Topics to be covered in microsymposia include the physics, chemistry, biology, material science, engineering, nanotechnology, medical and biomedical or industrial applications of porphyrins, phthalocyanines and related macrocycles.
As at past ICPPs, this ninth conference on porphyrins and phthalocyanines aims at gathering together numerous topics related to this exciting family of molecules. All aspects of porphyrins, phthalocyanines and related macrocycles will be discussed in the form of Plenary Lectures, Award Lectures, short oral presentations and posters over the full five-day period of the meeting.
Topics to be covered in microsymposia include the physics, chemistry, biology, material science, engineering, nanotechnology, medical and biomedical or industrial applications of porphyrins, phthalocyanines and related macrocycles.
The list of scheduled symposia and symposium organizers is presented below.
I. Synthesis and Properties
1. Corrole Synthesis and Functionalization
Organized by: Wouter Maes and Roberto Paolesse
2. Sandwich Tetrapyrrole Rare Earth Functional Molecular Materials
Organized by: Yongzhong Bian, Yulia Gorbunova, and Jianzhuang Jiang
3. Advances in the Synthesis and Properties of Phthalocyanines and Related Systems
Organized by: Tomas Torres, Gema de la Torre, Giovanni Bottari and Andrew Cammidge
4. Porphycenes
Organized by: Jacek Waluk and Santi Nonell
5. SubPcs, SubPzs, SubPors and Related Contracted Porphyrinoids
Organized by: Atsuhiro Osuka, Soji Shimizu and Salome Rodriguez Morgade
6. Functionalization of Porphyrins
Organized by: Norbert Jux and Christian Brueckner
7. NIR-Responsive Porphyrinoids: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
Organized by: Jishan Wu, Yoshihiro Matano and Hiroko Yamada
8. Advances in the Chemistry of Porphyrazines (Substituted and Annulated)
Organized by: Pavel A. Stuzhin and Petr Zimcik
9. BODIPY Dyes: Past, Present and Future
Organized by: Kevin Smith and Erhong Hao
10. Novel Pyrrolic Macrocycles and Chromophores Synthesis, Properties and Applications
Organized by: Zhen Shen and John Mack
11. Metalloporphyrinoids: Design, Spectroscopy and Application
Organized by: Junlong Zhang and Kin Shing Chan
II. Materials and Self Assemblies
12. Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
Organized by: Angela Sastre-Santos and Fernando Fernández-Lázaro
13. Exotic Coordination Chemistry of Porphyrinoid Systems and its Applications
Organized by: Penny Brothers and Bernard Boitrel
14. Porphyrin- and Phthalocyanine-based Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion, Storage and Catalysis
Organized by: Yujiang Song and Craig Medforth
15. Chiral Aspects of Porphyrin Supramolecular Chemistry
Organized by: Robert Purrello and Nina Berova
16. Covalent and Noncovalent Assembly of Porphyrins on DNA
Organized by: Eugen Stulz and Alessandro D’Urso
17. Porphyrin-Modified Hard-Matter Nanoscale Objects for Electro-Optics and Energy Conversion
Organized by: Mike Therien
18. Chirality and Spatially Pre-Organized Multi-Porphyrins with Induced Properties
Organized by: Nathalie Solladie and Victor Borovkov
19. Phthalocyanine-Based Devices
Organized by: Marcel Bouvet and Yanli Chen
20. Porphyrinoids Based Chemical Sensors
Organized by: Corrado Di Natale and Marcel Bouvet
21. Porphyrin Assemblies in Confined Space: from Structural Control to Function
Organized by: Minghua Liu, Penglei Chen and Akihiko Tsuda
III. Biomedical Applications
22. Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy
Organized by: Kristjan Plaetzer and Reza Ghiladi
23. Hydrosoluble Porphyrin Derivatives for Medical/Biological Applications
Organized by: M. Graca H. Vicente and Claude P. Gros
24. Phthalocyanine materials for PDT
Organized by: Dennis K. P. Ng, Pui-Chi Lo and Jinping Xue
25. Spectroscopy of Phthalocyanines in Biomedical Applications
Organized by: Halina Abramczyk and Beata Brozek-Pluska
26. Targeting in PDT: the Different Strategies
Organized by: Celine Frochot and Fabienne Dumoulin
27. Porphyrin-Based Nanoscale Compositions for in Vivo Imaging
Organized by: Mike Therien
28. Porphyrin-based Compounds for Cancer-Imaging and Therapy - a Translational Approach
Organized by: Ravindra K. Pandey and H. Bai
29. Nanotechnology in delivering PDT Agents to Tumor
Organized by: Zhuang Liu
30. Basic and Clinical Research in PDT
Organized by: Qicheng Fang, Ying Gu, Libo Li and Naisheng Chen
IV. Catalysis and Energy
31. Electron Transfer Applications of Tetrapyrroles
Organized by: Francis D'Souza and Dirk Guldi
32. High-Valent Metal Oxo Macrocyclic Complexes and their Precursors
Organized by: Wonwoo Nam and Alexander Sorokin
33. Catalytic Chemical Transformations by Metalloporphyrins
Organized by: Peter Zhang and Xuefeng Fu
34. Porphyrinoids for Dye-Sensitized and Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells
Organized by: Hiroshi Imahori, Wouter Maes and Eric Diau.
35. Towards Two Dimensional Tetrapyrrole Nanostructures
Organized by: Jianxin Song and Jianzhuang Jiang
36. Photo- and Electro-Catalytic Processes
Organized by: Zeev Gross
V. Biochemistry/Hemes
37. Heme Proteins and Analogues
Organized by: John Dawson and Takashi Hayashi
38. Resonance Raman and EPR probes of the Crucial Intermediates Encountered in the Catalytic Cycles of Heme Enzymes
Organized by: James Kincaid and Anabella Ivancich
39. Vitamin B12: Crossing all Borders
Organized by: Felix Zelder and Dorota Gryko
40. Heme Enzymes: Structure and Function
Organized by: Dennis Rousseau and Syun-Ru Yeh
41. Biochemistry of Linear Tetrapyrroles
Organized by: Kai-Hong Zhao and Hugo Scheer
42. Natural Porphyrinoid Pigments: Synthesis, Structure and Biological Function
Organized by: Bernhard Kraeutler and Franz-Peter Montforts
43. Heme Enzymes : Functional Mechanisms
Organized by: Takashi Ogura and and Shingo Nagano
VI. Theory, Modelling and Spectroscopy
44. Computational Advances in Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
Organized by: Samuel de Visser and Li Ji
45. Theory and Spectroscopy
Organized by: Martin J. Stillman and Nagao Kobayashi
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