Introduction

ISACS: Challenges in Inorganic Chemistry will bring together world-leading experts from several disciplines across the broad fields of inorganic chemistry and materials science. The diverse subject scope will provide a broad overview of some of the key challenges in these important fields, with many opportunities for networking. This meeting is part of a successful series of meetings in this area which included ISACS3 in Hong Kong, China (2010), ISACS8 in Toronto, Canada (2012) and ISACS13 in Dublin, Ireland (2014).

The Scientific Committee warmly invites you to take part and looks forward to welcoming you to Manchester.

Aims

The conference will provide an outstanding programme of lectures, complimented by extensive poster sessions forming a key part of the symposia. There will be questions after each talk and delegates will be exposed to new areas of research which will encourage the cross fertilization of ideas.

Themes

• Main Group Chemistry

• Metals in Biology and Medicine

• Organometallic Catalysis and Small-Molecule Activation

• Functional Inorganic Materials

• Spectroscopy and Magnetism of Coordination Compounds

Conference dinner

The conference dinner is on Wednesday 12 April at the National Football Museum, and can be booked during registration for a fee of £60

Useful links

• The National Football Museum Conference dinner venue

Downloads

• Promotional poster
• Promotional postcard
• Provisional Programme

Speakers

• Serena DeBeer Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany
• Odile Eisenstein Université Montpellier, France
• Stephen Faulkner University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Danna Freedman Northwestern University, United States
• Sundargopal Ghosh Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
• Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Michael Hill University of Bath, United Kingdom
• Patrick Holland Yale University, United States
• Cameron Jones Monash University, Australia
• Amy Prieto Colorado State University, United States
• Peter Roesky Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Eric Schelter University of Pennsylvania, United States
• Norihiro Tokitoh Kyoto University, Japan
• Ramaswamy Murugavel Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

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Abstract Submission

Oral Abstracts

Oral submission is now closed.

Poster Abstracts

Poster submission is now closed. Posters are displayed throughout the meeting with scheduled poster sessions on days 1 and 2. A Poster Prize will be awarded to the best poster presented at the conference.

Additional Information

Authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process within about 6 weeks of the submission deadline. The abstracts should be no longer than one A4 page in portrait layout. Please ensure you provide the details of the presenting author and indicate which type of presentation you are submitting your abstract for.

Deadlines

• Oct 24 2016
  Oral abstracts deadline

  
• Jan 30 2017
  Poster abstract deadline

  

Downloads

• Abstract template

Registration

Registration for ISACS: Challenges in Inorganic Chemistry is now closed.

Please read the registration information on this page before registering.
Register by clicking on the online registration link on this page.
Please note accommodation is NOT included in the registration fee. 

Registration includes:

• Attendance thought the conference and poster session
• Conference materials, such as abstract book etc.
• Refreshments throughout the meeting
• Lunch on all days
• For non-member registrants, membership of the Royal Society of Chemistry until the end of 2017

Registration Fees are as follows
 

	Early Bird (20 February 2017)	Standard (13 March 2017)
Member*	£300	£350
Non-member	£400	£450
Student member*	£175	£225
Student non-member	£200	£250

Registration fees are VAT exempt.
* If you are a Royal Society of Chemistry member and wish to register for this meeting, please select the member option on the online registration page. You will need to enter your membership number.

Conference dinner

The conference dinner is on Wednesday 12 April at the National Football Museum, and can be booked during registration for a fee of £60
 

Terms and Conditions for Events run by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Deadlines

• Feb 20 2017
  Early bird registration deadline

  
• Mar 13 2017
  Standard registration deadline

  

Useful links

• The National Football Museum Conference dinner venue

Bursaries

We have a limited number of non-competitive travel grants of up to £200 for PhD and early career scientists travelling within their home country. These are assigned on a first come, first served basis.
 
We also offer grants of up to £800 to assist with travel expenses to participate at this meeting. These are available to members who are PhD students, postdocs within 10 years of completing their PhD and early career scientists (including technicians) within 10 years of leaving full time education.
 
Please note that we recommend you submit your application a minimum of three months before you need a decision. We will be unable to consider any applications received within 8 weeks of the start of the conference.

Useful links

• More information on travel grants
• Apply online

Programme

• Monday 10th April
• Tuesday 11th April
• Wednesday 12th April
• Thursday 13th April

10.00	Registration
11.00	Welcome Session 1: Metals in Biology and Medicine
11.15	Plenary 1 Serena DeBeer ​​Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany
12.00	Metal-Organic Frameworks and Polymetallic Dendrimer Complexes: New Perspectives for Near-infrared Imaging Based on Lanthanides Stephane Petoud University of Geneva, Switzerland
12.20	The manganese cluster of photosynthetic water oxidation: from spectroscopy and magnetism to mechanistic principles Dimitrios Pantazis Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany
12.40	Lunch
13.40	Session 1 continued: Metals in Biology and Medicine Plenary 2 Thorri Gunnlaugsson Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
14.25	Bis-picolinamide ruthenium (III) dihalide complexes showing trans isomer to have high potency and cancer cell selectivity Rianne Lord University of Bradford, UK
14.45	Plenary 3 Patrick Holland Yale University, USA
15.30	Coordination of Zn(II) with human and murine Amyloid beta Valentina Borghesani Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination – CNRS, France
15.50	Flash Poster Session (by invitation only)
16.10	Coffee Break and Poster Session
17.25	Session 2: Main Group Chemistry Silicon/boron exchange routes to organoboron polymers Holger Helten RWTH Aachen University, Germany
17.45	Plenary 4 Main Group Chemistry Award 2016 Lecture Michael Hill       University of Bath, UK
18:30	Close

