Lecture program

Current announcement:

05.09. – 08.09.2017

start (daily):
10:00 am

ICCE 2017 –
Third Inorganic Chemistry Conference Erlangen

The ICCE 2017 will be held at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The conference programme includes training school lessons for PhD students (Tuesday 05.09. – Thursday 07.09.) in the morning (10-12 am) which address current topics of inorganic chemistry, smart research strategies and experiment design. The scientific sessions will take place after lunch (Tuesday 05.09. – Thursday 07.09) as well as Friday morning.

Confirmed plenary speakers:  Prof. Robert Grubbs (Caltech), Prof. Holger Braunschweig (University of Würzburg), Prof. Kenneth Karlin (John Hopkins University), Dr. Mark Crimmin (Imperial College London), Prof. Marc Robert (Université Paris Diderot), Dr. Adriana Szeghalmi (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena), Dr. Marko Schmidt (JEOL GmbH)

Lecture halls H1 – H3, Egerlandstr. 3, Erlangen
More information: http://icce.weebly.com/

Lectures in the current term:

September 20th, 2017

17:00 pm (c.t.)

 SFB 953-Lecture (Seminar of “Synthetic Carbon Allotropes”):
“Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination”
Prof. Peter J. Stang – The University of Utah, Salt Lake City/USA
Guest lecture in Kleiner Hörsaal of Organic Chemistry, Henkestr. 42, Erlangen
Invitation_Prof. Stang
Lectures in previous terms:

Date Lecturer Topic
30.05.2017 Prof. Dr. Timofei S. Zatsepin – Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology/Russia “Targeted RNA delivery in vivo”

Date Lecturer Topic
15.12.2016 Rainer Schobert – Fachgruppe Chemie, Universität Bayreuth “Metal complexes of bioactive natural products: syntheses, targets, effects”
02.12.2016 Prof. Dr. Takahiko Akiyama – Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University, Japan “Recent Progress in the Chiral Phosphoric,Acid Catalysis”
25.10.2016 Prof. Dr. Jean Pinson – ITODYS, Universitè Paris Diderot, Frankreich “Radicals and Surfaces”
25.10.2016 Prof. Dr. Günther Knör – Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Österreich “Photochemical Enzyme Models in Biomimetic Chemistry”
10.10.2016 Prof. Roald Hoffmann – Nobelprize Winner in Chemmistry 1981 “All the Ways to have a Bond”
21.06.2016 Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Ernst – Universität Zürich, Schweiz “Stereochemistry in Flatland: Molecular recognition among nonplanar aromates at surfaces”
07.06.2016 Dr. Carlos Romero Nieto – Institut für Organische Chemie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg “Phosphaphenalenes: a new generation of multifunctional organophosphorus materials”
24.05.2016 Alexander Martyn, M.Sc. – University of Wollongong, Australia “Medicinal Chemistry Studies Towards Anticancer Drugs Acting via Novel Mechanisms”
26.04.2016 Prof. Shih-Yuan Liu – Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, USA “Structural Diversity through BN/CC Isosterism: Recent Progress in Biomedical Research and Catalysis”
19.04.2016 Prof. Dr. Sara Eisler – University of New Brunswick, Canada “Synthesis, Cyclizations, and Switches: Controlling Regiochemistry, and Molecular Motion, in π-Extended Heterocycles”
12.04.2016 Dr. Tuan Anh Pham – Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, The Netherlands “On-surface Ullmann coupling: Towards the role of metal surfaces and functional endgroups on the structural formation”
 22.03.2016  Prof. Dr. Masahiro Terada – Tohoku University, Japan  “Enantioselective Catalysis by Chiral Brønsted Acids and Base”
 23.02.2016  Prof. Dr. Yuming Zhao – Department of Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada  “Enantioselective Catalysis by Chiral Brønsted Acids and Base”
 26.01.2016  Prof. Dr. Uwe H. F. Bunz – Organisch-Chemisches Institut and Centre of Advanced Materials, Universität Heidelberg  “The Larger N-Heteroacenes”
 17.11.2015  Prof. Dr. Filip Bureš – Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic  “Alphabet-inspired organic push-pull molecules:
Design, synthesis, structureproperty relationships and applications”
 03.11.2015  Prof. Dr. Jevgenij A. Raskatov – Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA  “A Minute Modification of Alzheimer’s Aβ Attenuates Misfolding and Aggregation”

Date Lecturer Topic
24.07.2014 Dr. Kathrin Müller – Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, The Netherlands “Self-assembly of functionalized organic molecules on metal substrates: intermolecular vs. molecule-substrate interactions”
07.07.2014 Prof. Dr. Sureshan Kana –  IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India “Chemistry with sugars and polyols”
05.06.2014 Prof. Dr. Paul Keller – University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia  “Old Dogs, New Tricks: The Synthesis of ‘Interesting’ Heterocycles”
29.04.2014 Prof. Dr. Dennis P. Arnold – Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia “Playing with porphyrinoids: two rings are better than one”
08.04.2014 Dr. José Alemán – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid “From Sulfur Chemistry to Organocatalysis and Beyond”
14.01.2014 Prof. Dr. Kurt V. Gothelf – Center for DNA Nanotechnology (CDNA), iNANO and Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark “DNA-Programmed Assembly of Molecules and Materials”
17.12.2013 Prof. Dr. Uwe Beginn – Universität Osnabrück, Institut für Chemie neuer Materialien “Ionic Organogelators – the Chemistry of Grease”
10.12.2013 Dr. Immanuel Willerich – BASF, Polymer Colloid Technology “Coating Materials Research at BASF-Chemistry and Commercial Application”
29.10.2013 Prof. Dr. Nazario Martín – Universidad Complutense de Madrid “Designing efficient receptors for carbon nanoforms”

