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Previous Seminars and Meetings

Gordon Stone Lectures
Research Seminars 2008-9
Research Seminars - Spring 2008
Research Seminars - Autumn 2007
Research Seminars - Spring 2007
Research Seminars - Autumn 2006
Main Group Chemistry Symposium - Summer 2006
Research Seminars - Spring/Summer 2006
Research Seminars - Autumn 2005
2005 Gordon Stone Lecture and Symposium
Research Seminars - Spring 2005
Research Seminars - Autumn 2004

Gordon Stone Lecturers

1991	Professor FA Cotton Texas A&M University Forty Years of Inorganic Chemical Research in Retrospect.
1992	Professor R Hoffmann Cornell University One Culture.
1993	Professor Lord Lewis, Kt, FRS University of Cambridge Metal-Metal Bonds - A Reflection.
1994	Dr Günter Wilke Max-Planck Institute, Mülheim Contributions to Homogeneous Catalysis, 1954-1994.
1995	Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS Imperial College, University of London Chemical Recollections.
1996	Professor FGA Stone, CBE, FRS Baylor University, Texas Transatlantic Organometallic Chemistry - the First 44 Years.
1997	Professor Lawrence Dahl University of Wisconsin-Madison New Frontiers in High Nuclearity Metal Carbonyl Clusters.
1999	Professor EW Abel University of Exeter From Lappert to Stone via Wilkinson.
2000	Professor H Schmidbaur Technical University of Munich Closed-Shell Interactions: The Concept and its Applications in Gold Chemistry.
2001	Professor PM Maitlis, FRS University of Sheffield It all began over the Chop Suey... Some Reflections on the Working Life of an Organometallic Chemist.

2002	Professor Alan G MacDiarmid FRS University of Pennsylvania Synthetic Metals. A Novel Role for Organic Polymers.
2003	Professor Warren R Roper FRS University of Auckland, New Zealand Organometallic Chemistry - and Beyond.
2004	Professor Helmut Werner University of Würzburg Building Bridges: A Scientific Adventure and a Personal Consummation.
2005	Professor John Bercaw California Institute of Technology Towards a Homogeneous Catalyst for Selective Oxidation of Alkanes Using Dioxygen.
2006	Professor Malcolm Green University of Oxford Past, Present and Future Research in Inorganic Chemistry – A Personal View.
2007	Professor Alan Cowley University of Texas at Austin Some Past Achievements and Future Directions in Main Group Chemistry.
2008	Professor Robert Grubbs Caltech Ruthenium Complexes for the Olefin Metathesis Reaction
2009	Professor Malcolm Chisholm Ohio State University New Generation Polymers from Renewable Resources: New Opportunities for Single-Site Metal Alkoxide Catalysts

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Seminars - Autumn 2008/Spring 2009

Monday 3^rd November 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Philip Dyer, University of Durham P-N Compounds: Old Reagents, New Reactions
Monday 17^th November 3.00pm, LT3	Professor John McGrady, University of Glasgow Using computational chemistry to shed light on biological water oxidation
Monday 12^th January 3.00pm, LT3	Professor Andy Cooper, University of Liverpool Microporous Polymers: "Order" from Chaos
Monday 2^nd February 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Polly Arnold, University of Edinburgh Controlled redox and activation reactions in organometallic f-block complexes
Friday 27^th February 2.00pm, LT4	Professor Manfred Scheer, University of Regensburg Complexed Main Group-Congeners of Hydrocarbons in molecular and supramolecular environments
Monday 16^th March 3.00pm, LT3	Professor Joseph Schmidt, University of Toledo Unexpected Activity Trends in Catalytic Coupling Reactions using Hemilabile Phosphino-Imine Chelated Palladium Complexes
Monday 20^th April 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Oren Scherman, University of Cambridge Cucurbiturils in Dynamic Functional Materials
Monday 27^th April 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Paul Rousell, AWE Adventures with Element 94
Friday 8^th May time and venue to be confirmed	The RSC Ludwig Mond Lecture Professor Robert Crabtree, Yale University Recent Developments in Oxidation Catalysis: Molecular Recognition-Induced Selectivity
Monday 11^th May 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Mark Murrie, University of Glasgow A Chemical Approach to Nanoscale Magnets

Stone Lecture and Symposium 2008

The 2008 Gordon Stone lecture, held on 29^th October 2008, formed part of a short one-day symposium in celebration of Transition Metal Chemistry.

Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones
University of Bristol
Engaging and decoupling catalytic sub-cycles in transition metal catalysed reactions

Dr Chris Adams
University of Bristol
Towards molecular bits - molecules that can represent binary information

Professor Andrew Weller
University of Oxford
Putting vacant sites to work: Low-coordinate rhodium phosphine organometallics

The Gordon Stone Lecture
Professor Robert Grubbs
Caltech
Ruthenium Complexes for the Olefin Metathesis Reaction

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Research Seminars - Spring/Summer 2008

Monday 11^th February 3.00pm, LT3	Dr George Britovsek, Imperial College London Tuning the Reactivity of Non-Heme Iron Catalysts for the Oxidation of Alkanes
Monday 3^rd March 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Mark Lowe, University of Leicester New Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications
Tuesday 11^th March 3.00pm, LT1	Professor Bruno Chaudret, CNRS, Toulouse Organometallic Nanoparticles
Monday 21^st April 3.00pm, LT3	Professor Julius Vancso, University of Twente Intelligent poly(ferrocenylsilanes): From molecular motors to controlled release
Monday 28^th April 3.00pm, LT3	Professor Ingo Krossing, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg From Superweak Anions to Lewis Super Acids
Wednesday 7^th May 3.00pm, LT3	Professor Paul Pregosin, ETH, Zurich NMR Spectroscopy, Ion Pairing and Homogeneous Catalysis
Monday 12^th May 3.00pm, LT3	Professor Todd Marder, University of Durham Diethynylrhodacyclopentadienes: A new class of luminescent organometallics
Wednesday 14^th May 4.15pm, LT1	RSC Centenary Lecture Professor Don Tilley, Berkeley, USA New Bond Activations at Transition Metal Centers: Fundamental Studies and Applications to Catalysis

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Research Seminars - Autumn 2007

Monday 29^th October 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Natalie Fey, University of Bristol Exploring Ligand Effects - Mechanisms, Maps and Models
Monday 19^th November 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Paul Barker, University of Cambridge Haem proteins as components of self-assembling, electronic materials
Monday 26^th November 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Janet Scott, Unilever Modulation of material properties by intermolecular interactions; "poor" ionic liquids and responsive crystalline materials
Tuesday 4^th December 4.15pm, LT3	Professor Kalman Szabo, University of Stockholm One-Pot Transformations Involving Catalytic Generation of Allyl Boronates
Wednesday 5 ^th December 4.30pm, LT4	Professor Francois P Gabbai, Texas A&M Cationic boranes. Synthesis, reduction chemistry and anion complexation

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Research Seminars - Spring/Summer 2007

Monday 29^th January 3.00pm, LT4	Dr Lee Brammer, The University of Sheffield Halogen-mediated supramolecular chemistry in the solid state: interactions and reactions
Monday 5^th February 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Walter Leitner, Aachen University Green Solvents for Catalysis: From Molecular Understanding to Process Design
Monday 12^th February 3.00pm, LT4	The Tilden Lecture Professor Matt Rosseinsky, Liverpool New Chemistry of Multifunctional Oxides and Nanoporous Materials
Monday 12^th March 3.00pm, LT4	Professor David Haddleton, Warwick Title to be announced
Monday 30 ^th April 2.15pm, LT4	Professor Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam Controlled Synthesis of Crystalline Nanoparticles and their Controlled Assembly
Monday 14^th May 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Steve Nolan, ICIQ Tarragona Recent Developments in the use of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Homogeneous catalysis
Wednesday 16^th May TBA	Professor Manfred Scheer, University of Regensburg Main-Group-Element Ligands in Oligomeric and Polymeric Environments

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Research Seminars - Autumn 2006

