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2011 ISACS conference details just announced

06 Aug 2010

Following the great success of the first 3 ISACS meetings held July 2010, ISACS 4-6 have now been confirmed. Find out why 97% of delegates said they’d attend another ISACS meeting, by joining one of next year’s events.

Jason Chin discusses reprogramming the code of life (ISACS1)

Almost 500 delegates attended the first three ISACS meetings (International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences), held in San Francisco, Budapest, and Hong Kong, this July. The events, held in support of the launch of the new RSC journal Chemical Science, received critical acclaim from the delegates: survey results from over 100 attendees, suggest an incredible 97% would seek to attend future ISACS meetings! Why not find out why these events were so well received, by planning to attend one of the 2011 meetings?

ISACS2 Speakers with RSC staff

The next three ISACS meetings are now confirmed as:

ISACS4 – Challenges in Renewable Energy
5-8 July 2011, Boston, USA

ISACS5 – Challenges in Chemical Biology
26-29 July 2011, Manchester, UK

ISACS6 – Challenges in Organic Materials & Supramolecular Chemistry
2-5 September 2011, Beijing, China

Further information will be available in due course, but hold these dates in your diary to be part of the next suite of three ISACS meetings.

ISACS1 Speakers

Read more about the success of the 2010 ISACS events. And please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about these events.

Robert Eagling
Managing Editor, Chemical Science

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Chemical Science poster prize awarded at GRC Organic Reactions & Processes

26 Jul 2010

Congratulations to Tyler Davis from Vanderbilt University, USA, who won the Chemical Science poster prize at the Gordon Research Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes held on 18-23 July at Bryant University, Rhode Island, USA.

Rodney Parsons, Tyler Davis, Joanne Thomson, Richard Hsung and Todd Nelson

From left to right: Rodney Parsons (vice chair), Tyler Davis (poster prize winner), Joanne Thomson (deputy editor, Chemical Science), Richard Hsung (chair) and Todd Nelson (vice chair)

Tyler was invited to give a short oral presentation on his work entitled ‘Chiral proton catalysis: Guidelines for the development of more reactive bifunctional catalysts, and the first enantioselective synthesis of chiral cis-4,5-disubstituted imidazolines’.

The conference marked its 57th consecutive year in existence, celebrating the diversity in organic chemistry. Topics included natural product total synthesis, method development, catalytic transformations and reaction mechanisms, with the speakers and audience reflecting the broad impact organic chemistry has had both in academia and industry.

Many thanks to the conference chair, Richard Hsung (University of Wisconsin), and vice chairs, Rodney Parsons (Bristol-Myers Squibb) and Todd Nelson (Merck & Co), for organising such a superb conference and helping to judge the posters.

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Final installment for ISACS 3

22 Jul 2010

The 3rd and final International Conference on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS) got off to a blistering start in Hong Kong on Tuesday (20th), covering ‘Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry’.

ISACS 3 hosted in Hong Kong

Following the opening remarks given by the CEO of the RSC, Dr Richard Pike, distinguished Professor of Energy, Daniel Nocera (MIT), introduced the first session. Before introducing the speakers, Professor Nocera praised the new RSC journal, Chemical Science, and it’s flexible format commenting that this style had also been recently adopted by another leading general chemistry journal. Throughout the conference many of the speakers presented results published in Chemical Science.

After the Chair’s opening remarks, Professor Graetzel was introduced and presented on the latest developments in solar energy conversion systems. The energy theme was continued with the second talk, with Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon looking at how chemistry is driving the development of new electrode materials for lithium ion batteries.

During the ISACS 3 talks

The quality of the science continued to impress, with presentations on main group chemistry (Power), single molecule magnets (Long), Carbene chemistry (Hillhouse) and multinuclear sandwich chemistry (Murahashi). Day one ended with a switch to bioinorganic chemistry, with Professor Chris Chang (UC Berkeley) wowing the audience with the latest cutting edge developments in the field of molecular imaging.

Day two continued where day one left off. Chemical Science Associate Editor, Professor Jeffrey Long, introduced two pioneers from the field of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Professors Kitagawa and Yaghi. Professor Kitagawa spoke on coordination polymers with integrated functional pores whilst Professor Yaghi presented on ‘sequences’ and ‘codes’ in MOF chemistry. In the latter talk, and in line with the theme of the conference, Professor Yaghi outlined 5 key challenges from the field of MOF chemistry. The morning session closed with a truly impressive array of beautiful large structures from Professor Manfred Scheer (the role of polyphosphorus units in transition metal chemistry) and catalysis with butterflies from Professor Hans-Jorg Grutzmacher.

