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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
University of California and Berkeley National Laboratory (USA)

18:30

 

YPL1: Deciphering Mechanisms to Design Better Catalytic Reactions

Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (Spain)

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
ETH Zürich (Switzerland)

10:00

 

YPL2: Mechanistic Insight into Iron(salen) Catalysed Reactions

Ruth L. Webster
University of Bath (UK)

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00


 

 

KN1: Selective Construction Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds Mediated by Cp*Ir(III) Complexes

Belén Martín-Matute
Stockholm University (Sweden)

 

KN3: Site and Enantioselective Oxidation of Strong C-H Bonds with Bioinspired Catalysts

Miquel Costas
Institut de Química Computacional I Catalisi (Spain)

11:30


 

KN2: Catalytic Cyclotrimerization Route to [n]Helical Indenofluorenes and Transformations Thereof

Martin Kotora
Charles University (Czech Republic)

 

KN4: Synthetic Applications of Metalloradical Catalysis

Bas de Bruin
University of Amsterdam

12:00

OC1: Synthesis of a 21-electron cobaltocene derivative

Satoshi Takebayashi
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)

 

OC5: Bis-phosphine Ni(0) Complexes and Catalytic Applications in Alkyne Cycloaddition Reactions

M. Carmen Nicasio
Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)

12:15

OC2: Isolation of Radical Anions via 3d-Metal Complexation or Cation Encapsulation

C. Gunnar Werncke
Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)

 

 

OC6: The Trifluoromethyl Silver(III) Moiety as a Platform for Highly Unusual Organometallic Compounds

Miguel Baya
CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

 

12:30

OC3: Towards Catalyst Design and Databases for Molecular OER Catalysis

Max García-Melchor
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

 

 

OC7: Iridium complexes based on aminophosphano ligands: synthesis and application in catalysis

Vincenzo Passarelli
ISQCH, CSIC-Universidad Zaragoza (Spain)

 

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
Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)

 

 

OC8: Encapsulation and Reactivity Inside Metallocages

Gregori Ujaque
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

 

13:00

Lunch

14:30

 

PL3: A New Reactivity Paradigm: trans-Hydrogenation, gem-Hydrogenation, and trans-Hydrometalation of Alkynes

Alois Fürstner
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Germany)

15:30

YPL3: Tales on Bismuth Redox Catalysis

Josep Cornella
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Germany)
EurJIC lecture

16:00

OC09: Chemistry Europe - Who We are and What We do

Axel Straube
Wiley-VCH GmbH (Germany)

16:15

Coffee Break

16:45

OC10: Catalysis with NHC-Au(I) Complexes in Confined Space: Resorcinarene Capsule and Monolayer Protected Nanoparticles

Cristina Tubaro
Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)

 

OC12: Elucidating the Catalytic CO2 Reduction to CO

Christina Erken
University of Helsinki (Finland)

 

OC14:  Exploring the Potential of Catalysts based on the Heavier Group 13 Elements for Cyclic Carbonate Synthesis

Christopher J. Whiteoak
Universidad de Alcalá (Spain)

17:00

OC11: A New Family of Alkali-metal Manganates and their Role in Catalysing C-C Bond Formation via Oxidative Homocoupling

Marina Uzelac
University of Bath (UK)

 

OC13: Pincer Iridium Hydride Complexes: Mechanisms for Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Alcohols

Ola F. Wendt
Lund University (Sweden)

 

OC15: Mechanochemical Synthesis of Compounds and Complexes

Felipe García
Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) 

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
Guided visit to the historic buildings of the University of Alcalá
Meeting point: Entrance door to the Colegio de San Ildefonso building (Rectorate of the University).

 

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
Technical University of Munich

10:00

 

 

 

KN5: Gold-based Antibody Drug Conjugates as Targeted Breast Cancer Therapeutic Agents

Maria Contel
City University of New York (USA)

 

KN6: Dihydrogen Activation by Cationic Hydrides of Alkaline Earth Metals and Zinc

Jun Okuda
RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

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
University of Leeds (UK)

 

KN9: From Organometallic Molecular Systems to Functional Materials: Solution and Solid-state Methodologies

Janusz Lewiński
Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

11:30

KN8: In Vivo Metallophilic Self-Assembly of Cyclometalated Metallodrugs for Anticancer Phototherapy

Sylvestre Bonnet
Leiden University (The Netherlands)

 

KN10: Hydroamination of Alkynes Catalyzed by Gold Nanoparticles: A Sustainable and Effective Approach to the Synthesis of N-heterocyclic Compounds

