and Cyclooctatetraene Complexes
April 30th: Prof Fraser Armstrong (University of Oxford, Lewis Lecture); Rapid and efficient production and oxidation of hydrogen by air-sensitive metalloenzymes: electrochemistry, mechanisms, and implications for life and energy

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 2008

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

October 9th: Dr Dominic Wright (University of Cambridge); Isoelectronic relationships in main-group radicals and carbene analogues - how far can we go?
October 16th: No colloquium
Monday October 20th, 12.00, Pfizer Lecture Theatre: T. Don Tilley (University of California at Berkeley); New Bond Activations at Transition Metal Centers: Fundamental Studies and Applications to Catalysis
October 30th: Professor Yoshinori Kondo (Tohoku University); Selective Molecular Transformations Using Organic Superbases
November 6th: CPGS Talks
November 20th: Dr Polly Arnold (University of Edinburgh); Controlled redox and activation reactions in organometallic f-block complexes
December 11th: Gwenael Rapenne (University of Toulouse); Technomimetic Nanomachines: A wheelbarrow and a molecular motor

Inorganic Colloquia

September 8th, 3pm, Unilever Lecture Theatre: Professor Ben Miller (University of Rochester); Addressing the challenge of sequence-selective RNA recognition with Resin-Bound Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry

Easter Term 2008

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

April 24th rearranged from March 13th

Professor Diego Cazorla (University of Alicante)

Hydrogen Storage in Carbon Materials

May 1st

Professor Peter Sadler FRS (University of Warwick)

Coordination Chemistry for New Medicines

May 16th, Pfizer Lecture Theatre

Jeremy Sanders 60th Birthday Symposium

10:00, Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Jeremy Sanders 60th Symposium: Professor Christopher Hunter (University of Sheffield); Molecular Interactions in the Liquid State
10:45, Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Jeremy Sanders 60th Symposium: Professor Carol Robinson (University of Cambridge); From Nanodroplets to Networks
11:30, Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Jeremy Sanders 60th Symposium: Professor Harry Anderson (University of Oxford); Porphyrin Nanorings
13:45, Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Jeremy Sanders 60th Symposium: Professor Bill Jones (University of Cambridge); Introduction to the afternoon session
14:00, Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Jeremy Sanders 60th Symposium: Professor Jonathan Sessler (University of Texas at Austin); Pyrrole-based anion receptors
14:45, Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Jeremy Sanders 60th Symposium: Sophie Beeren and Ernie Au-Yeung (University of Cambridge); The Present and Future of the Sanders Research Group
15:25, Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Jeremy Sanders 60th Symposium: Professor Dudley Williams (University of Cambridge); Closing Remarks

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 2008

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

January 31st,: Prof. Dr. Ir. Jaap Schouten (Technical University of Eindhoven); Smart structured multiphase reactors for process intensification
February 4th, Joint with Organic Sector: Prof. Alberto Credi (University of Bologna); Photoinduced functions in multicomponent molecular systems
February 14th,: Prof. Thorfinnu Gunnlaugsson (Trinity College Dublin); Lanthanide based supramolecular structures: From sensing to self-assemblies
February 27th, 10.00 am - 4.30 pm: 3rd Yr PhD talks / BP Symposium
March 13th, CANCELLED: Professor Diego Cazorla (University of Alicante); Hydrogen storage in carbon materials

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 2007

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

October 11th, Wolfson Lecture Theatre at 2.15: Professor Tony Cheetham FRS (Goldsmiths' Professor in the Department of Materials Science, Cambridge); Trends and Properties in Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials
October 18th: Inorganic Chemistry CPGS lectures
November 8th: Inorganic Chemistry CPGS lectures
November 29th: Dr Jonathan Nitschke (Department of Chemistry, Cambridge); Systems and Structures, Self-assembled from Subcomponents

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 2007

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

April 26th: Dr Dana Eisler (University of Cambridge); Early Main Group Metalation: An Effective Synthetic Strategy for Accessing Terminal Chalcogenides
May 10th: Prof. Nick Long (Imperial College, London); Advances in Labelling for Positron Emission Tomography: From Fast Synthesis to Microfluidics
MONDAY May 28th, 2pm: Prof. Manfred Scheer (University of Regensburg, Germany); Substituent-free Polyphosphorus Ligand Complexes: From Unusual Bonding Modes to Spherical Nanoscaled Molecules
June 7th: Dr. Sanjay Singh (University of Cambridge); Title to be announced
MONDAY June 11 th, 5pm: Departmental colloquium - Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre; Prof. Sir J. Fraser Stoddart FRS (UCLA, USA); Molecular memories

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 2007

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

January 18th: Prof. Matthew Davidson (University of Bath); Robust, Benign and Stereoselective Catalysts for Ring-opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters
February 1st: Dr. Phil Dyer (University of Durham); Responsive Phosphorus-based Ligands
February 15th: Prof. Vladimir Dimitrov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences); Chiral Ferrocenes - Synthesis, Configuration and Application in Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
TUESDAY February 20th: Prof. John Arnold (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Early Transition Metal Complexes with New Supporting Ligands
March 1st: BP-Sponsored 3rd Year Ph.D. Presentations; Details to be announced
March 8th: BP-Sponsored 3rd Year Ph.D. Presentations; Details to be announced
March 15th, PFIZER LECTURE THEATRE - 2:30 pm: Prof. Malcolm H. Chisholm FRS (The Ohio State University, USA); New Generation Polymers. Polyesters and Polycarbonates from Renewable Resources and the Role of Metal Alkoxide Catalysts
March 26th, 11:00 am, Todd-Hamied Seminar Room: Dr Matthew D Jones (University of Bath); Group 4 metal phenolate complexes as initiators for the polymerisation of cyclic esters
April 16th, PFIZER LECTURE THEATRE - 2:00 pm, RSC Centenary Lecturer: Prof Ilya Moiseev (Russian Academy of Sciences); Oxidative Acetoxylations of Alkenes - Fifty Years On

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 2006

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

October 12th: Professor Manfred Scheer (University of Regensburg, Germany); Main-Group-Element Ligands in Oligomeric and Polymeric Environments
October 19th: 2nd year Ph.D. Presentations; Details to be announced
October 26th: Professor Steve Mann FRS (University of Bristol); Synthesis and Self Assembly of Organised Matter
November 9 th, Departmental colloquium: Wolfson Lecture Theatre: Professor Peter Chen (ETH, Zürich); Organometallic Chemistry by Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Application in the Mechanism of Olefin Metathesis and the Design of ROMP Catalysts
November 16th: 2nd year Ph.D. Presentations; Details to be announced
November 30th: Professor Richard Winpenny (University of Manchester); Studies of Magnetic Wheels

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 2006

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

April 27th: Prof. Jörg Sundermeyer (Philipps University, Marburg, Germany); Metal catalysed activation of oxygen and hydrogen peroxide in Green Technologies
May 11th, Joint Colloquium with the Melville Laboratory - 2pm, Pfizer Lecture Theatre: Prof. Ian Manners (University of Bristol); Functional Supramolecular Materials from Self-Assembling Metallopolymers
May 18th: Dr Claire Carmalt (University College, London); Molecular Design of Precursors for CVD of Electronic Materials
May 25th: Prof. Dieter Vogt (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands); Asymmetric Hydroformylation -- Concepts, Potential and Application
June 15th, Departmental Colloquium - 2pm, Wolfson Lecture Theatre: Prof. Mike Hall (Texas A and M University, U.S.A.); Modelling Metalloenzymes: NiFe and FeFe Hydrogenases

