2016 Crystal Engineering GRC/GRS:Advancing the Design of Crystals

晶体工程是当代化学研究的一个领域，是当前社会面临的许多基本问题的核心。这一快速发展领域的发展可能会满足合成化学和材料科学中更传统的方法无法满足的社会需求，例如合理设计和构建用于车辆储存氢的材料以及努力控制药物多态性。本次戈登研究会议（GRC）将积极招募研究生、博士后和初级专业人员参加GRC，使他们不仅能够从会谈和讨论中学习，而且能够为他们未来的发展建立重要的联系。这种独特的会议形式将促进形成新的合作和想法，如果没有这些重要的会议，这些合作和想法就不会出现。国家科学基金会的资助对这项努力的成功至关重要。GRC主席和副主席将积极招募代表性不足的群体，以增加晶体工程社区的多样性，使其更能反映一般人群。在固态和材料化学项目的部分支持下，2016年晶体工程戈登研究会议（GRC）延续了之前三届非常成功的晶体工程GRC（2010年、2012年和2014年），有众多学生和国际参与者。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-有机配位聚合物以及其他有机和无机框架固体（MOFs）），基于自下而上的方法，从较小的构建块（如中性有机分子和有机或无机离子）开始。典型的设计策略使用氢键和配位键，它们定义了亚结构单元，分别被称为超分子合成子和二级建筑单元。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，使思想、技术和策略得到了非常折衷的融合。该领域已经发展到这样一个阶段，各主题之间的相互作用有望促进在提供功能材料方面取得重大进展。这些主题涵盖了晶体工程的基本原理和应用，与有机合成、制药和能量存储等重要领域相关。

NON TECHNICAL Crystal Engineering is a contemporary area of chemical research and is central to many fundamental problems that are currently facing society. Developments in this rapidly developing field may meet societal demands that cannot be addressed by more conventional approaches in synthetic chemistry and materials science such as the rational design and construction of materials for use in storing hydrogen for vehicles and efforts to control drug polymorphism. This Gordon Research Conference (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. This unique conference format will foster the formation of new collaborations and ideas that would not otherwise occur if not for these important conferences. NSF funding is crucial to the success of this endeavor. The GRC Chair and Vice-Chair will actively recruit underrepresented groups with the goal of increasing diversity in the Crystal Engineering community, making it more reflective of the general population. TECHNICAL With partial support from the Solid State and Materials Chemistry program, the 2016 Crystal Engineering Gordon Research Conference (GRC) follows on the three highly successful previous GRCs on Crystal Engineering (2010, 2012 & 2014) with 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 other organic and inorganic 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.