The IUPAC World Chemistry Congress is held every 2 years and has a reputation for excellent scientific presentation and discussion. Leading scientists from all member countries of IUPAC will attend this meeting. This year, the International Year of Chemistry, the 43rd IUPAC World Chemistry Congress will be held in Puerto Rico during the period July 30-August 7. The Convention Center of the Americas in San Juan is the venue for the conference.
As chairs of the conference symposium "Tailored Polymers by Precision Chain Polymerization", we would like to invite you to participate by way of a poster or oral presentation. The symposium will focus on the use of chain polymerization methods which allow the precise tailoring of polymers for specific applications. These methods include anionic polymerization, various forms of reversible deactivation radical polymerization including radical processes such as ATRP, RAFT, NMP, TERP and cationic processes, chain condensation processes such as GRIM and others. The symposium is currently scheduled for August 2-3, 2011.
We draw your attention to http://www.iupac2011.org/Default.html, the conference website.
For a link to abstract submission see http://www.iupac2011.org/Pages/Abstracts.html
Look for MSN 500. The abstract submission deadline is 31 March 2011.
For conference Registration details see http://www.iupac2011.org/Pages/Registration.html
The current list of confirmed invited speakers present is:
• Geoffrey W Coates (US) - "New Catalysts for Controlling Polymer Stereochemistry, Sequence, Architecture, and Molecular Weight"
• Roger Hiorns (France) - "Designing polyfullerenes for organic photovoltaic cells"
• Tatsuki Kitayama (Japan) - tba
• Kris Matyjaszewski (US) - "Macromolecular Engineering for Tailored Polymers by Reversible-Deactivation Radical Polymerization"
• Graeme Moad (Aus) - “The Precision of RAFT Polymerization”
• Tamaki Nakano (Japan) - "Photo-induced Stereomutation and Structural Transition of Optically Active, Helical Polymers"
• Virgil Percec (US) - "Bridging Between Covalent and Supramolecular Synthesis via Self-Controlled SET-LRP"
• Sebastien Perrier (Aus) - tba
• Greg Russell (New Zealand) - "Kinetics in an Age of Synthesis: Why it Remains Important to Research Radical Polymerization Kinetics".
• Mitsuo Sawamoto (Japan) - tba
• San Thang (Aus) - “Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials for Medical Delivery by the RAFT process”
• Shigeru Yamago (Japan) - “Precision Polymer Synthesis Based on Organotellurium, Organostibine, and Organobismuthine Mediated Living Radical Polymerization”
• Tsutomu Yokozawa (Japan) - "Precision Synthesis of Condensation Polymers and pi-Conjugated Polymers."
Mitsuo Sawamoto
Graeme Moad
