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Midwest Organic Solid-State Chemistry Symposium XIX, June 13-14, 2008, Manhattan, KS
The meeting attracted 48 participants (despite the fact that Campus and surrounding areas were hit by an EF4 tornado, 36 hrs earlier).
Travel support from ACS was distributed to Prof. Joel Bernstein, University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel ($1,200), and Prof. Jesus Valdes-Martinez, UNAM, Mexico ($1,200) to allow them to attend and give the plenary lectures that provided several important focal points for the meeting. In addition, 20 oral presentations were given by graduate/undergraduate students and post-docs during four half-day sessions. The symposium offered an interdisciplinary program highlighting the diversity of techniques, experimental and theoretical, that are currently being applied to problems pertinent to the deliberate supramolecular synthesis of functional materials. Additional financial support were sought and obtained from Johnson&Johnson, Boehringer Ingelheim, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Improved Pharma LLC. The total revenue for the meeting was $8,277.00.
The scientific program for the meeting is summarized below:
Friday, June 13
8:30 - 9:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:05 Opening remarks
9:05 – 9:50 Joel Bernstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“MOSSC + 20: “Present at the Recreation” Revisited”
9:50-10.10 Clare Aubrey-Medendorp, University of Kentucky
“The Confusion of Indexing Aspirin”
10:10-10:40 Coffee
10:40 – 11:00 Michelle Smith, Kansas State University
“Synthesis of Polycyanoximes and their Effectiveness as Supramolecular Reagents”
11:00-11:20 Safiyyah Forbes, Kansas State University
“Co-crystals: A versatile method for improving the physico-chemical properties of anti-cancer drugs”
11:20-11:40 Manza B.J. Atkinson, University of Iowa
“Co-crystals based on reactive zero-dimensional supramolecular assemblies that rapidly form via solvent-free and solvent-assisted grinding”
11:40-12:00 Elizabeth Elacqua, University of Iowa
“Solid-State Synthesis of [2.2]Cyclophanes”
12:00-1:30 Lunch (responsibility of participants)
1:30-1:50 Joseph C. Sumrak, University of Iowa
“Semiconductor Co-crystals Based on Higher Thiophenes and Thiazolothiazole Moieties”
1:50-2:10 Mark Hollingsworth, Kansas State University
“A new family of ferroelastic and ferroelectric calixarenes”
2:10-2:30 Sihui Long, University of Kentucky
“Packing Polymorphism of 2-Hydroxynicotinic Acid”
2:30-2:50 Jamie Townsend, Kansas State University
“Synthesis and structure of Cyclopeptide and Cyclam Nickel Complexes”
2:50 - 3:20 Refreshments
3:20-3:40 Juan Manuel Germán Acacio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
“Constructing Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials Using N-H---Cln-M Hydrogen Bonds”
3:40-4:00 Phuong V. Dau, University of Iowa,
“Towards the solid state preparation of multi-functional ligands for porous coordination networks with functionalized cavities”
4:00-4:45 Jesús Valdés-Martínez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
“Controlling the geometry of Cu(II) molecular tectons to build
supramolecular extended structures”
7:00 p.m. Dinner at Marianna Kistler-Beach Museum (event-registered participants only)
Saturday, June 14
8:30 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:50 Bart Kahr, University of Washington
“Mesoscale Chiroptics of Rhythmic Precipitates”
9:50-10:10 Rebecca Grove, Eastern Illinois University
“Unraveling Pasteur's Unusual ‘Combination Isomers'”
10:10-10:30 Coffee
10:30 – 10:50 Lei Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Surface-Enhanced Crystallization and Surface Molecular Mobility of Amorphous Indomethacin Studied by Surface Grating Decay
10:50-11:10 Leila Foroughi, University of Michigan
“Protein Crystallization Facilitated by Polymer-Induced Heteronucleation”
11:10-11:30 Vilmalí López-Mejías, University of Michigan
"Polymer Induced-Heteronucleation of Tolfenamic Acid: Structural Characterization of a Pentamorph”
11:30-11:50 Ye Sun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Crystallization near Glass Transition: Relation between Liquid Dynamics and Crystal Growth Kinetics of Seven Polymorphs in Diffusion-Controlled and Diffusionless Modes”
11:50-1:20 Lunch (responsibility of participants)
1:20 – 1:40 Saikat Dutta, University of Iowa
“Modified handles in template-controlled solid-state reactions”
1:40-2:00 Arbin Rajbanshi, Kansas State University
“Molecular Cages for Encapsulating Small-molecule Drugs”
2:00-2:50 Joel Bernstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“Can Co-crystals be Assembled Employing a Specific Hydrogen-Bonded Motif?”
2:50 - 3:00 Best Presentation Awards/Closing Remarks
6:00 p.m. Conference barbeque (for remaining participants)
