64th Irish Universities

Chemistry Research

Colloquium June 14th, 15th 2012

Department of Chemical and

Environmental Sciences

UNIVERSITY of LIMERICK

Under the auspices of the Ollscoil Luimnigh Institute of Chemistry of Ireland

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Schedule: Thursday 14th June

14.00-18.00 Registration: Main Building, Near DG-016 on Level-O

Poster Installation

16.15 Opening Address: DG-016 (Jean Monnet Lecture Theatre)Dr Mary Shire, VP Research, University of LimerickInstitute of Chemistry of Ireland Representative

16.30 Plenary Lecture: DG-016“P-Stereogenic Phosphorus: From Bench to Business"Prof Declan Gilheany, University College Dublin and Celtic Catalysts

17.15 Poster Session: C1-058, C1-059, C1-061Tea/Coffee: C1 Corridor

19.30 Barbeque + 20.45 Euro 2012 – Spain v Ireland22.00 Disco

Industrial Sponsors: The organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of:

Allergan Pharmaceuticals Ireland; Eli-Lilly; Fisher Scientific Ireland; Irish Cement;

Merck Sharp & Dohme; Roche Ireland; Sarstedt; Sigma-Aldrich; Reagecon Diagnostics;

Rilta Envionmental Ltd; Rusal Auginish; SciChem; UCB Manufacturing Ireland Ltd; VWR.

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Scientific Schedule: Friday 15th June

Session A1 – Organic. DG-016. Chair: Prof Declan Gilheany (UCD) Session B1 – Inorganic. D1-050. Chair: Dr John McGinley (NUIM)

9.15 Jakub T. Flasz “A new stereoselective synthesis of (-)-Echinosporin” QUB

9.15 Aurora Walshe “Novel reactivities of the uranyl moiety” TCD

9.40 Kimberly Geoghegan “Synthesis and reactivity of cyclic sulphonamides: synthesis UCD of amarylidaceae alkaloids Mesembrane and Mesembrine”

9.40 Anna L. Blackburn “Luminescent dinuclear ruthenium(ll) and rhenium(l) QUB complexes and their application in anion recognition”

10.05 Rachel Christie “Synthesis and characterisation of new psychoactive DIT substances of abuse”

10.05 Mooneerah Heerah Booluck “Uptake and activation of carbon dioxide by UCD dinuclear macrocyclic and macrobicyclic complexes”

10.30 – 11.05 POSTER SESSION, Tea/Coffee, C1 corridor 10.30 – 11.05 POSTER SESSION, Tea/Coffee, C1 corridor

Session A2 – Organic. DG-016. Chair: Dr Eoin Scanlon (TCD) Session B2 – Bio-Inorganic. D1-050. Chair: Dr Christine O’Connor (DIT) 11.15 Roisin O’Flaherty “Synthesis of O-serinyl glycolipid derivatives of the NUIM immunostimulant -GalCer”

11.15 Ziga Ude “Exploiting new molecular targets beyond DNA for the RCSI development of novel cancer metallochemotherapeutics”

11.40 Kevin Sheerin “Approaches toward the synthesis of heparin analogues” UCD

11.40 Laura O’Toole “Self-assembly of calix[4]arene amine derivatives” NUIM

12.05 Lorna Moynihan “Synthesis of iminosugar C-glycosides via a tandem allylic NUIGalway azide rearrangement – Huisgen cycloadition”

12.05 Lorraine Blackmore “Novel phosphorescent chromophores for peptide labelling” RCSI

12.30 LUNCH, Canteen off the C1 corridor 12.30 LUNCH, Canteen off the C1 corridor

Session A3 – Organic. DG-016. Chair: Dr Noreen Hanly (UL) Session B3 – Bio-Organic. D1-050. Chair: Dr Frances Heaney (NUIM) 14.00 Carla A Daly “Designing a molecular switch based on hydrogen UCC bonding in organosulfur compounds”

14.00 Jennifer Geraghty “Identification of Azaspiracid biotransformation pathways” DIT

14.25 Sarah Maher “Synthesis of double-armed calixarene compounds ITT-Dublin for metal-ion sensing”

14.25 Brendan Kelly “Design, synthesis and evaluation of 2-adrenoreceptor TCD antagonists: towards new and improved antidepressants”

14.50 Mary T Lohan “Photochemical generation of carbon-carbon bonds NUIGalway using supported photomediators”

14.50 Sandra Gannon “Artemisinin derived hybrids as potential antitumour agents” DIT

15.15 POSTER SESSION, Tea/Coffee, C1 corridor 15.15 POSTER SESSION, Tea/Coffee, C1 corridor

16.00 DG-016 PLENARY LECTURE: “From Quantum Mechanics to PurAtiteTM”, Dr Donncha Haverty, HKPB Scientific (http://hkpb.ie/)

