IOCB Invited Lectures 2007


19 February 2007  
Prof. Manfred T. Reetz (MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany):
Evolution in the Test-Tube as a Means to Create Functional Enzymes

30 March 2007
Prof. Herbert Waldmann (MPI of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany):
Biology Oriented Synthesis (BIOS)

4 April 2007
Prof. E. Peter Kündig (University of Geneva, Switzerland):
Advances in Transition Metal Lewis Acid - Mediated and Catalyzed Reactions

25 April 2007
Prof. David N. Reinhoudt (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands):
Molecular Printboards

21 May 2007
Prof. Sason Shaik (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel):
A Tale of Two States: From Iron Oxo Diatomic to Cytochrome P450 and Other Oxidation Catalysts

28 May 2007
Prof. Colin Nuckolls (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA):
Reaction Chemistry Meets Lithography

22 June 2007
Prof. Douglas F. Covey (Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA):
ent-Steroids: Chemistry and Biology

26 June 2007
Prof. Klaus Müllen (MPI for Polymer Research, Main, Germany):
Putting the Molecules into Molecular Electronics

24 September 2007
Prof. James M. Tour (Rice University, Houston, TX, USA):
Organic Nanotechnology: Nanotubes, Molecular Electronics and Nanocars

8 October 2007
Prof. Klaus Müller-Dethlefs (University of Manchester, UK):
Non-Covalent Interactions in Molecular Clusters: How Do We Compare Experiment and Theory?

22 October 2007
Prof. Benjamin List (MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany):
New Concepts for Organocatalysis

29 October 2007
Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto (Chicago University, IL, USA):
Acid Catalysis for Asymmetric Synthesis

31 October 2007
Prof. Bruce H. Lipshutz (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA):
Enabling Technologies Based on the Chemistry of Coenzyme Q10

6 November 2007
Prof. Tamotsu Takahashi (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan):
Carbon-Carbon Bond Cleavage and Formation on Titanocene

26 November 2007
Prof. Ilan Marek (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel):
New Methods for the Preparation of Enantiomerically Pure all-Carbon Quaternary Centers in Acyclic System

3 December 2007
Prof. Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany):
Tailoring Functionality of Clusters and their Complexes with Biomolecules by Size, Structures and Lasers