Synthesis & Mechanism

Theme co-ordinator: Guy Lloyd-Jones, University of Bristol, UK

Applications of Functional Metal Complexes and Ligand Design

Convener: Paul Walton (York, UK); Keynote Speakers: Lisa Berreau (Utah, USA), Paul Chirik (Cornell, USA), Jon Dilworth (Oxford, UK), Richard Douthwaite (York, UK)

Main Group Chemistry

Convener: Claire Carmalt (UCL, UK); Keynote Speakers: Robert Mulvey (Strathclyde, UK), Francois Gabbai (Texas, USA), Herbert Roesky (Georg-August, Germany), Akira Sekiguchi (Tsukuba, Japan)

Impact of New Physical and Computational Methods

Conveners: Stuart Macgregor (Heriot-Watt, UK), Ian Fallis (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speakers: Peter Chen (Zürich, Switzerland), Odile Eisenstein (Montpellier, France), Sason Shaik (Jerusalem, Israel) and Edward Solomon (Stanford, USA)

Mechanisms in Chemistry

Conveners: Mike George (Nottingham, UK), Niek Buurma (Cardiff, UK); Keynote Speakers: Barry Carpenter (Cardiff, UK), Jonas Peters (Massachusetts, USA), Tito Scaiano (Ottawa, Canada) and Rudi van Eldik (Nurnberg, Germany)

Molecular Control of Degradable Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Convener: Matthew Davidson (Bath, UK); Keynote Speakers: Malcolm Chisholm (Ohio, USA), Steve Howdle (Nottingham, UK), Robert Waymouth (Stanford, USA)

Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids

Convener: Derek Fray (Cambridge, UK); Keynote Speakers: Frank Endres (Clausthal, Germany), Hongmin Zhu (Beijing, China), Tom Welton (London, UK), Vladimir Volkovich (Ekaterinburg, Russia)