Workshop on Reactive Intermediates (WORI), Summers, 1991-93

来自有机动力学计划的这笔赠款将支持一系列每年三次的“活性中间体研讨会”。这些研讨会有两个目的：(1)提供一个有效的论坛，供活跃的科学家就有机动力学主题领域的当前研究进行非正式讨论；(2)协助项目工作人员确定应纳入项目长期规划的有机动力学研究领域。每个研讨会将汇集来自美国各地的大约18名活跃的科学家，讨论有机化学反应机制的当前研究，重点是未发表的结果，并强调对正在进行的研究进行批判性评价。非正式讨论的形式旨在激发挑战和批评，促进对共同研究问题的合作方法的发展，并防止无效的重复努力。参与者广泛来自研究活性中间体化学的物理、有机和有机金属化学家社区，并特别努力将年轻研究者、妇女和未被充分代表的少数民族科学家纳入有机动力学领域的主流研究活动。选择讨论的主题是为了补充，而不是与其他既定的和更正式的会议竞争。

This grant from the Organic Dynamics Program will support a series of three annual "Workshops on Reactive Intermediates". These workshops have the dual purposes of (1) providing an effective forum for informal discussion by active scientists of current research in topical areas of organic dynamics, and (2) assisting the Program staff in identifying areas of research in organic dynamics that should be incorporated into the Program's long-range planning. Each workshop will bring together approximately 18 active scientists from around the United States for discussions of current research in mechanisms of organic chemical reactions, with a focus on unpublished results and an emphasis on critical evaluation of research in progress. The informal discussion format is intended to stimulate challenge and criticism, to facilitate the development of collaborative approaches to shared research problems, and to prevent unproductive duplicative efforts. The participants are drawn widely from the community of physical, organic, and organometallic chemists studying the chemistry of reactive intermediates, and a particular effort is made to incorporate young investigators, women, and underrepresented minority scientists into the mainstream of research activities in the area of organic dynamics. The topics chosen for discussion are selected to complement, not compete with, other established and more formal conferences.