• St. Petersburg Scientific Center RAS, St. Petersburg
• Scientific Council on Catalysis RAS
• Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Moscow
• Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, Novosibirsk
• Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow
• Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Moscow
• St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg
• International Science and Technology Center, Moscow
• Russian Mendeleev Chemical Society, St. Petersburg Department
• JSC "Spectroscopy Systems", Moscow

General Information
Scope
The Organizing committee has received materials from 340 scientists including 300 participants from the NIS (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine) and 40 participants from western countries (Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, UK, USA).
The six-day Conference program will consist of 6 plenary and 20 keynote invited lectures, 128 oral presentations and 175 posters. The Conference Program also will include the Session of the Young Scientists. The keynote sectional and oral presentations are scheduled in the following parallel sessions:
Heterogeneous catalysis of redox reactions;
Acid-base heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis;
Methods of investigation of the mechanism of catalytic reactions.
The Conference Program will include the ISTC Workshop “Catalysis in Solving the Problems of Hydrogen Energetics and Environment Protection”.

PLENARY LECTURES

ENZYME CATALYTIC CENTERS: BIOINFORMATICS, STRUCTURE AND MODES OF ACTION
Varfolomeyev S.D.
Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, RAS (Moscow, Russia)
Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

MULTINUCLEAR NMR IMAGING IN CATALYTIC RESEARCH:
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
Koptyug I.V.
International Tomography Center (Novosibirsk, Russia)

INVESTIGATION OF REDOX REACTIONS MECHANISM: POTENTIAL IMPACT ON CATALYST DESIGN. CASE STUDY OF HYDROGEN PRODUCTION AND PURIFICATION ON CERIA-BASED MATERIALS
Mirodatos C.*, Sadykov V.A.¹
*Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse, CNRS (Villeurbanne Cedex, France),
¹Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia)

KINEICS AND MECHANISM OF SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION OF NO_X WITH HYDROCARBONS UNDER LEAN CONDITIONS
Murzin D.Yu.
Abo Akademi University (Turku/Abo, Finland)

CATALYSIS IN IONIC LIQUIDS
Hardacre C.
The Queen's University Belfast (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

NOBEL METALS CONTAINING CATALYSTS FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
Damyanova S., *Petrov L.
Institute of Catalysis, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria)

KEYNOTE LECTURES

SURFACE CHEMICAL MODIFICATION AND HETEROGENEOUS REACTION CHAIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROCESSES OF CATALYTIC COMBUSTION
Azatyan V.V.
Institute of Structural Macrokinetics and Materials Science Problems RAS (Moscow Region, Chernogolovka, Russia)

THE EFFECTS OF ACTIVE SITE COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE ON THE MECHANISM AND KINETICS OF HYDROCARBON OXIDATION
Bell Alexis T.
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of California (Berkeley, CA, USA)

APPLICATION OF SURFACE SCIENCE METHODS FOR IN SITU INVESTIGATION OF MECHANISMS OF HETEROGENEOUS CATALYTIC REACTIONS
Bukhtiyarov V.I.
Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia)

DILEMMA OF PEROXIDE OXIDATION: ONE OR TWO OXYGEN ATOMS TRANSFER
Gekhman A.E.
N.S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry RAS (Moscow, Russia)

KINETIC PECULIARITIES AND MECHANISM OF ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION OVER POSTMETALLOCENE CATALYTIC SYSTEMS
Ivanchev S.S.
St. Petersburg Division of Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS (St. Petersburg, Russia)

NEW ADVANCED CATALYSTS ON THE BASIS OF URANIUM OXIDES
Ismagilov Z.R.
Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS  (Novosibirsk, Russia)

INTENSITY OF IR ADSORPTION BANDS OF STRETCHING VIBRATIONS - NEW SPECTRAL CRITERION OF CHEMICAL ACTIVATION OF ADSORBED MOLECULES IN HETEROGENEOUS-ACID AND ACID-BASE CATALYSIS
Kazanskii V.B.
N.D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS (Moscow, Russia)

INTERPHASE CATALYSIS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
Koldobskii G.I.
St. Petersburg State Technological Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia)

