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The 2.5-day symposium "Organoboron, Organosilicon, and Organophosphorus as Optoelectronic and Energy-related Materials" was held under the auspices of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (DIC) with co-sponsorship from December 15-20, 2010, as part of the Pacifichem 2010 meeting in Honolul (organizers: Suning Wang from Queens University in Canada, Frieder Jakle from Rutgers University in the US, Shighiro Yamaguchi from Nagoya University in Japan, Yue Wang from China). The symposium consisted of five half-day sessions with a total of 37 invited and contributed oral presentations and 10 poster submissions.

This symposium brought together scientists with diverse backgrounds and provided a forum for the discussion of recent developments and new directions in organoboron, organosilicon and organophosphorus research, especially their photophysical and photochemical properties and their applications in optoelectronic and energy storage materials and devices. Specific topics that were  covered include "Synthesis of new materials", "Polymeric & supramolecular systems", "Chemosensors", "Optoelectronic applications", "Transition metal-containing compounds", "Photophysical properties", "Photochemical reactions", "Molecular hydrogen activation & storage".

The symposium was truly international with contributions from numerous world-renowned speakers, seven of which were supported in part by the ACS-PRF grant. These speakers provided expertise, which nicely complemented that of the North American participants:

Simon Aldridge  from Oxford University, United Kingdom, spoke about "Synthetic, structural and reaction chemistry of cationic transition-metal borylene complexes";

Jun-Wu Chen from South China University of Technology, China, spoke about  "Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of silole-based materials";

Yun Chi from China spoke about "Phosphorescent metal complexes with ancillary chelates deriving from benzyldiphenylphosphine and analogues";

Yoshiki Chujo from Kyoto University, Japan, spoke about "Mainchain-type organoboron polymers: Synthesis and photoluminescence properties";

Ian Manners from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, spoke about "Catalytic Routes to Functional Main Group Polymers and Materials";

Todd Marder from Durham University, United Kingdom, spoke about "Applications of boron chemistry in the development of materials for linear and nonlinear optics";

Regis Reau from Universite Rennes, France, spoke about "Organophosphorus and Organometallic Helicene Derivatives".