3MET Conference 2016

Recently, Transregional Collaborative Research Center 3MET (SFB/TRR 88) hosted at the University of Kaiserslautern the International Conference on Bimetallic Complexes. The conference that took place October 5-7 was the 3rd sequel in this series of conferences in the area of multimetallic complexes. 120 participants from around the world contributed to lectures, poster sessions and discussions. 

The focus of the conference was on basic research and applications of molecular systems with two or more metal centers. Cooperative effects between metal atoms were reported to provide new applications in magnetism (switches and devices), spintronics (Grover’s algorithm), luminescence (OLED, NLO), spectroscopy (new methods) and catalysis (dinitrogen fixation, C-N bond formation). Keynote lectures were given by Rhett Kempe (Bayreuth), Matthias Tamm (Braunschweig) and Paul Chirik (Princeton) on catalysis, Jürgen Heck (Hamburg), Jeffrey Long (Berkeley), Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (KIT) and Birgit Weber (Bayreuth) on magnetism and optical properties of complexes, Evan Williams (Berkeley) and Roland Mitric (Würzburg) on gas phase spectroscopy and theory of optical transitions in multinuclear complexes.