SUSTAINABLE HETEROGENEOUS ACID CATALYSIS BY HETEROPOLY ACIDS
Kozhevnikov I.
University of Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)

MECHANISM OF CATALYTIC NANOSTRUCTURES FORMATION AND THEIR EVOLUTION UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CHEMICAL, PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL FACTORS
Kukushkin S.A.
St. Petersburg Institute for Machine Sciences RAS (St. Petersburg, Russia)

ABOUT REGULARITIES OF SURFACE STAGES OF HETEROGENEOUS CATALYTIC REACTION
Matyshak V.A.
N.N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics RAS (Moscow, Russia)

INVERSE PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL KINETICS AND POLYCENTRICITY OF ION-COORDINATED CATALYTIC SYSTEMS FOR DIENE POLYMERIZATION
Monakov Yu.B., *Spivak S.I.,
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Ufa Scientific Center, RAS (Ufa, Russia)
*Bashkir State University (Ufa, Russia)

C2-C3 OLEFIN PRODUCTION PATHWAYS DURING PROPANE OXIDATION OVER Li/MgO CATALYSTS: CONTRIBUTION OF HETEROGENEOUS AND HOMOGENEOUS FACTORS
Sinev M.Yu., Korchak V.N., *Seshan K.¹, *Lefferts L.¹
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics (Moscow, Russia)
^1*Faculty of Science & Technology, University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands)

IN SITU NMR SPECTROSCOPY IN HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS. KINETIC STUDIES OF REACTION MECHANISM
*Stepanov A.G., Parmon V.N., Freude D.¹
*Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia)
¹Abteilung Grenzflaechenphysik, Universitaet Leipzig, (Leipzig, Germany)

KEY INTERMEDIATES OF METALLOCENE AND POSTMETALLOCENE OLEFINE POLYMERIZATION
*Talsi E.P., Brylyakov K.P., Bochmann M.1, Semikolenova N.V., Zakharov V.A.
*Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia)
1-University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

BASE AND ACID CATALYSIS IN DIMETHYL CARBONATE CHEMISTRY
Tundo P.
Universit Ca' Foscari di Venice (Venice, Italy)
Inter University Consortium Chemistry for the Environment, INCA

PROGRESS OF IR-SPECTROSCOPY AS APPLIED TO CATALYSIS
Tsyganenko A.A.
V.A. Fock Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University (Petrodvorets, St. Petersburg, Russia)

TAP-APPROACH IN CATALYTIC MECHANISM REVEALING: "STATE-BY-STATE TRANSIENT SCREENING".
Yablonsky G.S., John Gleaves
Department of Chemical Engineering, Washington University (St. Louis, USA)

CAN QUANTUM CHEMISTRY HELP TO TAYLOR A CATALYST FOR A PARTICULAR REACTION?
Witko M.
Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, (Crakow  Poland)

MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS: DOES THE BULK MATTER? CO, METHANE AND ETHYLENE OXIDATION ON PALLADIUM
*Zemlyanov D. and Aszalos-Kiss B.
-*Materials and Surface Science Institute and Physics Department, University of Limerick, (Limerick, Ireland);
Kleimenov E., Teschner D., Zafeiratos S., Haevecker M., Knop-Gericke A. and Schloegl R.
- Abteilung Anorganische Chemie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, (Berlin, Germany);
Han J. and Ribeiro F.H.
- School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN, USA);
Gabasch H., Unterberger W., Hayek K. and Kloetzer B.
- Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie, Universitaet Innsbruck, (Innsbruck, Austria)

Presentation
The time of presentation (including some time for questions) is 45 min for a plenary lecture, 30 min for a keynote lecture, 20 min for an oral presentation (10 min for an oral presentation in the Session of the Young Scientists).
Multi-media (LCD) projector will be available. Organizers recommend the authors to prepare computer presentations in *.ppt format (Microsoft Power Point from the package MS Office). Overhead projector also will be provided.
The Organizing Committee kindly asks the authors to prepare their posters in advance. Space for poster is 80 cm width x 80 cm height. Posters should be readable from 2 m distance. The authors are requested to place their posters in the morning of the corresponding Poster session day according to the Conference schedule.