Lent Term 2006

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

January 19th: Dr Paul Kelly (University of Loughborough); From 4-Membered to 48; Utilising Group 15/16 Systems in Ring Formation
January 26th Wolfson Lecture Theatre, 2pm, Joint Colloquium with the Organic Sector: Prof. Manfred T. Reetz (Max Planck-Institute, Muelheim, Germany); New Combinatorial Methods in Selective Transition Metal Catalysis
February 2nd: Prof. Dermot O'Hare (University of Oxford); Studying Solid-State Reactions Using Time-Resolved Diffraction
February 9th: Prof. Henry Callot (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France); Unexpected Reactions of Porphyrins and Metalloporphyrins: From Ring Expansion to Ring Contraction
February 16th: Prof. Kieran Molloy (University of Bath); Precursors for the CVD of Metal Oxides and Sulphides: An Inorganic Chemistry Perspective
February 23rd: Dr Carl Redshaw (University of East Anglia); Metallocalixarenes: Synthesis, Structure and Catalysis
March 2nd: 3rd Year Ph.D. Presentations; Details to be announced
March 9th: 3rd Year Ph.D. Presentations; Details to be announced

Michaelmas Term 2005

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

October 6th: Dr Keith Dillon (University of Durham); Some Cyclic Triphosphenium Ions and Related Species
October 13th: CPGS Presentations; Details to be announced
October 20th: CPGS Presentations; Details to be announced
October 27th 2:15: Prof. Herbert Roesky (Universität Göttingen, Germany); Reactions and catalysis of aluminum(I) and aluminum(III) compounds
Monday November 7 th, 5pm, Wolfson Lecture Theatre (Joint colloquium with the Organic sector): Dr Ian Fairlamb (University of York); Exploiting halide and pseudohalide effects in Stille coupling
November 10th: Dr Grazia Francesconi (University of Hull); Chemistry of non-oxide materials
November 17th: Dr John Errington (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne); Polyoxometallates: opportunities for metal oxide engineering at the molecular level
November 24th: Dr Malcolm Halcrow (University of Leeds); Switching the spin states of iron(II) compounds using heat and light... or not

Inorganic Colloquia

September 9th, 10.30 am, Wolfson Lecture Theatre

Symposium in Honour of Professor Brian F.G. Johnson FRS FRSE

The Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge

10.30 Coffee and registration
Session 1: Chaired by Professor J. McCleverty (Bristol): 10.50 Welcome - Prof Jeremy Sanders (Cambridge); 11.00; Sir John Meurig Thomas (Royal Institution/UCL); Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts; 11.30; Prof John Evans (Southampton/Diamond); Shining Light on Catalysis; 12.00; Prof Paul Raithby (Bath); From Clusters to Metal Poly-ynes and Back
12.30 Lunch
Session 2: Chaired by Prof Robin Clark (UCL): 14.00; Prof Dario Braga (Bologna); Making Crystals by Reacting and Transforming Crystals; 14.30; Prof Lutz Gade (Heidelberg); Reflections on Threefold Symmetry in the Chemistry of Molecules: From Dynamic Clusters to C₃-Chiral Catalysts; 15.00; Prof Paul Dyson (Lausanne); Ionic Liquids for Catalysis and the Synthesis of Nanomaterials
15.30 Tea
Session 3: Chaired by Lord Lewis (Cambridge): 16.00; Dr Tetyana Khimyak (Cambridge); From clusters to nanoparticles and catalysts; 16.30; Dr Matthew Jones (Bath); Studies of Catalysts Anchored to Mesoporous Materials; 17.00; Prof Brian Johnson ()
17.30 Summing up - Lord Lewis
17.45 Group Photograph
18.00 Close

Easter Term 2005

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

Monday April 11th, 2.00 pm, Pfizer Lecture Theatre, RSC LUDWIG MOND LECTURE: Professor Philip Power (University of California Davis, USA); New Bond Orders in the Main Group and Transition Elements
April 28th: Professor Pierre Braunstein (Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France); From ligand controlled reactivity and catalysis to bimetallic molecular wires
May 5th: Professor Peter Tasker (University of Edinburgh, UK); Green extractive metallurgy - ligands which transport metal salts
May 12 th: No colloquium.; Instead CCDC symposium on May 9 th
May 19 th: No colloquium.; Instead the Melville Lecture to be delivered by Professor Vernon Gibson
May 26th: Professor Paul Beer (University of Oxford, UK); Sensing, templation and self-assembly by macrocyclic ligand systems
June 2nd: Dr Dominic Wright (University of Cambridge, UK); Synthesis and reactivity of main group phosphides; from cages to alloys
June 9th: Dr Julea Butt (University of East Anglia, UK); Resolving activities of redox enzymes in the time and potential domains
FRIDAY June 17th: Professor Achim Müller (Universität Bielefeld, Germany); THE LEWIS LECTURE; From Porous Capsules/Artificial Cells to Sphere Surface and Super-Supramolecular Chemistry: Perspectives for Nanotechnology

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 2005

All colloquia are on Thursdays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

January 20th: Professor Ingo Krossing (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne); Chemistry with weakly coordinating anions. Gas phase cations in the condensed phase?
January 27th: Professor Werner Uhl (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany); New insights into hydroalumination and hydrogallation reactions
February 3rd: Dr Jonathan Burley (University of Cambridge, UK); Intermolecular forces and crystal structures of complex molecular solids from laboratory X-ray powder diffraction
February 10th: Dr Antonio Alberola-Catalan (University of Cambridge, UK); Sulfur/nitrogen chemistry, a radical view
February 17th: Professor Evamarie Hey-Hawkins (Universität Leipzig, Germany); Phosphanylalkyl (or aryl) cyclopentadienyl ligands in transition metal chemistry
February 24th: Dr Jonathan Iggo (University of Liverpool, UK); Can we see it? Is it the catalyst?: mechanisms and insights from NMR studies of working homogeneous catalysts
March 3rd 2.00-4.00 p.m.: Year 3 graduate talks
March 10rd 2.00-4.00 p.m.: Year 3 graduate talks
Tuesday March 15th: Professor Paul Knochel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany); Synthesis and new reactivities of polyfunctional magnesium organometallics

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 2004

All colloquia are on Mondays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

October 4th, 2 - 4pm: CPGS talks; Jinqyuan Liu (JKMS); Kevin West (SO); Christopher Tate (AEHW); Becky Collis (JMR); Jean-Luc Wietor (JKMS)
October 11 th: No colloquium
October 18th, 2 - 4pm: CPGS talks; Diana Goncalves (JKMS); Richard Mole (PTW); Robin Orr (MJD); Nicky Farrer (BFGJ); Ruby Lam (JKMS)
October 25th: Professor Paul Pringle (University of Bristol, UK); Catalytic synergic effects with unsymmetrical diphosphines
November 1st: Dr Iain May (University of Manchester, UK); Uranium and beyond - chemistry with high specific activity radionuclides
November 8 th: No colloquium
November 15th: Dr Paul Barker (University of Cambridge, UK); Organising metalloporphyrins for devices
November 22 nd: No colloquium
November 29th: Professor Pierre Dixneuf (Université de Rennes 1, France); Ruthenium carbene intermediates in catalysis
Postponed to next term: Professor Paul Beer (University of Oxford, UK); Sensing, templation and self-assembly by macrocyclic ligand systems

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 2004

All colloquia are on Mondays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

All interested are welcome.

