ORGN 3 |
| Jane Frommer, IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 |
| High density storage devices, electric cars, diagnostics-on-a-chip. What do these topics have in common? The attention to detail in understanding molecular interactions that ultimately enables their technologies. The Bergman approach of dissecting complex systems into interacting chemical subunits not only yields greater understanding but also leads to surprising discoveries in disciplines inhabited by engineers, materials scientists, and physicists. In keeping with Bob Bergman's contention that Physical Organic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry share a common foundation of chemical principles, this talk will attempt to illustrate that same commonality in areas as seemingly diverse as electronically conducting polymers, scanning probe microscopy, and glass transitions in confined polymers. These examples, chosen for familiarity from my own career, represent a far greater frontier of influence that the scholarly training of Bob Bergman produced in the generations of graduates from his labs. |
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James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry
8:35 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, March 23, 2003 Convention Center -- La Nouvelle Ballroom A/B, Oral
Division of Organic Chemistry |