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Program


14:00

Registration

15:30

Opening Ceremony

Prof. François DIEDERICH
ETH ZURICH, Zürich, Switzerland
Mr Gritty THIEL
MINISTERY OF CULTURE, HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Prof. Rolf TARRACH
UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Mr. Raymond BAUSCH
NATIONAL RESEARCH FUND, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Prof David BLACK
IUPAC REPRESENTATIVE, Sydney, Australia
16:00

Opening Plenary Lecture: Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry Towards Adaptative Chemistry

Prof. Jean-Marie LEHN
ISIS/UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG, Strasbourg, France
17:00

The 2009 Nozoe Lecture: Exploration of Novel Porphyrinoids with Intriguing Electronic Properties

Prof. Atsuhiro OSUKA
KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan
18:30

Welcome Reception

Session Chair

Prof. Paul von Ragué SCHLEYER
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, Athens, United States
09:00

Cycloadditions to Enes, Ynes, and Arenes: Distortion/Interaction Model of Reactivity

Prof. Kendall N. HOUK
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, United States
09:35

Using NICS-scan for Assessing Induced Dia- and Paramagnetic Ring Currents

Prof. Amnon STANGER
TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Haifa, Israel
10:10

Quantum Chemical Study of Heteroanalogs and Derivatives of [8]-Circulene

Prof. Nikolay ZEFIROV
MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY, Moscow, Russia
10:25

New pi-Electron Materials Built with Unusual Aromatics: from Methano[10]Annulene to Polycyclic Borepins

Prof. J. D. TOVAR
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, United States
10:40

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Rainer HERGES
CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITÄT KIEL, Kiel, Germany
11:10

Variation of Aromaticity by Twisting or Expanding the Ring Content

Prof. Remi CHAUVIN
LABORATOIRE DE CHIMIE DE COORDINATION DU CNRS, Toulouse, France
11:45

Aromaticity Switching in Porphyrinoids

Prof. lechoslaw LATOS - GRAZYNSKI
UNIVERSITY OF WROCLAW, Wroclaw, Poland
12:20

Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity in the Larger Heteroacenes

Dr. Uwe H.F. BUNZ
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, United States
12:35

Intramolecular Methylacridan-Acridinium Complexes: Isolation, Structure, and Reactivities of the C...H-Bridged Carbocations

Prof. Takanori SUZUKI
HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, Sapporo, Japan
12:50

Lunch

Session Chair

Prof. Nazario MARTÍN
UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID, Madrid, Spain
14:10

New Strategies for the Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Prof. Antonio M. ECHAVARREN
INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain
14:45

Single Chirality Carbon Nanotubes: Challenging Targets for Chemical Synthesis

Prof. Lawrence T. SCOTT
BOSTON COLLEGE, Chestnut Hill, United States
15:20

Towards Large Openings in Fullerenes

Prof. Yves RUBIN
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, United States
15:35

Metallation, Derivatization, and Function of pi-Bowl Sumanene

Prof. Toshikazu HIRAO
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan
15:50

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof Koichi KOMATSU
FUKUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Kyoto, Japan
16:20

In-depth Understanding of pi-Electron Systems: New Vistas in Fullerene Endohedrals

Prof. Takeshi AKASAKA
UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, Tsukuba, Japan
16:55

Buckyball Maracas: Chemical and Electrochemical Properties of Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Fullerenes

Prof. Luis ECHEGOYEN
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, Clemson, SC, United States
17:30

Preparation of Open-Cage Fullerene Derivatives

Prof. Liangbing GAN
PEKING UNIVERSITY, Beijing, China
17:45

Synthesis and Properties of Novel Open-Cage Fullerenes and Endohedral Fullerenes

Prof. Yasujiro MURATA
KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan
18:00

Poster Session

Session Chair

Prof. Marcel MAYOR
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, Basel, Switzerland
09:00

C-H...F-C Hydrogen Bonding in the Crystal Structures of Fluoroaromatic Compounds

Prof. Gautam R. DESIRAJU
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Bangalore, India
09:35