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09:00	Session 2 continued: Main Group Chemistry Plenary 5 Cameron Jones Monash University, Australia
09:45	Snapshots in the coordination and activation of E-H bonds (E = B, Al, Ga) at transition metal centres Simon Aldridge University of Oxford, UK
10.05	Homo vs heterometallic main group derivatives as catalysts in controlled polymerization processes Marta Elena Gonzalez Mosquera Universidad de Alcala, Spain
10.25	Coffee Break
11:05	Plenary 6 Norihiro Tokitoh Kyoto University, Japan
11:50	Alkaline earth complexes stabilised by secondary interactions: Design and catalytic activity in heterodehydrocoupling reactions Yann Sarazin Université de Rennes 1, France
12:10	Lunch
13:30	Session 3: Organometallic catalysis and Small-Molecule Activation Plenary 7 Peter Roesky    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
14:15	1,3-N,O-Chelated Complexes of Early and Late Transition Metals. Accessing Metal-Ligand Cooperativity in Element-Hydrogen Bond Activation Laurel Schafer University of British Columbia, Canada
14:35	Donor-Flexible Designer Ligands for Oxidation Catalysis Martin Albrecht University of Bern, Switzerland
14:55	Flash Poster Session (by invitation only)
15:15	Coffee Break and Poster Session
16:30	Intermediates and Mechanism in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Michael Neidig University of Rochester, USA
16:50	Plenary 8 Odile Eisenstein CNRS, France
17:35	Molecular Modelling of Organometallic Reactivity in the Solid-State Tobias Kraemer Heriot-Watt University, UK
17.55	Close of sessions Free evening

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09:00	​Session 3 continued: Organometallic catalysis and Small-Molecule Activation Plenary 9 Sylviane Sabo-Etienne   CNRS, France
09:45	Electronic structure analysis of transition metal dimers for dinitrogen photocleavage Vera Krewald University of Vienna, Austria
10:05	Coffee Break
10:35	Session 4: India-UK research and collaborations Plenary 10 SBU engineered ab initio synthesis of framework zinc phosphates  Ramaswamy Murugavel Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
11:20	Title TBC Vibhuti Patel Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
11:40	Two Photon Optical Imaging of Uranyl: From First Principles to Applications Louise Natrajan University of Manchester, UK
12:00	Plenary 11 Sundargopal Ghosh Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
12:45	Lunch
13:45	Session 4: Functional Inorganic Materials Plenary 12 Amy Prieto Colorado State University, USA
14:30	Coinage Metal Carbene Complexes for Highly Efficient Light-Emitting Diodes based on Intramolecular Rotation Alexander Romanov University of East Anglia, UK
14:50	Magnetic and Luminescent Properties Tuned by Guest Molecules in Lanthanide Metal-Organic Frameworks Wei Shi Nankai University, China
15:10	Tea
15:35	Molecular Diodes, Corrosion Inhibitors, and Water-splitting Catalysts Claudio Verani Wayne State University, USA
15:55	Functional Porous Inorganic Catalysts for Catalytic Biomass Upgrading Sihai Yang University of Manchester, UK
16:15	Plenary 13 Danna Freedman Northwestern University, USA
17:00	Close Conference dinner – Tickets to be purchased separately, numbers are limited.

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09:00	Session 5: Spectroscopy and Magnetism of Coordination Compounds Plenary 14 Stephen Faulkner          University of Oxford, UK
09:45	Tricoordinated Radical-Bridged Metal Complexes of Hexaazatrinaphthylene Jani O. Moilanen University of Jyväskylä, Finland
10:05	Luminescent Ytterbium-based Single Molecule Magnets Fabrice Pointillart University of Rennes 1 & CNRS, France
10:25	Coffee Break
11:00	ZnII/LnIII and GaIII/LnIII Metallacrowns as Visible and Near-Infrared Probes for Biological imaging Svetlana Eliseeva CNRS, Center for Molecular Biophysics, France
11:20	Computational Prediction of Paramagnetic NMR Spectra of f-element Complexes Helen Moylan University of Manchester, UK
11:40	Plenary 15 Eric Schelter University of Pennsylvania, USA
12:25	Closing Remarks and Lunch

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Sponsorship & supporting organisations

A selection of sponsorship opportunities is available for companies who would like to promote their activities at ISACS: Challenges in Inorganic Chemistry

As well as booking a table top exhibition space, there are opportunities to sponsor social events, advertise in the abstract book or place a promotional item in delegate packs. A sponsorship menu document is available to download from this page with more details and prices.

Please note that exhibition spaces are limited, spaces will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

If you would like more information about sponsoring ISACS: Challenges in Inorganic Chemistry , please contact the Commercial Sales Department at the Royal Society of Chemistry.
 

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Bronze sponsors

Advion

Metrohm

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Exhibitors

Merck

Strem

Sponsorship Menu

Venue

The University of Manchester

Renold Building, The University of Manchester, Altrincham Street, Manchester, M1 3BB, United Kingdom

Accommodation

The Portland Hotel Portland street, Manchester We have a rate of £85 B&B per night at the Portland Hotel, Ibis Styles. To book at this rate, please call the hotel on 0161 246 3460 and quote UNIVER090417 to make a reservation and arrange for payment. http://m.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-A0H5-ibis-styles-manchester-portland/index.shtml £85

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Committee

• Richard Layfield (Chair) The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• David Cole-Hamilton University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
• Serena Corr University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Nikolas Kaltsoyannis The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• Jim McCusker Michigan State University, United States
• Nils Metzler-Nolte Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
• Manfred Scheer University of Regensberg, Germany
• Laurel Schafer University of British Columbia, Canada
• Zuowei Xie The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

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Royal Society of Chemistry

Contact information

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Cambridge,
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UK
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Cambridge,
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UK
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