Program

Friday, 23th August

14:00-21:00

Registration

Conference Hotel (The 1st Floor)

17:30-20:00

Buffet

Conference Hotel


Saturday, 24th August

08:30-08:50

Opening Ceremony

Mingfei Zhou

08:50-09:20

Peter R. Schreiner (Justus Liebig University, Germany)

KN1: Organikers Poaching in Pnictogen Territory

Session Chair:

Xiaoqing Zeng

09:20-09:50

Holger F. Bettinger (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)

KN2: The Reactivity of a Novel Class of Nitrenes with Organic Substrates

09:50-10:05

Gengwen Tan (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

HT1: Taming Triplet Nitrene and Pnictinidenes

Group Photo & Coffee Break (30 min)

10:35-11:05

Steve Liddle (University of Manchester, UK)

KN3: Recent Advances in Actinide-Actinide Bonding: Trithorium Clusters

Session Chair:

Chuangang Ning

11:05-11:35

Congqing Zhu (Nanjing University, China)

KN4: Heterometallic Clusters with U-M Bonds Supported by Double-Layer N-P Ligands

11:35-11:50

Ning Chen (Soochow University, China)

HT2: Endohedral Metallofullerenes: Metal Clusters and Chemical Bonds inside Confined Chemical Environment

11:50-12:05

Tengteng Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

HT3: Recent Progresses in Gas-Phase Lanthanide-Boride Clusters

Lunch

14:00-14:30

Andrea Biffis (University of Padova, Italy)

KN5: Enhancing Diversity in NHC-stabilized, Molecular Gold Clusters

Session Chair:

Jun Li

14:30-15:00

Robert Berger (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)

KN6: Small Molecules, Clusters as Probes to Decipher Fundamental Interactions

15:00-15:30

Shenggui He (Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China)

KN7: Machine Learning for Experimental Reactivity of Metal Clusters

15:30-16:00

Zhikun Wu (Institute of Solid State Physics, CAS, China)

KN8: From Coinage Metal Nanoclusters to Pd Nanoclusters

Coffee Break (20 min)

16:20-16:50

Martin Head-Gordon (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

KN9:  In Search of Numbers and Insight: Analyzing Bonds and Intermolecular Interactions Using Electronic Structure Calculations

Session Chair:

Yongjun Hu

16:50-17:20

Shuang-Quan Zang (Zhengzhou University, China)

KN10: Modification and Assembly of Coinage Metal Clusters

17:20-17:35

HT4Meng Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China)

Triplet Excited-State Dynamics of Metal Nanoclusters

17:35-17:50

Jiani Ma (Shaanxi Normal University, China)

HT5: Detecting the Reactive Intermediates in Interesting Photochemical Reactions

17:50-18:05

Lung Wa Chung (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)

HT6: Reliable Biological and Metal-Hydride Structures Enabled by Multi-scale and Machine Learning Methods

Banquet (Conference Hotel)


Sunday, 25th August

08:30-09:00

Joseph S. Francisco (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

KN11: Chemistry in the Sky and Beyond

Session Chair:

Xiuhui Zhang

09:00-09:30

Gernot Frenking (Nanjing Tech University/Philipps-Universität/Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Germany)

KN12: Quest for a Genuine Quadruple Bond between Two Main-group Atoms

09:30-09:45

Zhandong Wang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

HT7: Application of Synchrotron Radiation Photoionization Mass Spectrometry: Insights into Combustion Kinetics

09:45-10:00

Tao Yang (East China Normal University, China)

HT8: Formation of Dihydrogen Trioxide and Methanetriol in the Interstellar Ice Analogs

Coffee Break (20 min)


10:20-10:50

Eduard Matito (Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Spain)

KN13: Assessment of Aromaticity through Electron-Delocalization Metrics

Session Chair:

Lai-Sheng Wang

10:50-11:20

Manzhou Zhu (Anhui University, China)

KN14: Atomically Precise Ligand-Protected Metal Nanocluster

11:20-11:50

Di Sun (Shandong University, China)

KN15: Construction and Evolution Mechanism of Hierarchical Silver Clusters

11:50-12:05

Jun Zhu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

HT9: Structure, Bonding, and Aromaticity in E4 Clusters (E = B, Al, Ga, Si and Ge)

Lunch


14:00-14:30

Tiow-Gan Ong (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei)

KN16: Phosphine-Stabilized Dicarbon and Its Chemistry

Session Chair:

Zhixun Luo

14:30-15:00

Si-Dian Li (Shanxi University, China)

KN17: Fluxional Bonds in Chemistry and Bottom-Up Approaches to Form Boron Nanoclusters and Nanomaterials

15:00-15:30

Zhenyang Lin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

KN18: Fragment Aligned Molecular Orbital (FAMO) Analysis: An Innovative Tool for Analyzing Chemical Bonding

15:30-16:00

Jijun Zhao (South China Normal University, China)

KN19: Unveiling Ground-state Structures, Size-dependency and Superatomic Behavior in Clusters Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

Coffee Break (20 min)


16:20-16:50

Matthias Driess (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

KN20: New Chemical Space with Cooperative Silicon Atoms

Session Chair:

Weixing Li

16:50-17:05

Lili Zhao (Nanjing Tech University, China)

HT10: Unusual Bonding Nature of Group 14/15 Carbone Analogues

17:05-17:20

Yanli Zeng (Hebei Normal University, China)

HT11: Application of Halogen and Chalcogen Bonds in Non-Covalent Organocatalysis

17:20-17:35

Qian Gou (Chongqing University, China)

HT12: Wavelet Denoising-Assisted Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Aggregations Using a Cavity-Based Fourier Transform Microwave Spectrometer

18:00-21:00

Huangpu-River-Cruise (dinner included)


Monday, 26th August

08:30-09:00

Knut R. Asmis (Universität Leipzig, Germany)

KN21: Gas Phase Clusters as Model Systems for Solid Single Site Catalysts

Session Chair:

Sheng-Gui He

09:00-09:30

Jian Zhang (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS, China)

KN22: Multifunctional Ti/Al Oxide Clusters

09:30-10:00

Liang Zhao (Tsinghua University, China)

KN23: Structural Evolution of Organometallic Cluster Species in Metal-catalyzed Reactions

Coffee Break (20 min)

10:20-10:50

Hansjörg Grützmacher (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

KN24: Chemistry with Happy Lewis-Acids: H3P-MX3 Adducts

Session Chair:

Gernot Frenking

10:50-11:20

Israel Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

KN25: Understanding and Enhancing the Reactivity of Frustrated Lewis Pairs

11:20-11:50

Xinping Wang (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS, China)

KN26: The Lewis Acid Coupled Electron Transfer

Lunch

14:00-14:30

Selvan Demir (Michigan State University, USA)

KN27: Organometallic Single-Molecule Magnets Containing Radicals and Bismuth

Session Chair:

Ling Jiang

14:30-15:00

Jason Dutton (La Trobe University, Australia)

KN28: How Oxidizing Can We Make ArIL2?

Coffee Break (20 min)

15:20-15:50

Jun Li (Tsinghua University, China)

KN29: Understanding of the Stability of Clusters: Aromaticity and Jellium Model

Session Chair:

Zhong-Ming Sun

15:50-16:05

Dao-Fu Yuan (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

HT13: Polarization Interactions in the Formation of Dipole-bound States

16:05-16:35

Lai-Sheng Wang (Brown University, USA)

KN30: Borozenes: Benzene-Like Planar Aromatic Boron Clusters

17:05-17:20

Closing Remarks

Dinner & Departure