The Program for the 5^th Vanadium Symposium

The Program with Titles of Contributions:

Session 1. Tutorial - Experimental Techniques for Studies of Vanadium Chemistry

Sandra Eaton (Denver, Colorado) "Applications of EPR Spectroscopy"

Debbie C. Crans (Fort Collins, USA) "⁵¹V NMR for Studying New Compounds, Their Speciation and Application in Biological Studies"

Edward Solomon (Stanford, California) "Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Studies of Electronic Structure"

Lage Pettersson (Umeå, Sweden) "Application of Multipronged Methods in Elucidation of Speciation of Vanadium(V) Compounds"

Tatyana Polenova (Delaware, USA) "⁵¹V Solid State NMR Spectroscopy of Vanadium Haloperoxidases and Bioinorganic Haloperoxidase Mimics"

Patrick Frank, Elaine J. Carlson, Robert M.K. Carlson, and Keith O. Hodgson (Stanford, USA) "Towards the Reductive Chemistry of Vanadyl Ion in Blood Cells from the Tunicate Ascidia ceratodes"

Session 2. Enzymology, Toxicology and Transport

Beata Vertessy (Szeged, Hungary) "Vanadium Compounds as Enzymatic Co-factors"

Mitchell Cohen (New York, USA) "Toxicity of Vanadium Compounds in Lungs of Rats"

Manuel Aureliano Alves (Algarve, Portugal) "Decavanadate Toxicity"

Patrick Frank, Robert M.K. Carlson, Elaine Carson, and Keith Hodgson (Stanford, USA) "Uptake and Fate of Vanadyl Ions in Blood Cells from Ascidia ceratodes"

Hitoshi Michibata (Hiroshima, Japan) "Vanabins-Vanadium Binding Proteins"

Tatsuya Ueki and Hitoshi Michibata (Hiroshimo, Japan) "Metal Ion Selectivity and Affinity of Wild type and Mutant Vanabins"

Jonathan Wilker (West Lafeyette, USA) "Alkylation Reactions of Vanadates and a Possible Role in Cancer Prevention"

Jan Florian (Chicago, USA) "Computer Simulations of Vanadium Complexes as Transition State Analogs in Model Enzymatic Reactions"

Session 3. Insulin Enhancing Agents: Compound Design and Mechanism of Action

(Session Organizer: Marvin Makinen (Chicago, USA)

Margarida M. C. A. Castro (Coimbra, Portugal) "TBA"

Susanna Etcheverry (la Plata, Argentina) "Effects of Vanadium Compounds in Bone Related Cells"

Marvin Makinen (Chicago, USA) "The Mechanism of Insulin-mimetic Effects of Vanadium Coumpounds"

Yoram Shechter (Rehovot, Isreal) "TBA"

Chris Orvig (Vancouver, Canada) "New Discoveries with the Insulin-mimetic Analogs of Bisoxomaltolatooxovanadium(IV)"

Katherine Thompson (Vancouver, Canada) "TBA"

Gail R. Willsky (Buffalo, USA) "Effect of Chronic Vanadium Treatment on Global Gene Expression in the Presence and Absence of the Lowering of Diabetic Hyperglycemia"

Mohammad Mahroof-Tahir (St. Cloud, USA) "The Chemistry of Vanadium Flavonoid Complexes: Potential Anti-diabetic Complexes"

Dinorah Gambino (Montevideo, Uruguay) "Novel Vanadyl Complexes with Quinoxaline N1,N4-dioxide Derivatives Bearing in vivo Biological Activity"

Deborah Roess (Fort Collins, USA) "Do Lipophilic Vanadium Compounds Drive Reorganization of the Plasma Membrane and Activation of Insulin Receptors Within Lipid Rafts?"

Hiromu Sakurai (Kyoto, Japan) "Development of New Anti-diabetic Vanadyl Complexes and Their Action Mechanisms"

Akira Katoh (Tokyo, Japan) "The in vivo Insulinomimetic Activities of Vanadyl Complexes with 1-Hydroxy-2(1H)-pyrimidinones and 3-Hydroxythiazole-2(3H)-thiones"

Session 4. Haloperoxidases: Mechanism and Model Studies

(Session Organizer: Winfried Plass, Jena, Germany)

Winfried Plass (Jena, Germany) "Model Studies of Haloperoxidations-Structural and Functional Lessons"

Jennifer A. Littlechild (Exeter, UK) "Crystallisation Studies of Haloperoxidases-Insights into Halide Specificity and Enzyme Mechanism"

Vincent Pecoraro (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) "Model Studies of Peroxidase Activity of Vanadium Compounds"

