Tomorrow and on Saturday the top physical chemists will meet to celebrate the 80th birthday of Professor Paul von Ragué Schleyer. As a pioneer computational chemist, the discoveries of basically new molecular structures – particularly those involving lithium and electron deficient systems – are among his major achievements.
Schleyer’s research contributions include the discovery of simple ways of synthesizing adamantane and other cage molecules by rearrangement, new types of hydrogen bonding, elucidation of solvolysis mechanisms and the nature of reactive intermediates, as well as a broad range of physical organic, organometallic, inorganic and theoretical topics.
The scientific program of “Theory and Experiment: Synergy or Competition?” will consist of lectures by Ragué Schleyer’s ex-students and current associates.
Speakers at the symposium are:
Friday, August 27, 2010
- Bernd Goldfuss (Terpene-based reagents and catalysts )
- Ernst-Ulrich Würthwein (Electrocyclization Reactions under Superelectrophilic Conditions: Experiments and Theory)
- Herbert Mayr (A Farewell to the Klopman-Salem Model of Ambident Reactivity)
- Rainer Herges (Designing molecules with dynamic, machine-like functions)
- Peter R. Schreiner (Beyond adamantane – adventures in diamondoid chemistry)
- Walter Bauer (Exotic Applications of NMR)
- Gernot Frenking (Carbenes and Carbones)
- Matthias Bickelhaupt (Violation of the Octet Rule: Hypervalent Carbon)
- Ulrike Salzner (Polaron Model Revisited)
- Jürgen Gauss (Interplay of Theory and Experiment in NMR Spectroscopy: Electron-Correlated Calculation of NMR Chemical Shifts)
- Andreas Hirsch (Functionalization of Synthetic Carbon Allotropes) (see Interview with him on ChemistryViews)
- Rik Tykwinski (Competition and Synergy: The synthesis of theoretically interesting molecules)
- Tim Clark (Prospective Computational Chemistry and Biology)
Saturday, August 28, 2010
- Koop Lammertsma (Phosphorus as Enabling Vehicle – From Ligands to Catalysts) (see Interview with him on ChemistryViews)
- Yitzhak Apeloig (Novel Silyl Radicals)
- Martin Kaupp (Structure Elucidation of Metalloenzyme Sites by Help of Quantum Chemical Computation of EPR Parameters)
- Michael Bühl (Probing Metal Centers with NMR Chemical Shift Computations)
- Holger Bettinger (The Interplay of Experiment and Theory in the Pursuit of Long Acenes)
- Anne-Clemence Corminboeuf (An Innovative Approach for Solving Enigmas in Organic Chemistry)
- Henry F. Schaefer III (From Donor-Acceptor Complexes to gallium Nitride nanorods)
- Martin Quack (On C1 H4, C10H16, C14H20, PAuLuS and Other Things)
- Helmut Schwarz (High-valent iron-oxo and iron-nitrido cations: Intraligand bond activation, intermolecular oxygena and nitrogen-atom transfer, nitrile-alkyne metathesis, and more …)
