Back to the Future with Cobalt (III) Seminar
- Time:
- 10:00
- Date:
- 23 October 2014
- Venue:
- Building 6 (Nuffield Theatre) Room 1077 University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Jeremy Frey at J.G.Frey@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Richard M Hartshorn presents a special seminar in chemistry.
Co(III) is an ion with a venerable and distinguished history in coordination chemistry. It was one of the key ions for Werner and Jørgensen, as they set about preparing the compounds on which coordination theory is based, and was central to many of the mechanistic studies of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. Now we are exploring its potential use in medicine, as part of dinuclear Ru(II)-Co(III) assemblies, and, in passing, we find ourselves doing some classic Werner-type chemistry as well as functional group chemistry on coordinated ligands.
Speaker information
Associate Professor Richard M Hartshorn , Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Richard M Hartshorn is Deputy Head of Department in Chemistry at University of Canterbury. His fields of study are bioinorganic/inorganic chemistry.