Programme
Wednesday 19 July 2023
11:00 - 14:00
Registration
13:00 - 13:15
Opening of the Symposium
Irena G. Stará
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
Symposium Chair
Zdeněk Hostomský
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
Vice-Director for International Relations
Chairperson: Przemyslaw Gawel
Institute of Organic Chemistry, PAC, Warsaw, Poland
Michael Mastalerz
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany
Editor-in-Chief, Organic Materials (Thieme)
13:15 - 14:00
Keynote
Organic Materials Lecture
Ron Naaman
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Chiral Molecules and the Electron Spin - How Charge is Transferred in Curved Systems?
14:00 - 14:25
Contributed Lecture
Araceli G. Campaña
University of Granada, Spain
Merging Distortions: Saddle Shapes in Helix and Rings
14:25 - 14:50
Contributed Lecture
Ori Gidron
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Controlling Helicity in Aromatic Systems using Tethered Twistacenes
14:50 - 15:05
Short Communication
Rainer Herges
Kiel University, Germany
A Simple and New Method to Detect Explosives with Curved Aromatics: One Stick to Detect Them All
15:05 - 15:20
Short Communication
Marc Gingras
Aix-Marseille University & CNRS, Marseille, France
Twisting Molecules Toward Chirality - Helicenes and Chiral Nanographenes
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee Break
Chairperson: Alyssa-Jennifer Avestro
University of York, United Kingdom
15:50 - 16:25
Invited Lecture
Jeanne Crassous
University of Rennes 1, France
Multifunctionality in Metal-Based Helicenes
16:25 - 16:50
Contributed Lecture
Harry L. Anderson
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Approaches to π-Conjugated Porphyrin Nanobelts
16:50 - 17:15
Contributed Lecture
Yao-Ting Wu
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Highly Distorted Multiple Helicenes: Syntheses, Structural Analyses, and Properties
17:15 - 17:30
Short Communication
Albert Guijarro
University of Alicante, Spain
Quantum Interference in Conducting Helical Molecules
17:30 - 17:45
Short Communication
Graham J. Bodwell
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
Synthesis, Conformational Behaviour and Long-Range Intramolecular Charge-Transfer of a pH-Responsive Mixed Cyclophane of Pyridine and Teropyrene
17:45 - 18:00
Short Communication
Yoann Coquerel
Aix-Marseille University & CNRS, Marseille, France
Synthesis and Properties of Highly Contorted Triphenylene-Based Multiple Helicenes
18:00 - 19:30
Poster Session
20:00 - 22:30
Students' Beer Party - LAb Bar Náplavka
Thursday 20 July 2023
Chairperson: Agnieszka Nowak-Król
Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
Zdeněk Hostomský
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
Vice-Director for International Relations
8:45 - 9:30
Keynote IOCB Lecture
Colin Nuckolls
Columbia University, New York, USA
Putting Contorted Aromatics into Materials
9:30 - 9:55
Contributed Lecture
Marina A. Petrukhina
University at Albany, USA
Reduction-Induced Reactivity of Strained and Twisted Molecular Nanographenes
9:55 - 10:20
Contributed Lecture
Martin Kotora
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Synthesis of Helical Indenofluorenes and Their Transformations to other Aromatic Compounds
10:20 - 10:35
Short Communication
Frank Würthner
Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
π-π Catalysis of Helicene Enantiomerization by Enzyme-like Substrate Recognition within Chiral Perylene Bisimide Cyclophanes
10:35 - 11:05
Coffee break
Chairperson: Fabien Durola
Univesity of Bordeaux & CNRS, France
11:05 - 11:40
Invited Lecture
Birgit Esser
Ulm University, Germany
New Avenues for Dibenzopentalenes as non-Alternant π-Systems with Antiaromatic Character
11:40 - 12:05
Contributed Lecture
Miquel Solà
University of Girona, Spain
3D-Aromaticity or 2D-Aromaticity in 3D?