Monday 23^rd October 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Chris Reed, University of California, Riverside Carborane Acids: Strong yet Gentle Acids for Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
Monday 6^th November 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Geoff Cloke, University of Sussex f-Element Pentalene and Cyclooctatetraene Complexes: Sandwich Complexes, Bimetallics, and Small Molecule Activation
Monday 20^th November 3.00pm, LT2	The Sir Edward Frankland Lecture Professor Odile Eisenstein, Université de Montpellier II Simple Ideas for d⁰ Olefin Metathesis Catalyst Design from a DFT Perspective (Held jointly with the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Section)
Monday 4^th December 3.00pm, LT4	Dr Michael Hill, Imperial College London New Paradigms in Heavier s- and p-Block Chemistry
Monday 11^th December 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Michael Bruce, Adelaide University Carbon Rich Complexes - Some Recent Results

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Main Group Chemistry Symposium - July 2006

To launch the new Bristol Centre for Main Group Chemistry, a one-day symposium was held on 28th July 2006 with contributions from leading international experts in Main Group Chemistry. A list of speakers and talks is given below.

Professor Guy Bertrand, UCR-CNRS Joint Research Laboratory, University of California, Riverside, USA
Chemistry With and Without Main Group Elements: What a Difference?

Professor Tristram Chivers, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
New Aspects of the Chemistry of Heavy Chalcogens

Professor Neil Burford, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Homoatomic P-P Coordination Complexes: A New Direction in the Chemistry of Phosphorus

Professor Derek Gates, University of British Columbia, Canada
Putting P into Polymers: Synthetic Approaches to Functional Organophosphorus Macromolecules

Professor Charles MacDonald, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Low Oxidation State Main Group Compounds: Vresatile New Reagents and Unique Chemistry

Professor Cameron Jones, Cardiff University
Group 13 Metal(I) Heterocycles: Metal Donor Lewis Bases and N-heterocyclic Carbene Analogues

Dr Simon Aldridge, Cardiff University
Transition Metal - Group 13 Element Multiple Bonds

Professor Paul Ragogna, University of Western Ontario, Canada
The Synthesis and Chemistry of Substituted Se-N Ring Systems and the Development of Phosphonium Ionic Liquids Containing Ferrocene

Research Seminars - Spring/Summer 2006

16^th January 2006 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Ian Hamley, University of Leeds Hierarchical order in polypeptide-containing block copolymers
27^th January 2006 2.30pm, LT2	Professor Geoffery Ozin, University of Toronto Air Crystals A lecture on photonic band-gap materials.
30^th January 2006 3.00pm, LT4	Dr Helma Wennemers, University of Basel Peptides - from molecular recognition to asymmetric catalysis
6^th February 2006 3.00pm, LT4	RSC Easterfield Lecture Dr Kathryn McGrath, University of Wellington, New Zealand Calcium carbonate crystallisation: the roles of chemical functionality, kinetics and soft templation
20^th February 2006 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Brian Mann, University of Sheffield Carbon monoxide may save your life
6^th March 2006 3.00pm, LT4	RSC Geoffrey Wilkinson Lecture Professor David Cole-Hamilton, University of St Andrews Tiny but perfectly formed - the magic world of nanoparticles
6^th March 2006 4.15pm, LT4	Professor Gridnev, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Chiral tetraphosphine and chiral three-hindered quadrant diphosphine as ligands in Rh-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation: mechanistic revelations
20^th March 2006 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Julian Vincent, University of Bath Nanofibrous composites from biology: versatility, intelligence and biomimetics
22^nd March 2006 1.45pm, LT4	Professor Paul Dyson, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Development of biphasic ionic liquid catalysis
29^th June 2006 4.15pm, LT4	Penny Brothers, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Boron porphyrins - unusual structures and unexpected redox chemistry for both boron and the porphyrin.
7^th July 2006 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Richard Spontak, North Carolina State University New Opportunities for Block Copolymers: From Homologous Designer Molecules to Dynamic Multicomponent Systems

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Research Seminars - Autumn 2005