Alfonso Grassi
University of Salerno (Italy)

12:00

OC16: Gold Carboxylate Complexes as Dual Action Anticancer Agents

Alice Johnson
Sheffield Hallam University (UK)

 

 

OC20: Mechanistic Studies of the Palladium/Phenanthroline Catalysed Reductive Cyclization of Nitroarenes by CO to give N-Heterocycles

Fabio Ragaini
Università di Milano (Italy)

 

12:15

OC17: Gold(I) Mediated Radio-Iododecarboxylation Toward Applications in Nuclear Medicine

Thomas Cailly
Normandie University (France)

 

 

OC21: Electronically Flexible Pyridylidene Amide Ligands for Palladium-catalyzed α-arylation of Ketones

Esaïe Reusser
Universität Bern (Switzerland)

 

12:30

OC18: Synthesis and Biological Activity of Organometallic Hybrids with Selected Tubulin-binding Anticancer Agents

Damian Plazuk
University of Lodz (Poland)

 

 

OC22: Palladium and Gold Nitrenes

Dominik Munz
Saarland University (Germany)

 

12:45

OC19: Ir(III)-coumarin Conjugates as Promising Photosensitizers in Both Normoxia and Hypoxia

José Ruiz
Universidad de Murcia (Spain)

 

 

OC23: Unlocking Cyclometalation: A New Entry to Cyclometalated Gold(III) Complexes via Catalytic Rhodium to Gold(III) Transmetalation

Jaime Martín
University of Zurich (Switzerland)

 

13:00

Lunch

14:30

 

 

 

KN11: Investigating the Biological Properties of Gold Carbene Complexes

M. Concepcion Gimeno
CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

 

KN12: Combining Helicenes with Transition Metals or Lanthanides for Chirality-Related Properties

Jeanne Crassous
University of Rennes (France)

15:00

OC24: Metal Complexes Bearing Uracil Ligands: Synthesis and Applications

Ana Petronilho
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (Portugal)

 

 

OC28: Bis(imino)pyridine-based Ligand Reactivity in Main Group Alkyls Complexes

Antonio Rodríguez-Delgado
Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC (Spain)

 

15:15

OC25: C-H Functionalization of Tyr-Containing Peptides

Arkaitz Correa
University of the Basque Country (Spain)

 

 

OC29: Titanium (IV) and (III) Bis(O-Phenylenediamido) Compounds: A Story of Structural Variety and CO2 Functionalizations

Alberto Hernán-Gómez Robledo
Universidad de Alcalá (Spain)

 

15:30

OC26: The Effect of Antibody Conjugation Over a Cyclometalated Ru(II) Complex as Targeted NIR Photosensitizers for PDT

Marta Martínez-Alonso
Universidad de Burgos (Spain)

 

 

OC30: On the Single-Centre Ambiphile Concept

Terrance J. Hadlington
TU Munich (Germany)

 

15:45

OC27: Room Temperature Phosphorescence Au(I) and Pt(II) Supramolecular Organometallic Assemblies

Laura Rodríguez
Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)

 

 

OC31: Phosphorus Clusters in Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis

Meera Mehta
University of Manchester (UK)

 

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
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

10:00

YPL4: Sustainable Tools to Access Fluorinated Molecules by C-H Bond Functionalization

Tatiana Besset
CNRS (France)

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

KN13: Cationic Polyhedral Heteroboranes - Fact or Fiction?

Aleš Ružička
University of Pardubice (Czech Republic)

 

KN15: Borylalkyde Copper(I) Species for Selective Electrophilic Trapping in Advanced Synthetic Protocols

Elena Fernández
Universidad Rovira i Virgili (Spain)

11:30

KN14: Catalytic Creation of Sterically Challenging Stereogenic Centers: Concepts and Mechanistic Insights

Arjan W. Kleij
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (Spain)

 

KN16: Activation of C-H Bonds with Fe-Al Heterometallic Complexes

Mark Crimmin
Imperial College London (UK)

12:00

OC32: Iron-catalyzed C(sp3)-H Amination

Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt
University Oldenburg (Germany)

 

 

OC36: Bimetallic Synergy with Low-Valent Group 13 Main Group Systems for Small Molecule Reactivity

Antonio J. Martínez-Martínez
University of Huelva (Spain)

 

12:15

OC33: Cu(II)-mediated Functionalization of C-H Bonds: Synthesis of Heterocycles and Kinetico-mechanistic Studies

