Crystal Engineering (MC9)

Convener: 

Stuart James, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Jamie Humphrey, CrystEngComm

Programme:

Monday 3 August (morning and afternoon)

Keynote Speakers

Is polymorphism an anathema to crystal engineering?
Joel Bernstein, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Chemistry and applications of soft porous coordination polymers
Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan

Speakers

Flexibility and dynamics in metal-organic frameworks
Lee Brammer, Sheffield University, UK

Molecular probes for the analysis of the surface chemistry of drug polymorphs
Tracy O. Ehiwe, University of Greenwich, UK

Chiral discrimination and chirality transfer in the annealing assisted mechanochemical reaction of transition-metal coordination compounds and co-crystal formation
Reiko Kuroda, University of Tokyo, Japan

Non-porous organic solids capable of dynamically resolving mixtures of diiodoperfluoroalkanes
Pierangelo Metrangelo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Explosives under extreme conditions - pressure- and temperature-induced polymorphism in energetic materials
Colin R. Pulham, University of Edinburgh, UK

Reactivity and sorption in flexible amino-acid based open-framework materials
Matthew J. Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool, UK

Hydrogen storage in porous metal-organic frameworks
Myunghyun Paik Suh, Seoul National University, Korea

Gallium-sulphide supertetrahedral clusters as building blocks of hybrid frameworks
Paz Vaqueiro, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Symposium Information

Crystal Engineering has a broad footprint, and covers all the traditional areas of chemistry, including organic and inorganic, physical and theoretical chemistry.  

The symposium will be split into two themes:

• Polymorphism: A primary research theme in crystal engineering that underpins may developments in the pharmaceutical industry as well as being a highly important area of materials chemistry. 
• Metal Organic Frameworks: One of the most topical areas of current chemical research that has seen significant development over the last few years. The applications of such materials are widespread with perhaps the most high profile results emerging from studies of their gas storage properties. Values for storage of H2 in MOFs are amongst the highest seen for any material and thus will provide a focus for the use of these materials in energy applications.