First day, Friday 22 September

 

Session 1

 

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome (Gianfranco Denti, Pisa)

09:10 - 09:40 Tutorial 1 - Ru(II) complexes under visible illumination: from polynuclear species to supramolecular systems with DNA (Fanny Kirsch, Brussels).

09:40 - 10:00 Lecture 1 - Towards Molecular Devices: From Multimetallic Complexes to Supramolecular Networks (Phil Mackie, Dublin)

10:00 - 10:20 Lecture 2 - Stereospecific synthesis of novel polymetallic complexes based on Ru and Os. (Alain Maggiani, Pisa)

10:20 - 10:40 Lecture 3 - Creating new binding sites in metal complexes (Garry Hanan, Waterloo).

 

 

10:40 - 11:20 Coffee break

 

Session 2

 

11:20 - 11:50 Lecture 4 - Binuclear metal complexes and lifetime analysis of DNA-bound complexes (John Kelly, Dublin)

11:50 - 12:20 Lecture 5 - Photophysical studies on the deuterated dppz compounds and the dppz rhenium tricarbonyl compounds (Carlos Penedo, Dublin)

12:20 - 12:40 Lecture 6 - Ru derivatized oligonucleotides. Quenching processes by the complementary strands. Part I: Experimental aspects. (O. Lentzen, Brussels).

12:40 - 13:00 Lecture 7 - Ru derivatized oligonucleotides. Quenching processes by the complementary strands. Part II: Theoretical results. (S. Schumm, Brussels).

 

 

13:00 Lunch (refectory of Scuola Normale Superiore)

 

Session 3

 

15:00 - 15:30 Tutorial 2 - Chiragen Ligands (Alex Von Zelewsky, Fribourg)

15:30 - 15:50 Lecture 8 - Polynuclear Ru(II) complexes with the PHEHAT and HATPHE ligand. From dinuclear to dendritic species. (Julien Leveque, Brussels)

15:50 - 16:10 Lecture 9 &emdash; New homometallic dinuclear polypyridine complexes of Ir(III), Ru(II), and Os(II). (Frédérique Loiseau, Messina)

16:10 - 16:30 Lecture 10 - Chiral Macrocycles (Sandrine Fraysse, Fribourg)

 

16:30 -17:00 Coffee break

 

Session 4

 

17:00 - 17:20 Lecture 11 &emdash; New luminescent dendrons as efficient light-harvesting antennas (Fausto Puntoriero, Messina)

17:20 - 17:40 Lecture 12 - Self-Assembled Chiral Coordination Compounds Starting from a new CHIRAGEN Family. (Marielle Loï, Fribourg)

17:40 - 18:00 Lecture 13 - Studies by ESMS of the formation in solution of non-covalent complexes: Cis-platin selectivity for DNA. (Nathalie Carte, Strasbourg)

 

Second day, Saturday 23 September

 

 

 

09:00 - 10:20 Board meeting (team leaders and representatives)

 

 

Session 5

 

10:20 - 10:40 Lecture 14 - Studies by ESMS of the formation in solution of non-covalent complexes: Chiral recognition . (Hélène Nierengarten, Strasbourg).

10:40 - 11.00 Lecture 15 - Oligopyridinyl-pyrazine Ligands for Self-Assembly: Formation of Circular Helicates and the Challenge of Predetermination of Metal-centred Chirality. (Thomas Bark, Fribourg)

 

 

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

 

Session 6

 

11:30 - 12:00 Lecture 16 - Photochemical devices based on fullerene C60. (Nicola Armaroli, Bologna).

12:00 - 12:20 Lecture 17 - From Mono- to Polynuclear Polypyridyl Complexes (Antonella Di Trapani, Dublin).

12:20 - 12:40 Lecture 18 - New Chiragen Family Containing Metallocene as Bridges. (Boris Quinodoz, Fribourg)

12:40 - 13:00 Lecture 19 - Towards novel metal-containing dendrimers decorated with bi-/trichromophoric ligands (Nathan McClenaghan, Messina)

 

 

13:00 Lunch (refectory of Scuola Normale Superiore)

 

Session 7

 

15:00 - 15:30 Tutorial 4 - Control of photoinduced energy transfer between metal-polypyridyl units in rigid, flexible, and H-bonded systems. (Francesco Barigelletti, Bologna)

15:30 - 15:50 Lecture 20 - Probing interaction with DNA: new optically pure Ru(II) complexes with a Troger's base skeleton. (Carole Bresson, Brussels).

15:50 - 16:10 Lecture 21 - Effect of extended conjugation on metal-metal communication (Matthew Polson, Waterloo)

 

 

16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break

 

Session 8

 

16:40 - 17:00 Lecture 22 - Protonation of Chiral Bipyridine Derivatives (Mathias Düggeli, Fribourg).

17:00 - 17:20 Lecture 23 - Novel optically pure Rh(III) complexes. Their photophysical behaviour in the absence and presence of DNA. (André Brodkorb and Liana Ghisdavu, Brussels)

 

 

17:20 -18:30 Overview and general discussion

End of the workshop