Montserrat Gómez
Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (France)

 

 

OC37: Heterobimetallic Complexes for Cooperative Reactivity

Clément Camp
CNRS / CPE-Lyon / UCBL (France)

 

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
University of Warwick (UK)

 

 

OC38: Pt/Main Group Bimetallic Complexes: Small Molecule Activation and Metal-metal Cooperative Transmetalation

Govindarajan Ramadoss
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Japan)

 

12:45

OC35: Highly Efficient and Versatile Heterobimetallic Al-M(II) Catalysts for Sustainable Processes

Luis F. Sánchez-Barba
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)

 

 

OC39: Synergistic Approaches to Catalyst Design for the Sustainable Production of Challenging Enantioenriched Compounds

Montserrat Diéguez
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)

 

13:00

Lunch

14:30

PL6: Gold(III) Chemistry: Surprise, Intrigue, Mechanisms

Manfred Bochmann
University of East Anglia (UK)

 15:30

KN17: The Impact of N-Heterocyclic and Mesoionic Carbenes in Manganese Catalysis

Beatriz Royo
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (Portugal)

 

KN18: Unleashing New Patterns of Reactivity with Electron Rich Main Group Compounds

Simon Aldridge
University of Oxford (UK)

 16:00

OC40: Revisiting [FeEt2(bipy)2]n+ (n = 0, 1, 2): a Radically New View

Rinaldo Poli
LCC CNRS Toulouse (France)

 

OC41: Chiral-at-Rhodium Complex Bearing Si, N Ligands

Miguel A. Huertos
Universidad del País Vasco

16:15

Coffee Break

16:45

OC42: Copper-catalysed Amination of Alkyl Iodides Enabled by Halogen-atom Transfer

Fabio Juliá
University of Murcia (Spain)

 

OC44: Metal-Ligand Cooperation with Group 10 Metals and Hydrosilylation

Blanca Martin-Vaca
Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier (France)

 

OC46: Copper(I)-Mediated Functionalisation of White Phosphorus

Thomas M. Horsley Downie
University of Regensburg (Germany)

 

17:00

OC43: Electrochemical Hydrogen Production Catalysed by Cp*Co(III) Complexes

Gabriel Menendez Rodriguez
University of Perugia (Italy)

 

 

OC45: Hybrid Ferrocene Ligands Combining Phosphine and Stibine Donor Groups

Petr Štěpnička
Charles University (Czech Republic)

 

 

OC47: Biomass-derived Substrate Valorisation through Hydrogenation by Hybrid Catalysts

Itzel Guerrero-Ríos
UNAM (Mexico)

 

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
Parador de Alcalá de Henares
c/ Colegios, 8, 28804 Alcalá de Henares

 

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
Universidad de Huelva (Spain)

10:30

OC48: Synthesis, Bonding and Catalytic Applications of Homoleptic Tri-Lithium Nickelates

Eva Hevia
Universität Bern (Switzerland)

10:45

OC49: Tenfold Metalation and Functionalization of Ferrocene

Moritz Malischewski
Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) 

11:00

OC50: A New Half-sandwich Ir Complex with a pi-extended Ligand as a Potent Photocatalyst in Green Conditions

Gema Durá
University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

11:15

OC51: Asking Ligands to Lend a Hand

Jitendra K Bera
IIT Kanpur (India)

11:30

Coffee Break

12:00

YPL5: Ligand Exchange at Carbon in Metalated Ylides: Synthetic Entry to Elusive Species

Viktoria Däschlein-Gessener
Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)

12:30

Fischer-Wilkinson Prize for Organometallic Chemistry:

50 Years of Organometallic Chemistry: From Sandwiches, Tripeldeckers and Beyond
Helmut Werner
University of Würzburg (Germany)

13:30

 Closing Remarks

 

 End of Conference

Organized by:

 

EuChemS Universidad de Alcalá

 

Sponsored by:

Real Sociedad Española de Química Grupo Especializado de Química Organometálica Real Sociedad Española de Química - Sección Territorial de Madrid IQAR

 

BIOTAGE Lilly EurJIC Chemistry Europe

 

Other collaborators:

BRUKER Mahou San Miguel Antares Fisher Scientific

 

IUCr Jornals Grupo Especializado de Cristalografia y Crecimiento Cristalino Dalton Transactions

 

Net Interlab Scharlab Grupo Especializado de Energía y Sostenibilidad