Plenary speakers

 

Prof. Masakazu Anpo (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

Prof. Luisa de Cola (Muenster University, Germany)

Prof. John F. Endicott (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA)

Prof. Rudi van Eldik (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany)

Prof. Horst Kisch (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany)

Prof. Bogdan Marciniec (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

Prof. Janina Molenda (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Prof. Michele Aresta (University of Bari, Italy)

Prof. Erik Larsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

 

 

Scientific programme  

 

Thurstday, January 5th, 2006

 

Opening session, 

chairperson: Józef J. Ziółkowski

 

10.20-11.00

Bogdan Marciniec (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

Inorganometallic chemistry and catalysis

 

Bioinorganic chemistry, 

charpersons: Anne-Marie Albrecht-Gary and Ewa Brocławik

 

15.00-15.40

Rudi van Eldik (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany)

Mechanistic studies on the reaction of NO with cytochrome P450 and model iron(III) complexes

 

15.40-16.00 

Sofi K.C. Elmroth (Lund Univesity, Sweden)

Modulation of the platination rate of small size ribonucleic acids by manipulation of the preassociation conditions

  

16.00-16.20

Gábor Lente (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Kinetics of the reaction between water-soluble iron(III) porphyrin Fe(TPPS) and hydrogen peroxide 

  

16.20-16.40

Dimitri E. Khoshtariya (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany)

High-pressure probing of a changeover in the charge-transfer mechanism for intact (unbound) cytochrome c at Au/SAM junctions

  

16.40-17.00

Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany)

Reversible and Stable Binding of Superoxide. Mechanistic Information on the Reaction of Superoxide with the Iron(III) Crown Ether-Porphyrin Conjugate Complex

  

Photochemistry and photophysics, 

chairpersons: Masakazu Anpo and Horst Kisch

 

17.30-18.10

Luisa De Cola (Muenster University, Germany)

Covalently and non-covalently linked assembly

 

18.10-18.30

István Fábián (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Sulfur(IV) autoxidation enlightened

 

18.30-18.50

Zofia Stasicka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

Photodegradation of EDTA by iron(III) complexes

 

Friday, January 6th, 2006

 

Photochemistry and coordination chemistry, 

chairpersons: Luisa De Cola and Zofia Stasicka

 

9.00-9.40

Horst Kisch (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany)

Semiconductor photocatalysis - a gentle art

 

9.40-10.00

Natalya Rusakova (A.V.Bogatsky Physico-Chemical Institute, Odessa, Ukraine)

Effective excitation energy transfer and luminescence of lanthanides in the complexes with macrocyclic ligands

 

10.00-10.20

Janusz Szklarzewicz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

The photocatalytically induced decomposition of hydrazine on Mo(IV) centre

 

10.20-10.40

Manuel Martínez (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Solvent and added base effects on the C-H activation reaction of cyclopalladating amine-imino chelating ligands

 

 11.40-11.00

Siegfried Schindler (Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany)

Mechanistic studies of the interaction between dioxygen and copper complexes

 

Coordination chemistry, 

chairpersons: Sofi K.C. Elmroth and Michele Aresta

 

11.30-12.10

Dan Meyerstein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel)

The mechanisms of reaction of alkyl radicals with metal surfaces in aqueous solutions

 

12.10-12.30

Athinoula Petrou (University of Athens, Greece)

Kinetics and mechanisms of the reactions between 3,4-, 2,4-, and 2,5- dihydroxybenzoic acids with chromium(III) in acidic aqueous solutions

 

 12.30-12.50

Premysl Lubal (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

The kinetic studies of formation/dissociation of copper(II) complexes of mono- and bis(methylphosphonic acid) cyclam derivatives

 

12.50-13.10

Anne-Marie Albrecht-Gary (University of Strasbourg, France)

Self-assembly mechanisms of polynuclear chelicates: magic or narrow roads?

  

Proton and electron transfer,

chairpersons: Rudi van Eldik and Athinoula L. Petrou

 

14.00-14.40

John F. Endicott (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA)

Transition metal excited state probes of inverted region electron transfer

 

14.40-15.00

Anna Micek-Ilnicka (Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland)

Proton transfer and kinetics of catalytic ethyl-tert-butyl ether (ETBE) synthesis over heteropolyacid

 

15.00-15.20

Michael J. Hynes (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)

Verdazyl radicals as one-electron transfer reagents

 

15.20-15.40

Sergei V. Makarov (Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, Russia)

Metal phthalocyaninates catalyzed reduction of nitrite by dithionite and sulfoxylate in aqueous solution

  

Catalysis and material chemistry

chairpersons: Anna M. Trzeciak and Brian Heaton

 