Aromatic Mimics of Biomolecular Folding

Dr Ivan HUC
IECB & CNRS - UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX, Bordeaux, France
10:10

The Effect of Molecular Clips and Tweezers on Enzymatic Reactions by Binding Coenzymes and Basic Aminoacids

Mr Frank-Gerrit KLÄRNER
UNIVERSITÄT ESSEN, ESSEN, Germany
10:25

Charge-by-Charge Assemblies from π-Conjugated Acyclic Anion Receptors

Prof. Hiromitsu MAEDA
INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY, Kusatsu, Japan
10:40

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Graham J. BODWELL
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY, St. John's, NL, Canada
11:10

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Prof. René JANSSEN
EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
11:45

Three-Dimensional Conjugated Macromolecules: Synthesis and Applications

Prof. Zhishan BO
CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Beijing, China
12:20

Synthesis of Dibenzo[d,d’]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]difurans and pi-Conjugated Polymers with the Heteroacene Framework

Prof. Koji NAKANO
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
12:35

Pushing The Limits in Acene Chemistry: Synthesis of Octacene and Nonacene

Prof. Holger BETTINGER
UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN, Tübingen, Germany
12:50

Lunch + IAB Meeting

Session Chair

Prof. Tien-Yau LUH
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan
14:10

Giant Macrocycles Composed of Thiophene, Acetylene, and Ethylene Building Blocks

Prof. Masahiko IYODA
TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan
14:45

Toward Carbyne: Synthesis and Stability of Really Long Polyynes

Prof. Rik R. TYKWINSKI
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
15:20

An Alternative Approach to Highly Congested Acenes

Prof. Kathleen Vi. KILWAY
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, Kansas City, MO, United States
15:35

The Aromaticity of 1,2-Dihydro-1.2-azaborine

Prof. Shih-Yuan LIU
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, United States
15:50

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. A. Dieter SCHLÜTER
ETH ZURICH, Zurich, Switzerland
16:20

Synthesis and Properties of Shape-Persistent Rings and Wheels

Prof. Sigurd HÖGER
UNIVERSITÄT BONN, Bonn, Germany
16:55

Novel Thiophene-based pi-Conjugated Structures and Topologies

Prof. Peter BÄUERLE
UNIVERSITÄT ULM, Ulm, Germany
17:30

Click Synthesis of Donor-Acceptor Type Aromatic Polymers

Dr. Tsuyoshi MICHINOBU
TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Tokyo, Japan
17:45

Macrocyclic Oligoarylamine-Based Spin System

Dr. AKIHIRO ITO
KYOTO UNIVERSITY, KYOTO CITY, Japan
18:00

Poster Session

Session Chair

Prof. Klaus MÜLLEN
MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR POLYMERFORSCHUNG, Mainz, Germany
09:00

Electronic Polymers with Designed Eelectron Affinities

Prof. Timothy M. SWAGER
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, United States
09:35

Syntheses, Properties, and Applications of Carbon-bridged Coplanar Conjugated Aromatics

Prof. Ken-Tsung WONG
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan
10:10

Durable Supramolecular Assemblies Based On Fullerene Organizations

Dr. Takashi NAKANISHI
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES, Potsdam, Germany
10:25

Novel Anodic Concepts for the Selective Phenol Coupling Reaction

Prof. Siegfried WALDVOGEL
BONN UNIVERSITY, Bonn, Germany
10:40

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Mogens Brøndsted NIELSEN
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, Copenhagen, Denmark
11:10

Some New Reactions of a Kinetically Stabilized Silabenzene and Isolation of a Stable 1,1'-Disila-4,4'-biphenyl

Prof. Norihiro TOKITOH
KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan
11:45

Scaffold-directed Synthesis of Aromatic and Carbon-rich Materials

Prof. Nancy S. GOROFF
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Stony Brook, United States
12:20

Observing Marcus Inverted Region in Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Alternating Silylene-Separated Donor-Acceptor Copolymers

Dr. Chih-Hsien CHEN
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan
12:35

