09.30-10.30       Registration, setting up posters and coffee

10.30-10.40        Welcome and opening remarks

10.40-11.30        Plenary Lecture:   Grace Morgan  (University College Dublin)

                            “From octahedral to trigonal prismatic: harnessing spin in transition metals”

11.30-11.50        Presentation:         Chris S. Hawes  (Trinity College Dublin)

                            “Guest-Responsive Behaviour in Coordination Polymers and Metallogels”

11.50-12.10        Presentation:         Kay E. Burrows (University of Leeds)

                            “The influence of chirality of the spin-states of iron(II) pybox derivatives”

12:10-12.30       Presentation:         Philip W. Dyer (Durham University)

                            “Understanding tungsten-mediated olefin dimerization”

12.30-13.40       Lunch (provided) and Poster Session

13.40-14.20        Invited Lecturer:       Jose Goicoechea  (University of Oxford)

                             “From Chemical Curiosities to Versatile Reagents: Heavy Group 15 Analogues of the Cyanate Ion”

14.20-14.40        Presentation:            Deborah L. Kays (University of Nottingham)

                             “Catalysis Using Low-Coordinate Complexes of Earth Abundant Metals”

14.40-15.00        Presentation:             Krishna Mistry (University of Bristol)

                            “Pt(0) Monocarbonyl Complexes for Cooperative Small Molecule Activation”

15:00-15.20        Presentation:             Robert J. Newland (Heriot-Watt University)

                             “Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis with Phosphinophosphinine Ligands”

15.20-15.40        Afternoon Tea

15.40-16.00        Presentation:            Nicholas F. Chilton  (Univerrsity of Manchester)

                            Title to be confirmed

16.00-16.20        Presentation:            Lucy E. Wilson (Imperial College)

                            “Delocalised chains and rings of ferrocenes”

16.20-16.40       Presentation:            Jason M. Lynam (University of York)

                            “Probing Manganese-catalysed C-H Functionalisation with Time-resolved Infra-red Spectroscopy”

16.40-17.30        Plenary  Lecture:     Eric Meggers  (University of Marburg)

                             “Steering Asymmetric Catalysis with Metal-Centered Chirality”

17.30-17:45        (CODG management meeting)

17.30-19.00        Poster Session:        George Fox Foyer

19.30-21.30        Conference Dinner:  Courtyard & Café

09.00-09.40        Invited Lecture:       Rachel Platel  (Lancaster University)

                             “Combining Old Ligands and New Metals for the Isoselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide”

09.40-10.00        Presentation:           Colette Boskovic (University of Melbourne)

                             “Rare Earth Complexes with Redox-Active Dioxolene-Based Ligands”

10.00-10.20        Presentation:            Antonio Fernandez (University of Manchester)  

                             “Supramolecular assemblies with hybrid rotaxanes”

10.20-10.40        Presentation:           Nikolaos Tsoureas (University of Sussex)

                               “Ti₂(μ:η⁵,η⁵-Pn^†)₂ (Pn^† = C₈H₄(SiⁱPr₃)₂): a ‘super-sandwich’ complex full of chemical treats”

10.40-11.10        Coffee Break

11.10-11.50        Invited Lecture:      Eva Hevia  (University of Strathclyde)

                           “Towards a Paradigm Shift in Main Group Polar Organometallic Chemistry”

11.50-12.10        Presentation:          Massimiliano Curcio  (University of Edinburgh)

                            “Radical relatives: redox activity and coordination chemistry in diarylmethenes”

12.10-12.30        Presentation:          Simon Higgins (University of Liverpool)

                           “Evidence for hopping at unusually short molecular lengths in metal / molecule / metal junctions with conjugated metal–terpyridyl complexes”

12:30-12.50       Presentation:          Andy Houlton (Newcastle University)

                           “A new coordination chemistry approach to the assembly and functionalisation of DNA-based materials”

12.50-14.00       Lunch (provided) and Poster Session

14.00-14.20        Presentation:         Charlotte E. Willans (University of Leeds)

                            “N-Heterocyclic carbene-carboranes as new ligand architectures”

14.20-14.40        Presentation:          Fabrizio Ortu (The University of Manchester)

                             “Thorium redox chemistry and a new way to measure covalency by pulsed EPR spectroscopy”

14:40-15:00        Presentation:          Zoe R. Turner (University of Oxford)

                             “Non-innocent cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes: ligand rearrangement, C-H and C-F activation.”

15:00-15.50        Plenary  Lecture:    Mike Ward  (University of Warwick)

                             “Guest binding and catalysed reactions in the cavity of a coordination cage”