12:05 - 12:30
Contributed Lecture
Hidehiro Sakurai
Osaka University, Japan
Trioxosumanene: A Curved Aromatic Ketone
12:30 - 12:45
Short Communication
Prince Ravat
Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
Molecular Engineering of Helically Chiral Functional Molecules: Materials for Next Generation (Opto)electronics
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch
Chairperson: Mihaiela Stuparu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
14:00 - 14:35
Invited Lecture
Pavel Jelínek
Institute of Physics, CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of Polyradical PAH Macrocycles
14:35 - 14:50
Short Communication
Alyssa-Jennifer Avestro
University of York, United Kingdom
On the Zimmerman–Möbius Aromaticity of Helical Electrophores
14:50 - 15:05
Short Communication
Milan Kivala
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany
Curved Pyracylene upon π-Expansion
15:05 - 15:20
Short Communication
Cassandre Quinton
University of Rennes 1, France
Comparison of Linear and Cyclic Oligocarbazoles: A New Perspective of Nanohoops in Organic Electronics
15:20 - 15:35
Short Communication
Junzhi Liu
The University of Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Rational Synthesis of Graphene Molecules with Non-Alternant Topologies
15:35 - 15:50
Short Communication
Michael Mastalerz
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany
A New Type of Double-Helix Formation Based on Twistarenes
15:50 - 16:20
Coffee break
Chairperson: Ognjen Miljanic
University of Houston, USA
16:20 - 16:55
Invited Lecture
Matthew J. Fuchter
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Overcoming Challenges in the Application of Chiral Conjugated Materials to Circularly Polarized Optoelectronic Devices
16:55 - 17:20
Contributed Lecture
Michel Rickhaus
University of Zurich & University of Geneva, Switzerland
From Curved π-Systems to Self-Assembled 2D Materials
17:20 - 17:45
Contributed Lecture
Michael Pittelkow
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
New Curved π-Conjugated Molecules: Circulenes and Helicenes
17:45 - 18:00
Short Communication
Johannes F. Teichert
Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Stable Neutral Homoaromatic Hydrocarbons: Not Curved, but not Flat Either
19:30 - 22:30
Symposium Dinner - Potrefená husa Restaurant
Friday 21 July 2023
Chairperson: Marina A. Petrukhina
University at Albany, USA
8:45 - 9:20
Invited Lecture
Marcel Mayor
University of Basel, Switzerland & Institute of Nanotechnology, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany & Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
“Geländer” Architectures as Helical Chiral π-Systems
9:20 - 9:45
Contributed Lecture
Agnieszka Nowak-Król
Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
Synthesis of an Azaborathia[9]helicene from Unusual Atropisomers
9:45 - 10:10
Contributed Lecture
Liangbing Gan
Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Fullerene-Based Molecular Containers for Halide Anions and Metal Halide Salts
10:10 - 10:25
Short Communication
Jochen R. Brandt
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Modular Synthesis of Heterohelicenes in Continuous Flow
10:25 - 10:55
Coffee break
Chairperson: Ori Gidron
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
10:55 - 11:30
Invited Lecture
Hiroyuki Isobe
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Supramolecular Chemistry at Curved π-Systems
11:30 - 11:55
Contributed Lecture
Mihaiela C. Stuparu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Synthesis of Curved Nanographenes
11:55 - 12:20
Contributed Lecture
Tomáš Šolomek
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Helicene Carbon Nanohoops with Möbius Topology
12:20 - 12:45
Contributed Lecture
Aurelio Mateo-Alonso
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain & Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
Merging Distorted Nanographenes and Framework Materials
12:45 - 13:00
Short Communication
Florian Glöcklhofer
Imperial College London, United Kingdom & TU Wien, Austria
Concealed Antiaromaticity
13:00 - 13:15
Poster Awards & Closing of the Symposium
Irena G. Stará
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
Symposium Chair
News
Winning prizes for the best student poster are Ka Man Cheung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong People's Republic of China) and Viktor Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).
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Detailed Programme added
We are proud to announce that
Colin Nuckolls will deliver the IOCB Keynote Lecture and
Ron Naaman Organic Materials Keynote Lecture
Two prizes for the best student posters will be sponsored by Thieme Publishing House.
List of speakers added
Housing is open
Deadlines
January 2023
On-line registration open.
by 1 May 2023
Short Communication abstract submission
by 3 May 2023
Notification of Short Communication acceptance
by 15 May 2023
Early registration payment
by 15 June 2023
Poster abstract submission
Confirmed Speakers
Keynote Lectures
Ron Naaman
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Colin Nuckolls
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, USA
Invited Lectures
Jeanne Crassous
Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
Birgit Esser
Institute for Organic Chemistry II and Advanced Materials, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Matthew Fuchter
Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London, UK
Hiroyuki Isobe
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Pavel Jelínek
Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Marcel Mayor
Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Contributed Lectures
Harry Anderson
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Araceli González Campaña
Department of Organic Chemistry Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Liangbing Gan
Colledge of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, PRC
Ori Gidron
Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Martin Kotora
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Aurelio Mateo-Alonso
Centro Joxe Mari Korta, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Agnieszka Nowak-Król
Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Marina A. Petrukhina
Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, USA
Michael Pittelkow
Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Michel Rickhaus
Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Hidehiro Sakurai
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Miquel Solà
Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi, Facultat de Ciències, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
Tomáš Šolomek
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
Mihaiela Stuparu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yao-Ting Wu
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
