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Monday 4th September 2023
Venue: Colegio de San Ildefonso (Rectorate of the University of Alcalá)
| 15:00 | Registration | 
| 17:00 | Opening Reception | 
| 17:30 
 | PL1: Transuranic Organometallics Polly L. Arnold | 
| 18:30 
 | YPL1: Deciphering Mechanisms to Design Better Catalytic Reactions Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano | 
| 19:00 | Welcome Reception | 
Tuesday 5th September 2023
Venue: School of Engineering (Escuela Politécnica Superior)
| 09:00 
 
 | PL2: NMR Chemical Shifts Beyond Numbers: From Understanding Electronic Structures to Reactivity Descriptor Christophe Copéret | ||||
| 10:00 
 | YPL2: Mechanistic Insight into Iron(salen) Catalysed Reactions Ruth L. Webster | ||||
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 
 
 | KN1: Selective Construction Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds Mediated by Cp*Ir(III) Complexes Belén Martín-Matute | 
 | KN3: Site and Enantioselective Oxidation of Strong C-H Bonds with Bioinspired Catalysts Miquel Costas | ||
| 11:30 
 | KN2: Catalytic Cyclotrimerization Route to [n]Helical Indenofluorenes and Transformations Thereof Martin Kotora | 
 | KN4: Synthetic Applications of Metalloradical Catalysis Bas de Bruin | ||
| 12:00 | OC1: Synthesis of a 21-electron cobaltocene derivative Satoshi Takebayashi  | 
 | OC5: Bis-phosphine Ni(0) Complexes and Catalytic Applications in Alkyne Cycloaddition Reactions M. Carmen Nicasio | ||
| 12:15 | OC2: Isolation of Radical Anions via 3d-Metal Complexation or Cation Encapsulation C. Gunnar Werncke 
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 | OC6: The Trifluoromethyl Silver(III) Moiety as a Platform for Highly Unusual Organometallic Compounds Miguel Baya 
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| 12:30 | OC3: Towards Catalyst Design and Databases for Molecular OER Catalysis Max García-Melchor 
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 | OC7: Iridium complexes based on aminophosphano ligands: synthesis and application in catalysis Vincenzo Passarelli 
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| 12:45 | OC4: Problematic ArF-Alkynyl Stille Coupling: From Partial Success to Efficient Solutions, via Mechanistic Understanding of the Hidden Complexity Jesús M. Martínez-Ilarduya 
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 | OC8: Encapsulation and Reactivity Inside Metallocages Gregori Ujaque 
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| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:30 
 | PL3: A New Reactivity Paradigm: trans-Hydrogenation, gem-Hydrogenation, and trans-Hydrometalation of Alkynes Alois Fürstner | ||||
| 15:30 | YPL3: Tales on Bismuth Redox Catalysis Josep Cornella | ||||
| 16:00 | OC09: Chemistry Europe - Who We are and What We do Axel Straube | ||||
| 16:15 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16:45 | OC10: Catalysis with NHC-Au(I) Complexes in Confined Space: Resorcinarene Capsule and Monolayer Protected Nanoparticles Cristina Tubaro | 
 | OC12: Elucidating the Catalytic CO2 Reduction to CO Christina Erken | 
 | OC14: Exploring the Potential of Catalysts based on the Heavier Group 13 Elements for Cyclic Carbonate Synthesis Christopher J. Whiteoak | 
| 17:00 | OC11: A New Family of Alkali-metal Manganates and their Role in Catalysing C-C Bond Formation via Oxidative Homocoupling Marina Uzelac | 
 | OC13: Pincer Iridium Hydride Complexes: Mechanisms for Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Alcohols Ola F. Wendt | 
 | OC15: Mechanochemical Synthesis of Compounds and Complexes Felipe García | 
| 17:15 | Flash Presentations: Session A | 
 | Flash Presentations: Session B | 
 | Flash Presentations: Session C | 
| 17:45 | Poster Session A + Flash Poster Session A | ||||
| 18:45 | End of scientific programme | ||||
Wednesday 6th September 2023
Venue: School of Engineering (Escuela Politécnica Superior)
| 09:00 
 | PL4: Gold Chemistry in Water: From Catalysis to Medicine Prof. Angela Casini | ||
| 10:00 
 