The official languages of the Conference are Russian and English.

Compact Disk with the abstracts of the plenary, keynote lectures and accepted presentations will be available at the registration desk. Each registrant will also receive the final scientific program-brochure.

The full texts of the invited plenary and keynote lectures will be published after the Conference as a special issue in “Kinetics & Catalysis“ Journal in English and Russian. The authors of oral contributions are also invited to publish the full texts in the “Kinetics & Catalysis“ Journal but as the regular papers (with mark “Proceedings of VII Conference on Mechanisms of Catalytic Reactions”).
Authors of plenary, keynote and oral communications wishing to present the contributions are requested to submit the manuscripts in English both in the duplicate form (2 hard copies) at the registration desk and to send by e-male to “Kinetics & Catalysis“ Journal (kincat@ioc.ac.ru) before June 25, 2006. All manuscripts should not exceed 18 pages (A4 format) including tables, artworks and references. Text should be typed 2.0 line spaced using 14 points font. Participants can find the Guide for Authors at the Journal home page: http://www.maik.ru/cgi-bin/journal.pl?name=kincat&page=guid. The name, complete mailing address, telephone number, fax number and E-mail address of the corresponding author should be given on the first page of the manuscript. http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/ws/biosphere/index.en.html - rrr#rrr
All manuscripts will be peer reviewed following a standard procedure.
All manuscripts should be submitted during the conference time only.

Venue
St. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great at the beginning of the XVIII century. Today, St. Petersburg has joined the constellation of the most beautiful cities often visited by tourists. There are nearly 50 museums in St. Petersburg, wonderful gardens and parks, famous suburbs. Many museums are world known due to their rich collections of art treasures.
The Conference will be held at the antique residence of the St. Petersburg Scientific Center (Universitetskaya nab., 5). It is sutuated within 10 minutes travel by bus ( 7, 147, 187, 209), trolleybus (1, 10) or shuttle taxi (7, 141, 147, 187, 209) from the metro station “Nevskii Prospekt” up to stop “Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya”.

Registration
Registration will take place at the building of the St. Petersburg Scientific Center (Universitetskaya nab., 5) on July 2 from 3 p.m. till 7 p.m. and on July 3 from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m.

Accommodation

Subway         Map

Meals
Lunches will be arranged at a local restaurant. Tickets for 6 lunches will be included in the participant package. Morning and afternoon coffee-breaks will be provided.

Transportation
St. Petersburg Airport Pulkovo-II is located about 30 km from the city centre. A representative of the Organizing Committee will meet all the participants at the Airport Pulkovo-II and provide transportation to the hotels. For this service, the Organizing Committee needs information about your arrival (and departure) date, time, airline and flight number in advance.

Registration fee
The registration fee is 350 Euro for each participant and 175 Euro for accompanying persons, post-graduates and students. The fee covers editorial expenses, welcome party, 6 lunches, coffee-breaks beverages, auditorium rent, local transportation and the State Hermitage museum excursion.

Registration fee in Euro or in US dollars should be transferred to JSC "Spectroscopy Systems" before May 20, 2006 to one of the following accounts with the mark "MCR Registration fee " (please indicate your name and affiliation):

Dollar account:
Intermediary Bank:	Ost-West Handelsbank AG 60313 Frankfurt am Main Germany
S.W.I.F.T.:	OWHB DE FF
Account No:	0103510418
Beneficiary Bank:	PROJECT FINANCING BANK Zemlyanoi Val, 34 A 105064, Moscow, Russia
S.W.I.F.T.:	PFBMRUMM
IN FAVOUR OF:	JSC “SPECS”
Account No:	40702840400001001972
Euro account:
Intermediary Bank	Ost-West Handelsbank AG 60313 Frankfurt am Main Germany
S.W.I.F.T	OWHB DE FF
Account No	0103510012
Beneficiary Bank:	PROJECT FINANCING BANK Zemlyanoi Val, 34 A 105064, Moscow, Russia
S.W.I.F.T.:	PFBMRUMM
IN FAVOUR OF:	JSC “SPECS”
Account No:	40702978000001001972

Payments should be free of bank charges. The registration fee can be also paid in cash at the registration desk. Credit cards are not acceptable.

