Physical Organic Chemistry

Gordon Research Conference

June 29 - July 4, 1997
Chair
Vice Chair
Holderness School
33 Chapel Lane
Holderness, New Hampshire, United States
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Conference Program

Sunday evening: DESIGNING SYSTEMS FOR COOPERATIVE REORIENTATION

Discussion Leader: Bart Kahr (U. of Washington)
  • 7:30-8:10 - Dave Walba (Colorado) - "Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals"
  • 8:30-9:10 - Mark Hollingsworth (Indiana) - "Design and Growth of Ferroelastic Inclusion Crystals"

Monday morning: MOLECULAR RECOGNITION

Discussion Leader: Jim Wuest (Montreal)
  • 9:00-9:40 - Reza Ghadiri (Scripps) - "Self-Reproducting Molecular Systems"
  • 10:00 - Coffee and Photo
  • 10:30-11:10 - Andy Hamilton (Pittsburgh/Yale) - "New Approaches to Protein Surface Recognition"
  • 11:30-12:10 - Jeremy Sanders (Cambridge) - "Covalent Synthesis under Thermodynamic Control"
Monday afternoon: Posters with odd numbers (4:30 - 6:00)

Monday evening: LIQUID AND SOLID SURFACES

Discussion Leader: Mike McBride (Yale)
  • 7:30-8:10 - Gil Nathanson (Wisconsin) - "Collisions, Solvation, and Chemical Reactions at Gas-Liquid Interfaces"
  • 8:30-9:10 - Jane Frommer (IBM-Almaden) - "Recent Advances in Scanning Probe Microscopies: Applications in Physical-Organic Chemistry"

Tuesday morning: REACTION INTERMEDIATES AND PATHWAYS

Discussion Leader: Joe Gajewski (Indiana)
  • 9:00-9:40 - Miguel Garcia-Garibay (UCLA) - "Reaction Control and Organic Dynamics in the Crystalline Solid State"
  • 10:00 - Coffee
  • 10:30-11:10 - Matt Platz (Ohio State) - "Rearrangements of Carbenes and Nitrenes"
  • 11:30-12:10 - Jerry Berson (Yale) - "Structure, Spin, and Reactivity of Pi-Conjugated Non-Kekule Molecules"
Tuesday afternoon: Posters with even numbers (4:30 - 6:00)

Tuesday evening: GAS PHASE ION CHEMISTRY

Discussion Leader: Bob Squires (Purdue)
  • 7:30-8:10 - Sue Graul (CMU) - "Energy Deposition in Unimolecular Gas Phase Ion Reactions"
  • 8:30-9:10 - Terry McMahon (Guelph-Waterloo) - "Gas Phase Reactions of Solvated Ions"

Wednesday morning: ELECTRON TRANSFER PROCESSES I

Discussion Leader: Pshemak Maslak (Penn State)
  • 9:00-9:40 - Ned Arnett (Duke) - "Bond Making/Breaking and Electron Transfer: What Really Lies Behind Organic Chemistry"
  • 10:00 - Coffee
  • 10:30-11:10 - Steve Nelsen (Wisconsin) - "High-Reorganization-Energy Electron Transfer"
  • 11:30-12:10 - Malcolm Forbes (North Carolina) - "Biradicals as Model Systems for Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions"

Wednesday evening: ELECTRON TRANSFER PROCESSES II

Discussion Leader: Mike Wasielewski (Argonne/Northwestern)
  • 7:30-8:10 - Takanori Suzuki (Hokkaido) - "Redox Systems with Dynamic Structural and Optical Responses"
  • 8:30-9:10 - Ian Gould (Kodak) - "Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions"

Thursday morning: MOLECULAR STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES

Discussion Leader: Jay Siegel (UCSD)
  • 9:00-9:40 - Tom Tidwell (Toronto) - "Ketenes and Polyketenes"
  • 10:00 - Coffee
  • 10:30-11:10 - Bob Pascal (Princeton) - "Polyphenyl Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds"
  • 11:30-12:10 - Ken Wiberg (Yale) - "The Origin of C-13 Chemical Shifts"

Thursday evening: SELECTED SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS FROM POSTER SESSIONS

Ringmaster: Mait Jones (Princeton)

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