PROGRAMME

Scottish Dalton Meeting 2005

Joseph Black Building, Department of Chemistry, Glasgow, Tuesday 5th April.

 

10:00

Registration & coffee

 

10:25

Introduction

 

10:30

Session 1 : Dr Peter Bishop, Johnson-Matthey PLC

Coordination Chemistry & Industrial Applications of Gold Chemistry

 

11:30

Dr Mark Muldoon, University of St Andrews

Development of Ionic Liquid/Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Systems

 

11:50

Dr Euan Brechin, University of Edinburgh

High-Spin Molecules, Molecular Minerals and Single-Molecule Magnets

 

12:10

Dr Alan Kennedy, University of Strathclyde

Structure-Property Correlation and Sulfonated Azo Dyes

 

 

12:30

Lunch & posters

 

 

1:30

Session 2 : Professor Peter Edwards, University of Cardiff

The Control of Lability : Acyclic and Macrocyclic Phosphorus Ligands

 

2:30

Dr Abbie McLaughlin, University of Aberdeen

Colossal Magnetoresistance and Negative Thermal Expansion in the Ruthenocuprate RuSr2Nd1.1-xYxCe0.9Cu210

 

2:50

Jenny Houghton, University of York

Reactivity and Catalytic Studies of Chelating bis-NHC Amine Palladium Complexes

 

3:10

Dr Daniel Price, University of Glasgow

Low Dimensional Magnetism in New Transition Metal Oxalates

 

 

3:30

Coffee & Posters

 

 

4:10

Session 3: Dr Paul Low, University of Durham

Diethynyl Aromatics - a New Look at Some Old Ligands

 

4:30

Dr Tebikie Wondimagegn, Heriot-Watt University

Deactivation Pathways in Olefin Polymerization Catalysis : A Combined Density Functional Theory & Molecular Mechanics Investigation

 

4:50

Announcements & Close of Meeting