51st POMS - Scientific Program
Friday, November 3rd
Opening mixer - Merchant Taphouse (6 Princess St.)
7PM
Saturday, November 4th (Chernoff Hall - Room 117)
Chair - Graeme Howe
8:30 AM
Opening remarks
8:40 AM
Ali Ruiz Hernandez (University of Western Ontario)
Synthesis and characterization of a nitroxide-substituted silver nanocluster with potential electrocatalysis activity
9:00 AM
Alexander Greer (Brooklyn College CUNY)
Bridging the Gap: Improving the Mechanistic Understanding of Phototoxicity Through Physical Organic Chemistry
9:20 AM
Erin Cotterill (University of Western Ontario)
Blending the Optical and Redox Properties of Oligoynes and Boron Difluoride Formazanates
9:40 AM
Dmitriy Soldatov (University of Guelph)
Photoreactivity of Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids in Crystalline and Cocrystalline Solids
10:00 AM
Coffee Break
Chair - Heidi Muchall
Patrick Julien (Royal Military College)
Exploring the kinetics and dynamics of mechanochemical cocrystallisation and amorphisation of a pharmaceutical in real time using fluorescence and Raman spectroscopies
10:20 AM
Neil Grenade (Queen’s University)
A Processive Intramolecular Cyclization and Retro-ene Reaction Enables the Rapid Fragmentation of Vitamin B1-derived Breslow Intermediates
10:40 AM
11:00 AM
Lucille Kuster (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Exploring the Nature of Carbon-Metal Bonding with N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs) using DFT/Raman spectroscopy: Strong Evidence for π-Backbonding
11:20 AM
Matthew Smith (Durham University)
From Bench-Stable Carbenes to Blatter Type Radicals
11:40 AM
Melissa Cely Pinto (University of Ottawa)
Photocatalytic Semi-Hydrogenation of Alkynes: A Game of Kinetics, Selectivity and Critical Timing
Lunch
12:00 PM
Chair - Kenneth Maly
1:30PM
Vance Williams (Simon Fraser University)
Liquid Crystalline Cyclodextrins: structure-property relationships in their self-assembly
1:50 PM
Marc Zambri (University of Toronto)
Product Distributions of a Decarboxylation Reaction Reveal Rates of Competing Pathways from Transient CO2-Carbanion Complexes
2:10 PM
Steven Mauries (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Unusual Thione Photochemistry in Aromatic Dithioimides: Photoreductive and Photooxidative Mechanisms Promoted by Ether Solvents
2:30 PM
Jeffrey Keillor (University of Ottawa)
Mechanistic Studies of Thiol Addition Reactions
2:50 PM
Coffee break
Chair - Bob Lemieux
3:10 PM
Thomas Baumgartner (York University)
From Flat to Twisted - Phosphacycle-modified VAT Dyes
3:30 PM
Ronald Kluger (University of Toronto)
Biomimetic Control of Subunit and Site Specificity Produces Efficient Protein-Protein Coupling
3:50 PM
Alexander Watson (University of Western Ontario)
Boron Complexes of Tridentate Acyl Pyridylhydrazones (BOAPHYs)
4:10 PM
Pallavi Mukherjee (McMaster University)
Transition State Analysis of NeuB, a Sialic Acid Synthase
4:30 - 6:00 PM
6:30 PM
Conference Dinner @ University Club (168 Stuart St.)
Sunday, November 5th (Chernoff Hall - Room 117)
Chair - Dmitriy Soldatov
8:30 AM
Zeng Rong Wong (Queen’s University)
Difluorocarbene Insertion into the Metal-Carbon Bond: Suppressing α-Fluoride Elimination with a Gold(I) System
8:50 AM
Olivier Lebel (Royal Military College)
Strategic Design of Azo Molecular Glasses for Self-Erasable Surface Relief Gratings
9:10 AM
Jerry Augustine (University of Toronto)
Mutagenesis of Benzoylformate Decarboxylase Demonstrates the Possibility of Alternative Mechanisms for Rate- Determining Separation of CO2
9:30 AM
Robert Addai (University of Western Ontario)
Alternative analysis of winter road salts
9:50 AM
Coffee Break
Chair - Mathieu Frenette
10:20 AM
Iannick Lepage (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Mechanistic Insight into the Generation of a Molecular Cryptid: The Phenoxenium Cation
10:40 AM
Saba Didarataee (University of Ottawa)
A laser flash photolysis study of the free radical chemistry of lipoic acid and dihydrolipoic acid
11:00 AM
Mahzad Yaghmaei (University of Ottawa)
Synthesis of silver nanostructures in a simple flow system
11:40 AM
Parimah Aminfar (Queen’s University)
Photochemical Synthesis of Atomically Precise Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters
12:00 PM
Jorge Ramos-Sanchez (McGill University)
Superior Photoprotection of Cyanine Dyes with Thio-imidazole Amino Acids