ORGNMonday, April 7, 2008

8:00 AM-12:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. R05, Oral
Physical Organic Chemistry: Calculations, Mechanisms, Photochemistry and High-Energy Species
Presiding:Greg T. Spyridis
8:00 AMA computational approach to increasing the reactivity of four-membered heterocycles
Harold D. Banks
8:20 AMA mechanistic challenge: Comparison of the excited and ground state pathways in the Favorskii rearrangement
Kenneth F. Stensrud, Richard S Givens
8:40 AMChemical vapor sensing and excited state properties of phenylene-vinylene derivatized terpyridine molecules
Srivathsa Vaidya, Russell H. Schmehl
9:00 AME2 vs. SN2: How to tune the competition
A. Patrícia Bento, Paul Jansen, Miquel Solà, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt
9:20 AMEffect of phthalocyanine molecule structure on its photoinduced production of singlet oxygen species
Martin Drobek, Petr Kluson, Josef Krysa, Ali Kalaji, Jan Rakusan
9:40 AMElectropolymerization of 3-aminothiophenes: Mechanistically analogous to alkoxythiophenes, anilines, or something new?
Christopher L. Heth, Dennis E. Tallman, Seth C. Rasmussen
10:00 AMIs the alpha-effect a concerto or a symphony?
Dawood Afzal, K. R. Fountain Jr., Jiabo Li
10:20 AMMechanistic studies on Et2NLi-mediated SN2 reactions
Lekha Gupta, Antonio Ramirez, David B. Collum
10:40 AMNucleophilic substitution at carbon, silicon and phosphorus: How solvation affects the shape of reaction profiles
Marc A. van Bochove, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt
11:00 AMReactions of isomeric 1,4-dicyclopropyl-1,3-butadienes with 4-methyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione (MTAD)
Kevin O'Shea, Christopher Gomez, Duk K. Kim
11:20 AMThe effect of steric bulk on Pd, PdCl- and Pd(PH3)2 catalyzed C–C bond activation: Perspectives from an extended activation strain model
Willem-Jan van Zeist, Joost NP van Stralen, Daan P. Geerke, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt
11:40 AMInteraction of histidine with some biological anions and formation of anion-anion clusters
Elham Tavasoli, Maryam Ahmadi, A. Fattahi

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008