DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

TRINITY COLLEGE

DUBLIN 2

IRELAND

2nd TMR - Workshop - 1st to 3rd October 1999.

TMR Project No: ERBFMRX-CT98-0226

"From Molecules to Materials: A Concerted Approach to Nanometer-sized Oligometallic Complexes with Predetermined Configurations and Functions."

Participating groups and teamleaders:

Dr. Francesco Barigelletti, Instituto FRAE-CNR, Bologna, Italy.

Prof. Sebastiano Campagna, Universita di Messina, Italy.

Prof. Gianfranco Denti, Universita di Pisa, Italy.

Prof. Fanny Kirsch, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Dr. Paul Kruger, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Prof. John Kelly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Prof. Alain van Dorsselaer, Universite de Strasbourg, France.

Prof. Alex von Zelewsky, Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland.

Workshop Program

Friday 1st October

09.00 - 17.00 Visit to participating laboratories at TCD.

20.00 Dinner at Kingsland Chinese restaurant.

Saturday 2nd October

09.00 Science Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Department , TCD.

Session 1. Chairperson: Philip Mackie.

2nd Workshop opening remarks from Prof. John Kelly.

09.10 Frederique Loiseau (Messina)

"Polypyridine Metal Complexes Based on a Polytopic Ligand Containing Azacrown-ether Spacers."

09.35 Sebastiano Campagna (Messina)

"First Evidence by Time-resolved Luminescence of Charge Migration Between Different Moieties of a Bridging Ligand with Extended Conjugation."

09.50 Andre Brodkorb (Bruxelles)

"Stereoselective Interaction of Polynuclear Ru-complexes with Mono-, Oligo-, and Polynucleotides."

10.15 Carole Bresson (Bruxelles)

"Synthesis of Ru(II) Compounds: Chiral Building Blocks."

10.30 Coffee Break

Session 2. Chairperson: Carlos Penedo-Esteiro.

10.50 Stephan Schumm (Bruxelles)

"Computational Modelling of the Interaction between Ru(II) Complexes and DNA: Theoretical methods and Strategies."

11.05 David Garcia (Bruxelles)

"[Ru(tap)2(dip)]2+: a Molecular Photo-tool for the Characterisation and Photo-modification of Oligonucleotides."

11.35 Susana Encinas (Bologna)

"Photoinduced Processes in Porphyrin-based [2]-Rotaxanes."

12.00 Lucia Flamigni (Bologna)

"Spectroscopic Techniques in the Study of Photoinduced Charge Separation in Multicomponent Systems."

12.40 - 13.40 Lunch at TCD.

Session 3. Chairperson: Frederique Loiseau.

13.40 Carlos Penedo-Esteiro (Dublin)

"Optical Properties of [Ru(m-2,3-dppRu(bpy)2)3][PF6]2 in Several Solvents and its Interaction with DNA "

14.00 Antonella Di Trapani (Dublin)

"Chromium Coordination Compounds as Precursors to Heterometallic Species."

14.10 Philip Mackie (Dublin)

"Towards Heterometallic Assemblies which Possess Novel Photophysical and Magnetic Properties."

14.30 Thorri Gunnlaugsson (Dublin)

"Lanthanide Luminescent Responsive Systems"

14.50 Peter Belser (Fribourg)

"New Luminescent Ru-compounds Containing Condensed Aromatic Ligands."

15.20 Coffee Break

Session 4. Chairperson: Angel Cantin-Sanz.

15.40 Catherine Goujot-Ginglinger (Fribourg)

"Synthesis of Chiral Building Blocks for Complex Molecules"

16.00 Liam Gilby (Fribourg)

"Stereoselective Synthesis of Chiral Building Blocks for Nanoscale Polynuclear Coordination Species"

16.20 - 17.00 General discussion.

19.00 Dinner at La Mezza Luna restaurant.

Sunday 3rd October

09.30 -10.45 Board Meeting.

10.15 - 10.45 Meeting for TMR-funded Post- Docs and Postgrads.

10.45 - 11.00 Coffee Break

Session 5. Chairperson: Susana Encinas.

11.00 Boris Quinodoz (Fribourg)

"Helicates from the Chiragen Ligand Family"

11.20 Thomas Bark (Fribourg)

"Force Field Modelling of Silver Complexes"

11.40 Angel Cantin-Sanz (Pisa)

"Preparation of Stereoisomerically Pure Oligometallic Dendrimers."

12.00 - 12.30 General discussion and closing remarks.

12.30 Informal lunch.