April 19th: Prof. John Corrigan (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Metal complexes containing trimethylsilylchalcogen centres: from coordination chemistry to nanoscience
April 26th: Prof. John Kennedy (University of Leeds, UK); Below and beyond the icosahedron-aspects of boron cluster chemistry
May 3 rd: Dr Paul Barker (University of Cambridge, UK); POSTPONED
May 10th: Prof. Dr Walter Bauer (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Modern NMR methods for structural analysis: case studies on organolithiums and others
May 17th: Prof. Robin Perutz (University of York, UK); Photoactive supramolecules: will electronics rescue the chemists? Two stories in supramolecular photochemistry
May 24th: Prof Carole Perry (Nottingham Trent University, UK); Materials chemistry with a biological twist
June 1st (2:00 pm, Unilever LT): Dr Randolf Köhn (University of Bath, UK); Triazacyclohexane complexes of chromium as catalysts for the polymerisation and trimerisation of olefins
June 7th: Prof. John Evans (University of Southampton, UK); Delving into platinum group catalysts by in situ spectroscopic methods
June 14th: Dr Janusz Lewiski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); New insights into the reaction of main group metal alkyls with dioxygen- fundamental and practical aspects
Friday June 25th, 5:00 - 6:00, BMS Lecture Theatre; THE 2004 LEWIS LECTURE: Prof. Stephen Lippard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Metalloneurochemistry: new fluorescent probes for zinc, mercury, and nitric oxide

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 2004

All colloquia are on Mondays at 2.00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

January 19th: Dr Robert Davies (Imperial College, UK); Some novel chalcogeno-phosphorus compounds and their coordination chemistry
January 26th: Professor Thomas Fehlner (University of Notre-Dame, USA); Molecular expression of quantum cellular automata: surface bound mixed-valence complexes as field switchable charge containers
February 2nd: Professor Bill Evans (University of California Irvine, USA); The importance of questioning scientific assumptions: some lessons from organometallic f-element chemistry
February 9th: Professor David Parker (University of Durham, UK) 2003/4 Tilden Lecture; Chiral lanthanide complexes: structure, dynamics and function
February 23 rd: No colloquium
March 1st: Dr Melinda Duer (University of Cambridge, UK); Structure determination in inhomogeneous and composite materials using solid-state NMR
March 8th 2.00-4.00 p.m.: Year 3 Graduate seminars
March 15th 2.00-4.00 p.m.: Year 3 Graduate seminars followed by buffet provided by BP
March 22nd: Professsor Guy Bertrand (University of California Riverside); Chemistry with and without main group elements: what a difference!
March 29th: Professor Eugenio Coronado (University of Valencia, Spain); Multifunctional molecular materials

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 2003

All colloquia are on Mondays at 2.00 pm in the Unilever Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Monday September 8th, 2 pm, Unilever LT: Professor William Kaska (University of California Santa Barbara); Novel Transition Metal Complexes of a Heteroaromatic Nitrogen Proton Sponge
Wednesday September 10th, 5 pm, Unilever LT: Dr Moniek Tromp (University of Utrecht, Netherlands); Development of (time-resolved) spectroscopic techniques: applications to homogeneous catalysis
Wednesday October 1st 3.00 p.m.: Professor Dr Reinhardt Schmutzler (Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Germany); Organophosphorus chemistry in the periphery of calixarenes and calixresorcinarenes
October 6th 2.00-4.00 p.m.: CPGS talks
October 13th 2.00-4.00 p.m.: CPGS talks
October 20th: Professor Peter Roesky (Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany); New amido metal complexes of the lanthanidesâ€¹synthesis, structure, catalysis
October 27th: Professor Paul O'Brien (University of Manchester); New routes to nanodimensional materials
November 3rd: Dr Jeremy Rawson (University of Cambridge); Designing molecular materials: light work inspired by some radical ideas
November 10th: Dr Andrew Houlton (University of Newcastle); Molecular chemistry at silicon surfaces
November 17th: Dr Chris Russell (University of Bristol); The manipulation of main group architectures
November 24th: Professor Mark Weller (University of Southampton); Beyond oxide chemistry - sulphide pigments, fluoride zeotypes and magnetic oxyhalides
December 1st: Dr. Martyn Coles (University of Sussex); Flexibility in the coordination chemistry of guanidine based ligands

Inorganic Colloquia

Research Period 2003

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 from 5 pm to 6 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Tuesday July 29th, 5pm Unilever LT: Miss Heather Kitto (Australian National University); Polytertiary phosphine helicates
Tuesday July 29th, 5pm Unilever LT: Miss Rebecca Warr (Australian National University); Inorganic asymmetric synthesis: stereoselective syntheses of two-bladed propeller octahedralmetal complexes
Thursday July 31st, 5pm Unilever LT: Professor S. Bruce Wild (Australian National University); Chiral phosphines and arsines; resolutions and asymmetric syntheses

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 2003

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 from 5 pm to 6 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

April 24th: Brian Heaton (University of Liverpool, UK); Catalytic mechanisms of important industrial reactions from in situ NMR studies.
May 1 st, Unilever LT, 4.00 p.m.: Professor Christopher Reed (University of California, Riverside, USA); The least coordinating anion, the strongest acid: strong but gentle.
Friday May 2nd, 3:00 pm: Jay Labinger (CalTech, USA); Selective alkane oxidation: hot and cold approaches to a hot problem.
May 8th: Dieter Fenske (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany); New nanosized clusters of Cu, Ag and Au with main group elements as ligands
Friday May 9th, Scott Polar LT, 2.15 p.m.: RSC Centenary Lecture; Gérard Jaouen (ENSCP, France); Bioorganometallic chemistry: the first organometallic anti-oestrogens.
May 15th: Gill Reid (University of Southampton, UK); Recent developments in selenoether and telluroether ligand chemistry.
May 22nd, Scott Polar LT, 4 p.m.: Professor Jennifer Green (University of Oxford, UK); Putting theory to good use in understanding transition metal chemistry.
Tuesday May 27th, Unilever LT,: Georg Suess-Fink (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland); Supramolecular cluster catalysis: facts and problems.
May 29th, Scott Polar LT, 4 p.m.: Greg Solan (University of Leicester, UK); Flexible NNN iron and cobalt complexes; active C2 oligomerisation catalysts?
June 5th, Scott Polar LT, 4 p.m.: Guy Bertrand (Université Paul Sabatier, France) CANCELLED; Chemistry with and without Main Group elements: what a difference.