Tetramethylenedicyclobutabenzene and Related Oxo-Derivatives: Synthesis and Characterization

Prof. Toshiyuki HAMURA
KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, Hyogo, Japan
12:50

Lunch

14:10

Excursion

Session Chair

Prof. Ken-Tsung WONG
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, Taipei, Taiwan
09:00

Aromatic Materials in Luminescence and Light Harvesting

Prof. Andrew B. HOLMES
THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, Melbourne, Australia
09:35

Aggregation-Induced Emission of Novel Aromatic Luminogens

Prof. Ben Zhong TANG
THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Hong Kong, China
10:10

Forty Years with Dihydropyrene - Excellent Aromaticity Probe and Not a Bad Photochrome

Prof. Reginald H. MITCHELL
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, Victoria, BC, Canada
10:25

Radical-Substituted pi-Conjugated Radical Cations

Prof. Keiji OKADA
OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan
10:40

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Peter BÄUERLE
UNIVERSITÄT ULM, Ulm, Germany
11:10

Some Uncovered Facets in Dehydroannulene Chemistry: Reactivity, Aromaticity, and Self-Assembly on Solid Surface

Prof. Yoshito TOBE
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, Japan
11:45

"Aromatics in Flatland": Expressions of Chirality, Host-Guest Complexation and Network Formation on Metal Surfaces

Dr. Roman FASEL
EMPA – MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Dübendorf, Switzerland
12:20

From the Bulk to the Interfaces: The Supramolecular Route towards Nanostructured Organic Materials

Prof. Davide BONIFAZI
THE UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR, Namur, Belgium
12:35

On Surface Synthesis of Covalent 1D and 2D Polymers

Prof. Stefan HECHT
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, Berlin, Germany
12:50

Lunch

Session Chair

Dr Michal CYRAŃSKI
UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW, Warsaw, Poland
14:10

Molecular to Supramolecular Engineering of Organic Compounds for Multiphotonics. Beyond the Standard Approach

Dr. Mireille BLANCHARD-DESCE
UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES, Rennes, France
14:45

Two-Photon Probes for Bioimaging

Prof. Bong Rae CHO
KOREA UNIVERSITY, Seoul, Korea, South
15:20

A Molecular Force Probe

Prof. Roman BOULATOV
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Liverpool, United Kingdom
15:35

Control of the Helical Columnar Organization of Discotic Nanographenes towards High Performance Electronic Materials

Dr. Xinliang FENG
MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH, Mainz, Germany
15:50

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Michael M. HALEY
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Oregon, United States
16:20

Dye Assemblies for Supramolecular Electronics and Photovoltaics

Prof. Frank WÜRTHNER
UNIVERSITÄT WÜRZBURG, Würzburg, Germany
16:55

New Dihydroazulene Photoswitches

Prof. Mogens Brøndsted NIELSEN
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, Copenhagen, Denmark
17:30

Public Lecture

Research in Luxembourg, Small but Beautiful

Prof. Lucienne BLESSING
UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
18:30

Reception

20:00

Banquet

Session Chair

Prof. Armin DE MEIJERE
GEORG-AUGUST UNIVERSITÄT, GÖTTINGEN, Germany
09:00

Molecular Switches and Motors

Prof. Ben FERINGA
UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands
09:35

Synthetic Molecular Motors and Machines

Prof. David LEIGH
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
10:10

Molecular Electronics: from Molecular Design to New Integration Strategies

Prof. Marcel MAYOR
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, Basel, Switzerland
10:45

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Lawrence T. SCOTT
BOSTON COLLEGE, Chestnut Hill, United States
11:15

Graphene and its Chemical Derivatives

Dr. Kostya NOVOSELOV
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, Manchester, United Kingdom
11:50

Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Applications and Challenges

Prof. Maurizio PRATO
UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, Trieste, Italy
12:25

Water-Soluble Perylenebisimides and their Role in Exfoliation and Doping of Nano Tubes and Graphene

Prof. Andreas HIRSCH
UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG, Erlangen, Germany
13:00

Closing Ceremony