Sunday Evening. July 20th
OPENING SESSION
N. Turro, presiding
- 7:30-8:20 - G. Schuster, Georgia Tech - "Anthraquinone Photonucleases: Electron Transfer, Hole-Hopping and Hydrogen Abstraction"
- 8:20-8:35 - 15 Minute Break
- 8:35-9:00 - J. Harris, University of Utah - "Resolving Excited State Intermediates in Multiwavelength Time-Resolved Spectroscopy"
- 9:00-9:50 - F. Saeva, Eastman Kodak - "Photochemical Behavior of Electron Acceptors with a ó* LUMO Level"
Monday morning. July 21st
ELECTRON/ENERGY TRANSFER
K. Zachariasse, presiding
- 9:00-9:30 - Photograph
- 9:30-10:20 - K.Ghiggino, University of Melbourne - "Controlling Photoinduced Intramolecular Electron and Energy Transport"
- 10:20-10:45 - R. Schmehl, Tulane University - "Sensitization of Intraligand Excited States: Intramolecular Energy Transfer from Singlet and Triplet MLCT States"
- 10:45-11:15 - 30 Minute Coffee Break
K. Schanze, presiding
- 11:15-12:05 - M. Zimmt, Brown University - "Solvent Mediated Donor Acceptor Coupling in Electron Transfer Reactions"
- 12:05-12:30 - K. Deshayes, Bowling Green State University - "Studies of Nonadiabatic Intermolecular Energy Transfer"
Monday Evening. July 21st
POLYMERIC SYSTEMS
R. DeVoe, presiding
- 7:30-8:20 - J. Crano, PPG - "Photochromic Systems For Plastic Opthalmic Lenses"
- 8:20-8:35 - 15 Minute Break
- 8:35-9:00 - G. Bazan, University of Rochester - "Modeling Chromophore-Chromophore Interactions in Polymers Using Rigid Cyclophane Derivatives"
- 9:00-9:50 - K. Horn, Allied Signal - "Structural Effects on Hydrogen Atom Abstraction From Amides by Excited State Ketones"
Tuesday Morning. July 22nd
ORGANIC
M. Boyd, presiding
- 9:00-9:50 - A. Weedon, University of Western Ontario - "Alternative Mechanism for Enone-Alkene Photocycloadditions"
- 9:50-10:40 - T. Miyashi, Tohoku University - "Importance of a Diradical-Forming BET Process in the PET Cope and Methylene-Cyclopropane Rearrangements "
- 10:40-11:10 - 30 Minute Coffee Break
L. Tolbert, presiding
- 11:10-11:35 - W. Jenks, Iowa State University - "Sulfoxide Photochemistry: Oxidation, Reduction and Cleavage"
- 11:35-12:25 - P. Wan, University of Victoria - "Quinone Methides: A New Look at an Old Intermediate"
Tuesday Evening. July 22nd
ORGANIC
P. Wagner, presiding
- 7:30-7:55 - M. Meador, NASA Lewis Research Center - "Diels-Alder Trapping of Photoenols from 2,5-Dibenzynol-p-xylenes - From ANthracenes to Polyimides"
- 7:55-8:20 - D. Schuster, New York University - "Intramolecular Electronic Interactions in a Novel Class of Fullerene-Porphyrin Hybrids"
- 8:20-8:35 - 15 Minute Coffee Break
- 8:35-9:00 - K. Peters, University of Colorado - "Femto- and Picosecond Kinetic Studies on the Photoinduced Homolysis and Hetrolysis of Diphenyl Methyl Halides"
- 9:00-9:25 - M. Van der Auweraer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - "Photophysical Properties of Conjugated Donor Acceptor Compounds"
Wednesday Morning. July 23rd
PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
M. Rodgers, presiding
- 9:00-9:50 - M. El-Sayed, Georgia Tech - "On the Dynamics at Retinal Photoisomerization in Bacteriarhodopsin"
- 9:50-10:40 - G. Small, Iowa State University - "High Pressure-Spectral Hole Burning: A New Probe of Energy and Charge Separation in Photosynthesis"
- 10:40-11:10 - 30 Minute Coffee Break
- 11:10-11:35 - C. V. Kumar, University of Connecticut - "Site Specific Photocleavage of Proteins and DNA"
- 11:35-12:25 - S. Braslavsky, Max Planck Institute für Strahlenchemie - "Origin of the Volume Changes Determined by Photothermal Methods in Model Chromophore Systems of Biological Photoreceptors"
Wednesday Evening July 23rd
PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
V. Ramamurthy, presiding
- 7:30-8:20 - R. Givens, Kansas University - "Photo/riggers: Investigations on Photoprotecting Groups for Dynamical Study of Biological Processes"
- 8:20-8:35 - 15 Minute Break
- 8:35-9:00 - D. Falvey, University of Maryland - "Photochemical Release of Functional Groups Using Electron Transfer Chemistry: Applications to Time-Resolved Studies of Biochemical Processes"
- 9:00-9:25 - F. Lewis, Northwestern University - "Distance Dependent Electron Transfer in DNA Hairpins"
Thursday Morning. July 24th
PHYSICAL ORGANIC
N.C. Yang, presiding
- 9:00-9:50 - A. Myers, University of Rochester - "Resonance Raman Studies of Cation Radicals"
- 9:50-10:40 - L. Butler, University of Chicago - "What Woodward and Hoffman Didn't Tell us: The Failure of the Born Oppenheimer Approximation in Competing Photodissociation Pathways"
- 10:40-11:10 - 30 Minute Coffee Break
- 11:10-11:35 - G. Kaupp, Universität Oldenburg - "Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy: A Genuine Photochemical Technique"
- 11:35-12:00 - C. Bohne, University of Victoria - "Use of Photophysical Probes to Study Dynamics in Organized Systems"
- 12:00-12:25 - F. Quina, Universidade de Sao Paulo - "Photophysical Studies of Migration in Organized Media"
Thursday Evening July 24th
I. Gould, presiding
- 7:30-8:00 - Business Session
- 8:00-8:30 - Tribute to Albert Weller: Ed Chandross, Tony Trozzolo, and Klass Zachariasse
ENVIRONMENTAL
- 8:30-9:00 - A. Braun, Universität Karlsruhe - "Environmental Aspects of Photochemistry"
- 9:00-9:30 - W. Tumas, Los Alamos National Laboratory - "Photochemical and Advanced Oxidation Processes for Waste Treatment: An overview from both a Scientific and an Applications Perspective"
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