16.40 DG-016 AWARDS PRESENTATION and CLOSE of COLLOQUIUM

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Scientific Schedule: Friday 15th June

Session C1 – Physical. C1-063. Chair: Dr Elisa Fadda (NUIG) Session D1 – Nano. C1-060. Chair: Prof Mike Lyons (TCD)

9.15 John J. Carey “Understanding the chemical behaviour of the Rh(lll) metal TCD surface for deNOx applications.”

9.15 Olan Lotty “Seedless growth of germanium nanowires: coalescence and UCC Ostwold ripening”

9.40 David Madden “Hybrid porous solids for carbon dioxide capture” UL

9.40 Emma Mullane “Size controlled growth of germanium nanorods and nanowires UL solution pyrolysis directly on a substrate”

10.05 Jamal Touitou “An in-situ spatially resolved method to probe gas phase QUB reactions through a fixed bed catalyst”

10.05 Allen T Bellew “Manipulating connectivity in random nanowire networks - TCD a route to intelligent materials”

10.30 – 11.05 POSTER SESSION, Tea/Coffee, C1 corridor 10.30 – 11.05 POSTER SESSION, Tea/Coffee, C1 corridor

Session C2 – Physical. C1-063. Chair: Dr Eithne Dempsey (ITT-Dublin) Session D2 – Nano. C1-060. Chair: Dr Kevin M. Ryan (UL) 11.15 Peter Connolly “Mediated enzyme electrochemistry: signal output and NUIGalway stability enhancement using tailored mediators”

11.15 Niall B. McGuinness, “Novel template-free electrochemical growth and post- NUIM functionalization of N-substituted polypyrrole nanowires”

11.40 Lin Zhou “Separation of biological substrates by capillary electrophoresis with UCC a boron doped diamond electrode for amperometric detection”

11.40 Sozaraj Rasappa “Fabrication of 3D nano-dimensioned electric double layer UCC capacitor structures using block copolymer templates”

12.05 Amandine Calvet “Quantitative and qualitative analysis of cell culture media NUIGalway using spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics”

12.05 Patrick Floris “Development of metal-nanoparticle agglomerated polymer DCU monoliths for capillary LC applications”

12.30 LUNCH, Canteen off the C1 corridor 12.30 LUNCH, Canteen off the C1 corridor

Session C3 – Physical. C1-063. Chair: Dr Leigh F. Jones (NUIG) Session D3 – Nano. C1-060. Chair: Prof Declan McCormack (DIT) 14.00 Zenefer Yeasmin “Controlling the geometry and binding studies of new ITT-Dublin rotameric molecular clips”

14.00 Sarah Clarke “Synthesis and characterisation of charged iron oxide nanoparticles DCU and their composites for potential targeted drug delivery”

14.25 Anthony Maher “Solution mediated polymorphic transformation - UL Fll(6.403) to Flll(6.525) Piracetam”

14.25 Aoife O’Connor “(P(EO-co-glycidyl peptides) as nanomedicine candidates or RCSI polymeric carriers for targeted delivery of biopharmaceuticals”

14.50 Pavle Močilac “Structural systematic studies of n x m grids” DCU

14.50 David Garry “Assessment of nanoparticle cyctotoxicity using fluorescent UCD microscopy and high-content-analysis (HCA)”

15.15 POSTER SESSION, Tea/Coffee, C1 corridor 15.15 POSTER SESSION, Tea/Coffee, C1 corridor

16.00 DG-016 PLENARY LECTURE: “From Quantum Mechanics to PurAtiteTM”, Dr Donncha Haverty, HKPB Scientific (http://hkpb.ie/)