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 2003

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 from 5 pm to 6 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

January 16th: CPGS talks at 4.00 pm
January 23rd: Göran Hilmersson (University of Göteborg, Sweden); Chiral lithium amides - NMR studies of structures and dynamics
January 30th: Nick Bampos (University of Cambridge, UK); Organometallic complexes with tripodal tetraphosphine ligands: their structure and C-H bond activation
February 6th: Philip Mountford (University of Oxford, UK); Activation and coupling reactions of unsaturated organic substrates using transition metal imido compounds
February 13th: Eric McInnes (University of Manchester, UK); Synthesis, spectroscopy and magnetic studies of polymetallic transition metal complexes
February 20th: Graham Hutchings (University of Cardiff, UK); Asymmetric heterogeneous catalysis
February 27th: Mike Ward (University of Bristol, UK); Self-assembly of supramolecular cage complexes
March 6th: Matthias Westerhausen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany); The organometallic chemistry of calcium, strontium and barium more than 100 years after Grignard: challenges and difficulties
Monday March 10th LT3: 3rd Year Graduate Seminars in LT3 at 4.00 pm (3rd Year Graduate Seminars are kindly supported by BP)
Tuesday March 11th LT2: 3rd Year Graduate Seminars in LT2 at 4.00 pm (3rd Year Graduate Seminars are kindly supported by BP)

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 2002

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 from 5 pm to 6 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Thursday October 10th 2.00-5.00 pm: CPGS talks ()
Tuesday October 15th LT2: Professor Pat Shapley (University of Illinois, USA); Heterometallic complexes as catalysts for selective oxidation reactions
Thursday October 17th: Professor Lutz Gade (Universite Louis Pasteur, France); Strategies in homogeneous catalysis: going from mononuclear complexes to macromolecular dendrimer catalysts
Thursday October 24th LT2: The Lewis Lecture Professor Malcolm Chisholm (Ohio State University, USA); Electronic coupling involving carboxylate links and MM quadruple bonds, where M = Mo and W. M₂ to ligand -conjugation
Thursday October 31st: Professor Lars Kloo (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); The synthesis of low-dimensional compounds: Coordination and anti-coordination chemistry at work
Tuesday November 5th LT2: Dr Mark Murrie (University of Bern, Switzerland); New synthetic routes to single-molecule magnets
Thursday November 21st: Professor Dr Manfred Scheer (Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany); Main Group elements as ligands - ways and perspectives
Thursday November 28th: Dr Phillip Bailey (University of Edinburgh, UK); Adventures in nitrogen donor stabilised organomagnesium chemistry
Thursday December 5th: Dr Keith Izod (University of Newcastle, UK); Phun with phosphorus - new chemistry with P/C-donor ligands

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 2002

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 from 5 pm to 6 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Thursday April 25th: Dr. Sophie Hermans; Mixed-metal clusters as precursors for nanoparticle heterogeneous catalysts
Thursday May 2nd: Professor Martin Schröder (University of Nottingham, UK); Co-ordination framework polymers: new topologies, porous materials and dynamic libraries
Thursday May 9th: Dr. John McGrady (University of York, UK); Metal-metal bonds: chemistry's flexible friends
Thursday May 16th: Professor Richard Winpenny (University of Manchester, UK); Serendipitous Assembly of Polymetallic Magnetic Clusters
Tuesday May 21st: Professor Vernon Gibson (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK); Designing catalysts for polymer synthesis (Chatt Lecture)
Thursday May 23rd: Professor Hans-Ulrich Güdel (University of Bern, Switzerland); Spin clusters and single molecule magnets: a fascinating research field between chemistry and physics
Monday May 27th 2.00 pm: Graduate student seminars
Thursday May 30th 2.00 pm: Graduate student seminars in LT2

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 2002

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 from 5 pm to 6 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

January 17 th: No Colloquium
January 24th: Dr Cameron Jones (University of Cardiff, UK); "The synthetic versatility of phosphavinyl Grignard reagents"
January 31st: Professor Vernon Gibson (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK); CANCELLED; "Designing catalysts for polymer synthesis" (Chatt Lecture)
February 7th: Professor Rolf Saalfrank (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany); "Supramolecular coordination chemistry: the synergistic effect of serendipity and rational design"
February 14th: Dr Anthony Woods (University of Cambridge, UK); "The organometallic chemistry of phosphorus"
February 21st: Professor Lars Kloo (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); CANCELLED; "On the stabilisation of inorganic clusters and polymers"
February 28th: Professor Matthew Davidson (University of Bath, UK); "Structural chemistry of reactive intermediates: from unique hydrogen bonds to the design of artificial sensors and asymmetric catalysts"
March 7th: Dr Alexander Steiner (University of Liverpool, UK); "The amazing chemistry of hexaprotic phosphazenes: from hexaanionic ligands to molecular crystallisation robots"
March 14th: Dr. A.E.H. Wheatley (University of Cambridge); "Structural insights into Group 1-Group 12/13 organometallic compounds"

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 2001

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 from 5 pm to 6 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

October 11th: Professor Roeland Nolte (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands); "Hierarchical Molecular Programming"
October 18th: CPGS Talks #1; A separate programme will be distributed for CPGS talks
October 25th: CPGS Talks #2; A separate programme will be distributed for CPGS talks
November 1st: Dr Kenny Henderson (Strathclyde University); "Are two heads better than one? The use of Mg-bisamides in synthesis"
November 8th: Professor Manfred Bochmann (University of East Anglia); "Solution and surface chemistry of metallocene polymerisation catalysts"
November 15th: Dr Ian Fallis (University of Cardiff); "Quick, medium and slow routes to multi-metal assemblies"
November 22nd: Dr Patrick McGowan (University of Leeds); "One armed bandits: studying the effects of functionalising classical ligands in coordination and organometallic chemistry."
November 29th: Dr Joost Reek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands); Title to be confirmed.
December 6th: Professor Lutz Gade (University of Strasbourg, France); "Asymmetric catalysis with transition metal complexes bearing novel C2 and C3 symmetrical polydentate N-donor ligands."

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 2001

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 at 5 pm, unless stated otherwise.

Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

25 January: Dr Jacqui Cole (University of Cambridge); Structure-Property Relationships in Non-Linear Optical Materials
15 February: Dr Mike Whittlesey (University of Bath); Organometallic Chemistry in Aqueous Solution
22 February: Dr Sarah Heath (University of York); Title to be announced
1 March: Prof. Rab Mulvey (University of Strathclyde); Inverse Crowns and Related Mixed-Metal Macrocyclic Amides of the s-Block
16 March Friday: Prof. Dan Reger (University of South Carolina); Tris(pyrazolyl)methane Ligands: New Cationic Complexes that Show Unique Iron(II) Spin Crossover Properties and Unusual Stereochemical Effects in Lead(II) Chemistry
23 March Friday: Prof. Joel Miller (University of Utah); Organic Magnets - New Materials for the New Millenium

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 2000

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 at 5 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Thursday 12 October: CPGS Talks (1)
Thursday 19 October: CPGS Talks (2)
Tuesday 24 October, 2pm in G19: Dr. Paolo Radaelli (Rutherford Appleton Lab); Phase Separation in Manganites probed by Neutron Scattering
Thursday 2 November: Prof. Jeremy Sanders (University of Cambridge); Multi-metal porphyrin arrays
Wednesday 8 November: RSC Meeting; C. N. R. Rao, J. P. Attfield, K. D. M. Harris and S. Mann
Thursday 16 November: Prof. Lee Brammer (University of Missouri St. Louis); Metals and hydrogen-bonds
Thursday 23 November: Dr Alex Hopkins (University of Cambridge); title to be announced
Thursday 30 November: Dr Paul Wood (University of Cambridge); title to be announced

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 2000

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 at 5 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Lord Lewis Lecture
Thursday May 4th, 2000, Lecture Theatre 2, 5 pm: Professor Arndt Simon (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Germany); Superconductivity and Chemistry
Friday 26th May, 4 pm, Room G19: Professor Gerard Ferey (Director of the Institut Lavoisier, Universite de Versailles); Microporous Solids: Analysis, Criticisms and Improvements
Friday 11th August, 2.30 pm: Professor Steve Wassall (IUPUI); Solid-state NMR determination of the conformation of membrane bound melittin

