Additional Invited Speakers

Lia Addadi (Weizmann) "Transferring Chiral Information from Biological Macromolecules to Surfaces and Vice-Versa"

Carolyn Bertozzi
(UCBerkeley) "Chemical Approaches for Modulating Cell-Surface Architecture"

John Brauman
(Stanford) "Steric Effects and Solvent Effects in Ionic Reactions"

Barry Carpenter
(Cornell) "Dynamic Behavior of Reactive Intermediates"

Jin-Pei Cheng
(Nankai) "Recent Applications of Driving-Force Analysis in Understanding Some NO and NADH Model Reactions"

Jik Chin (Toronto) "Profound Effects in Molecular Recognition and Catalysis with One or Two Good Hydrogen Bonds in Water"

Jane Clarke (Cambridge) "Combining Atomic Force Microscopy, Simulation and Protein Folding to Investigate the Molecular Basis for Mechanical Strength in Proteins"

Bill Goddard (Cal Tech) "Determining Reaction Mechanisms of Catalytic Transformations from Quantum Mechanics"

Craig Hawker
(IBM) "A Facile Approach to Architecturally Defined Nanoparticles via Intramolecular Chain Collapse"

Pavel Hobza
(Prague) "Noncovalent Interactions with the Participation of Hydrogen: Hydrogen Bonding, Improper Blue-Shifting Hydrogen Bonding, and Dihydrogen Bonding"

Bill Jones (Rochester), "The Dynamics of Alkane Complexes as Intermediates in C-H Bond Activation Reactions"

Sung-Soo Kim
(Inha) "A Very Mild and Efficient Oxidations of Organic Substrates"

Rai-Shung Liu
(Tsing-Hua) "Metal-Vinylidene Intermediates in Metal-Catalyzed Reactions"

Soledad Penades (Seville) "Glyconanotechnology: Gold Glyconanoparticles as Water-Soluble Polyvalent Tools to Study Carbohydrate Interactions"

Frank Quina (São Paulo) "Manipulating the Reactivity of Anthocyanins in Aqueous Micellar Media"

John C. Sherman (UBC) "Construction, Structure, and Dynamics of Large Carceplexes"

Kazunari Taira (Tokyo) "Enhancement of Ribozyme Activities Based on Mechanisms"

Roald P. Tiger (Moscow) "Associated Solutions as Pseudo-Polymer Self-Assembled Systems: New Approach to Liquid Phase Kinetics and Solvent Effects in Organic Reactions"

Fumio Toda (Okayama) "Structure and Reactivity of Compressed Organic Molecules"

John Toscano (JohnsHopkins) "Rational Design of Novel Photochemical Precursors to Nitric Oxide"

Curt Wentrup (Queensland) "New Aromatic Nitrene Rearrangements"

Hendrik Zipse (Munich) "Charge Distribution and Charge Separation in Radical Reactions"