Program
Friday November 1
7:00
Welcome Mixer and Registration
Location: Concordia University, Henry F. Hall Building, H-765
Saturday November 2
8:20
Registration (no coffee, though)
Location: H-765
9:00
Opening remarks
H-937
John Capobianco, Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Session I
Chair: Ken Maly
H-937
9:10
O1 Highly efficient Ni-, Zn- and Cu-ion promoted alcoholysis of N,N-bis(2picolyl)- and N,N-bis(1-H benzimidazolyl-2-methyl) p-nitrobenzamides in
methanol and ethanol. R. Stan Brown, Mark Raycroft, Luana Cimpean, Alexei
Neverov, Queen’s University
9:30
O2 Cross-linking of discotic tetraazaporphyrin dyes in 2 and 3 dimensions by
“click” chemistry. Himadri Kayal, Mohamed M. Ahmida, Scott Dufour, Hi Taing,
S. Holger Eichhorn, University of Windsor
9:50
O3 Synthesis, characterization and application in catalysis of imidazoliumfunctionalized -cyclodextrins. Vanessa Kairouz, Andreea R. Schmitzer, Université
de Montréal
10:10
O4 A computational approach to gas phase and solution energies of
carbocations with approximate basis set independence. J. Peter Guthrie, Qiang
Wang, University of Western Ontario
10:30 COFFEE
H-765
Session II Chair: Will Skene
H-937
11:10
41st POMS
O5 How are isotope effects in acid-catlayzed decarboxylations related to the
energy of the intermediate preceding C–C cleavage? Ronald Kluger, Adelle
Vandersteen, Scott Mundle, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Georges LacrampeCouloume, University of Toronto
November 1-3, 2013
Concordia University
11:30
O6 Mass spectrometric analysis reveals the formation of a highly stable, activesite sulfenic acid in human GAPDH. Marc Ouellet, Vinod Parmar, Gilles H.
Peslherbe, Ann M. English, Concordia University
11:50
O7 POMS becoming POSM: Physical Organic at the Single Molecule. Robert
Godin, Hsiao-Wei Liu, Katerina Krumova, Gonzalo Cosa, McGill University
12:10 LUNCH
H-765
Session III Chair: Willie Leigh
H-937
1:30
O8 Predicting redox properties of fluorogenic BODIPY dyes by substitution
pattern and Linear Free Energy Relationships. Richard Lincoln, Katerina
Krumova, Clarissa Ding, Gonzalo Cosa, McGill University
1:50
O9 Dynachromes: Conjugated polymers capable of color change with
constitutional component exchange. Daminda Navarathne, Will Skene, Université
de Montréal
2:10
O10 Conjugated polyelectrolytes as fluorescent reporters of liposome
adsorption on nanoparticle surfaces: A single particle study. Christina Calver,
Hsiao-Wei Liu, Gonzalo Cosa, McGill University
2:30
O11 Shining light on the dark side of imaging: Strategic design of molecular
photoacoustic contrast agents. Stephanie Bellinger Buckley, Seema Bag, Samir
Laoui, Maryam Hatami, Jen-Chieh Tseng, Nancy E. Kohl, Mathieu Frenette,
Chandra Yelleswarapu, Jonathan Rochford, University of Massachusetts Boston
2:50
COFFEE
H-765
Session IV Chair: Ann English
H-937
3:30
O12 On-surface preparation of polyazomethines for electrochromic devices.
Andréanne Bolduc, Daminda Navarathne, Will Skene, Université de Montréal
3:50
O13 Stepwise growth of surface-grafted DNA nanotubes visualized at the single
molecule level. Amani A. Hariri, Graham D. Hamblin, Hanadi F. Sleiman, Gonzalo
Cosa, McGill University
4:10
O14 Strain promoted alkyne nitrone cycloaddition: A rapid and tunable
bioorthogonal conjugation method. Douglas MacKenzie, John Pezacki, University
of Ottawa
41st POMS
November 1-3, 2013
Concordia University
4:30
POSTER SESSION H-765
6:30
COCKTAILS AND DINNER
H-765
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3
Session V Chair: Ossie Tee
H-535
9:00
O15 Direct detection and characterization of transient stannylenes in solution
by Laser Flash Photolysis methods. Ian Duffy, William J. Leigh, McMaster
University
9:20
O16 The reactions of silylenes with carbonyl compounds. Claire Browne,
Svetlana S. Kostina, William J. Leigh, McMaster University
9:40
O17 Amplified production of singlet oxygen using core-shell gold nanoparticles.
Nicolas Macia, Sara Mooi, Belinda Heyne, University of Calgary
10:00
O18 Novel fluorogenic probes for the detection of reactive oxygen species in the
lipid membrane of live cells. Lana Greene, Katerina Krumova, Gonzalo Cosa,
McGill University
10:20 COFFEE
Session VI Chair: Jean Lessard
H-535
11:00
O19 Synthesis and columnar properties of novel substituted dibenzanthracenes
and their donor-acceptor mixtures. Kaitlin M. Psutka, Josh Williams, Joe
Paquette, Alyssa Schneider, Ken Maly, Wilfried Laurier University
11:20
O20 1,1-Dimethyl-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsilole as a molecular rotor probe to
investigate the microviscosity of imidazolium ionic liquids. Regina E. Scalise,
Peter A. Caradonna, Henry J. Tracy, Jerome L. Mullin, Amy E. Keirstead, University
of New England
11:40
O21 Influence of substituents on glass-forming ability and stability of
aminotriazine molecular glasses. Audrey Laventure, Armand Soldera, Christian
Pellerin, Olivier Lebel, Université de Montréal
12:00
Closing Remarks
Heidi Muchall
41st POMS
November 1-3, 2013
Concordia University