Date Lecturer Topic
15.03.2012 Prof. Dr. Illhyong Ryu – Dept. of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan “Multi-Component Radical Reaction Update”
25.01.2012 Prof. Dr. Carsten Schmuck – Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Duisburg-Essen “Switchable nanoparticles from self-aggregating zwitterions”
12.01.2012 Prof. Dr. Romano Dorta – Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela “Neue Synthesewerkzeuge: Von katalytischer enantioselektiver C-C Bindungsbildung zu funktionalen Flüssigsalzen”
02.11.2011 Prof. Dr. Georg Held – University of Reading, GB “Crystallography by Electrons: 2. Photoelectron diffraction, NEXAFS and EXAFS”
26.10.2011 Prof. Dr. Georg Held – University of Reading, GB “Crystallography by Electrons: 1. Basics and Low energy electron diffraction”
18.10.2011 Dr. Martin Held – University of Reading, GB “Wet surface chemistry: interactions of water molecules on metal surfaces”
30.09.2011 Prof. Dr. Albert Moyano – University of Barcelona “Looking for paths untrodden in the organocatalysis landscape”
06.09.2011 Prof. Yoshito Tobe – Dept. of Materials Engineering Science, Osaka University “Metastable Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Zethrenes and Indenofluorenes”
27.07.2011 Prof. Dr. Konstantin Neyman – ICREA / University of Barcelona “First-principles modelling of nanostructures in catalysis”
19.07.2011 Prof. Dr. Murray R. Gray – Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, USA “Organic and Physical Chemistry of Petroleum Asphaltenes”
15.07.2011 Prof. Dr. Bettina Lotsch – Department Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München “Low-dimensional nanostructures for sensing and energy conversion”
21.06.2011 Prof. Dr. Herwig Schottenberger – Institute of General, Inorganich and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck “Ionische Flüssigkeiten und Derivate mit N-O-Bindungen als Sollbruchstellen”
24.02.2011 Dr. Felix Raoul Fischer – Columbia University, New York “Design of Ring-Opening Metathesis of Strained Alkynes”

Date Lecturer Topic
07.12.2010 Prof. Dr. Pete Clapés – Catalonia Institute for Advanced Chemistry – CSIC, Barcelona “Enzyme Catalyzed Asymmetric Aldol Additions: from dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) to unphosphorylated donor analogs”
24.11.2010 Prof. Dr. Jean-Francois Nierengarten – Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux Moléculaires, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS “Fullerene-based nanostructures for materials science and biological applications”
16.11.2010 Prof. Dr. Andreas Bommarius – Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA “A tour guide through (protein functional) landscapes: Mount Fuji and Monument Valley”
01.10.2010 Prof. Dr. Vinod Kumar Singh – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal “Enantioselective Organocatalytic Aldol Reaction”
21.07.2010 Prof. Dr. Peter Stang – University of Utah, Salt Lake City “Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination”
29.06.2010 Prof. Dr. Keisuke Suzuki – Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan “Lessons from the total synthesis of hybrid natural products”
24.06.2010 Prof. Dr. Kenneth N. Raymond – University of California, Berkeley “Supramolecular Host-Guest Binding and Catalysis: a Synthetic Enzyme”
27.04.2010 Dr. Milan Kivala – Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz “Two-Dimensional Acetylenic Scaffolding: Extended Donor-Substituted Perethynylated Dehydroannulenes, Charge-Transfer Chromophores, and Cascade Reactions”
20.04.2010 Prof. Dr. Haim Cohen – Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel “Oxidative Decomposition of Formaldehyde as the Source of Explosions in Coal Mines and Coal Ships”
19.04.2010 Prof. Dr. Shunichi Fukuzumi – Osaka Universität, Japan “Perspective of Artificial Photosynthesis”
17.12.2009 Prof. Dr. Dieter Jahn – BASF “Innovationsmotor Chemie”
27.10.2009 Prof. Dr. Laren Tolbert “The Green Fluorescent Protein: Taking it apart and putting it back together”
26.10.2009 Prof. Dr. Mieczyslaw Makosza “Nucleophilic Substitution of Hydrogen in Electron-deficient Arenes”
13.10.2009 Prof. Dr. Werner Nau – Jacobs-Universität Bremen “Auf Fluoreszenzfarbstoffen und Makrozyklen basierende supramolekulare Enzymassays”
01.10.2009 Prof. Dr. David I. Schuster – New York University “Interlocked systems – rotaxanes and catenanes – for solar energy conversion”
28.07.2009 Prof. Dr. Graham Bodwell – Memorial University of New Foundland “Valence Isomerization / Dehydrogenation Reactions in the Synthesis of Substructures and Segments of Armchair Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”
07.07.2009 Prof. Armin Börner – Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse, Universität Rostock “Neuere Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Asymmetrischen Hydrierung”
30.06.2009 Prof. Dr. Vadim Soloshonok – University of Oklahoma “Self-Disproportionation of Enantiomers: A Manifesto”
26.05.2009 Dr. Stephan Sieber – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München “Naturstoffe und ihre biologischen Angriffsziele”
12.05.2009 Prof. Andrey Rogach – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München “Synthesis, spectroscopy and applications of semiconductor nanocrystals”
28.04.2009 Prof. Roy Periana – Scribbs Institute Florida “New Insights into Designing Molecular Catalysts for Selective, Oxidative Functionalization of Hydrocarbons”
21.04.2009 Prof. Dr. Beate Röder – Humboldt-Universität Berlin “Nanopartikel als Carrier für Photosensibilisatoren”