13th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds
19/07/2009
14:00Registration
15:30Opening Ceremony
Prof. François DIEDERICH (ETH ZURICH, Zürich, Switzerland)
Mr Gritty THIEL (MINISTERY OF CULTURE, HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Prof. Rolf TARRACH (UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Mr. Raymond BAUSCH (NATIONAL RESEARCH FUND, Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Prof David BLACK (IUPAC REPRESENTATIVE, Sydney, Australia)
16:00Opening Plenary Lecture: Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry Towards Adaptative Chemistry
Prof. Jean-Marie LEHN
(ISIS/UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG, Strasbourg, France)
17:00The 2009 Nozoe Lecture: Exploration of Novel Porphyrinoids with Intriguing Electronic Properties
Prof. Atsuhiro OSUKA
(KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan)
18:30Welcome Reception
20/07/2009
Session Chair
Prof. Paul von Ragué SCHLEYER
(THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, Athens, United States)
09:00Cycloadditions to Enes, Ynes, and Arenes: Distortion/Interaction Model of Reactivity
Prof. Kendall N. HOUK
(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, United States)
09:35Using NICS-scan for Assessing Induced Dia- and Paramagnetic Ring Currents
Prof. Amnon STANGER
(TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Haifa, Israel)
10:10Quantum Chemical Study of Heteroanalogs and Derivatives of [8]-Circulene
Prof. Nikolay ZEFIROV
(MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY, Moscow, Russia)
10:25New pi-Electron Materials Built with Unusual Aromatics: from Methano[10]Annulene to Polycyclic Borepins
Prof. J. D. TOVAR
(JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, United States)
10:40Coffee Break
Session Chair
Prof. Rainer HERGES
(CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITÄT KIEL, Kiel, Germany)
11:10Variation of Aromaticity by Twisting or Expanding the Ring Content
Prof. Remi CHAUVIN
(LABORATOIRE DE CHIMIE DE COORDINATION DU CNRS, Toulouse, France)
11:45Aromaticity Switching in Porphyrinoids
Prof. lechoslaw LATOS - GRAZYNSKI
(UNIVERSITY OF WROCLAW, Wroclaw, Poland)
12:20Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity in the Larger Heteroacenes
Dr. Uwe H.F. BUNZ
(GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, United States)
12:35Intramolecular Methylacridan-Acridinium Complexes: Isolation, Structure, and Reactivities of the C...H-Bridged Carbocations
Prof. Takanori SUZUKI
(HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, Sapporo, Japan)
12:50Lunch
Session Chair
Prof. Nazario MARTÍN
(UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID, Madrid, Spain)
14:10New Strategies for the Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Prof. Antonio M. ECHAVARREN
(INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain)
14:45Single Chirality Carbon Nanotubes: Challenging Targets for Chemical Synthesis
Prof. Lawrence T. SCOTT
(BOSTON COLLEGE, Chestnut Hill, United States)
15:20Towards Large Openings in Fullerenes
Prof. Yves RUBIN
(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, United States)
15:35Metallation, Derivatization, and Function of pi-Bowl Sumanene
Prof. Toshikazu HIRAO
(OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan)
15:50Coffee Break
Session Chair
Prof Koichi KOMATSU
(FUKUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Kyoto, Japan)
16:20In-depth Understanding of pi-Electron Systems: New Vistas in Fullerene Endohedrals
Prof. Takeshi AKASAKA
(UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, Tsukuba, Japan)
16:55Buckyball Maracas: Chemical and Electrochemical Properties of Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Fullerenes
Prof. Luis ECHEGOYEN
(CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, Clemson, SC, United States)
17:30Preparation of Open-Cage Fullerene Derivatives
Prof. Liangbing GAN
(PEKING UNIVERSITY, Beijing, China)
17:45Synthesis and Properties of Novel Open-Cage Fullerenes and Endohedral Fullerenes
Prof. Yasujiro MURATA
(KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan)
18:00Poster Session
21/07/2009
Session Chair
Prof. Marcel MAYOR
(UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, Basel, Switzerland)
09:00C-H...F-C Hydrogen Bonding in the Crystal Structures of Fluoroaromatic Compounds
