SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff and Conference Chair, Luis Echegoyen |
| The 2011 Physical Organic Chemistry GRC is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor William von Eggers Doering |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Molecular Containers and Wires |
| Discussion Leader: Peter R. Schreiner (Institut für Organische Chemie, Giessen, Germany) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Makoto Fujita (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan) "Multicomponent Self-Assembly of Giant Spherical Complexes" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Jonathan Nitschke (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
"Rationalizing Complex Self-Assembly with Physical Organic Tools" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Frederick D. Lewis (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
"DNA Molecular Wires by Design" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:10 pm | Advanced Materials for Solar Energy |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Haley (University of Oregon, Oregon, OR) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Dirk Guldi (Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN) "New Insights into Long Range Charge Transfer in Electron Donor Acceptor Conjugates" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Olga Boltalina (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) "Chemical tuning of fullerene electron acceptors" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am | Cofee Break |
10:50 am - 11:20 am | Tomas Torres (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, ES) "The significance of phthalocyanines in solar cells" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Francois Diederich (ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland) "Opto-electronic properties of advanced organic materials from new acetylene chemistry" |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Supramolecular Interactions and Properties |
| Discussion Leader: Nancy S. Goroff (State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Angel Kaifer (University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL) "Highly stable complexes between cucurbit[7]uril and ferrocene derivatives" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Nazario Martín (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, ES) "Does Concave-convex Supramolecular Interactions Exist?" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Jose M. Rivera (Universidad de Puerto Rico en Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR) "Smart-Assemblies & Other Adventures in Supramolecular Space" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:10 pm | Reaction Mechanisms and Single Molecules |
| Discussion Leader: Igor Alabugin (Florida State University,Tallahassee, FL) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | K.N. Houk (University of California, Los Angeles, CA) "Dynamics of cycloadditions and the timing of bond formation" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL) "Structure and Mechanism in Radical Mechanostereochemistry" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am | Cofee Break |
10:50 am - 11:20 am | Latha Venkataraman (Columbia University, New York, NY) "Electronics and Mechanics of Single Molecule Circuits" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Mark Ratner (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL) |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Environmental Aspects |
| Discussion Leader: Dario Bassani (Université Bordeaux, Talence, FR) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO) "Water and photon mediated organic chemistry on atmospheric aerosols" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Laren Tolbert (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA) "Topological control of fluorescence: A route to environmental probes" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Cynthia Burrows (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT) "Exploring the redox chemistry of 8-oxoguanosine: Was it a primordial flavin?" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:10 pm | Graphene and other Carbon Materials |
| Discussion Leader: Lawrence Scott (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Rik Tykwinski (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
"What do we know about the structure of sp-hybridized carbon oligomers?" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Robert C. Haddon (University of California, Riverside, CA) "Advances in Graphene Chemistry" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am | Cofee Break |
10:50 am - 11:20 am | Marina A. Petrukhina (University of Albany, Albany, NY)
"Coordination and Multi-Electron Reduction of Bowl-Shaped Polyarenes" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Michelle Coote (The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) "What does an intrinsic bond energy really mean and can it be used to model radical stability?" |
12:00 am - 12:10 am | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Electron Transfer |
| Discussion Leader: Ed Clennan (University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Joao Paulo Telo (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal) "Factors Determining Localization or Delocalization of Charge in Dinitroaromatic Radical Anions" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Steve Nelsen (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI) "Pi-Stacking in dimeric p-phenylenediamine radical cations and diradical dications" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Business Meeting - Part I |
| Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:10 pm | Biological Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Kathleen Kilway (Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Gonzalo Cosa (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) "Novel Fluorogenic Antioxidants for Visualizing Reactive Oxygen Species" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 10:10 am | Stan Brown (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA) "New perspectives on metal catalyzed acyl and phosphoryl transfer reactions" |
10:10 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am | Cofee Break |
10:50 am - 11:20 am | Marisa Kozlowski (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA) "Design of Hydrogen Bonding Catalysts" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Gary Weisman (University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH) "Cross-Bridged Tetraamines: Synthesis, Conformational Contortions, Coordination Chemistry, and Biomedical Utility" |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Business Meeting - Part II |
| Election of the next Vice Chair |
7:45 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster Session Talks |
| Discussion Leader: Uta Wille (The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |