IOCB Invited Lectures 2009

2 April 2009
Prof. Jürgen P. Rabe (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany):
Electronics with Single Nanographenes

30 April 2009
Prof. Marko Mihovilovic (TU Wien, Austria):
Biocatalytic Oxygenations in Bioactive Compound Synthesis

14 May 2009
Prof. Walter Thiel (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany):
Theoretical Studies of Enzymatic Reactions

20 and 22 May 2009
Prof. Peter J. Stang (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA):
Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination

29 May 2009
Prof. Kurt Wüthrich (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA):
Structural Biology and Structural Genomics Using NMR Spectroscopy

17 June 2009
Prof. Lanny S. Liebeskind (Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA):
Seeking Novel Reactivity and High Selectivity in Modern Organic Synthesis: Studies of the pH-Neutral, Cu-Catalyzed Formation of Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds and their Application to Biomedically Relevant Synthesis

19 June 2009
Prof. Carl H. Schiesser (University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia):
Exploiting Radical Chemistry Involving Chalcogens

22 June 2009
Prof. George M. Whitesides (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA):
Electron Transfer across Self-Assembled Monolayers (10 AM) & Why is it so hard (to design ligands to bind to proteins)? (2 PM)

8 September 2009
Prof. Edward I. Solomon (Stanford University, CA, USA):
Spectroscopic Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue to Green to Red Copper Sites

21 September 2009
Prof. John R. Miller (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA):
Charge Delocalization and Transport in Conjugated Molecules: "Molecular Wires" for Photovoltaics?

7 October 2009
Prof. Takuzo Aida (University of Tokyo, Japan):
Molecular Programming of Complex Nanoarchitectures for Advanced Functions

15 October 2009
Prof. Thomas E. Mallouk (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA):
Nanostructural Design of Photocatalysts and Photoelectrochemical Cells

3 November 2009
Prof. Henning Hopf (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany):
How Do Organic Functional Groups Interact and React? Learning from [m.n]Cyclophanes

25 November 2009
Prof. Christian Joachim (CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France & IMRE, Singapore):
A Single Molecule Machineries