ORGNMonday, August 23, 2004

8:00 AM-12:00 PM Pennsylvania Convention Center -- Ballroom B, Oral
Molecular Mimicry of Photosynthesis
Organizer:S Thayumanavan
Presiding:Elena Galoppini
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:10 AM Ultrafast energy transfer studies in phenylene ethynylene dendrimers
Evrim Atas, Chad Mair, Joseph S. Mellinger, Zhonghua Peng, Valeria Kleiman
8:40 AM Synthesis of trans-substituted chlorins and oxochlorins
Masahiko Taniguchi, Man Nyoung Kim, Jonathan S. Lindsey
9:10 AM Synthesis and time-resolved optical spectroscopy of porphyrin-containing dendrimers
David A. Modarelli, Cheruvallil S. Rajesh, Elvin A. Aléman, Gregory J. Capitosti, Shana Wolff
9:40 AM Dendritic light harvesting antennae and their applications
Takuzo Aida, Dong Lin Jiang
10:10 AM Discussion
10:20 AM Porphyrin-based molecules for artificial photosynthesis, photonics and optoelectronics
Devens Gust, Thomas A. Moore, Ana L. Moore
10:50 AM Synthetic porphyrinic light-harvesting arrays
Jonathan S. Lindsey, David F. Bocian, Dewey Holten
11:20 AM Energy and electron transfer in dendrimers
S Thayumanavan, K.R. Justin Thomas, Alexis L. Thompson, Christopher J. Bardeen
11:50 AM Concluding Remarks

Previous Session -- Molecular Mimicry of Photosynthesis

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The 228th ACS National Meeting, in Philadelphia, PA, August 22-26, 2004