June 17, Thursday

Opening remarks: 9:00-9:05 Hitoshi Tamiaki (Chairman, Ritsumeikan Univ.)

O-1 9:05-9:45 (Chairperson: H. Tamiaki, Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Self-Assembling Porphyrins and Chlorins that Mimic the Light-Harvesting Chlorosomes

Teodor Silviu Balaban

Inst. Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe, Germany

O-2 9:45-10:10 (Tamiaki)

Self-Assembly of Zinc Chlorins Regulated by a Hydrophilic Oxyethylene Chain

Tomohiro Miyatake, Syuusaku Kato, Naohiro Tagaya, Hitoshi Tamiaki, Manabu Fujiwara, Takayuki Matsushita

Ryukoku Univ., Otsu, Japan; Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

O-3 10:10-10:30 (Tamiaki)

Synthetic and Spectroscopic Study of Bacteriochlorophyll-f Analogues Possessing C7/C8-Formyl Group

Shin-ichi Sasaki, Hitoshi Tamiaki

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

Coffee break: 10:30-11:00

O-4 11:00-11:40 (T. S. Balaban, Inst. Nanotechnology)

Self-Organization of BChl c in Chlorosomes Studied by MAS NMR of Aggregated Cd-Chlorins

Ido de Boer, Jörg Matysik, Huub J.M. de Groot, Alfred R. Holzwarth, Shin-ichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Miyatake, Shiki Yagai, Hitoshi Tamiaki

Leiden Univ., Leiden, The Netherlands; MPI Bioinorg. Chem. Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany; Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

O-5 11:40-12:05 (Balaban)

Enzymatic Activity of C-20 Methyltransferase, BchU, involved in Biosynthesis of Bacteriochlorophyll c

Jiro Harada, Yoshitaka Saga, Yuki Yaeda, Hirozo Oh-oka, Hitoshi Tamiaki

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan; Osaka Univ., Toyonaka, Japan

O-6 12:05-12:30 (Balaban)

Elucidation of Stereochemistry of Bacteriochlorophyll-g_F and 8¹-Hydroxy-Chlorophyll-a_F from Heliobacterium modesticaldum

Tadashi Mizoguchi, Hirozo Oh-oka, Hitoshi Tamiaki

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan; Osaka Univ., Toyonaka, Japan

Poster Session: 13:30-15:00 (Odd number poster presenters, please stand by during 13:30-14:15.

Even number poster presenters, please stand by during 14:15-15:00)

O-7 15:00-15:30 (O. Ishitani, Tokyo Inst. Tech.)

Control of Nano-Structure of Artificial Porphyrin J-aggregates

Hiroshi Segawa

Univ. Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

O-8 15:30-16:00 (Ishitani)

Supramolecular Network of Multiply N-Confused Porphyrins

Hiromitsu Maeda

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

O-9 16:00-16:30 (Ishitani)

Photocatalysis of Tetraphenylporphyrinatoantimony(V) Complexes under Visible Light Irradiation

Tsutomu Shiragami

Miyazaki Univ., Miyazaki, Japan

Coffee break: 16:30-17:00

O-10 17:00-17:30 (Hitoshi Ohtaki, Ritsumeikan Univ.)

New Switching Device Based on Labile Metal Complex - Helicity Inversion of Cobalt(II) Complex with Nitrate Anions -

Hiroyuki Miyake

Osaka City Univ., Osaka, Japan

O-11 17:30-18:00 (Ohtaki)

Hydrogen-Bonded Assemblies with Photofunctional Properties

Shiki Yagai

Chiba Univ., Chiba, Japan

O-12 18:00-18:30 (Ohtaki)