All participants are invited to Welcome Reception (July 3). Conference banquet will take place at a local restaurant on July 7. Banquet will be paid at the registration desk ( USD 40).
The Organizing Committee invites the participants to visit the State Hermitage Museum - one of the oldest and largest museums in the world. The museum is located in 5 historic buildings in St. Petersburg, including the Winter Palace – the former residence of Russians tsars. The collection of the Hermitage numbers over 3 million items from prehistoric to modern times. Magnificent works of art embracing prehistoric culture, Egyptian art, Antiquites, Scythian gold, and great collections of Western European paintings and sculptures are displayed in 400 halls of the museum .

Cash exchange is available in the hotels and the banks (one U.S. dollar is equal to 28 rubles on March, 2006). AmEx, Eurocard, Mastercard, Visa credit cards are generally acceptable. Please note that personal cheques are not accepted.

Entry Visa to Russia

All foreign participants of the MCR Conference need a valid Passport and an entry visa to Russia.
The Organizing Committee advises the participants to apply for visa directly to the Russian Federation Consulates in your country without additional help from external travel agencies, which in case with Russia are known to be relatively effective only in tourist visas’applications. To arrange ordinary humane visa (scientific cooperation) formalities in time, please send to the Organizing Committee (E-mail: star@catalysis.ru) the table with the following information in English:

Please also send the copy of the 1st and 2nd pages of your passport (with photo)
as grafic black and white jpg. file (<100-200 kBite) by E-mail star@catalysis.ru. The same data should be send for each accompanying person. Key date for receiving all required data from participants is April, 25. After receiving your data the Organizing Committee will send all information to the St. Petersburg Scientific Center – organizer of MCR-Conference. Your official invitation will be prepared in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg. The invitations will be valid from June 20 until July 20. The St. Petersburg Scientific Center will send you official invitation to your fax number (or by post) after 40-50 days from the start of procedure.

Climate
Average July temperature is 20-25 ^oC. Sometimes it rains.

Post-tour
After the Conference the participants are welcome to the Post-tour. The price of one-days tour is $ 70-85 US per person (lunch, excursions, bus ). The payment should be done at the registration by cash. Please confirm your participation in the tour.

July 9, 2006
Tsarskoe Selo - Pushkin
Pushkin is a finest example of a royal family’s country residence. The original stone palace and gardens were built on a small estate 25 kilometers from the capital between 1717 and 1733 for the Empress Catherine I, wife of Peter the Great. A centerpiece of the complex is Catherine Palace. The greatest Russian architect of baroque period, Bartholomeo Rastrelli, created the design of the building, its ornamentation and interior layout, and oversaw the work of many artisans who had turned the place into a grandiose architectural ensemble set in the midst of huge parks. The town of Pushkin has strong connections with the greatest Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin, who spent his early years here.

Peterhof
Petrpodvorets is one of the greatest achievements of national culture, built in early 18th century on the southern shores of the Gulf of Finland as a royal summer residence. Terrace of Great Palace offers a wonderful view over the canal, sea, and world largest Great Cascade composed of 64 fountains and 255 bronze sculptures, crowned by the huge statue of Samson in the center of 21 m high fountain. Upper and Lower Parks, Montplaisir and Marly Palaces, the Hermitage Pavilion, 144 fountains demonstrate the elegant design which is never excessive.

April 15, 2006      Distribution of the preliminary program
June 1, 2006      Distribution of the final program
July 2, 2006      Arrival to St. Petersburg
July 9, 2006      Departure
July 9, 2006      Tour

Please send the Abstracts and registration forms to:

Mrs. Lyudmila Ya. Startseva
Secretariat of MCR-VII Conference
Boreskov Institute of Catalysis
5, Prosp. Akad. Lavrentieva,
Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Phone/Fax: +7(383) 330-62-97
E-mail: star@catalysis.ru