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 2000

All lectures will be held on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre 3 at 5 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Thursday 20th January: Dr. M. J. Duer (University of Cambridge); NMR Studies of Solid-Liquid-Crystal Phase Transitions
Thursday 27th January: Dr. E. A. Quadrelli (University of Cambridge); Synthesis, Stability and Reactivity of the Open-Shell High-Spin Species CpMo(OH)(PMe3)2
Thursday 3rd February: Dr. J. P. Attfield (University of Cambridge); Amazing Oxides: Ferromagnets, Superconductors and Ferromagnetic Superconductors
Thursday 10th February: Dr. J. S. McIndoe (University of Cambridge); Laser Synthesis of Supraclusters
Thursday 17th February: Dr. J. M. Rawson (University of Cambridge); Crystal Engineering: Some Radical Designs in Sulfur-Nitrogen Chemistry
Thursday 24th February: Dr. P. R. Raithby (University of Cambridge); Organometallic Polymers - An Illuminating Experience!
Thursday 2nd March: Dr. D. S. Wright (University of Cambridge); Structural Assemblies Derived from Main Group Cubanes
Thursday 9th March: Dr. M. J. Mays (University of Cambridge); Ligand Assembly at Dinuclear Metal Centres
Thursday 16th March: Seminar Postponed

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 1999

All lectures will be held in Lecture Theatre 3 at 2 pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Friday 15 October: CPGS Talks; A separate programme will be circulated
Thursday 21 October, 4 pm: Dr. Nik Kaltsoyannis (UCL); Adventures in f-element molecular electronic structure
Friday 29 October: Prof. Stephen Lincoln (Adelaide, Australia); Aspects of complexation and supramolecular chemistry
Friday 5 November: Prof. Juan Fernandez-Gonzales (Mexico); Stereochemistry of bis-bidentate Schiff-base copper(II) complexes
Friday 12 November: Prof. Dennis Tuck (Windsor ,Canada); Indium in its lower oxidation states
Friday 19 November: Prof. Bob Crabtree (Yale, USA); Proton hydride interactions in inorganic chemistry and their applications
Tuesday 23 November (Lecture Theatre 2): Dr Andrew Harrison (Edinburgh); Model magnetic glasses and fluids
Friday 3 December: Prof. Juerg Hulliger (Bern, Switzerland); Organic nanoporous materials: a supramolecular approach to polar and other properties.

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 1999

All lectures will be held in Lecture Theatre 2 at 4pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

Wednesday 23rd June, 3:30pm, Room 414: Dr Fernando J. Lahoz (University of Zaragoza); Beyond the Molecular Structure: An Introduction to Intermolecular Interactions and Supramolecular Synthesis in Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry
Thursday 24th June, 3:30pm, G19: Dr Fernando J. Lahoz (University of Zaragoza); Chirality in Metal Complexes

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 1999

All lectures will be held in Lecture Theatre 2 at 4pm, unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

27 January: Dr Nigel Young (Hull); Interaction of atomic and small molecular species with inert, perturbing and reactive proligands in cryogenic matrices.
28 January CPGS Talks (III): Marcus Jones (MG) Ligand Field Studies of Lanthanide Complexes; Peiyi Li (PRR) title to be announced; Jon Wright (JPA); Incommensurate magnetic order in transition metal oxo salts.
4 February: Prof. Dr Dietmar Stalke (University of Würzburg, Germany); Polyimide sulfur-anions:coordination and free radicals
8 February (Room 414 at 5 p.m): Prof. Dr Fabrizia Grepioni (University of Bologna, Italy); Strong and weak hydrogen bonds in organometallic crystal engineering
11 February: Dr Donald Fitzmaurice (University College, Dublin); Nanocrystal assembly in solution
18 February: Dr Mike Ward (Bristol); Understanding and controlling metal-metal interactions in polynuclear complexes:towards magnetic and optical materials
25 February: Dr Nik Kaltsoyannis (University College, London); Computational Adventures in d and f-element chemistry
4 March, 4pm RSC Hugo Müller Lecture: Prof. A.J. Thomson (UEA); Iron sensors, switches and stores in biological cells
11 March: Dr Nicholas Leadbeater (Cambridge); Organometallic photochemistry: an illuminating approach to synthetic chemistry
15 March Lecture (Theatre 3, beginning at 2 pm)

X-Ray crystallography: Not just a service
Structures from very small crystals;
Structures at very low temperature;
Structure solution from powder data;
Structures of room temperature liquids.
Provisional speakers are:
Prof. Bill Clegg (Newcastle),
Prof. Judith Howard (Durham),
Prof. William David and Dr Kenneth Shankland (Rutherford Labs),
Dr Simon Parsons (Edinburgh).
16 March (Venue and time to be confirmed) Joint Physical-Inorganic Seminar: Mathias Brust (Liverpool); Nanostructure Self-Assembly: Chemistry in the size domain between molecules and microchips.

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 1998

All lectures will be held in Lecture Theatre 2 at 2:15 , unless stated otherwise.
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

16 October: CPGS talks (a separate programme will be circulated).; Commences at 2:00 in Lecture Theatre 2
22 October: CPGS talks (a separate programme will be circulated).; Commences at 2:00 in Lecture Theatre 3
29 October: Dr. Colin Pulham (University of Edinburgh); Plumbing the depths of group 14 - the chemistry of some simple lead compounds
5 November: Prof. Noel McAuliffe (UMIST); Metal complexes from crude metal powders
12 November: Dr. Tony Hill (Imperial College); The hydrometallation of alkynes and phospha-alkynes
19 November: Prof Peter Edwards (Cardiff); Multidentate phosphorus ligands: Design and control of lability
26 November: Dr. Paul Walton (University of York); Synthetic models of carbonic anhydrase: The importance of non-covalent interactions
30 November: Dr Alfred Bader (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA); Departmental Christmas Lecture:; Credit Where Credit is Due: Kekulé, Couper And Anschütz.
4 December: BP Symposium

Inorganic Colloquia

Transition Metal Complexes in Chemistry

Symposium in honour of Professor Brian F. G. Johnson, FRS

to be held in the
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW

on
Saturday, 19th September, 1998

Provisional Programme

10.00 a.m.: COFFEE: in the main foyer
10.30 a.m.: Professor The Lord Lewis of Newnham; Welcome
10.35 a.m.: Professor J A McCleverty (University of Bristol); Metal Nitrosyls: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
11.20 a.m.: Dr P J Dyson (Imperial College); From Cyclophane Clusters to Chiral Ligands for Catalysis
11.50 a.m.: Professor D M P Mingos (Imperial College); Complexes of Orotic Acid - A Chemist's Structural Fantasy
12.35 p.m.: LUNCH
2.00 p.m.: Professor R. J. H. Clark (University College London); Inorganic Pigments: Spectroscopic and Historical Artefacts
2.45 p.m.: Dr P J Bailey (University of Edinburgh); C₃-Symmetric Ligands; A New Twist for Asymmetric Catalysts
3.15 p.m.: Professor D Braga (University of Bologna); Ribbons, Sheets, Honeycombs, Boxes and (Mobile) Polyhedra
3.45 p.m.: TEA: in the main foyer
4.15 p.m.: Professor P Braunstein (University of Strasbourg); Some Synergisms in Chemistry and ElsewhereÉ
4.45 p.m.: Professor F A Cotton (University of Texas A&M); Adding Two and Two to get Four in Different Ways
5.30 p.m.: Professor The Lord Lewis of Newnham; Closing Remarks

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 1998

Colloquia are held in Lecture Theatre 2 at 2.15 p.m unless indicated otherwise

23 April

Prof. Caridad Ruiz (Inst. de Ciencia de Materials de Madrid)

Open Framework Materials: How to Analyse Their Structures to Know Their Properties

29 April

RSC Joseph Chatt Lecture

Prof. James Collman (Stanford University)

Functional Analogues of the O₂ Binding/Activating Heme Proteins M_b and Cytochrome_c Oxidase

14 May

Prof. Joel Bernstein (Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel)

Disappearing and Reappearing Polymorphs

20 May 5 p.m

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lecture (Sponsored by Elsevier)

Prof. Lord Lewis

Some Consideration of Metal-Metal Interaction via Ligands

21 May 5 p.m

Lord Lewis Lecture

Prof. Albert Cotton (Texas A and M)

Chains of Metal Atoms - From Happy Couples to Problematic Menages a Trois

28 May

Prof. Margaret Harding (University of Sydney)

Metallosupramolecular Chemistry: Assembly and Recognition Properties of Binuclear Metallocycles

4 June

Prof. Tony Vlcek (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London)

A Journey Through Excited States of Re(I) and Ru(II) Carbonyl Diimine Complexes

18 June

Dr. Malcolm Halcrow (Cambridge University)

p-Stacks, Ground States, Helicates and Biomodels.

26 June

Aggregation

Main group clusters, transition metal clusters and polynuclear complexes of both main group and transition metals.

Prof. K. Wade (Durham University)

Prof. B. Johnson (Cambridge University)

Dr. A. Powell (University of East Anglia)

Dr. D. Wright (Cambridge University)

Dr J M Rawson

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 1998

Colloquia are held in Lecture Theatre 2 at 2.15 p.m unless indicated otherwise

Monday 26 January 5 p.m.: Professor Richard Jordan (Iowa); Cationic Transition Metal and Main Group Metal Alkyl Complexes in Olefin Polymerisation; (Joint with Organic Chemistry)
Tuesday 27 January 5 p.m.: Professor Michel Che (Pierre et Marie Curie Universite, Paris); Preparation of supported catalysts: At the cross-roads of chemistry
Thursday 12 February: Professor Todd Marder (University of Durham); Transition metal catalysed boronation reactions: A new approach to organoboron compounds containing 1,2,3 or 4 borons
Thursday 19 February: Dr. Zoe Pikramenou (University of Edinburgh); Supramolecular architecture: Not just pretty
Thursday 26 February: Dr. Robert Armstrong (St. Andrews); Nature Deceived: New cathodes for lithium batteries
Thursday 12 March CANCELLED: Professor Tony Vlcek (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London); A Journey through excited states of Re(I) and Ru(II) carbonyl diimine complexes
Thursday 19 March: Industrial Day

Dr J M Rawson

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 1997

Colloquia are held at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19 unless indicated otherwise

Monday 29 September

Professor James Haw (Texas A&M University)

NMR and Ab Initio Studies of Solid Acidity

Monday 6th October

Professor I. Rothwell (Purdue University)

A New Generation of Homogeneous Arene Hydrogenation Catalysts

Monday 13th October Lecture Theatre 2

C.P.G.S. Talks

2.00 p.m.: Scott Darling (JKMS); From Cyclic Porphyrin Oligomers to Branched Porphyrin Arrays
2.20 p.m.: Lesley Kerr (PRR); Systematic Structural Studies on Organometallic Complexes
2.40 p.m.: Judith McAllister (JPA); Synthesis and Properties of Mixed Transition Metal Oxides
3.00 p.m.: T E A
3.40 p.m.: Sonja Peasey (RS); Syntheses and Structures of Two LiPF6 Complexes via the Ammonium Salt Route
4.00 p.m.: Laura Scaccianoce (BFGJ); Carbocyclic Rings on Organometallic Systems: New Versatile Coordination Ligands
4.20 p.m.: Mark Hendy (RS); Lithiation of a Diazomethane

Wednesday 15th October Lecture Theatre 2

C.P.G.S. Talks

2.00 p.m.: Stuart Raynor (BFGJ); Novel Solid State Catalysts: The Heterogenisation of Homogeneous Systems
2.20 p.m.: Lorraine Dunbar (RS); Syntheses and Solid State Structures of Lithiated Alkyldiphenylphosphane Oxides
2.40 p.m.: Marek Klunduk (BFGJ); Derivatised Silsequioxanes as Model Catalysts
3.00 p.m.: Alex Hopkins (DSW); Heterometallic Alkali Metal/p-Block Metal Complexes
3.20 p.m.: T E A
4.00 p.m.: Julie Palmer (DSW); Towards New Metal-Based Ligands
4.20 p.m.: Mark Simpson (JKMS); Towards a Mild Exchange Process for the Synthesis of Molecular Hosts
4.40 p.m.: Nayan Solanki (MAH); Model Chemistry of Copper Amine Oxidase

Thursday 23rd October

Professor J. Pratt (Imperial College)

The Metal-Ligand Bond - a Fresh Look at

-Bonding, Hard/Soft Character and the Use of Outer s and p Orbitals

Friday 24th October

Professor L. H. Gade (University of Würzburg)

Thallium (I) Amides: Their Supramolecular Aggregation and Redox Degradation

Thursday 6th November

Dr. P. F. Kelly (University of Loughborough)

Chalcogen-Nitrides: A Blast From the Past

Thursday 13th November

Dr. P. Wood (University of East Anglia)

Synthesis of Infinite Lattice Coordination Compounds in Superheated Solvents

Thursday 20th November

Dr. M. Rosseinsky (University of Oxford)

Controlling Complexity - Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Novel Solids

Thursday 4th December CANCELLED

Dr. C. Pulham (University of Edinburgh)

Light Ligands on Massive Metals - The Chemistry of Some Simple Organoplumbanes

Friday 5th December, Room 414, 11am

Professor C J O'Connor (Director, Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans)

Nanophase Magnetic Materials: Syntheses and Properties

Dr J M Rawson

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 1997

Colloquia are held at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19 unless indicated otherwise

Tuesday 22nd April: Professor A. J. Lees (State University of New York at Binghamton); Photochemistry of Organometallic Complexes Facilitating C-H Bond Activation
Thursday 1st May: Professor J. H. Holloway (University of Leicester); Exceptional Fluorine; Recent Advances in Inorganic Fluorine Chemistry
Thursday 8th May: Dr. P. D. Beer (University of Oxford); Selective Recognition and Sensing of Cations and Anions by Novel Transition Metal Receptor Systems
Thursday 15th May: Professor K. D. M. Harris (University of Birmingham); Challenges in Understanding the Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Solids
Monday 19th May G 19, 2:30 pm: Dr S P Tunik (University of St. Petersburg); Multinuclear NMR Studies of the Solution Structures and Stereochemical Non-Rigidity of Substituted Rh6(CO)16 Derivatives
Tuesday 3rd June: Dr O J Curnow (Canterbury); Complexes Containing Tethered Multicyclopentadienyl-phosphine Ligands

Dr M A Halcrow

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 1997

Colloquia are held at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19 unless indicated otherwise

Wednesday 15th January
Room G19, 4.00 pm: Professor E. C. Constable (University of Basel); High Nuclearity Metallodendrimers
Thursday 16th January: Dr S. B. Duckett (University of York); The Detection of Transition Metal Dihydrides by Parahydrogen Induced Polarisation
Thursday 23th January: Dr R. Snaith (University of Cambridge); Lithiated Organic Molecules: Structures, Surprises, Failures and ÔCurly ArrowsÕ in Disneyland
Wednesday 29th January: Dr James Beattie (Sydney); 2:15: Electroacoustics of Colloidal Metal Suspensions; 4:00: Homogenous Catalysis using Nickel Carbonyl Clusters
Thursday 30th January: Professor G. Christou (Indiana U niversity); A Molecular Approach to Nanoscale Magnetic Materials: High-Spin Transition Metal Clusters and Single-Molecule Magnets
Thursday 6th February: Dr A. J. Bridgeman (University of Cambridge); Tales of the Unexpected: The Electronic Structure of MX2 Complexes
Thursday 13th February: Dr R. Whyman (University of Liverpool); Activation of CaF2 using Supercritical Fluids
Thursday 20th February: Dr I. P. Parkin (University College, London); Solid State Metathesis Routes to Inorganic Materials; Ferrites to Nitrides
Thursday 27th February: Dr P. J. Bailey (University of Edinburgh); The Search for New C3 Symmetric Nitrogen Donor Ligands
Tuesday 4th March: Professor D. Braga (University of Bologna); Hydrogen Bonding in Organometallic Crystals
Thursday 6th March: Professor J. Passmore (University of New Brunswick); The Homopolyatomic Cations of Sulfur and Some Beginnings in the Exploration of their Amazing Chemistry
Thursday 20th March: Professor Hansgeorg Schnöckel (University of Ka rlsruhe); From Diatomic Molecules to Clusters: Preparation, Structure and Reactivity of Subvalent Aluminium Compounds

Dr M A Halcrow

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 1996

Colloquia are held at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19 unless indicated otherwise

Thursday 26th September, 2.30 pm, Room 414: Professor L Thompson (Memorial University, Newfoundland); Unusual Magnetic Behaviour of Open Chain and Macrocyclic Dinuclear Copper(II) Complexes
Thursday 3rd October, 2.00 pm: C.P.G.S. Talks
Thursday 10th October, 2.00 pm: C.P.G.S. Talks
Monday 14th October, Room 414: Professor R. A. Walton (Purdue); Twists and Turns in the Chemistry of Dimetal Complexes: Unusual Cases of Structural Isomerism
Thursday 17th October: Professor V. C. Gibson (Imperial College); New Directions in Transition Metal Catalysis
Thursday 24th October, Lecture Theatre 2: Professor J. K. M. Sanders (Cambridge); Metal Ions and Molecular Recognition
Thursday 7th November: Dr A. J. Downs (Oxford); Chemistry in the Cold or at Low Pressures: Coping with Reactive, Fragile Hydrides of Main Group Metals
Thursday 14th November: Dr R. J. Errington (Newcastle); Construction and Modification of Molecular Metal Oxides
Wednesday 20th November: Professor S. Padhye (Poona); Artificial Photosynthesis
Thursday 28th November: Professor F. G. N. Cloke (Sussex); New Organometallic Chemistry of Scandium, Yttrium and the f-elements

Dr M A Halcrow

Inorganic Colloquia

Easter Term 1996

The Inorganic Chemistry Section will be holding a Seminar Day entitled:

INORGANIC MATERIALS

Lecture Theatre 3
Friday 10th May

All Welcome

11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m: Professor A.E. Underhill (University of Wales at Bangor); Unusual Properties of Metal Complexes of Sulfur-Donor Ligands
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Dr. P.R. Raithby (University of Cambridge); New Metal Acetylide Complexes with 'Exciting' Electronic Properties
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: LUNCH
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.: Professor D.W. Bruce (University of Exeter); Liquid-crystalline Metal Complexes
2:45 p.m. -3:30 p.m.: Professor P.G. Bruce (University of St. Andrews); Chemistry in a Materials World: Intercalation Compounds and Polymer-Salt Complexes
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: TEA
4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.: Dr. W. Zhou (University of Cambridge); The Charge Transfer Model for High Tc Superconductors
4:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Dr. S.J. Heyes (University of Oxford); Dynamic and Reactive - Surprises from NMR Studies of Molecular Crystals

Colloquia

Thursday 13th June, 2:15 pm, G19: Professor Martin Stillman (University of Western Ontario); Spectroscopic and Structural Aspects of Metal-Thiolate Cluster Formation in Metallothioneins - M7S20, M12S20 and M18S20 Structures (M = Cu, Ag, Cd, Hg)
Friday 19th July, G19, 2:15 pm: Dr S Sabo-Etienne (CNRS, Toulouse); Bis-Molecular Hydrogen Complexes - their Reactivity Towards Silanes and Alkenes, and Applications to Catalysis
Friday 26 July, G19, 2:15 pm: Joint Organic/Inorganic Colloquium; Professor Peter Stang (University of Utah); Supramolecular Chemistry and Molecular Design: Self-Assembly of Molecular Squares and Rectangles
Thursday 5 September, G19, 2:15 pm: Professor S F Lincoln (University of Adelai de); Aspects of Molecular Recognition in Metal Complexes
Friday 20 September, G19, 2:15 pm: Professor C L Raston (Monash University); Supramolecular Complexation of Fullerenes

Dr M A Halcrow

Inorganic Colloquia

Lent Term 1996

All talks are at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19, unless indicated otherwise.

Thursday 18th January: Professor A. J. Deeming (University College London); New Ways of Coordinating Aromatic Molecules to Two, Three, Four or more Metal Atoms in Clusters
Thursday 25th January: Professor S. K. Chapman (University of Edinburgh); Protein Mediated Electron Transfer: Lessons from Inorganic Chemistry
Monday 29th January: Professor F. A. Cotton (Texas A&M); Adventures in Zirconium Cluster Chemistry
Thursday 1st February: Professor T. M. Klapötke (University of Glasgow); Small Molecules Made up of Non-metals
Friday 2nd February: Professor H Grützmacher (ETH Zurich); From Heteroatom Stabilized Carbenium-Ions to Organometallics
Thursday 8th February: Dr. T. P. Kee (University of Leeds); Mapping the Stereochemical Course of the Asymmetric Phospho-Mukaiyama Process
Friday 9th February,

2.00 p.m.
Professor D. Braga (University of Bologna)
Intermolecular Interactions and Organometallic Crystal Engineering
3.30 p.m.
Dr. Fabrizia Grepioni (University of Bologna)
Fe3(CO)12: The Never Ending Story
Thursday 22nd February: Dr. G. Reid (University of Southampton); Recent Developments in Selenoether and Phosphine Macrocyclic Chemistry
Thursday 29th February: Professor P. A. Tasker (Zeneca Specialties, Blackley); Putting Co-ordination Chemistry to Work: Novel Metal Extraction Processes
Thursday 7th March: Professor J. H. Holloway (University of Leicester); Advances in Inorganic Fluorine Chemistry through Noble Gas Chemistry
Thursday 14th March: Dr. M. J. Mays (University of Cambridge); The Making and Breaking of Bonds in Dimetallic Complexes
Wednesday 20th March, 11am: Dr Sumit Bhaduri (Northwestern University, Illinois); Kinetic and Catalytic Studies on Platinum Carbonyl Clusters
Thursday 18th April: Dr Bruce Wild (Australian National University); Self-Assembly of Optically Active Poly-Tertiary Phosphine Metal Helicates

Inorganic Colloquia

Michaelmas Term 1995

All talks are at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19, unless indicated otherwise. All interested are welcome.