16.10-16.50

Masakazu Anpo (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

New trends in the nanoscience and nanotechnology of titanium oxide photocatalysts as an environmentally-friendly catalyst

 

16.50-17.10

Janina Molenda (AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland)

Solid oxide fuel cells –new trends in material research

 

17.10-17.30

Roman Dziembaj (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

Thermal induced changes in crystal structure and electronic states of Li-ion cathode materials based on Li-Mn-O-S system

 

17.30-17.50

Gilles Wallez (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)

Thorium Phosphate Diphosphate: from 2D precursor to 3D host matrix for actinides radwaste storage

   

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

 

Organimetallic chemistry and catalysis

chairpersons: Dan Meyerstein and Roman Dziembaj

 

9.00-9.20

Michele Aresta (University of Bari, Italy)

Reaction mechanism of formation of carbonates from alcohols and CO2 under transition metal catalysis

  

9.20-9.40

Anna M.Trzeciak (University of Wrocław, Poland)

Mechanistic aspects of palladium catalyst transformations – a case of methoxycarbonylation and Heck reaction

 

9.40-10.00

Ling-Kang Liu (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)

Iodide promoted ZrO2 catalyst in the cycloaddition of epoxides and CO2 to cyclic carbonates: an interplay of the iodide nucleophilicity and the zirconium electrophilicity

  

10.00-10.20

Cezary Pietraszuk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

 The effect of substituents at silicon on the cross-metathesis of trisubstituted vinylsilanes with olefins

 

10.20-10.40

Brian T. Heaton (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

CO fluxionality in Rh4(CO)12 and Rh6(CO)16

 

10.40-11.00

Attila K. Horváth (University of Szeges, Hungary)

Autocatalysis, self-inhibition and “supercatalysis” in a single reaction: kinetics of the chlorite– tetrathionate system

 

Theoretical chemistry

chairpersons: John F. Endicott and Zbigniew Sojka

 

11.30-11.50

Erik Larsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Molecules in molecules, ligand field calculations with planar, π-conjugated chelates

 

11.50-12.10

Piotr Pietrzyk (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

Metathesis of NO over mononuclear copper centers in ZSM-5 – mechanistic vistas through computational spectroscopy and molecular modeling

 

12.10-12.30

Ewa Broclawik (Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland)

Oxyferryl active site in cytochrome CYP 3A4: quantum chemical study on properties and metabolism mechanism

 

12.30-12.50

Tomasz Borowski (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Reaction mechanisms of selected non-heme iron enzymes from theoretical perspective

  

12.50-13.10

Artur Michalak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

 Molecular mechanisms of the polymerization and copolymerization processes catalyzed by the late transition metal complexes from theoretical simulations

 

 

Flash presentations and posters

 

Poster session will start with short (1 min) oral presentations of all posters. All participants presenting posters are kindly requested to prepare 1 slide in MS PowerPoint and send them to irmm@chemia.uj.edu.pl before December 15th, 2005.

 

 Chairperstons: Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović  and Artur Michalak 

 

P-1

Andrés G. Algarra, Manuel G. Basallote, Marta Feliz, Cristian C. Vicent, M. Jesús Fernández-Trujillo, Rosa Llusar and Vicent S. Safont

New insights into the mechanism of proton transfer to hydride complexes: kinetic and theoretical studies on the reaction of the [W3S4H3(dmpe)3]+ hydride cluster with HCl and the effect of ion-pairing on the kinetics of reaction

 

P-2

M. G. Basallote, A. Ferrer, M. A. Máñez, M. J. Fernández-Trujillo, A. G. Algarra

Kinetic and mechanistic studies on the reaction of a binuclear Cu(II) cryptate with acetonitrile

 

P-3

Julien Léo Billeter, Graeme Puxty and Konrad Hungerbühler

Hydroxylamine decomposition in the presence of iron studied by calorimetry, online mid-IR and UV-vis spectroscopy

 

P-4

Tomasz Borowski, Margareta Blomberg, Ewa Brocławik, Christopher J. Schofield and Per E.M. Siegbahn

Theoretical insights into the product specificity of selected non-heme iron enzymes

 

P-5

Ariane Brausam, Ralph Puchta, Nico van Eikema Hommes and Rudi van Eldik

Chasing intermediates: How do Fe(TAML) complexes bleach dyes?