Dieter Rehder (Hamburg, Germany) "Biomimetic Vanadium Complexes in Oxo-transfer Catalysis"

Alison Butler (Santa Barbara, USA) "Mechanistic Studies in Vanadium Bromoperoxidases"

Session 5. Applications of Vanadium in Organic Synthesis

(Session Organizer: Valeria Conte, Roma, Italy)

Hasashi Yamamoto (Chicago, USA) "Vanadium Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidation"

Toshikazu Hirao (Osaka, Japan) "Efficient Catalytic Systems for Vanadium-induced Redox Reactions"

Valeria Conte (Roma, Italy) "Vanadium Catalyzed Oxidation in Sustainable Media"

Jens Hartung (Kaiserslautern, Germany) "Structure and Reactivity of Vanadium(V)-Complexes in Oxidation Catalysis - The Stereoselective Formation of Carbon-Oxygen and Carbon-Bromine Bonds"

Armando Pombeiro (Lisboa, Portugal) "Vanadium Catalysed Alkane Functionalization Reactions Under Mild Conditions"

Session 6. Vanadium-containing Catalysts and Polymerization Reactions using Vanadium Compounds

Esther C. E. Rosenthal (Berlin, Germany) "Coordination Chemistry and Applications of Vanadium Alkoxides in Catalysis"

Kotohiro Nomura (Nara Insitute of Science and Technology, Japan) "Design and Synthesis of Vanadium(V) Complexes Containing Arylimido Ligands as Catalysts for Efficient Olefin Coordination/metathesis Polymerization"

Session 7. Coordination Chemistry, Mechanistic Chemistry and Applications of Coordination Compounds

(Session Organizer: Anastasios D. Keramidas, Nicosia, Cyprus)

Themistoklis A. Kabanos (Ioannina, Greece) "TBA"

Athanasios Salifoglou (Heraklion, Greece) "Synthetic and Structural Studies of Vanadium Compounds"

Michael D. Johnson (Las Cruces, New Mexico) "Electron Transfer Reactions of Vanadium Compounds"

Anastasios D. Keramidas (Nicosia, Cyprus) "Aqueous Solution and Solid State Properties of Vanadium(IV/V) Hydroquinonate and 1,4-Semiquinonate Species"

Chien-Tien Chen (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) "Chiral N-salicylidene Vanadyl Complexes-Catalyzed Enantioselective Aerobic Oxidation of a-Hydroxy Acid and Phosphonic Acid Derivatives"

Jason J. Smee (Tyler, USA) "Coordination Chemistry of Vanadium(V) Hydroxylamine Complexes"

Toshiyuki Moriuchi (Osaka, Japan) "Structural Characterization of Novel Organoimido Vanadium Complexes"

Craig C. McLauchlan (Normal, Illinois, USA) "Synthesis, Characterization, and reactivity of Tridentate Nitrogen-containing Ligand Vanadium Complexes"

Peter Schwendt (Bratislava, Slovakia) "Complexation of Vanadium(V) with a-Hydroxycarboxylic Acids"

Mahdi Abu-Omar (West Lafayette, USA) "Mechanism of Photochemical DNA Strand Scission by Bisperoxovanadium(V) Phenanthroline"

Session 8. Speciation of V(IV) and V(V); Chemistry of V(III) and Lower Oxidation States

Tamas Kiss (Szeged, Hungary) "Biospeciation of Insulin-mimetic Complexes"

Joao Costa Pessoa (Lisboa, Portugal) "Chemistry and Properties of Designed Vanadium Schiff Bases"

Kan Kanamori (Gofuku, Japan) "Oscillating Reactions of Vanadium Compounds"

Michael Bühl (Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany) "Speciation of Peroxovanadium(V) Complexes Studied with Molecular Dynamics and NMR Calculations"

Session 9. Materials and Nanomaterials

Joel S. Miller (Salt Lake City, USA) "Vanadium-based Magnets with Ordering Temperatures (Tc) Exceeding Room Temperature"

Achim Müller (Bielefeld, Germany) "Unique Supramolecular Chemistry: Vanadates versus Molybdates"

H.-F. Hsu, W.-C. Chu, Z.-C. Wang, Y.-F. Tsai, A. Ozarowski, J. Telser, and Jurek Krzystek (Tallahassee, USA) "Magnetic and electronic Spectroscopy Studies of Vanadium(III) Thiolate Complexes of Varying Coordination"

Nancy Levinger (Fort Collins, USA) "Vanadium Complexes as Probes of Confined Environments"

Jon Zubieta (Syracuse, USA) "Structural Diversity of the Oxovanadium-organophosphonate System, Prototypical Organic/inorganic Hybrid Materials"

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