Programme

The scientific programme will begin around midday on Monday 23 June 2008 and close around midday on Wednesday 25 June 2008. There will be a poster session on Monday evening and a conference dinner on Tuesday evening.

Details of how a Dalton Discussion works can be seen on the 'General Information' page.

The provisional scientific programme for Dalton Discussion 11 follows.

Session 1: Main group multiple bonds and unusual oxidation states

Synthesis and structural characterisation of Group 10 metal(II) gallyl complexes: analogies with platinum diboration catalysts?
Cameron Jones 
Monash University, Australia

Synthesis and properties of stable 2-metallanaphthalenes of heavier Group 14 elements
Yoshiyuki Mizuhata, Takahiro Sasamori, Noriyoshi Nagahora, Yasuaki Watanabe, Yukio Furukawa and Norihiro Tokitoh* 
Kyoto University, Japan

Synthesis and structure of two new (guanidinate)boron dichlorides and their attempted conversion to boron(I) derivatives
Alan H Cowley
University of Texas at Austin, USA

Diorgano dichalcogen cations
Th Drews, B Müller, H Poleschner, S Seidel and K Seppelt*
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

KEYNOTE
Formation, structure and bonding of metalloid Al and Ga clusters. A challenge for chemical efforts in nanosciences
Hansgeorg Schnöckel 
Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

Effects of ligands and spin-polarization on the preferred conformation of distannynes
Martin P Head-Gordon
University of California, Berkeley, USA

[Si(SiMe3)3]6Ge18M (M = Cu, Ag, Au): Metalloid cluster compounds as unusual building blocks for a supramolecular chemistry
Christian Schenk and Andreas Schnepf*
Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

Session 2: Main group macromolecules/rings/clusters

KEYNOTE
Polymeric materials based on main group elements: the recent development of ambient temperature and controlled routes to polyphosphazenes
Ian Manners 
University of Bristol, UK

Fluoride ion complexation by a B2/Hg heteronuclear tridentate Lewis Acid
François P Gabbai 
Texas A&M University, USA

Chemical functionality of poly(methylenephosphine): phosphine-borane adducts and methylphosphonium ionomers
Kevin J T Noonan and Derek P Gates*
University of British Columbia, Canada

When triflates fail to do the job
Chris Reed 
University of California, Riverside, USA

Session 3: Main group elements as ligands in organometallic chemistry and coordination complexes

KEYNOTE
The coordination chemistry of Group 15 element ligand complexes - a developing area
Manfred Scheer 
University of Regensburg, Germany

Six-coordinate tungsten(VI) tris-N-isopropylanilide complexes: products of terminal oxo and nitrido transformations effected by main group electrophiles
Christopher C Cummins 
MIT, USA

DFT survey of monoboron and diboron corroles: regio- and stereochemical preferences for a constrained, low-symmetry macrocycle
Amelia M Albrett, Jeanet Conradie, Abhik Ghosh and Penelope J Brothers*
University of Auckland, New Zealand

Insertion reactions of beta-diketiminate-stabilised calcium amides with 1,3-dialkylcarbodiimides
Mike Hill
University of Bath, UK

1,3-diborata-2,4-diphosphoniocyclobutane-1,3-diyls communicate through a para-phenyl linker
Amor Rodriguez, Gad Fuks, Jean-Baptiste Bourg, Didier Bourissou, Fook S Tham and Guy Bertrand*
University of California, Riverside, USA

Mechanistic variety in zirconium-catalyzed bond-forming reaction of arsines
Rory Waterman
University of Vermont, USA

Session 4: Main group materials

KEYNOTE
Chemistry and physics of silicon nanowire
Peidong Yang 
University of California, Berkeley, USA 

Ligand influence on the formation of P/Se semiconductor materials from metal-organic complexes
Paul O'Brien 
University of Manchester, UK

Tuning the electronic structure of diboradiferrocenes
Frieder Jäkle
Rutgers University-Newark, USA

Materials for hydrogen storage: structure and dynamics of borane ammonia complex
Vencislav Parvanov, Gregory Schenter, Nancy Hess, Luke Daemen, Monika Hartl, Ashley Stowe, Donald Camaioni and Tom Autrey*  
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

*Denotes presenting author to whom the affiliation applies