2007 Silicon Symposium

As usual, the program will cover a variety of topics in synthetic, mechanistic, physical, theoretical and industrial silicon science. The following themes will be emphasized at this year's symposium:

There will be both oral and poster presentations. The conference language will be English. If you're on the mailing list, you'll be notified of news related to the symposium automatically.

Friday, June 1, 2007

Time	Session A	Session B
8:50 am	Opening Remarks
9:00	* Plenary * Zakya Kafafi Efficient Conversion of Electrical Energy into Light Using Siloles and Silafluorenes
10:00	Coffee Break
10:20	Soichiro Kyushin Silicon-Silicon π Single Bond	Brian Pagenkopf Synthesis and Properties of New π-Conjugated Oligomeric, Donor-Acceptor, Photoluminescent and Electrochemiluminescent Siloles
11:00	Myong Euy Lee Recent Results on Silylenoids vs Silylenes	Eric Henderson Tailoring the Optical Properties of Group IV Nanocrystals
11:20	Robert West A New Spectroscopy of Silicon and Germanium Compounds – Muon Spin Resonance	Xiaoming Zhang Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese Doped Silicon Nanoparticles
11:40	Adam Tomasik New Monomeric Saturated N-Heterocyclic Silylenes and Germylenes as Racemic Mixtures	Colin Hessel Patterning Sub-100 nm Luminescent Silicon Nanostructures Derived from Hydrogen Silsesquioxane
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:30	* Plenary * Robert Wolkow Field Regulation of Single Molecule Conductivity by a Charged Atom
2:30	Andrey Moiseev Direct Detection of Diphenylsilylene and Fast Kinetic Studies of its Reactivity in Solution. Quantitative Comparisons to Dimethylsilylene	Joerg Glatthaar Direct Process of Methyliodosilanes in Absence of Any Catalyst
2:50	Willie Leigh Fast Kinetic Studies of the Reactions of Transient Silylenes with Alcohols in Fluid Solution	Kenrick Lewis Slurry-Phase Direct Synthesis of Triethoxysilane with Cyanide and Nitrile Promoters
3:10	Coffee Break
3:30	Masafumi Unno Stereochemistry of the Halogenation of Si-Si Bond
3:50	Carsten Strohmann Stereochemistry of Lithiated Silanes	Mark Fink Mechanochemical Synthesis of Alkyl-Passivated Silicon Nanoparticles
4:10	Scott Sieburth Silanediol Protease Inhibitors: Advances in Preparative Methods	Oliver Warschkow Water on the Silicon (001) Surface: C-Defects and Elementary Steps of Surface Oxide Formation
4:30	Kim Baines A Comparison of the Reactivity of Brook and Couret Silenes Toward Alkynes	Brian Korgel Solution Synthesis of Silicon Nanowires
4:50	Patrick Steel Silenes: Just Heavy Alkenes or New Strategies for Organic Synthesis?	Jon Veinot Hydrogen Silsesquioxane: A Versatile, Solution Processable Precursor for Silicon Rich Oxides and Freestanding Si-based Nanocrystals
5:30	Close

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Time	Session A	Session B
9:00 am	François Ganachaud Recent Developments in the Synthesis of Hybrid Fluorinated Silicones	Sylviane Sabo-Etienne The σ-CAM Mechanism: σ-Complexes and Dynamics and Robin Perutz The σ-CAM Mechanism: Catalysis and Comparison to Conventional Mechanisms
9:40	Paul Zelisko Enzyme-Mediated Silicone Chemistry
10:00	coffee break
10:20	Anubhav Saxena Narrowly Dispersed Bi-Functional Silicone Fluid * WITHDRAWN *	Noah Wieder Activation of Silicon-Chloride Bonds with Ruthenium(0) Complexes and Reactivity of Chloro(organosilyl) Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Acetylene
10:40	David Thompson Highly Controlled Assembly of Silicone Macrostructures	Don Tilley Synthesis and Reactivity of Cationic Iridium Silylene Complexes Supported by a PNP Pincer Ligand
11:00	Yoshimoto Abe Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Silsesquioxanes - Novel Ladder and Cubic Silsesquioxanes	Harald Stüger Electronic Interactions in Transition Metal-Containing Polysilanes
11:20	Yusuke Kawakami A Mechanistic Consideration on the Formation of POSS Derivatives	Joseph Lambert Dendritic Calixarene Hosts for Efficient Binding of Metal Ions
11:40		Leonard Interrante Synthesis and Studies of Polycarbosilane-PMMA Graft Copolymers as Potential Low-K Dielectric Materials
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:30	Reinhold Tacke Pentacoordination of Silicon by Five Different Ligand Atoms: Neutral Silicon(IV) Complexes with an SiXSONC (X = Cl, Br, I) Skeleton	Emmanuel Pouget Synthesis of Poly(Dimethylsiloxane) Well Architectured Block Copolymers in Miniemulsion Using Iodine Transfer Polymerization
1:50	Tatiana Eliseeva Synthesis and Characterization of Imidazole-Silane Complexes	Chris Bradley Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Titanium Functionalized Silicone Nanospheres
2:10	Gerardo González-García Novel Neutral Hexacoordinate Silicon (IV) Complexes with -O, N, N- Tridentate and -O, N, N, O- Tetradentate Schiff Base Ligands	De-ann Rollings Polysiloxane Nanofibers via Surface Induced Polymerization of Organotrichlorosilanes
2:30	Coffee Break
2:50	* Plenary * Bogdan Marciniec Silicometallics and Catalysis – Application to Synthesis of Organosilicon Reagents and Polymers
3:50	Not-quite-closing Remarks
4:00 - 6:00	Poster Session
6:30	Pre-Banquet Drinks
7:00	Banquet

The following scientists have agreed to give invited lectures at the 40th Si Symposium:

Program