Topics

Cluster boron chemistry

Boranes, carboranes, metallaboranes and metallacarboranes; synthetic chemistry, structure and bonding, applications

Organoboron compounds and their metal complexes

Synthesis, structure, applications

Asymmetric synthesis via organoboron compounds, enantioselective reductions, chiral boron compounds

Boron compounds in medicine

Design and synthesis

Boron containing materials, polymers, ceramics, borides, boron nitride, boron oxides

Other aspects of boron chemistry, including characterization and modelling

Speakers

M. Elena FERNÁNDEZ

Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Detlef GABEL

Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Bohimir GRÜNER

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Evamarie HEY-HAWKINS

Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Emmanuel LACÔTE

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, CNES, Villeurbanne, France

Zbigniew J. LESNIKOWSKI

IMB PAS, Lodz, Poland

Todd MARDER

Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Philippe MIELE

Institut Européen des Membranes, UMR5635, Montpellier, France

Francesc TEIXIDOR

Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Clara VIÑAS

Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Alan J. WELCH

School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom