GRC Crystal Engineering: Form Meets Function, June 1-6, 2014

2014年晶体工程戈登研究会议(GRC)，部分由固态和材料化学项目支持，是继前几届非常成功的晶体工程GRC(2010&amp；2912)之后，有许多学生和国际参与者参加的会议。晶体工程是以中性有机分子和有机或无机离子等较小的构件为基础，采用自下而上的方法，设计和合成功能固态结构(例如，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、制药和能量储存等重要领域相关的晶体工程的基本原理和应用。非技术性晶体工程是当今化学研究中比较现代的领域之一，也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，而合成化学和材料科学的更传统方法无法满足这些需求。Crystal Engineering可以解决当前社会挑战的领域包括合理设计和建造用于存储车辆氢气的材料，以及努力控制药物多型性。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。如果没有这些重要的会议，就不会有新的合作和产生的新想法。

TECHNICAL The 2014 Crystal Engineering Gordon Research Conference (GRC), partly supported by the Solid State and Materials Chemistry program, follows the highly successful previous GRCs on Crystal Engineering (2010 & 2912) which had numerous student and international participants. 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 TECHNICAL Crystal 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 cannot be 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 materials for use in storing hydrogen for vehicles and efforts to control drug polymorphism. 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. New collaborations can be formed and new ideas generated that would not otherwise occur if not for these important conferences.