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Joint International Symposium
of the Collaborative Research Center 546 and the Cluster of Excellence UniCat

"Activation of Small Molecules - Gas Phase Clusters, Molecular Catalysts, Enzymes and Solid Materials"

Erkner, February 20-23, 2011

 

 

 

Invited speakers

Eric Altman
(Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, USA)
Applying Surface Science to Complex Transition Metal Oxide Catalysts
Ulrich Heiz
(TU München, Germany)
Oxidation of CO on magnesia supported, parially oxidized Pd nano-clusters
Dieter Kolb
(Universität Ulm, Germany)
Tuning the catalytic properties of electrodes by surface strain
Hannu Häkkinen
(University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Survival stories of catalytic nanoscale gold:
Clusters in gas phase, protected by ligands and supported by oxides
Tobin Marks
(Northwestern University, USA)
Oxides as Activators and Ligands for Organometallic Molecule-Derived Small-Molecule Catalysis
Horia Metiu
(University of California, USA)
Doped oxides as catalysts for methane activation
Frank Neese
(Universität Bonn, Germany)
Insight into C-H bond activation by nonheme iron centers from a combination of spectroscopy and quantum chemistry
Daniel G. Nocera
(MIT, USA)
Solar Energy Conversion Catalysis: An Artificial Oxygen Evolving Complex Enables the Construction of an Artificial Leaf
Peter C. Stair
(Northwestern University, USA)
The Structure and Reactivity of Supported Vanadium Oxide
Karl Wieghardt
(MPI Mülheim, Germany)
Coordination Chemistry with Radical Ligands: Where are the Valence Electrons?
Knut Asmis
(FHI Berlin, Germany)
Gas Phase Vibrational Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Oxide Clusters
Siegfried Blechert
(TU Berlin, Germany)
Consecutive Catalysis
Holger Dau
(FU Berlin, Germany)
Water oxidation - from photosynthesis to amorphous metal oxides
Holger Dobbek
(HU Berlin, Germany)
Metalloenzymes in the bacterial life on carbon monoxide
Matthias Driess
(TU Berlin, Germany)
Chemical & Biological Catalysis Unified: Aims, Unique Features and Selected Achievements of UniCat
André Fielicke
(FHI Berlin, Germany)
Shedding IR light on gas phase clusters: structures and reactions
Hans-Joachim Freund
(FHI Berlin, Germany)
Atom-scale description and control of complex surface structures
Raimund Horn
(FHI Berlin, Germany)
Model studies on Catalytic and Gas Phase Methane Oxidative Coupling
Christian Limberg
(HU Berlin, Germany)
From surface-inspired oxovanadium models to active catalysts for the oxidation of alcohols with O2 and biomimetic sulfoxidations
Niklas Nilius
(FHI Berlin, Germany)
Defects in transition and rare-earth metal oxides investigated with STM and DFT
Joachim Sauer
(HU Berlin, Germany)
Structure and reactivity of transition metal oxides: gas phase, clusters, thin films, single crystals and supported catalysts
Sergey Levchenko
(FHI Berlin, Germany)
Charged defects on oxide surfaces: formation energies and thermodynamics
Robert Schlögl
(FHI Berlin, Germany)
Oxidative dehydrogenation of propane: from model systems to high performance catalysts
Reinhard Schomäcker
(TU Berlin, Germany)
The impact of support materials on the activity of vanadium oxide catalysts in oxidative dehydrogenation reactions
Helmut Schwarz
(TU Berlin, Germany)
Homolytic C-H Bond Activation: The Role of Oxygen-Centered Radicals and Mechanistic Aspects
Arne Thomas
(TU Berlin, Germany)
Catalysis with Porous Functional Materials


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