 

P-6

C. Brookes, P. Webb, B. Tooze, and M.W. George

Probing the mechanism photochemical carbonylation using fast infrared spectroscopy

 

P-7

Ana Budimir, Mourad Elhabiri, Abraham Shanzer, Anne-Marie Albrecht-Gary

A three states molecular switch

 

P-8

Minserk Cheong and Hoon Sik Kim

Theoretical investigation of oxidative carbonylation of amines catalyzed by selenium compounds using density functional theory method

 

P-9

A. J. Cowan, P. Portius, D. C. Grills, X. Z. Sun and M. W. George

Time-resolved infrared studies of Fe(CO)5 photolysis in supercritical and conventional solvents

 

P-10

Olga A. Efremova, Yuri V. Mironov. Vladimir E. Fedorov

The control of reactivity of rhenium cluster chalcocyanide complexes by means of regulating of nucleophilicity of separated CN groups

  

P-11

Mourad Elhabiri, Jérémy Brandel, Ali Trabolsi, Anne-Marie Albrecht-Gary

Role of weak and strong interactions in molecular recognition processes

 

P-12

Alicja Franke, Natalya Hessenauer-Ilicheva, Dominik Meyer, Grazyna Stochel, Wolf-D. Woggon and Rudi van Eldik

Thermodynamic and kinetic studies on the binding of nitric oxide to the RSO3− - substituted model complex for cytochrome P450

 

P-13

Margareta Hägerlöf, Karin Leandersson, Tommy Andersson and Sofi K.C. Elmroth

Nucleic acids as drug targets: Towards manipulation of WNT expression by low-molecular metal complexes

 

P-14

Hans Hanauer, Ralph Puchta, Timothy Clark and Rudi van Eldik

From interchange to dissociative water exchange on aquated Al3+ ions

 

P-15

Eufrozina A. Hoffmann and István Nagypál

Response reactions in solution kinetics

 

P-16

Peter Illner, Ralph Puchta and Rudi van Eldik

Experimental and theoretical studies on ion pair interactions in ionic liquids containing the [emim]+-cation

 

P-17

Joo-Eun Jee, Maria Wolak, Nobert Jux and Rudi van Eldik

Comparative study of the interaction of NO with highly positively- and negatively-charged iron(III) porphyrins

 

P-18

O.I.Koifman, B.L.Gorberg, T.A.Ageeva, V.V.Rybkin, A.A.Ivanov, E.V.Alopina, V.A.Titov

The mechanism of immobilization of metal porphyrinates and phthalocyaninates to the surface of polymer substrates using reactive magnetron sputtered thin films

 

P-19

Ireneusz Kownacki, Bogdan Marciniec, Karol Szubert and Maciej Kubicki

Iridium(I) siloxide catalyzed transformation of olefins under silylcarbonylation conditions

 

P-20

Barbara Krajewska and Zofia Piwowarska

Mono- and divalent heavy metal ions effects on the enzyme urease

 

P-21

Evgeny V. Kudrik, Alexander Theodoridis and Rudi van Eldik

Reactivity of a novel low spin Fe(II) complex. Medium-induced spin-crossover behaviour and its ability to catalyze oxidation reactions

 

P-22

Marta Liszka, Anna Migdał-Mikuli, Edward Mikuli, Marcin Molenda

Thermal decomposition reaction mechanisms of [Cd(NH3)6](NO3)2

 

P-23

Gao-Feng Liu and Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović

Stopped-flow measurements of rapid superoxide dismutation catalyzed by seven-coordinate metal complexes

 

P-24

Joachim Maigut, Roland Meier, Achim Zahl and Rudi van Eldik

The mechanism of water exchange on a series of iron aminopolycarboxylate complexes

 

P-25

Jacek Marzec

Intercalation reaction seen by Moessbauer spectroscopy

 

P-26

Roland Meier and Johanna Rühl

Reactions of FeIII- and FeII-tpen complexes with H2O2: Unexpected formation of [FeIVO(tpen)]2+

 

P-27

Mariusz Mitoraj and Artur Michalak

Applications of natural orbitals for chemical valence in a description of electronic structure and rationalizing the mechanisms of inorganic reactions

 

P-28

Genebaldo S. Nunes, Ildemar Mayer, Koiti Araki, Henrique E. Toma

Kinetic and mechanism of cyclohexane oxidation catalyzed by two supramolecular manganese(III) porphyrins

 

P-29

W. Ojczyk, J. Marzec, J. Molenda

Reaction mechanism with lithium in LiFe1−yMnyPO4 cathode materials

 

P-30

Dorota Rutkowska-Żbik, Małgorzata Witko, Ewa M. Serwicka

Quantum-chemical modeling of catalytic roperties of manganese porphyrins

 

P-31

Konrad Świerczek, Wojciech Zając and Janina Molenda

Chemical reactivity in the LSCFN-CGO system - a composite electrolyte / cathode interface in IT-SOFC

 

P-32

Ewa Pasgreta, Ralph Puchta, Nico van Eikema Hommes, Achim Zahl, Rudi van Eldik

High pressure 7Li NMR kinetic study of Li+ complexation by cryptands in gamma-butyrolactone

 

