Kickoff Meeting, Area di Ricerca di Firenze, Sesto
Fiorentino, Italy, February 12-13, 2004.
Full minutes of the Meeting are available for Network Members and EC responsibles in the Internal Pages.
Participants
Aquachem scientific persons in charge:
Maurizio Peruzzini, Florence, Italy (coordinator) , Luca Gonsalvi, Florence, Italy (network manager)
Rinaldo Poli, Toulouse, France; Anne Marie Caminade, Toulouse, France; Ferenc Joò, Debrecen, Hungary; Jenny Gun, Jerusalem, Israel;
Agusti Lledos, Barcelona, Spain; Antonio Romerosa, Almeria, Spain; Armando Pombeiro, Lisbon, Portugal; Robin Perutz, York, United Kingdom; Rudi van Eldik, Erlangen, Germany.
Dr Maurizio Peruzzini, the Coordinator of the working group, chaired the meeting which was held in the Lecture Theatre 1 of the recently inaugurated building hosting ICCOM CNR within the CNR Research Area in Sesto Fiorentino (Florence, Italy).
Thursday 12th February
16:00 Ferenc Joó (University of Debrecen, Hungary): ”Making use of the two largest pools of carbon: CO2 and carbonate rocks”
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Maurizio Peruzzini (ICCOM CNR, Florence, Italy): Introductory remarks concerning the AQUACHEM consortium
17:15 Maurizio Peruzzini (ICCOM CNR, Florence, Italy): “New chemistry and catalysis with water-soluble ligands: an overview of the Florence’s team activity and working perspectives”
17.30 Luca Gonsalvi (ICCOM CNR, Florence, Italy): “Ruthenium (II) water soluble complexes of PTA (PTA = 7-phospha-1,3,5-triazaadamantane) for catalytic biphasic hydrogenations. Mechanistic studies by high pressure NMR and DFT calculations”
18.00 Rinaldo Poli (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France): “High oxidation state organometallic chemistry in water. Results for Cp*Mo and perspectives”
18:30 Antonio Romerosa (University of Almería, Spain):“New water soluble vinylidene and allenylidene ruthenium complexes containing water soluble phosphane and Cp”
20:30 Dinner
Friday 13th February
09:30 Anne Marie Caminade (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France): ”Dendritic catalysts”
10:00 Jenny Gun (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): ”Combined on-line electrochemistry/mass spectrometry for the investigation of electrochemical reactions and electrochemically inhomogeneous surface”
10:30 Agusti Lledos (University of Barcelona, Spain): ”Computational Modeling of "Real" Organometallic Chemistry: What Can We Do?”
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 Robin Perutz (University of York, United Kingdom): ”Photoactive supramolecules: photo induced redox chemistry at a remote site”
11:45 Rudi van Eldik (University of Erlangen, Germany): ”Mechanistic insight gained from volume profile analysis”
12:15 Lunch break
14:00 Armando Pombeiro (Istituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal): ”Chemistry and electrochemistry of selected small molecules towards catalysis in aqueous medium”
14:30 Gianna Reginato (ICCOM CNR, Florence, Italy): ”Synthesis of functionalized alkynes as ligands for water soluble unsaturated carbenes”
15:00
Closure notes
End of the meeting