Prof. Gautam R. DESIRAJU
(INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Bangalore, India)
09:35Aromatic Mimics of Biomolecular Folding
Dr Ivan HUC
(IECB & CNRS - UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX, Bordeaux, France)
10:10The Effect of Molecular Clips and Tweezers on Enzymatic Reactions by Binding Coenzymes and Basic Aminoacids
Mr Frank-Gerrit KLÄRNER
(UNIVERSITÄT ESSEN, ESSEN, Germany)
10:25Charge-by-Charge Assemblies from π-Conjugated Acyclic Anion Receptors
Prof. Hiromitsu MAEDA
(INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY, Kusatsu, Japan)
10:40Coffee Break
Session Chair
Prof. Graham J. BODWELL
(MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY, St. John's, NL, Canada)
11:10Title not yet available
Prof. René JANSSEN
(EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
11:45Three-Dimensional Conjugated Macromolecules: Synthesis and Applications
Prof. Zhishan BO
(CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Beijing, China)
12:20Synthesis of Dibenzo[d,d’]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]difurans and pi-Conjugated Polymers with the Heteroacene Framework
Prof. Koji NAKANO
(UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan)
12:35Pushing The Limits in Acene Chemistry: Synthesis of Octacene and Nonacene
Prof. Holger BETTINGER
(UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN, Tübingen, Germany)
12:50Lunch + IAB Meeting
Session Chair
Prof. Tien-Yau LUH
(NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan)
14:10Giant Macrocycles Composed of Thiophene, Acetylene, and Ethylene Building Blocks
Prof. Masahiko IYODA
(TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan)
14:45Toward Carbyne: Synthesis and Stability of Really Long Polyynes
Prof. Rik R. TYKWINSKI
(UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
15:20An Alternative Approach to Highly Congested Acenes
Prof. Kathleen Vi. KILWAY
(UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, Kansas City, MO, United States)
15:35The Aromaticity of 1,2-Dihydro-1.2-azaborine
Prof. Shih-Yuan LIU
(UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, United States)
15:50Coffee Break
Session Chair
Prof. A. Dieter SCHLÜTER
(ETH ZURICH, Zurich, Switzerland)
16:20Synthesis and Properties of Shape-Persistent Rings and Wheels
Prof. Sigurd HÖGER
(UNIVERSITÄT BONN, Bonn, Germany)
16:55Novel Thiophene-based pi-Conjugated Structures and Topologies
Prof. Peter BÄUERLE
(UNIVERSITÄT ULM, Ulm, Germany)
17:30Click Synthesis of Donor-Acceptor Type Aromatic Polymers
Dr. Tsuyoshi MICHINOBU
(TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Tokyo, Japan)
17:45Macrocyclic Oligoarylamine-Based Spin System
Dr. AKIHIRO ITO
(KYOTO UNIVERSITY, KYOTO CITY, Japan)
18:00Poster Session
22/07/2009
Session Chair
Prof. Klaus MÜLLEN
(MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR POLYMERFORSCHUNG, Mainz, Germany)
09:00Electronic Polymers with Designed Eelectron Affinities
Prof. Timothy M. SWAGER
(MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, United States)
09:35Syntheses, Properties, and Applications of Carbon-bridged Coplanar Conjugated Aromatics
Prof. Ken-Tsung WONG
(NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan)
10:10Durable Supramolecular Assemblies Based On Fullerene Organizations
Dr. Takashi NAKANISHI
(MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES, Potsdam, Germany)
10:25Novel Anodic Concepts for the Selective Phenol Coupling Reaction
Prof. Siegfried WALDVOGEL
(BONN UNIVERSITY, Bonn, Germany)
10:40Coffee Break
Session Chair
Prof. Mogens Brøndsted NIELSEN
(UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, Copenhagen, Denmark)
11:10Some New Reactions of a Kinetically Stabilized Silabenzene and Isolation of a Stable 1,1'-Disila-4,4'-biphenyl
Prof. Norihiro TOKITOH
(KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan)
11:45Scaffold-directed Synthesis of Aromatic and Carbon-rich Materials
Prof. Nancy S. GOROFF
(STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Stony Brook, United States)
12:20Observing Marcus Inverted Region in Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Alternating Silylene-Separated Donor-Acceptor Copolymers
Dr. Chih-Hsien CHEN
(NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan)
12:35Tetramethylenedicyclobutabenzene and Related Oxo-Derivatives: Synthesis and Characterization