ISACS 3 hosts welcoming the conference delegates to Hong Kong

As the audience broke for lunch the feeling was one of excitement for the remaining talks still to come from world leading inorganic researchers (Cummins, Che, Yam, Fujita, Yang, Nocera and Xu).

For any further details about the ISACS meetings or Chemical Science please visit our website.

Also watch this space for ISACS 4-6, due to be held in 2011, details will be announced shortly.

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ISACS 2 takes Budapest by storm

16 Jul 2010

ISACS 2 is continuing where ISACS 1 left off – more world-class scientists discussing the very best in cutting edge chemistry. This time it’s the turn of physical chemistry and nanoscience, set in the beautiful city of Budapest.

Joanne Thomson, Philip Earis and the ISACS 2 speakers

Moungi Bawendi opened the meeting with a fascinating talk on the science and technology of semiconductor nanocrystals, revealing that ‘it is all about the excitons.’ Hongkun Park then discussed his strategy for engineering light-matter interactions using nanoscale plasmonic and optoelectronic interfaces. Photochemistry was up next, with talks on methanol photodissociation on TiO2 surfaces and pi-sigma* excited states from Xueming Yang and Mike Ashfold. The afternoon talks covered electron transfer across interfaces (Martin Wolf), nanopatterning with molecules at interfaces (Steven De Feyter) and last but by no means least, nanoscale spectroscopy with optical antenna (Lukas Novotny). The day finished with a lively poster session and a members’ reception, where we welcomed many new members to the RSC.

Day two has been another jammed-packed event, with the morning covering single molecule optics for probing dynamics (Michel Orrit), single nano-objects spectroscopy (Vahid Sandoghdar), reactions of vibrationally excited molecules (Kopin Liu) and energy transfer at interfaces (Alec Wodtke). The afternoon session started on a more biophysical angle, with Toshio Yanagida discussing single molecule nanobioscience and Haw Yang talking about quantum dots as nanoscale local temperature sensors for measuring the temperature inside cells. The focus then switched to femto- and attosecond photoelectron experiments (Daniel Neumark) before David Clary closed the day’s session with his general procedure for predicting the kinetics and dynamics of polyatomic molecules.

ISACS 3 is due to take place next week, 20th – 23rd July, in the spectacular venue of Hong Kong and will take a look at the challenges in inorganic and materials chemistry.

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ISACS kicks off in style

12 Jul 2010

The First International Symposium on Advancing the Chemical Sciences kicked off on Wednesday, focusing on challenges in organic chemistry and chemical biology. Set in the grand Fairment Hotel in central San Francisco, around 200 delegates were treated to a spectacular line up of plenary speakers covering a broad range of organic chemistry and chemical biology. Day one saw outstanding talks covering hydrogen-bonded catalysis (Jacobsen), iridium-catalysed asymmetric hydrogenation (Pfaltz), C-H oxidation (White), carbohydrate chemistry and biology (Seeberger, Hsieh-Wilson), rapid formation of molecular complexity (Sorensen) and the use of transition metal catalysis for the formation of pharmaceutically interesting compounds (Buchwald).

: Robert Eagling, Editor, Chemical Science, and James Milne, Editorial Director, join the ISACS 1 speakers

Day two continued in an equally impressive fashion with further insights into new concepts in organocatalysis (MacMillan, Maruoka). After the break, the focus moved to chemical biology, with talks on activity-based proteomics (Cravatt) and reprogramming the code of life (Chin). There was a further shift in subject after lunch with molecular switches, motors and molecular recognition all covered (Feringa, Hunter). The second day ended with talks on new synthetic methods to lactones (Dong) and the latest developments in gold catalysis (Toste).

David MacMillan

Jason Chin discusses reprogramming the code of life

There was plenty of high quality science on the final day, with cutting edge catalysis (Ooi) backed up by high quality chemical biology (Du Bois, Bertozzi).

The vibe at the conference was one of excitement and positivity. The Fairment hotel is a stunning venue and acted as the perfect back drop to the outstanding scientific talks. The new ISACS conferences have certainly arrived with a bang. Next stop Budapest…

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