Monday 11 September: Professor Istvan Horvath (Exxon); Application of High Pressure NMR in Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis
Thursday 5 October: C.P.G.S. Talks
Monday 9 October: Dr Seth Marder (Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology); Rational Design of Non-Linear Optical Materials
Thursday 12 October: C.P.G.S. Talks
Thursday 19 October: Professor P. R. Sharp (University of Missouri-Columbia); Late Transition Metal Oxo and Imido Complexes: Syntheses, Structures and Reactivity
Thursday 26 October: Dr. R. E. P. Winpenny (The University of Edinburgh); Routes to Homo- and Heterometallic Nanoscale Magnetic Clusters
Thursday 2 November: Professor J. F. Nixon (University of Sussex); Phospha-alkynes - Versatile Building Blocks in Organometallic Chemistry
Friday 10 November To be held at 4 p.m.in Lecture Theatre 2
R.S.C. Tilden Lecture: Professor J. K. Burdett (University of Chicago); The Use of Electronic Structure Calculations in Solid State Chemistry
Thursday 16 November: Professor J. R. Dilworth (University of Essex); Fixation to Catalysis - New Uses for Old Ligands
Thursday 23 November: Dr. N. G. Connelly (University of Bristol); The Redox Activation of Alkyne and Related Ligands
Thursday 30 November: Professor V. C. Gibson (Imperial College London); Adventures in Metal Imido Chemistry

Inorganic Colloquia Easter Term 1995

All talks are at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19, unless indicated otherwise. All interested are welcome

Thursday 11th May: Professor R W Saalfran (University of Erlangen); Molecular Architectures via Self-Assembly: The Synthon Strategy as a Guide
Thursday 18th May: Professor G A Pearse (La Moyne College); Coordination Chemistry of Amidoximes
Monday 26th June, Lecture Theatre 3
Structural Methods in Inorganic Chemistry

11.30 a.m. - 12.15 p.m.
Dr. Oliver Howarth (University of Warwick)
"Solution-state NMR and Electrospray Mass Spectrometry Methods for Purely Inorganic Systems"

12.15 p.m. - 1.00 p.m.
Professor Robin Harris (University of Durham)
"High-resolution Solid-state NMR"

1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. LUNCH

2.00 p.m. - 2.45 p.m.
Dr. Frank Allen and Jason Cole (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre)
"Use of the Cambridge Structural Database"

2.45 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.
Professor Guy Orpen (University of Bristol)
"Structural Systematics: Towards Design of Metal-Phosphine Complexes"

3.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. TEA

4.00 p.m. - 4.45 p.m.
Dr Paul Attfield (University of Cambridge)
"Site Resolved Analysis from Powder Diffraction"

4.45 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.
Dr. Dietmar Stalke (University of Göttingen)
"Cryocrystal Structure Determination and Applications to Intermediates"

Inorganic Colloquia Lent Term 1995

All talks are at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19, unless indicated otherwise. All interested are welcome.

Thursday 26th January: Professor A. Mills (University of Swansea); Semi-conductor Photocatalysis for Cleaning Water
Thursday 2nd February: Professor M. L. H. Green (University of Oxford); Black Magic in Chemistry
Thursday 9th February: Professor M. Green (University of Bath); Alkynes as Building Blocks in Organotransition Metal Chemistry
Thursday 16th February: Professor B. F. G. Johnson (University of Edinburgh); Arene Metal Clusters
Thursday 2nd March: Dr. J. D. Smith (University of Sussex); New Organometallic Compounds of Alkali Metals
Thursday 9th March: Dr. M. A. Halcrow (University of Cambridge); Magnetostructural Correlations in Ni4X4[4+] Complexes ... Among Other Things
Thursday 16th March: Dr. G. Conole (University of North London); CANCELLED

Dr Dominic S. Wright

Inorganic Colloquia Michaelmas Term 1994

All talks are at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19, unless indicated otherwise. All interested are welcome.

Wednesday 21st September: Professor Y Fujiwara (Hiroshima University); Transition Metal Catalysis: Some Synthetic Reactions via C-H Bond Activation
Thursday 6th October: C.P.G.S. Talks
Thursday 13th October: Dr. A. Powell (University of East Anglia); Polymetal-oxo-clusters: From Rust to Crust and Beyond
Thursday 20th October: Dr. P. G. Pringle (University of Bristol); Making Phosphines Catalytically
Thursday 27th October: Professor C. A. McAuliffe (U.M.I.S.T.); Inorganic Grignard Reactions: Routes to Known Complexes, Isomers of Known Complexes, and Complexes of Transition Metals Thought to be Incapable of Existence
Thursday 3rd November: Professor J. Reedijk (Leiden University); Ligand-bridges, Coordination Compounds and Magnetic Properties
Thursday 17th November: Professor M. G. H. Wallbridge (University of Warwick); New Synthetic Routes to Metal Oxo Compounds
Thursday 24th November: Professor M. Schröder (University of Edinburgh); Redox Active Macrocyclic Complexes: Rings, Stacks and Liquid Crystals
Thursday 1st December: Dr. M. G. Davidson (University of Cambridge); Ylides and Phosphine Oxides as Donors and in Hydrogen Bonding

Dr Dominic S. Wright

Inorganic Colloquia Easter Term 1994

All talks are at 2.15 p.m. in Room G.19, unless indicated otherwise. All interested are welcome.

Thursday 21st April

Professor D. Astruc (University of Bordeaux)

An Organometallic Promenade Between

Electron Reservoirs and Molecular Trees

Monday 25th April 5 p.m. To be held in Lecture Theatre 2.

Professor H. Werner (University of WŸrzburg)

R.S.C. CENTENARY LECTURE

From Alkynes and Diynes to Metalla-allenes and

Higher Unsaturated Organometallic Systems

Wednesday 27th April 2.15 p.m.

Professor Le Blanc (UniversitŽ du Maine)

Crystal Growth, Optical and Magnetic Properties of

Rare Earth and 3d Transition Metal Fluorides

Wednesday 27th April 4 p.m.

Professor L. G. Hubert-Pfalzgraf (University of Nice)

Tuning the Properties of Homo- and Heterometallic

Oxide Precursors for Advanced Materials

Thursday 28th April

Professor R. N. Perutz (University of York)

Escapades with Arenes and Transition Metals:

Coordination and Activation

Tuesday 3rd May

Professor C. Theopold (University of Delaware)

Paramagnetic Chromium Alkyls - Synthesis and Reactivity

Thursday 5th May

Dr. P. Mountford (University of Nottingham)

Synthesis, Properties and Reactivity of Transition Metal p-Complexes

Friday 13th May To be held in Lecture Theatre 2.

Dr M. Gerloch (University of Cambridge)

The Maturity of Ligand-Field Theory

Thursday 19th May

Professor M. Hampden-Smith (University of New Mexico)

Selective and Aerosol-assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition

of Metals (Cu, Ag, Pd) and Metal Alloys (Pd/Ag, Pd/Cu, Cu/Ag)

Thursday 26th May

Professor A. J. Thomson (University of East Anglia)

Bacterioferritin - Iron Uptake and Storage

Dr Dominic S. Wright