Two-Day Symposium on

Molecular and Anion Recognition

at the 65th ACS Southwest Regional Meeting
El Paso, TX; November 5th-6th, 2009

This symposium, which will involve both organic and inorganic chemists, will cover current topic of molecular and anion recognition.  The presentations given during this event will help showcase the importance of molecular recognition in the advancement of fundamental chemical knowledge.  The symposium will also demonstrate the impact of this discipline in analytical, biological and environmental chemistry.

Preliminary schedule of the invited talks

Thursday Afternoon (Nov. 5)

“Topological Influences On Anion Binding” Kristin Bowman-James, Sung Ok Kang, Victor W. Day, Qiqiang Wang (Uninersity of Kansas)

“Applications of Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry” Marc S. Maynor, Eric V. Anslyn (University of Texas at Austin)
Complexation Chemistry of Tetradentate Polypyridyl Ligands” Randolph P. Thummel, Ruifa Zong, Gang Zhang, Tseng Huan-Wei (University of Houston)

“Engineering MOF Geometries for Molecular Recognition” Ognjen S. Miljanic, Karolina B. Osowska, Jaebum Lim (University of Houston)

“Boron Calix[3]Arenes and Hemicarcerands: Design, Synthesis and Evaluation as Molecular Receptors”
Victor Barba (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos)

“Metal-Organic Squares and Polyhedra Based On Multidentate -Diketones” Andrew W. Maverick, Frank R. Fronczek, Chandi Pariya, Yoseph S. Marcos, Jackson K. Cherutoi, Jace D. Sandifer (Louisiana State University)

Friday Morning (Nov. 6)

“Anions and Aromatic Rings: Fluorescent Signaling and Attractive Interactions?” Darren W. Johnson, Michael M. Haley (University of Oregon)

“Polymeric Systems Containing Supramolecular Receptors for Molecular Recognition” Brett M. Rambo, Sung Kuk Kim, Christopher W. Bielawski,
Jonathan L. Sessler (University of Texas at Austin)

“Redox-Active "Wurster-Type" Receptors for Cations, Anions and Complete Salts” John W. Sibert (Univeristy of Texas at Dallas)

“Emerging Lessons On Aromatic Interactions: Molecular Recognition of Cationic Dyes with -Extended 2'-Deoxyadenosine Nucleotides”
Hugo Morales-Rojas, Karina Mondraguez (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos)

“Recent Advances in the Biomedical Applications of Texaphryins” Jonathan F. Arambula, Jonathan L. Sessler, Mark Fountain, Wen-hao Wei, Darren Magda, Zahid H. Siddik (University of Texas at Austin)

“Organoborane Polymers as Sensory Materials” Frieder Jaekle, Haiyan Li, Kshitij Parab, Anand Sundararaman (Rutgers University Newark)
 

Friday Afternoon (Nov. 6)

“Interactions of Surface-Bound Rhodamine B with CB7” Ronald L. Halterman, Wai-Tak Yip, Jason L. Moore, Kevin A. Woodson (Oklahoma University)

“Stimulus Responsive Protein-Binding: Interplay of Synthetic and Biological Supramolecular Motifs” Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah, PhD,
D. Calvin Harris, Xiaozhu Chu (Tulane University)

“Anionic Macrocyclic Receptors: Internal and External Binding” Jorge Tiburcio (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México )

“Cationic Lewis Acids as Anion Receptors” Francois P. Gabbai  (Texas A&M)