Plenary Speakers

Yitzhak Apeloig (Technion, Haifa), "Low-Coordination Silicon Compounds: Interplay of Experiment and Theory"

Vincenzo Balzani (Bologna), "Artificial Molecular-Level Machines: Which Energy to Make Them Work?"

Peter Chen
(ETH, Zurich), "Organometallic Chemistry by Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry"

Armin de Meijere
(Göttingen), "New Structurally Interesting Cyclopropane Derivatives - A World of Wonders and Surprises"

Ben Feringa
(Groningen), "In Control of Switching, Motion and Organisation"

Shunichi Fukuzumi
(Osaka), "Catalytic Control of Electron Transfer Processes"

Don Hilvert
(ETH, Zurich), "Directed Evolution of Enzyme Structure and Function"

Eusebio Juaristi
(Mexico), "Salt Effects on the Conformational Behavior of Six-Membered Heterocycles"

Judith Klinman
(UCBerkeley), "Environmentally Coupled Hydrogen Tunneling: Linking Catalysis to Dynamics"

J.-P. Sauvage (Strasbourg), "Transition Metal-Containing Catenanes and Rotaxanes in Motion: Towards Machines and Motors"

Gunther v. Kiedrowski
(Bochum), "On Self-Replicating Systems and the Self-Assembly of Nanoobjects from Trisoligonucleotidyls"

George M. Whitesides
(Harvard), "Millimeter-Scale Self-Assembly and Its Applications"