16.40 DG-016 AWARDS PRESENTATION and CLOSE of COLLOQUIUM POSTERS

1 Michael J. Reen, UCC (Org): Development of novel chiral tethers for controlling intermolecular aryl-aryl-coupling and application in the synthesis of Gomisin M1.2 Christina McSweeney, UCC (Org): New methods for the asymmetric -alkylation of ketones.3 Richard E O’Connor, UCC (Org): Investigation into the synthesis and impurity profiling of known and novel routes to the -methylphenethylamine known as BDF.4 John Moran, ITT-Dublin (Org): Molecular clips with heterocyclic pendants: towards a model for copper redox control.5 Colm Duffy, RCSI (Org): Enantioselective Kemp elimination of carboxyisoxazoles.6 Diana S. Illera, RCSI (Org): N-Heterocyclic carbene catalysed homoelolate addition to 3-methyl-4-nitro-5-styrylisoxazoles.7 Claudia Del Fiandra, RCSI (Org): Development of enantioselective organocatalytic inter [4+2] inter [3+3] tandem cycloaddition of nitroalkenes. 8 Colm Delaney, TCD (Org): Thermally stable and multifunctional organic molecules.9 Kamalraj Rajendran, UCD (Org): A general method to make P-stereogenic phosphorus compounds.10 Rebecca Ulc, UCD (Org): Toward the development of glycoconjugate vaccines: synthesis of capsular polysaccharide structures of Crytococcus neoformans. 11 P. A. Byrne, UCD (Org): Settled at last: the final word on the Wittig reaction mechanism.12 Milosz Grabski, QUB (Org): Formal total synthesis of (+)-Inthomycin C through O-directed hydrostannation.13 Nadine Mc Cleary, NUIG (Org): Design, synthesis and catalytic application of 4,4-bis(oxazoline) ligands.14 C. Kyne, NUIG (Org-bio): Specific ion effectson protein interactions in the E. coli cytosol.15 Laura Perdisatt, DIT (Inorg): Systematic study into substituent effects on the performance of a series of therapeutic Ru(III) complexes.16 Muhammad Zubair, TCD (Inorg): Synthesis and characterisation of novel pyrazine-derived dithiolene complexes as models for the pyranopterin ligand in the molybdenum cofactor.17 Pol MacFhionnghaile, NUIG (Inorg): Analysis of amorphous and crystalline sulfamerazine.18 Edel Houton, NUIG (Inorg): Ferromagnetic exchange in twisted, oxime-bridged [Mn(lll)2] and [Mn(lll)2Zn(ll)2] dimers.19 Stephen Roche, DCU (Inorg-bio): Intercalation of ruthenium (Ru) complexes into double-stranded DNA.20 Trish Owens ITT-Dublin (Inorg-bio): Siloxane polymers containing Ag(l) and Cu(ll) ions: synthesis and anti-fungal activity.21 Simon Gallagher, DCU (Phys): Thermophysical properties of pure and water-saturated ionic liquids. 22 Hannah Smith, NUIG (Phys): Computational design of glycomimetics to inhibit pathogen-host interactions.23 Deirdre Murphy, TCD (Phys): Investigation of the spontaneous grafting of polycyclic aryldiazonium salts at cabon surfaces.24 David Ward, ITT-Dublin (Phys): Nanostructured polypyrrole films for polyoxometallate immobilisation.25 Gangotri Dey, UCC (Phys): Mechanism of ALD reaction with Cu.26 Ian Godwin, TCD (Phys): Development of efficient, cost effective anode materials for large scale hydrogen production via alkaline water (photo) electrolysis.27 Gama Gnahore, NUIM (Analyt): Modified carbon-paste composites for electrochemical detection of dopamine.28 O. Gaffney, DCU (Analyt): The effect of modifier concentration and the addition of additives to modifiers in supercritical fluid chromatography.29 Alen Horvat, UL (Analyt): Tar analysis from fluidized bed gasification of the energy crop Miscanthus gigantus.30 Caoimhe Ni Neill, DIT (Analyt/sensor): Development of a portable analytical method for heavy metal speciation.31 Keeley Baker, NUIM (Analyt/Sensor): The development of a choline biosensor for real time monitoring of brain extracellular choline.32 H. Diao, N. Maher, NUIM (Analyt/Sensor): Click modified calix[4]arene fluorescent sensor for Cu2+.33 Deirdre Cogan, DCU (Analyt/Sensor): Next generation autonomous chemical sensors for environmental monitoring. 34 Yen-Cheng Ho, QUB (Analyt/Sensor): Development of a portable forensic raman instrument.

POSTERS

35 Wayne Fogaty, NUIM (Env Chem): Novel ionic liquids and their potential use in the capture of anthropogenic carbon dioxide.36 Barbara Schaller, UL (Catalysis): Direct catalytic conversion of bio-methane to methanol and higher alcohols.37 Monika Zacharska, UL (Catalysis): The catalytic conversion of levulinic acid derived from biomass to fuels and chemicals.38 Aine O’Driscoll, UL (Catalysis): The hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol.39 Michele Conroy, UCC (Mat-Chem): Structural characterisation of novel nitride semiconductor devices40 Shalini Singh, UL (Nano): Synthesis and Characterisation of homogeneously alloyed Cd(SexSy) nanocrystals for solar cell applications.41 Cian Cummins, UCC (Nano): Self-assembly of nano-cyclinders in poly(styrene)-b-poly(4-vinylpyridine) block copolymer thin films.42 Eoin Fox, DCU (Nano): Controlled assembly of iron-oxide nanoparticles: mechanism and scale up.43 John O’Connell, UCC (Nano): Organic functionalization of semiconductor nanowires.44 Andrzej Pitek, UCD (Nano-bio): Integrated methodology for characterisation of nanoparticle bio-interactions in biological milieu.45 Filippo Bertoli, UCD (Nano-bio): Magnetic nanoparticles as a tool to harvest cellular organelles and study of the nanoparticle protein corona in situ.46 Hazel McArdle, DCU (Nano-bio): Ultra-sensitive DNA detection based on nanoparticle functionalization and electrocatalysis of nanoparticle release. 47484950515253545556575859606162