11^th October 2005 3.00pm, LT3	Dr Helmut Cölfen, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces Non classical crystallization
31^st October 2005 3.00pm, LT4	Dr Nico Sommerdijk, Eindhoven University of Technology Self-Assembled Templates for the Nucleation of CaCO₃: The Importance of Adaptability and Time Resolved Electron Microscopy
7^th November 2005 3.00pm, LT4	Professor Duncan Bruce, University of York Adventures with Liquid Crystals - from the Non-covalent to the Solid State
24^th November 2005 1.45pm, LT3	Professor Holger Braunschweig, University of Würzburg Boron in the coordination sphere of transition metals: borametallocenophanes and borylene complexes

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Gordon Stone Lecture and Symposium 2005

The 2005 Gordon Stone lecture formed part of a short one-day symposium that celebrated the new shape of Inorganic Chemistry in Bristol. Click on the images below for larger versions.

Professor Guy Orpen presents Professor John Bercaw with a souvenir of the 2005 Gordon Stone Lecture

Speakes at the 2005 Gordon Stone Lecture and Symposium

Speakers, session chairs and organisers of the 2005 Gordon Stone Lecture and Symposium

The programme of talks is given below.

The Marie Curie Lecture
Professor Ian Manners, University of Bristol
Functional and Supramolecular Metallopolymers.

Dr Charl Faul, University of Bristol
Conductivity, Recognition and Chirality - (Old) Functions in New Materials?

Dr Robin Bedford, University of Bristol
Ironing out the Wrinkles in Secondary Alkyl Coupling.

Dr Duncan Wass, University of Bristol
Metallopolymers Metal Phosphine Complexes for Alkene Polymerisation and Oligomerisation Catalysis.

The Gordon Stone Lecture
Professor John Bercaw, California Institute of Technology
Towards a Homogeneous Catalyst for Selective Oxidation of Alkanes Using Dioxygen.

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Research Seminars - Spring 2005

18th January 2005

1.45pm

Professor Donald Fitzmaurice

University College, Dublin

Templated Assembly of Nanowires and Nanoswitches

15th February 2005

1.45pm

Professor Fraser Armstrong

University of Oxford

Hydrogen Cycling by Enzymes: Electrocatalysis and Implications for Future Energy Technology

22nd February 2005

1.45pm

Dr Emma Raven

University of Leicester

The chemistry of iron-catalysed biological oxidation: Exploring structure, function, and substrate binding in a heme peroxidase enzyme

8th March 2005

1.45pm

Professor Julio Perez

University of Oviedo, Spain

Reactivity of New Molybdenum and Rhenium Hydroxo, Alkoxo, Amido, Alkylideneamido and Phosphido Complexes

10th March 2005

4.30pm

LT1

Professor Gerrit ten Brinke

University of Groningen

Self-assembled supramolecules under shear: alignment, reinforcement and collapse

11th March 2005

1.45pm

LT1

Prof Olli Ikkala

Helsinki University of Technology

Responsive materials based on hierarchically self-assembled polymeric complexes

21st March 2005

10.30am

LT4

Mike Green

Research Director, Sasol

Selective Oligomerisation of Ethylene: Novel Catalyst Systems for the production of 1-Hexene and 1-Octene

15th April 2005

2.00pm

Professor Philip P Power

University of California, Davis

RSC Ludwig Mond Lecture: s-electron Deficiency in Chemistry

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Research Seminars - Autumn 2004

5th October 2004

1.45pm

Dr David Brown

University of Bath

Copper and Prion Disease

19th October 2004

1.45pm

Dr Lee Cronin

University of Glasgow

Setting the Trap: Approaches to the Capture and Molecular Growth of Polyoxometalate Clusters

16th November 2004

1.45pm

Dr Simon Aldridge

University of Cardiff

Cationic terminal diyl complexes - Multiple bonding between transition metals and group 13 elements

23rd November 2004

1.45pm

Professor Derek Woolfson

University of Sussex

Rational design of peptide-based nanostructures and materials from the bottom-up

7th December 2004

1.45pm

Dr Vesselin Paunov

University of Hull

Non-traditional applications of microcontact printing and gel trapping techniques

14th December 2004

1.45pm

Dr Robin Bedford

University of Exeter

Orthometallation in catalysis: from high-activity catalysts to new reactions

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