Photofunctional coordination compounds are attracting much attention from the viewpoints of green chemistry, the effective uses of light-energy and potential applications in medicine. This symposium will focus on the construction of molecular and supramolecular metal complexes and how the structures of these new materials affect their photochemical and/or photophysical properties and functionalities. The targeted systems are all metal-organic hybrids including mono- and multi-nuclear metal complexes, supramolecular systems, macromolecules and biological systems. Through the widely-covered topics concerning photofunctional complex systems, the symposium will provide a broad overview of key developments in this field including new methodology for the synthesis, analysis and application of metal-organic hybrids. This symposium will provide a strong complementarity to the symposium on "Molecular Photonics". Tentative invited speakers of this symposium are as follows: Prof. J. K. Barton (US), Prof. D. G. Nocera (US), Prof. C. M. Drain (US), Prof. O. Ishitani (JP), Prof. H. Tamiaki (JP), and Prof. N. Kitamura (JP). |