Functionalized Cytoskeleton as a Possible Nano-Device

Toru Oba

Utsunomiya Univ., Utsunomiya, Japan

Banquet: 19:30-

June 18, Friday

Business Meeting and Free Discussion: 9:00-12:00

Hitoshi Tamiaki (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Yoshihiro Matano (Kyoto Univ.), Hirozo Oh-oka (Osaka Univ.), Hiroshi Segawa (Univ. Tokyo), Tadashi Mizoguchi (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Tomohiro Miyatake (Ryukoku Univ.), Shiki Yagai (Chiba Univ.), Hitoshi Ishida (Kitasato Univ.), Osamu Ishitani (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), Masako Kato (Nara Woman Univ.), Kazuhide Koike (Nat. Inst. Adv. Ind. Sci. Tech.), Tsutomu Shiragami (Miyazaki Univ.), Tomoyoshi Suenobu (Osaka Univ.)

Poster Session

Please mount your poster by the noon of June 17 and stand by it during the following time: odd number, 13:30-14:15; even number, 14:15-15:00.

P1 Agglutination of Liposomes or Chlorosomes Containing Galactolipids by RCA₁₂₀

Yasuo Azefu, Takashi Hisai, Yoshitaka Saga, Hitoshi Tamiaki

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

P2 Energy-Transfer and Electron-Transfer Mechanism of Linearly Fabricated Rhenium Multi-Nuclei

Complexes

Kazuhide Koike, Daisuke Hosaka, Naoya Kamimura, Hiroaki Mametsuka, Osamu Ishitani

Nat. Inst. Adv. Ind. Sci. Tech., Tsukuba, Japan; Tokyo Inst. Tech., Tokyo, Japan

P3 Synthesis of Zinc Oxo-Bacteriochlorins and Their Self-Aggregation

Michio Kunieda, Hitoshi Tamiaki

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

P4 Self-Dimerization of N-Confused Porphyrin

Tatsuki Morimoto, Hiroyuki Furuta

Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

P5 Observation and Inducement of Localized Chemical Reactions of Self Assembled Monolayers in

The Solid-Liquid Interface Using a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope

Satoru Nishio, Masahito Yoshidome, Hiroshi Matsuda, Hiroshi Fukumura

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan; Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

P6 Highly Luminescent Supramolecular Terbium(III) Complex with Guanine Octet

Satoshi Shinoda, Takashi Noguchi, Hiroshi Tsukube

Osaka City Univ., Osaka, Japan

P7 Self-Aggregate of Zinc Chlorins in an Aqueous Phospholipid Solution

Tomohiro Miyatake, Tamotsu Onishi, Hitoshi Tamiaki, Manabu Fujiwara, Takayuki Matsushita

Ryukoku Univ., Otsu, Japan; Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

P8 Synthesis of Chlorophyll Analogs Possessing Disulfide Bond at the 3- or 17-Position for Self-

Assembled Monolayer on Gold Surface

Yoshitaka Saga, Hiromaru Yamamoto, Shin-ichi Sasaki, Hitoshi Tamiaki

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

P9 Composition of Bacteriochlorophyll Homologs in Green Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacterium

Chlorobium vibrioforme Dependent upon the Concentration of Sodium Sulfide in Culturing Medium

Yoshitaka Saga, Shigeaki Osumi, Hirohisa Higuchi, Jiro Harada, Tadashi Mizoguchi, Hitoshi Tamiaki

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

P10 Aqueous Self-Assemblies of Synthetic Galacto-Chlorophyll Dyads

Hitoshi Tamiaki, Ai Shinkai

Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

P11 Formation of Scandium Complex Bridged π-Dimer Radical Anions via Highly Self-Organized

Electron Transfer

Tomoyoshi Suenobu, Junpei Yuasa, Seiji Ogo, Shunichi Fukuzumi

Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan; CREST, JST, Suita, Japan

P12 The Electron Transfer Pathway in Heliobacterial Reaction Center: Reinvestigation by a

Combination of the Spectroscopic Methods and 3-D Structural Modeling

Hirozo Oh-oka, Masayo Iwaki, Ryo Miyamoto, Hiroyuki Mino, Shigeru Itoh

Osaka Univ., Toyonaka, Japan; Univ. College London, UK; Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan