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Mixed Valency in Chemistry, at the ACS National Meeting, August 2007, Boston, MA
This Scientific Education grant was used to support travel expenses of six foreign scientists participating in the Symposium on Mixed Valency in Chemistry as part of the INOR program at the 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007. The sponsored participants were Professor Peter Day of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Professor Robin Clark of University College London, Professor Christoph Lambert of the University of Wurzburg, Professor Noel Hush of the University of Sydney, Professor Wolfgang Kaim of the University of Stuttgart, and Professor Didier Astruc of the University of Bordeaux. All are internationally recognized as experts on mixed valency in chemistry. Matching funds for the travel expenses of the speakers were provided by the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry, with additional support from DuPont. The overall scientific program for the symposium was drawn from a total of twenty invited plenary and contributed lectures: Mixed valence: What happened next? (Peter Day), Mixed valency and the power of spectroscopy (Carol Creutz),What is delocalization? The Creutz-Taube ion as Delphic Oracle (Noel S. Hush), Mixed valency in manganese cluster compounds: A foundation for high-spin molecules and single-molecule magnets (George Christou), Probing electronic communication using multiply bonded dimetal units: A part of the legacy of Al Cotton (Carlos A. Murillo), Mixed valency in ruthenium-cyanamide systems and non-innocent behavior (Robert J. Crutchley), Characterization of a mixed valence iron (II,III) dimer with thiolate, cyanide, and carbonyl donor ligands (Stephen A. Koch), Mixed-valent copper(I) pseudorotaxanes (Amar H Flood), IVCT Transitions, pigments and the Arts/Science interface (Robin J. H. Clark), Concerning the mechanism and degree of electronic coupling in covalently linked MM quadruply bonded complexes of molybdenum and tungsten in their neutral and mixed valence states (Malcolm H. Chisholm), Time for diversity of mixed valence complexes (Wolfgang Kaim), Neutral organic mixed valence compounds: The evaluation of ET parameters by Jortner's theory Christoph Lambert, Solvent control of charge localization in organic mixed valence compounds (Joćo P. Telo), Excited state mixed valence spectroscopy (Jeffrey I. Zink), A reaction chemistry for multielectron mixed valency of consequence to energy conversion (Daniel G. Nocera), Mixed valancy in bioinorganic electron transfer (Edward I. Solomon), Supramolecular porphyrin prisms and excited-state mixed-valency (Joseph T. Hupp), Mixed valency problems in dendrimers (Didier Astruc), Engineering reversible electron transfer reactions within polyoxometalate nanoscale cages (Leroy Cronin), Solvent dynamics at the class II/III borderline of mixed valency (Clifford P. Kubiak). The lectures of the six foreign invited speakers added much to the scientific program. Their participation in discussions and in all other aspects of the meeting also added valuable educational benefits for others in attendance. This was overall a very successful symposium.
