2012 Crystal Engineering GRC/GRS

技术2012年晶体工程戈登研究会议(GRC)由固态和材料化学计划部分支持，在此之前，第一届晶体工程GRC(2010)非常成功，有160多名国际参与者。2012水晶工程GRC还将包括一个新的、令人兴奋的戈登研究研讨会(GRS)，只有学生和博士后才能在研讨会上发表或领导讨论。晶体工程是从中性有机分子和有机或无机离子等较小的构件出发，采用自下而上的方法，设计和合成功能固态结构(如新型有机分子晶体和金属-有机配位聚合物和骨架固体)。典型的设计策略使用氢键和配位键，它们分别定义了被称为超分子合成子和次级建筑单元的子结构单元。这门学科跨越了有机化学、无机化学和物理化学的传统划分，形成了非常折衷的思想、技术和策略的混合。该领域已经发展到这样一个阶段，即不同主题之间的相互作用有望促进在提供功能材料的普遍探索方面取得重大进展。这些主题涵盖了与有机合成、制药和能源储存等重要领域相关的晶体工程的基础和应用。晶体工程是当今化学研究的较现代领域之一，是当前社会面临的许多基本问题的核心。预计这一迅速发展的领域的发展将满足社会需求，而目前合成化学和材料科学的更传统方法无法满足这些需求。水晶工程可以应对当前社会挑战的领域包括合理设计和建造储氢材料以及努力控制药物多型性。此外，知道如何故意将有机和金属部件放置在优化气体吸收的位置可以由我们会议的与会者实现，这些与会者通常不在储气区工作。该GRC将积极招募研究生、博士后和初级专业人员参加GRC，使他们不仅能从讲座和讨论中学习，还能为他们的未来发展建立重要的联系；NSF资金将在这方面提供帮助。GRC主席和副主席将积极招募代表性不足的群体，这至少是朝着反映普通人群的水晶工程社区多样性的目标迈出的一小步。

TECHNICALThe 2012 Crystal Engineering Gordon Research Conference (GRC), partly supported by the Solid State and Materials Chemistry program, follows the highly successful first ever GRC on Crystal Engineering (2010) which had over 160 international participants. The 2012 Crystal Engineering GRC will also include a new and exciting Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) in which only students and postdocs may present or lead discussions. Crystal engineering is the design and synthesis of functional solid-state structures (e.g., new organic molecular crystals and metal-organic co-ordination polymers and framework solids (MOFs)), based on a bottom-up approach from smaller building blocks such as neutral organic molecules, and organic or inorganic ions. Typical design strategies use hydrogen bonds and coordination bonds, which define sub-structural units that are called respectively, supramolecular synthons and secondary building units. This subject cuts across the traditional divisions of organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry, making for a very eclectic blend of ideas, techniques, and strategies. The field has developed to a stage that cross-fertilization between topics is expected to promote significant advancements in a general quest to afford functional materials. The topics cover both fundamentals and applications of Crystal Engineering that have relevance to important areas such as organic synthesis, pharmaceutics, and energy storage.NON TECHNICALCrystal Engineering is one of the more contemporary areas of chemical research today and is central to many fundamental problems that are currently facing society. It is expected that developments in this rapidly developing field will meet societal demands that are not currently being addressed by more conventional approaches to synthetic chemistry and materials science. Examples of areas where Crystal Engineering can address current societal challenges include the rational design and construction of hydrogen storage materials and efforts to control drug polymorphism. Moreover, knowing how to deliberately place both the organic and metal components into positions that optimize gas uptake can be realized by participants of our conference that do not normally work in the gas storage area. This GRC will seek to aggressively recruit graduate students, postdocs, and junior level professionals to attend the GRC and enable them to not only learn from the talks and discussions, but allow them to make important contacts for their future development; NSF funding assists in this endeavor. The GRC Chair and Vice-Chair will actively recruit underrepresented groups, at least one small step toward the goal of diversity in the Crystal Engineering community reflective of the general population.