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Metal-containing and Metallo-supramolecular Polymers and Materials, at the ACS National Meeting, August 2007, Boston, MA
The blending of diverse scientific disciplines, such as the use of metal centers to assemble organic components coupled with a macromolecular size, has led to magnetic materials used for data storage, superconductors, electrochromic materials, and catalysts, as in metalloenzymes, to mention but a few topics. The creation of new approaches for structural construction has generated macromolecular infrastructures in which metals are not only incorporated by means of the traditional covalent bonds but also by potentially reversible coordination interactions. This chemical blending of organic and inorganic chemistry created access to a remarkable series of metallosupramolecular polymers that bridge the interface of traditional polymers, coordination chemistry, and supramolecular science. This symposium permitted the visual and verbal interactions of key world-wide researchers that will spark the imagination and intellectual spirit of the presenters and attendees. This well-attended symposium spanned the spectrum of materials science but the outcome was underpinned by novel macromolecular frameworks. Each talk in the ten sessions had between 50 and 130 attendees for the 90 oral presentations. In selected talks, the room size was the limiting factor. There was a poster session with fifteen posters; this was limited by intent. The funded speakers, partially funded by PRF, were: Yoshiki Chujo Didier Astruc Mattias Rehahn Wau Kin Chan Julius Vancso Matthias Tamm The symposium acknowledged the fiscal contribution of the ACS-PRF.