 
 | KN5: Gold-based Antibody Drug Conjugates as Targeted Breast Cancer Therapeutic Agents Maria Contel | 
 | KN6: Dihydrogen Activation by Cationic Hydrides of Alkaline Earth Metals and Zinc Jun Okuda | 
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 
 
 
 | KN7: Bis-picolinamide Metal Dihalide Complexes with a cis to trans Isomer Switch, Triggering High Potency and Cancer Cell Selectivity Patrick McGowan | 
 | KN9: From Organometallic Molecular Systems to Functional Materials: Solution and Solid-state Methodologies Janusz Lewiński | 
| 11:30 | KN8: In Vivo Metallophilic Self-Assembly of Cyclometalated Metallodrugs for Anticancer Phototherapy Sylvestre Bonnet | 
 | KN10: Hydroamination of Alkynes Catalyzed by Gold Nanoparticles: A Sustainable and Effective Approach to the Synthesis of N-heterocyclic Compounds Alfonso Grassi | 
| 12:00 | OC16: Gold Carboxylate Complexes as Dual Action Anticancer Agents Alice Johnson 
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 | OC20: Mechanistic Studies of the Palladium/Phenanthroline Catalysed Reductive Cyclization of Nitroarenes by CO to give N-Heterocycles Fabio Ragaini  
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| 12:15 | OC17: Gold(I) Mediated Radio-Iododecarboxylation Toward Applications in Nuclear Medicine Thomas Cailly 
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 | OC21: Electronically Flexible Pyridylidene Amide Ligands for Palladium-catalyzed α-arylation of Ketones Esaïe Reusser 
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| 12:30 | OC18: Synthesis and Biological Activity of Organometallic Hybrids with Selected Tubulin-binding Anticancer Agents Damian Plazuk  
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 | OC22: Palladium and Gold Nitrenes Dominik Munz 
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| 12:45 | OC19: Ir(III)-coumarin Conjugates as Promising Photosensitizers in Both Normoxia and Hypoxia José Ruiz 
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 | OC23: Unlocking Cyclometalation: A New Entry to Cyclometalated Gold(III) Complexes via Catalytic Rhodium to Gold(III) Transmetalation Jaime Martín 
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| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30 
 