Prof. Toshiyuki HAMURA
(KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, Hyogo, Japan)
12:50Lunch
14:10Excursion
23/07/2009
Session Chair
Prof. Ken-Tsung WONG
(NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan)
09:00Aromatic Materials in Luminescence and Light Harvesting
Prof. Andrew B. HOLMES
(THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, Melbourne, Australia)
09:35Aggregation-Induced Emission of Novel Aromatic Luminogens
Prof. Ben Zhong TANG
(THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Hong Kong, China)
10:10Forty Years with Dihydropyrene - Excellent Aromaticity Probe and Not a Bad Photochrome
Prof. Reginald H. MITCHELL
(UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, Victoria, BC, Canada)
10:25Radical-Substituted pi-Conjugated Radical Cations
Prof. Keiji OKADA
(OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan)
10:40Coffee Break
Session Chair
Prof. Peter BÄUERLE
(UNIVERSITÄT ULM, Ulm, Germany)
11:10Some Uncovered Facets in Dehydroannulene Chemistry: Reactivity, Aromaticity, and Self-Assembly on Solid Surface
Prof. Yoshito TOBE
(OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan)
11:45"Aromatics in Flatland": Expressions of Chirality, Host-Guest Complexation and Network Formation on Metal Surfaces
Dr. Roman FASEL
(EMPA – MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Dübendorf, Switzerland)
12:20From the Bulk to the Interfaces: The Supramolecular Route towards Nanostructured Organic Materials
Prof. Davide BONIFAZI
(THE UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR, Namur, Belgium)
12:35On Surface Synthesis of Covalent 1D and 2D Polymers
Prof. Stefan HECHT
(HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, Berlin, Germany)
12:50Lunch
Session Chair
Dr Michal CYRAŃSKI
(UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW, Warsaw, Poland)
14:10Molecular to Supramolecular Engineering of Organic Compounds for Multiphotonics. Beyond the Standard Approach
Dr. Mireille BLANCHARD-DESCE
(UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES, Rennes, France)
14:45Two-Photon Probes for Bioimaging
Prof. Bong Rae CHO
(KOREA UNIVERSITY, Seoul, Korea, South)
15:20A Molecular Force Probe
Dr. Roman BOULATOV
(UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, United States)
15:35Control of the Helical Columnar Organization of Discotic Nanographenes towards High Performance Electronic Materials
Dr. Xinliang FENG
(MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH, Mainz, Germany)
15:50Coffee Break
Session Chair
Prof. Michael M. HALEY
(UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Oregon, United States)
16:20Dye Assemblies for Supramolecular Electronics and Photovoltaics
Prof. Frank WÜRTHNER
(UNIVERSITÄT WÜRZBURG, Würzburg, Germany)
16:55New Dihydroazulene Photoswitches
Prof. Mogens Brøndsted NIELSEN
(UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, Copenhagen, Denmark)
17:30Public Lecture

Research in Luxembourg, Small but Beautiful

Prof. Lucienne BLESSING
(UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
18:30Reception
20:00Banquet
24/07/2009
Session Chair
Prof. Armin DE MEIJERE
(GEORG-AUGUST UNIVERSITÄT, GÖTTINGEN, Germany)
09:00Molecular Switches and Motors
Prof. Ben FERINGA
(UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands)
09:35Synthetic Molecular Motors and Machines
Prof. David LEIGH
(UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
10:10Molecular Electronics: from Molecular Design to New Integration Strategies
Prof. Marcel MAYOR
(UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, Basel, Switzerland)
10:45Coffee Break
Session Chair
Prof. Lawrence T. SCOTT
(BOSTON COLLEGE, Chestnut Hill, United States)
11:15Graphene and its Chemical Derivatives
Dr. Kostya NOVOSELOV
(UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, Manchester, United Kingdom)
11:50Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Applications and Challenges
Prof. Maurizio PRATO
(UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, Trieste, Italy)
12:25Water-Soluble Perylenebisimides and their Role in Exfoliation and Doping of Nano Tubes and Graphene
Prof. Andreas HIRSCH
(UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG, Erlangen, Germany)
13:00Closing Ceremony
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