Programme Outline

Full Scientific and Social Programme

Oral and poster presentations will have equal status at the conference.

Please note: Owing to a few of the scheduled speakers having the withdrawn from the meeting, the Wednesday evening session has been cancelled and the presentations originally in that session have been rescheduled to fill other available time slots.

Poster presentations

Ann Almesaker,¹ Gaëlle Ramon,² Susan A Bourne,² Janet L Scott¹ and Christopher R Strauss³
1. Centre for Green Chemistry, Monash University, Wellington Rd, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia
2. Chemistry Department, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, South Africa
3. CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, Vic 3169, Australia
"Structural Diversity in Transition Metal Complexes of a Novel 'Clawed' Ligand"

Petra Bombicz, Mátyás Czugler, János Madarász, Roland Tellgren and Alajos Kálmán
Institute of Structural Chemistry, Chemical Research Center Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
"The polymorphism of a disappearing crystal: Phase transition and intermolecular hydrogen repulsion"

David J Bray,¹ Jan Herrmann,² Geoffrey A Lawrence,³ Leonard F Lindoy,¹ Karl-H. Müller,² and Gang Wei²
1. School of Chemistry University of Sydney Australia.
2. CSIRO Industrial Physics, West Lindfield, SW Australia.
3. School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, NSW Australia
"Metal Complexes Incorporated into Gold Nanoparticle Films"

Kirsten Corin, Susan A Bourne and Luigi R Nassimbeni
Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
"Separation by Inclusion: Selectivity by Tetraphenylethanediol of Toluene and Mono-halo Substituted Benzenes"

Sven E Harnung¹ and Erik Larsen²
1. Department of Chemistry University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Department of Natural Sciences, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark
"MCD of planar four coordinate Co(III)"

D A Haynes¹, C S Clarke², A D Bond³ and J M Rawson²
1. School of Chemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College campus, Durban, 4041, RSA; e-mail: haynes@ukzn.ac.za
2. University Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.
3. Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M
"Structural studies on some partially fluorinated dithiadiazolyls"

Greta Heydenrych, Gareth O Lloyd, Jo Alen, Jan Dillen and Leonard J Barbour
Department of Chemistry, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
"A helical host that displays polar ordering of guests: a computational study"

Simon S Iremonger and Cameron Kepert
School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
"Homochiral metal-organic frameworks"

Nadine Brem, Peter Comba and Marion Kerscher
Universität Heidelberg, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany
"Oxygen Activation with Non-heme Iron Complexes"

A G J Machatine and H W Kunert
Department of Physics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
"Multi-phonon processes in the presence of time reversal symmetry in corundum"

Alexey N Kuznetsov,¹ and Boris A Popovkin²
1. N.S.Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of RAS, Moscow, Russia.
2. Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
"New Mixed Bismuth-Group 13 Metal Subhalides: Synthesis and Crystal Structures"

Andreas Lemmerer and David Billing
School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
"Temperature Dependant Phase Transitions of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites"

Demi Levendis
School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
"Competing intermolecular interactions in arylformamides"

Liubov A Lugovskaya and I V Bugorovskaya
Petrozavodsk State University, pr. Lenina 33, 185640 Petrozavodsk, Russia
"Research of structural modifications in sol-gel vanadium pentaoxide"

N Bridget Makhura and David Billing
School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
"Synthesis and characterization of selected metal tungstates"

Emmanuel Marfo-Owusu,¹ Masafumi Yoshio² and Takashi Kato²
1. Division of Biomolecular Sciences and Bioengineering, Institute of Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Legon-Ghana
2. Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
"The Crystal Structure of Hydroxyl-Terminated Mesogenic Compound"

Vladimir M Novotortsev, Yu V Rakitin and I L Eremenko
Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
"Pentanuclear Ni(II) and Co(II) Pivalate Clusters: Modulation of Molecular Structure and Magnetic Properties"

B Omondi
School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
"Conformations and intermolecular interactions in aryl-formamides and -thioamides"

Melanie Rademeyer,¹ Christos P. Tsouris,¹ David G. Billing,² and Andreas Lemmerer²
1. School of Chemistry, Pietermaritzburg Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
2. School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
"Non-covalent interactions in 2-phenylethylammonium perhalometallates"

Natasha F Sciortino and Cameron J. Kepert
Department of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
"Spin-Crossover and Nanoporosity: Magnetic, Structural and Guest-Exchange Studies"

V G Sevastyanov,¹ E P Simonenko,¹ M A Chistyakov,¹ N T Kuznetsov,¹ V K Khamylov,² B I Petrov,² and T S Pochekutova²
1. Russian Academy of Sciences, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
2. Razuvaev Institute of Organometallic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia.
"Detailed Structural Characterization of Some Crown-Containing Lead and Barium β-Diketonates in Relation to their Thermochemistry"

Gábor Speier, József Kaizer, Éva Balogh-Hergovich, Ildikó Ganszky, Michel Giorgi, Marius Réglier and Serge Antonczak
1. Department of Organic Chemistry, Pannon University, Veszprém, Hungary.
2. Research Group for Petrochemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Veszprém, Hungary.
3. Université Paul Cezanne Aix- Marseille III, France.
4. Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France.
"Studies on flavonol 2,4-dioxygenase models"

Orkan Sarper, Ece Bulak, Wolfgang Kaim and Tereza Varnali
Bogazici University, F.E.F. Kimya, 80815 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey.
Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universitat Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
"Structural and electronic details for the ligand bis-(1-methylimidazol-2-yl)glyoxal complexes with Re(I), Rh(III) and Au(III): A DFT study."

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