Conference Program
 
ELECTRON DONOR ACCEPTOR INTERACTIONS

August 9-14, 1998
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI

Chair:
Marshall Newton

Vice Chair:
Jan W. Verhoeven

Sunday PM Discussion Leader: Noel Hush

  • Marye Ann Fox - Intramolecular Electronic Coupling Between Polyradical Centers
  • Steven G. Boxer - New Spectroscopic Features in Charge Transfer Systems

Monday AM Discussion Leader: Henry Linschitz

  • Thomas J. Meyer - Energy Transduction: Converting Single Electron Transfer Events into Multiple Electron Changes
  • Thomas A. Moore (with Devens Gust and Ana L. Moore) - Photoinduced Electron Transfer Coupled to the Generation of Proton Motive Force and the Synthesis of ATP in an Artificial Photosynthetic Membrane
  • Itamar Willner - Donor-Acceptor Complexes at Surfaces: Supramolecular Assemblies for Molecular Optoelectronics

Monday PM Discussion Leader: Anne B. Myers

  • Gilbert C. Walker - Ultrafast Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Orientations and Vibrations in Electron Transfer Reactions
  • X. Sunney Xie - Probing Single-Molecule Electron Transfer
  • Hiroshi Miyasaka - Direct detection of hole migration along a chain of aromatic vinyl polymers as revealed by picosecond transient absorption and dichroism measurements

Tuesday AM Discussion Leader: Alex Stuchebrukhov

  • Paul F. Barbara - Ultrafast Probes of Exciton and Charge Transfer
  • Gary B. Schuster - Electron and Hole Transport in Duplex DNA
  • Richard A. Friesner - Computational Methods for Large Scale Modeling of Electron Transfer Processes: Applications to Electron Transfer through DNA, STM Images, and the Photosynthetic Reaction Center
  • Bernd Giese - Electron transfer through DNA in the course of radical-induced strand cleavage

Tuesday PM Discussion Leader: Piotr Piotrowiak

  • Tadashi Sugawara - Physical Properties of Charge Transfer Complexes Composed of Spin-Polarized Donors
  • Emile L. Bominaar - Theory of Spin-Dependent Electron Transfer and its Applications to Molecular Systems
  • C. Michael Elliott - A direct experimental comparison of the electron transfer theories of Marcus and Hush: studies of the optical and thermal intramolecular electron transfer in a mixed-valent dinuclear iron polypyridyl complex

Wednesday AM Discussion Leader: Matthew B. Zimmt

  • Kurt D. Deshayes - The Relationship Between Intermolecular Triplet Energy Transfer and Electron Transfer
  • Hyung J. Kim - Environmental Effects on Photo-Induced Electron Transfer Reactions
  • Gregory A. Voth - The Theory and Simulation of Electron Transfer Across the Electrode/Electrolyte Interface
  • Dmitry V. Matyushov - Molecular models for reorganization energy

Wednesday PM Discussion Leader: Mark A. Ratner

  • Mark A. Reed - Conductance Measurements of Single Atom and Molecule Systems
  • David F. Bocian (with Dewey Holten and Jonathan S. Lindsey) - Probing Electronic Communication in Multiporphyrin Arrays: Toward the Rational Design of Molecular Photonic Devices
  • Vladimiro Mujica - Solitons in conducting polymers and molecular wires: a comparison
  • Jan Verhoeven - Business meeting

Thursday AM Discussion Leader: Stephen W. Feldbergr

  • Christopher E. D. Chidsey - The Role of Chemical Structure in Interfacial Electron Transfer Through Insulating Spacers
  • Royce W. Murray - Alkanethiolate Monolayer-Protected Metal Clusters
  • Kenneth D. Jordan - Electron-Molecule Interactions: Bound and Temporary Anions
  • Tiaquan (Tim) Lian - Femtosecond IR study of electron transfer between semiconductor nanostructures and molecular adsorbates

Thursday PM Discussion Leader: Michael R. Wasielewski

  • Michael Grätzel - Molecular Photovoltaics

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