IUPAC Workshop

"Hydrogen Bonding and Other Molecular Interactions"

Airone Pisa Park Hotel

San Giuliano Terme, Pisa, Italy

5-9 September 2005

 

 

Final Programme

 

 

 

 

 

Some timings may still be provisional

 

 

 

 

Time

 

Speaker and Title of Presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday September 5th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arrive at Airone Pisa Park Hotel (welcome event)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday September 6th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chaired by:

Elangannan Arunan (Bangalore)

 

The Hydrogen Bond

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

08.30-08.45

 

Elangannan Arunan (Bangalore)

(Co-Chairman IUPAC Task Group and Indian Institute of Science

Introduction and Background

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

08.45-09.15

 

Gautam R. Desiraju (Hyderabad)

“The Hydrogen Bridge. Interactions without Borders”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.15-09.45

 

Roger A. Klein (Bonn)

“Characterising Hydrogen Bonding. The Role of Cooperativity”

 

 

09.45-10.15

 

Enrique Espinosa (Dijon) – Contributed

“Comparing the Topological Properties of the Experimentally Determined Electron Density Distribution Obtained by X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction with Theoretically Calculated Values for Hydrogen Bonding and Other Intra- and Inter-Molecular Interactions”

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.15-10.45

 

Refreshments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.45-11.15

 

Ibon Alkorta (Madrid)

“Chiral Recognition in Hydrogen Bonded Dimers”

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.15-11.45

 

Mark A. Zottola (Alabama) - Contributed

“The Hydrogen-Hydrogen Interaction – A Reassessment”

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.45-12.15

 

José Angel Sordo (Oviedo) – Contributed

“The Use of Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory (SAPT) Methods for the Decomposition of Hydrogen Bonding and Other Intermolecular Interactions”

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.15-12.45

 

Gastone Gilli (Ferrara) – Contributed

“Leitmotifs in Strong Hydrogen Bonding”

 

 

 

 

 

 

13.30-14.30

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon free

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18.00-20.00

 

Discussion period - led by (TBA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20.00-

 

Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday September 7th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chaired by:

Benedetta Mennucci (Pisa)

 

Spectroscopy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

08.30-09.00

 

David Cappelletti (Perugia) – Contributed

“Tales of Glory – The Birth of the Hydrogen Bond”

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.00-09.30

 

Elangannan Arunan (Bangalore)

“Rotational Spectra and the Structure of Hydrogen Bonded Complexes. Towards a Hydrogen Bond Radius”

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.30-10.00

 

Pavel Hobza (Prague) – Contributed

“Improper, Blue-Shifting Hydrogen Bonds”

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.00-10.30

 

Henrik G. Kjaergaard (Otago)

“Intra- and Inter-Molecular Hydrogen Bonding in Overtone Spectroscopy”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.30-11.15

 

Refreshments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.15-11.45

 

Anthony Legon (Exeter)

“Non-Linear Hydrogen Bonds: A Contribution from Rotational Spectroscopy”

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.45-12.15

 

José Luis Alonso (Valladolid) – Contributed

“Detecting Hydrogen Bonding Using Fourier-Transform Microwave Spectroscopy”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.15-12.45

 

Joanna Sadlej (Warsaw)

“Characterisation of Dihydrogen-Bonded D-H…H-A on the Basis of Spectroscopic Parameters”

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.45-13.15

 

Wouter Herrebout (Antwerp) – Contributed

“Weak Hydrogen Bonds and Experimental Blue-Shifts”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13.30-14.30

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon free

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18.00-20.00

 

Discussion period - led by Klaus Müller-Dethlefs (Manchester)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20.00-

 

Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday September 8th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chaired by:

Gautam R. Desiraju (Hyderabad)

 

Applications

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

08.30-09.00

 

Steve Scheiner (Utah)

“CH…O Interactions. Can They Contribute to Protein Stability?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.00-09.30

 

David Clary (Oxford)

“Quantum Calculations on Hydrated Biomolecules”

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.30-10.00

 

Joe Dannenberg (New York)

“Cooperative Hydrogen Bonding in Peptides”

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.00-10.45

 

Refreshments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.45-11.15

 

Benedetta Mennucci (Pisa)

“Can Continuum Solvation Models Properly Describe Solvation?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.15-11.45

 

David J. Nesbitt (Colorado)

“Proton Attachment to Simple Molecules via High-Resolution Spectroscopy. Hydrogen Bond Folding Dynamics of RNA in Solution”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.45-12.15

 

Walther Caminati (Bologna) – Contributed

“Weak Hydrogen Bonding. Proton Transfer and Tunnelling”

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.15-12.45

 

Isabel Rozas (Dublin) – Contributed

“Hydrogen Bonding and Other Interactions in Biological Systems”

 

 

 

 

 

 

13.30-14.30

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon free

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18.00-20.00

 

Discussion period

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20.00-23.00

 

Conference Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday September 9th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chaired by:

Steve Scheiner (Utah)

 

Plenary Discussion and Final Session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.00-10.30

 

Plenary Discussion - initiated by two 10-15 minute summaries of the Workshop proceedings

(Rapporteurs: Barbara Kirchner, Werner Reckien, Mark Zottola)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.30-11.00

 

Refreshments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.00-13.00

 

IUPAC Task Group position paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13.30-14.30

 

Lunch - to be arranged

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depart for airport or train station

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes:

All afternoons free for relaxation and / or one-to-one discussions. Tuscany can be very hot and heavy in the middle of the afternoon, even at the beginning of September.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, June 23, 2005

12:15:12 PM