ISMSC 2007 - Università degli Studi di Pavia

Welcome to ISMSC 2007
The University of Pavia is pleased to host the 2nd International Symposium on
Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry, ISMSC 2007, in Salice Terme (Pavia)
from 24 to 28 June, 2007. More than 250 delegates are participating in the
conference, which is articulated in 9 Plenary Lectures, 12 Invited Lectures, 21
Oral Communications, and 200 Poster Presentations, divided in 2 Sessions. The
high standard of the scientific contributions promises for the success of the
Symposium. The Organizing Committee wishes all the delegates a pleasant stay
in Salice Terme and, beyond the scientific sessions, to profit from the gifts of the
land, from the point of view of culture, art and history and, also, from the more
material side of food and wine.
Pavia, June 2007
About the logo
The logo combines the official symbol of Terme di Salice (a spring of thermal water topped by the red
flower of hibiscus) and the partially hidden structural formula of a 14-membered macrocycle.
Although the 14-membered saturated ring is one of the most represented cyclic structures among
natural substances, the present combination intends to pay a tribute to cyclam. Cyclam, and the
related family of tetra-aza macrocycles, stand at the basis of macrocyclic chemistry, thanks to the
pioneering work of Busch and Curtis in the 1960's, and their synthesis is strictly associated to the
development of the template effect, a leading concept of supramolecular chemistry.
About the cover
The cover presents a fresco (partially transferred on canvas) by Bernardino Lanzani and his school
(1522) in the Basilica of San Teodoro in Pavia. The painting features one the Patron Saints of Pavia,
Sant’Antonio Abate, and a view of the of the town of Pavia from the right bank of Ticino river (the
most ancient picture of Pavia available today). The fresco was painted only three years before the
Battle of Pavia (24 February, 1525), in which the Spanish-German army of Charles V, Emperor of
the Holy Roman Empire, defeated the army of Francis I, King of France. The battle took place in the
park beyond the Castle, featured in the background of the fresco, lasted less than 4 hours and
caused more than 10 000 casualties, most on the French side. Francis I was made a prisoner and
brought to Spain. When the fresco was painted, Pavia was under the Spanish rule and was the
object of occasional attacks by the French. This explains the presence of knights and armigers in the
streets and around the Castle, as shown in Bernardino Lanzani’s fresco.