Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Computational Tools to Study Chemical Reactions
Discussion Leader: Katarzyna Mlodzikowska-Pienko (Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Peng Liu (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
"Physical Organic Insights for Catalyst Design and Prediction"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Design and Structure
Discussion Leader: Christine Morrison (University of Washington, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
zayed alassad (Ben-Gurion university, Israel)
"Unraveling the Role of Secondary-Sphere Interactions in Governing Reactivity and Stereoselectivity in Organocatalysis"
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Trung Tran Ngoc (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany)
"Photoswitching neutral homoaromatic hydrocarbons"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Said Jalife (University of Houston, United States)
"Understanding Heteroatom Doping Effects in Extended Pentalenes"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Kacper Skakuj (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
"Design of light-activated nitrone reagents for selective methionine bioconjugation"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Maurits De Roo (PhD student University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"Mechanisms of activation of organic peracids with non-heme iron catalysts"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Mechanism and Dynamics
Discussion Leader: Gustavo Lopes Camelo (University of Victoria, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Filip Szczypinski (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"Automating 1H NMR titrations for quantification of binding affinity"
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Simone Gallarati (EPFL, Switzerland)
"Probing the Existence of General Organocatalysts with Evolutionary Experiments"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Brittany Haas (University of Utah, United States)
"Data Science for the Prediction of Amide Coupling Reaction Outcomes"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Franziska Klotz (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
"Transformation and Crystallization of Stereogenic Silicon Centers"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Zigang Lu (The University of Hong Kong, China)
"Photocleavage Mechanisms of Blebbistatin Derivatives as Photoremovable Protecting Groups and The Tunable Effect of The Leaving Groups"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Mentorship and Careers in Physical Organic Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Croix Laconsay (University of Houston, United States)
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Peng Liu (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
"A Career in Computational Physical Organic Chemistry"
1:40 pm - 1:50 pm
Discussion
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm
Renana Poranne (Technion, Israel)
"A Journey to the Land of Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons: from Physical Organic Chemistry to Interpretable Deep Learning"
2:00 pm - 2:10 pm
Discussion
2:10 pm - 2:20 pm
David Leitch (University of Victoria, Canada)
"Personal Account on Careers in Physical Organic Chemistry"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes