1999 Gordon Research Conference

on

Physical Organic Chemistry

 

June 27-July 2, 1999, Holderness, NH

 

The conference begins with dinner at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 27, (buses leave Boston's Logan Airport at 12:30, 3, 5, and 7 p.m. for the 2.5 hour journey to Holderness). It ends after breakfast on Friday, July 2 (buses depart for Boston airport at 9 a.m.).

Each morning and evening there will be Scheduled Talks of 40 minutes, each followed by a 20 minute discussion period.

Monday through Thursday afternoons there will be "formal" Poster Sessions with different posters discussed Mon/Tues and Wed/Thurs. The Thursday evening program will consist of short oral presentations of selected posters.

In addition to the spontaneous exchanges that are the hallmark of Gordon Conferences, conferees may volunteer to organize or participate in informal discussions on other topics of special interest.

 

Morning Sessions 9:00 - 12:20 (coffee break 10-10:20)

Evening Sessions 7:30 - 9:30

Poster Sessions Monday through Thursday afternoon (4:30 - 6:00)

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Scheduled Talks:

 

Sunday evening: ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY

 

Discussion Leader: Ray Fort (Maine)

 

Karen Goldberg (University of Washington) "Mechanistic Studies of Fundamental Organometallic Reactions"

Bob Bergman (Berkeley) "Understanding Metal-Mediated Organic Oxidation Reactions: The Chemistry of Complexes with Metal-Heteroatom Bonds"

 

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Monday morning: WONDERFUL MOLECULES, SPECTACULAR TECHNIQUES

 

Discussion Leader: Larry Scott (Boston College)

 

Yoshito Tobe (Osaka) "Macrocyclic Reactive Polyynes en route to Fullerenes"

Paul Krusic (du Pont) "From Buckyballs to High-temperature Gas-phase NMR for Reaction Kinetics".

Michael Orfanopoulos (Crete) "Photocycloadditions and Ene Reactions of C60 with Alkenes. A Mechanistic Approach."

 

Monday afternoon

 

POSTER SESSION 1

 

Monday evening: ISOTOPE EFFECTS AND PROTON TRANSFER REACTIONS 1

 

Discussion Leader: John Bartmess (Tennessee)

 

Kevin Peters (Colorado) "New Perspectives for Proton Transfer Reactions - Experiment"

Casey Hynes (Colorado) "New Perspectives for Proton Transfer Reactions - Theory"

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Tuesday morning: ISOTOPE EFFECTS AND PROTON TRANSFER REACTIONS 2

 

Discussion Leader: Bob Pascal (Princeton)

 

Cheryl Stevenson (Illinois State) "Changes in Aromatic and Antiaromatic Characters due to Isotopic Substitution: The Annulenes."

Joe Gajewski (Indiana) "Mechanisms of Carbonyl Addition Reactions...Things your Mother Never Told You"

Dan Singleton (Texas A&M) "Some new mechanisms for simple reactions."

 

Tuesday afternoon POSTER SESSION 1

 

 

Tuesday evening: REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES 1

 

Discussion Leader: Maitland Jones, Jr. (Princeton)

 

Ralf Warmuth (Kansas State) "Inner Phase Phenylcarbene Rearrangement"

John Toscano (Johns Hopkins) "Structure and Reactivity of Organic Intermediates via Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy"

 

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Wednesday morning: REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES 2

 

Discussion Leader: Stuart Staley (Carbegie Mellon)

 

Phil Shevlin (Auburn) "Reactions of Atomic carbon and Related Energetic Intermediates"

Hideo Tomioka (Mie)"A Triplet Carbene Close to Being Bottleable"

Peter Gaspar (Washington University) "Phosphiranes, Phosphinidenes, and Their Chalcogenides - Back and Forth From Theory to Experiment."

 

Wednesday afternoon: POSTER SESSION 2

 

Wednesday evening: COARCTATE CHEMISTRY: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

 

Discussion Leader: Bill Herndon (UTEP)

 

Rainer Herges (Braunschweig) "Coarctate Conjugation, a New Bonding Principle in Chemistry"

Gerhard Schroeder (Karlsruhe) "From the Criegee Zwitterion to Coartate Moebius Aromaticity in the Transition State and in the Ground State"

 

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Thursday morning: HYDROLYSIS OF PHOSPHODIESTERS

 

Discussion Leader: Ken Wiberg (Yale)

 

Bob Moss (Rutgers): "Metal Mediated Cleavages of Phosphodiesters and Phosphodiester Assemblies."

Jik Chin (McGill):"Mechanistic Analysis on Mono-, Di- and Trinuclear Metal Complex Promoted Hydrolysis of Phosphates"

Dick Wolfenden (North Carolina):"The hydrolysis of phosphate esters in slow motion".

 

Thursday afternoon: POSTER SESSION 2

 

Thursday evening: Short Oral Presentations Selected from the Poster Sessions

 

Discussion Leader: Jay Siegel (UC San Diego)