P-33

Paweł Pasierb

CO2 and SOx solid-state potentiometric gas sensors

P-34

Małgorzata Siudak, Magdalena Gazdowska, Agnieszka Zienkiewicz, Piotr Pietrzyk, and Zbigniew Sojka

Mechanism of disproportionation of NO mediated by tripodal surface nickel complexes

 

P-35

M. Ruszak, S. Witkowski and Z. Sojka

Anionic redox processes, involving framework and extraframework oxygen species, in nanoporous mayenite

 

P-36

Joanna Procelewska and Rudi van Eldik

Exploring the mechanism of C-H activation of hydrocarbons through detailed mechanistic studies on platinum(II) and platinum(IV) complexes

 

P-37

Ralph Puchta, Michael Galle, Nico van Eikema Hommes and Rudi van Eldik

Substituent effects on the ligand exchange processes of solvated beryllium cations

 

P-38

Gabriel Aullón, Brendan Macpherson, Manuel Martínez and Carlos Rodríguez

Isomerization processes of cobalt(III) complexes with pentadentate macrocyclic ligands

 

P-39

David Sarauli, Achim Zahl, Ralph Puchta and Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović

Seven-coordinate [Fe(dapsox)(H2O)2]ClO4 complex as a receptor for lithium ions

 

P-40

Filip Zasada, Paweł Stelmachowski, Witold Piskorz, Andrzej Adamski, Andrzej Kotarba, Zbigniew Sojka

Decomposition of N2O via anionic redox mechanism on oxide surfaces

 

P-41

Nadine Summa, Hakan Ertürk and Rudi van Eldik

Kinetic investigation of a series of multinuclear Pt(II) complexes with biological relevant nucleophiles

 

P-42

Alexander Theodoridis, Evgeny Kudrik and Rudi van Eldik

Mechanistic studies on the activation of H2O2 by a novel FeIII-porphyrazine complex

 

P-43

Krystyna Wieczorek-Ciurowa, Katarzyna Gamrat

Synthesis of intermetallic-ceramic composites by mechanochemical reactions in Cu-Al-O systems

 

P-44

Joanna Wolowska, David Collison and Eric J.L. McInnes

in-situ radical formation followed by EPR spectroscopy

 

P-45

Małgorzata Brindell, Dorota Piotrowska, Anna Szumlańska, Rudi van Eldik and Grażyna Stochel

Kinetics and mechanism of the reduction of (ImH)[trans-RuCl4(dmso)(Im)] by ascorbic acid in acidic aqueous solution

 

P-46

Janusz M. Dąbrowski, Louis G. Arnaut, Mariette M. Pereira, Sebastiao J. Formosinho, Krystyna Urbańska and Grażyna Stochel

Mechanistic studies on the anticancer activity of new halogenated water-soluble porphyrin (TCPPSO3H)

  

P-47

Patrycja Nowak-Śliwińska, Krystyna Urbańska and Grażyna Stochel

Efficiency and mechanism of action of porphyrin, chlorin and cyanine derivative photosensitizers in photodynamic effect on melanoma cells

 

P-48

Iwona Stawoska, Sylwia Gawęda, P. Laidler, Krzysztof Lewiński, Grażyna Stochel

Investigation into the mechanism of the biological activity of sulfatase from Helix pomatia

 

P-49

Agnieszka Jańczyk, Wojciech Macyk, Krystyna Urbańska, Horst Kisch, Grażyna Stochel

Reactive redox species photogenerated at sensitized titanium dioxide

 

P-50

Łukasz Orzeł, Maria Wolak, Leszek Fiedor, Rudi van Eldik, Grażyna Stochel

Transmetallation of chlorophyll a. Effect of acetate on the kinetic of magnesium to copper(II) exchange in acetonitrile

 

P-51

Agnieszka Drzewiecka-Matuszek, Agnieszka Kania, Adnrzej Karocki, Grażyna Stochel and Leszek Fiedor

Effects of heavy central metal on spectral properties of chlorophyll

 

P-52

Agnieszka Kania and Leszek Fiedor

Tuning of coordinative properties of Mg2+ ion via equatorial chelation

 

P-53

Agata Gawlik-Swatek, Monika Gurbisz, Agnieszka Brauer, Dawid Wodka, Konrad Szaciłowski, Grażyna Stochel

Photoactivated bactericidal activity of iron complexes with thiocarbonyl compounds

 

P-54

Konrad Szaciłowski, Antonina Chmura and Zofia Stasicka

Photochemical transformations of the [Fe4(m3-S)3(NO)7]– cluster

 

P-55

Maciej Hebda, Wojciech Macyk and Konrad Szaciłowski

Photocurrent switching effect in [Fe(CN)5L]n- modified TiO2 materials