 
 | KN11: Investigating the Biological Properties of Gold Carbene Complexes M. Concepcion Gimeno | 
 | KN12: Combining Helicenes with Transition Metals or Lanthanides for Chirality-Related Properties Jeanne Crassous | 
| 15:00 | OC24: Metal Complexes Bearing Uracil Ligands: Synthesis and Applications Ana Petronilho 
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 | OC28: Bis(imino)pyridine-based Ligand Reactivity in Main Group Alkyls Complexes Antonio Rodríguez-Delgado 
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| 15:15 | OC25: C-H Functionalization of Tyr-Containing Peptides Arkaitz Correa 
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 | OC29: Titanium (IV) and (III) Bis(O-Phenylenediamido) Compounds: A Story of Structural Variety and CO2 Functionalizations Alberto Hernán-Gómez Robledo 
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| 15:30 | OC26: The Effect of Antibody Conjugation Over a Cyclometalated Ru(II) Complex as Targeted NIR Photosensitizers for PDT Marta Martínez-Alonso 
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 | OC30: On the Single-Centre Ambiphile Concept Terrance J. Hadlington 
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| 15:45 | OC27: Room Temperature Phosphorescence Au(I) and Pt(II) Supramolecular Organometallic Assemblies Laura Rodríguez 
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 | OC31: Phosphorus Clusters in Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis Meera Mehta 
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| 16:00 
 | End of scientific programme Optional excursions | ||
Thursday 7th September 2023
Venue: School of Engineering (Escuela Politécnica Superior)
| 09:00 | PL5: Low-Valent Alkaline-Earth Metal Complexes for Bond Activation and Catalysis Sjoerd Harder | ||||
| 10:00 | YPL4: Sustainable Tools to Access Fluorinated Molecules by C-H Bond Functionalization Tatiana Besset | ||||
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 | KN13: Cationic Polyhedral Heteroboranes - Fact or Fiction? Aleš Ružička | 
 | KN15: Borylalkyde Copper(I) Species for Selective Electrophilic Trapping in Advanced Synthetic Protocols Elena Fernández  | ||
| 11:30 | KN14: Catalytic Creation of Sterically Challenging Stereogenic Centers: Concepts and Mechanistic Insights Arjan W. Kleij | 
 | KN16: Activation of C-H Bonds with Fe-Al Heterometallic Complexes Mark Crimmin | ||
| 12:00 | OC32: Iron-catalyzed C(sp3)-H Amination Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt 
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 | OC36: Bimetallic Synergy with Low-Valent Group 13 Main Group Systems for Small Molecule Reactivity Antonio J. Martínez-Martínez 
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| 12:15 | OC33: Cu(II)-mediated Functionalization of C-H Bonds: Synthesis of Heterocycles and Kinetico-mechanistic Studies Montserrat Gómez 
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 | OC37: Heterobimetallic Complexes for Cooperative Reactivity Clément Camp 
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| 12:30 | OC34: Stability and C–H Bond Activation Reactions of Palladium(I) and Platinum(I) Metalloradicals: Carbon-to-Metal H-atom Transfer and Cyclometallation by a Radical Rebound Mechanism Adrian B. Chaplin 
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 | OC38: Pt/Main Group Bimetallic Complexes: Small Molecule Activation and Metal-metal Cooperative Transmetalation Govindarajan Ramadoss 
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| 12:45 | OC35: Highly Efficient and Versatile Heterobimetallic Al-M(II) Catalysts for Sustainable Processes Luis F. Sánchez-Barba 
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 | OC39: Synergistic Approaches to Catalyst Design for the Sustainable Production of Challenging Enantioenriched Compounds Montserrat Diéguez 
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| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:30 | PL6: Gold(III) Chemistry: Surprise, Intrigue, Mechanisms Manfred Bochmann | ||||
| 15:30 | KN17: The Impact of N-Heterocyclic and Mesoionic Carbenes in Manganese Catalysis Beatriz Royo | 
 | KN18: Unleashing New Patterns of Reactivity with Electron Rich Main Group Compounds Simon Aldridge | ||
| 16:00 | OC40: Revisiting [FeEt2(bipy)2]n+ (n = 0, 1, 2): a Radically New View Rinaldo Poli | 
 | OC41: Chiral-at-Rhodium Complex Bearing Si, N Ligands Miguel A. Huertos | ||
| 16:15 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16:45 | OC42: Copper-catalysed Amination of Alkyl Iodides Enabled by Halogen-atom Transfer Fabio Juliá | 
 | OC44: Metal-Ligand Cooperation with Group 10 Metals and Hydrosilylation Blanca Martin-Vaca | 
 | OC46: Copper(I)-Mediated Functionalisation of White Phosphorus Thomas M. Horsley Downie 
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| 17:00 | OC43: Electrochemical Hydrogen Production Catalysed by Cp*Co(III) Complexes Gabriel Menendez Rodriguez 
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 | OC45: Hybrid Ferrocene Ligands Combining Phosphine and Stibine Donor Groups Petr Štěpnička 
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 | OC47: Biomass-derived Substrate Valorisation through Hydrogenation by Hybrid Catalysts Itzel Guerrero-Ríos 
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| 17:15 | Flash Presentations: Session D | 
 | Flash Presentations: Session E | 
 | Flash Presentations: Session F | 
| 17:45 | Poster Session B + Flash Poster Session B | ||||
| 18:45 | End of scientific programme | ||||
| 20:30 | Conference Dinner | ||||
Friday 8th September 2023
Venue: Colegio de San Ildefonso (Rectorate of the University of Alcalá)
| 09:30 | PL7: Catalytic and Stoichiometric Carbene and Nitrene Transfer Reactions Pedro J. Pérez | |
| 10:30 | OC48: Synthesis, Bonding and Catalytic Applications of Homoleptic Tri-Lithium Nickelates Eva Hevia | |
| 10:45 | OC49: Tenfold Metalation and Functionalization of Ferrocene Moritz Malischewski | |
| 11:00 | OC50: A New Half-sandwich Ir Complex with a pi-extended Ligand as a Potent Photocatalyst in Green Conditions Gema Durá | |
| 11:15 | OC51: Asking Ligands to Lend a Hand Jitendra K Bera | |
| 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 12:00 | YPL5: Ligand Exchange at Carbon in Metalated Ylides: Synthetic Entry to Elusive Species Viktoria Däschlein-Gessener | |
| 12:30 | Fischer-Wilkinson Prize for Organometallic Chemistry: 50 Years of Organometallic Chemistry: From Sandwiches, Tripeldeckers and Beyond | |
| 13:30 | Closing Remarks | |
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 | End of Conference | |
 
					   

















