Book of Abstracts - Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Foreword
ISBOMC `10 5.7 – 9.7. 2010 Ruhr-Universität Bochum
We welcome you to the 5 th International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry
at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. It is our pleasure to host you at one of the largest
and most dynamic universities in Germany.
Bioorganometallic Chemistry is a rapidly growing field of research at the interface of
various disciplines. It is firmly routed in synthetic chemistry, but its applications range
from biomedicine to medicinal and environmental analysis, modified enzymes and
enzyme mimetics, structural studies of biomolecules and wholly new entities such as
metallo-DNA, RNA and its analogues. The current meeting serves to showcase the
broad variety of Bioorganometallic Chemistry, and the overwhelming interest that we
received further underlines the vibrancy of the field. Indeed, we received many more
applications for oral contributions than we could possibly accommodate in the
scientific program. This has made the task of selecting a diverse and representative
set of speakers of high scientific quality almost a daunting one, and I thank our
colleagues for their support with this task, and all delegates for their understanding.
We are proud to host the biggest-ever ISBOMC conference in Bochum, with > 180
participants from more than 25 countries and all five continents. Bochum University is
an ideal place to host such a meeting, and we will do our best to ensure that you will
carry pleasant memories of the science as well as the venue home. Surely, this is
only possible with the help of many caring hands and minds behind the scene, who
have done a great job in preparing ISBOMC’10, and are ensuring its smooth
operation during the conference. I wish to express my sincere thanks to all those
helpers!
I hope you will enjoy the science and the spirit of the symposium, and continue your
efforts to make Bioorganometallic Chemistry an ongoing success story!
Bochum, July 2010
Nils Metzler-Nolte
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