2012 Crystal Engineering GRC/GRS

2012年晶体工程戈登研究会议（GRC），部分由固态和材料化学计划的支持，遵循非常成功的第一次晶体工程GRC（2010年），有超过160名国际参与者。2012年水晶工程GRC还将包括一个新的和令人兴奋的戈登研究研讨会（GRS），其中只有学生和博士后可以提出或领导讨论。晶体工程是设计和合成功能性固态结构（例如，新的有机分子晶体和金属-有机配位聚合物和骨架固体（MOF）），其基于从较小的结构单元如中性有机分子和有机或无机离子的自下而上的方法。典型的设计策略使用氢键和配位键，它们定义了分别称为超分子配体和二级结构单元的子结构单元。这门学科跨越了有机，无机和物理化学的传统划分，使思想，技术和策略非常折衷。该领域已经发展到一个阶段，主题之间的交叉施肥预计将促进在一般追求提供功能材料的重大进展。本课程的主题涵盖了晶体工程的基础知识和应用，这些知识与有机合成、制药和能量储存等重要领域相关。非专业性晶体工程是当今化学研究的一个更现代的领域，是当今社会面临的许多基本问题的核心。预计这一快速发展的领域的发展将满足目前合成化学和材料科学的常规方法无法解决的社会需求。Crystal Engineering可以解决当前社会挑战的领域包括储氢材料的合理设计和构建以及控制药物多态性的努力。此外，知道如何故意将有机和金属组分放置在优化气体吸收的位置，可以由我们会议的参与者实现，他们通常不在气体储存区工作。这个GRC将寻求积极招募研究生，博士后和初级专业人员参加GRC，使他们不仅能够从会谈和讨论中学习，而且能够为他们的未来发展建立重要的联系; NSF资助有助于这一努力。GRC主席和副主席将积极招募代表性不足的团体，至少是朝着水晶工程社区反映普通人群的多样性目标迈出的一小步。

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.