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Symposium Program  

Stephen F. Nelsen
   65th Birthday Symposium
Madison, Wisconsin
June 3-4, 2005

Fri, June 3, 2005


Morning Session

Session Chair Peter Petillo
8:30-9:00
 Coffee/Donuts
 

9:00-9:15

  

Introductory Remarks
Hans Reich
9:15-10:00



  

Plenary 1
Ffrancon Williams
Studies of Amines (a) as Nucleophiles in Radiation-Induced Ionic Reactions, and (b) as Electron Donors in the Generation of Aminium Radical Cations Explored by Matrix ESR Spectroscopy
10:05-10:20  

Contribution 1
Gary Weisman
Tricyclic Bisamidines as Ligands and Precursors to Macrocyclic Tetraamines
 

10:25-10:45

  

Break
 

10:45-11:00

 

  

Contribution 2
Silas Blackstock
Patterned Redox Arrays
 

11:05-11:50


  

Plenary 2
Roger Alder
From Proton Sponges to C2-chiral diamines with pKas near 25
 

12:00-1:30

  

Lunch (off-site)


Afternoon Session  

Session Chair  John Buschek
 

1:30-2:15

  

Plenary 3
Dennis Evans
The Multifaceted Electrochemistry of Nitro Compounds
 

2:20-2:35

  

Contribution 3
Ryoichi Akaba
New Isomerism in Cation Radicals
 

2:40-2:55


  

Contribution 4
Luis Echegoyen
Pyrrolidine Adducts of Fullerenes:  Regioselective Synthesis of Multiple Adducts of Endohedral Compounds

3:00-3:20

Break
 

3:20-3:35


  

Contribution 5
Rustem Ismagilov
Physical Organic Principles for Complex Reaction Networks
 

3:40-3:55


  

Contribution 6
Edward L. Clennan
Organic Reactions and Organic Molecules in Zeolites

 

4:00-4:45

Plenary 4
Mike McBride

Saturday, June 4, 2005


Morning Session

Session Chair  Mark Teasely
8:30-9:00
 Coffee/Donuts
 

9:00-9:45

  

Plenary 5
Tim Clark
 

9:50-10:05

 

Contribution 7
Christopher Hollinsed
Designing Materials for Product Success

10:10-10:25

Break
 

10:25-10:40

 

Contribution 8
Peter M. Gannett
The role of aryl radicals and Z DNA in arylhydrazine carcinogenisis
10:45-11:30  

Plenary 6
 Jeffery Zink
Spectroscopic Consequences of Excited State Coupling:  Excited State Mixed Valence

 

11:45-1:15

  

Lunch (Off-Site)


Afternoon Session

Session Chair  Jack Pladziewicz

 

1:15-1:30

  

Contribution 9
Daniel Kapp

 

1:35-1:50

  

Contribution 10
J. Thomas Ippoliti
Synthesis of Novel Photochromic Molecules
 

1:55-2:10

  

Contribution 11
Glen Cunkle
 

2:15-2:30

  

Break
2:30-3:15  

Plenary 5
Hiizu Iwamura
Materials Science of Free Radicals

 

3:20-4:05

 

Stephen F. Nelsen
Using Koopmans' Theorem for Optical Spectra
 

4:10-5:00

  

Break
 

5:00

  

Reception/Dinner
Nadia's Restaurant


Last Updated: March 3, 2005 (P.M. Gannett)