The 4th Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec
Program
Friday, May 26 – Sunday, May 28, 2017
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, ON, Canada

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Friday, May 26, 2017

2pm – 2:30pm Student workshop registration (Bricker Academic Building, Room BA113)
2:30pm – 5:30pm Student workshop on “OLEX2 for Beginners”
6:30pm Unofficial workshop mixer at Shoeless Joe's

Saturday, May 27, 2017

8am – 9am Workshop registration (Main Entrance, Science Building)

All lectures will take place in the Science Building, Room N1044

9am – 9:50am Plenary Lecture 1 - Christer B. Aakeröy
"Crystal engineering from molecules to materials"

9:50am – 10:10am Jan Christophson
“Halogen-Bonded Azobenzenes: Design of Optically Responsive Crystals and the Discovery of a Soft Photolithographic Effect”

10:10am – 10:30am Michelle Mills
“Thiazyl vs. selenazyl: How rational manipulation of intermolecular interactions impacts magnetic properties”

10:30am – 11am Coffee break and informal discussions

11am – 11:50am Plenary Lecture 2 - Prof. Dr. Vladimir P. Fedin
"Porous coordination polymers: from synthesis and structure to functional properties"

*11:50am – 12:25pm Poster preview flashtalks*

11:50am – 11:55am Daniel Cutler
“Exploring the Coordination Chemistry of mpmH as a new ligand in 3d-Cluster Chemistry”

11:55am – 12pm Jacqueline Gemus
“In Pursuit of Mixed-Linker ZIFs: Multinuclear SSNMR to Characterize the Products of Mechanochemical Reactions”

12pm – 12:05pm Nadia Stephaniuk
“The inclusion chemistry of 4-phenyl-1,2,3,5-dithiadiazolyl radical, and its selenium analogue, into the porous metal-organic framework host MIL-53(Al)”

12:05pm – 12:10pm Farukh Ali
“Diketopiperazines (DKPs): Solid State Synthesis and Co-crystallization”

12:10pm – 12:15pm Ghada Ayoub
“Effect of the preparation methods on the physicochemical properties of the cimetidine salt”

12:15pm – 12:20pm Andy Tsang
“α-Lipoic Acid for the Design of Pharmaceutical Co-crystals”

12:20pm – 12:25pm Michael Brand
“Clean, Solvent Free Synthesis of Metal-organic Frameworks from Simple Reagents in the Solid State”

12:25pm – 12:40pm CEMWOQ-4 Group Photo

12:40pm – 2pm Lunch

2pm – 2:30pm Professor Delia Haynes
"Host-guest systems based on the pamoate ion"

2:30 – 2:50pm Stephen Dale
“A density-functional examination of the magnetic states of electrides and the evolution of piezomagnetic behaviour under pressure”

2:50pm – 3:10pm Aaron Smith
“New Layered Inclusion Compounds of Short Chain Leucine Containing Peptides”

3:10pm – 3:30pm Courtney Dickie
“Coordination Chemistry and Magnetization Dynamics of Lanthanide(III) Complexes with Applications as Single-Ion Magnets”

3:30pm – 4pm Coffee break and informal discussions

4pm – 4:30pm Professor Stephen Loeb
“MIMs in MOFs: Organizing Mechanically Interlocked Molecules Inside Metal-organic Frameworks”

4:30pm – 4:50pm Nimer Murshid
“Metal Carbonyl Complexes (MCCs): From Water Insoluble Structures to Multifunctional Stable Aqueous Nanovesicles”

5pm – 6:30pm Poster session (Atrium, First Floor Science Building)

7pm – 10pm Conference dinner at The Hawk's Nest

Sunday, May 28, 2017

8am – 9am Workshop registration (Main Entrance, Science Building)

All lectures will take place in the Science Building, Room N1044
9am – 9:30am Professor John Wallis
“Interactions and Reactions Between Substituents in Peri-Naphthalene Systems – Crystallography, Charge Densities and Solid State NMR Studies”

9:30am – 9:50am Nicole Cathcart
“Rational design of nanoscale building blocks for sensing applications”

9:50am – 10:10am Lucia Myongwon Lee
“Chalcogen Bonding in Supramolecular Chemistry: N-substituted benzo-2,1,3-selenadiazoles as building blocks”

10:10am – 10:30am John Hayward
“Pyridinium groups as σ-hole activators: Investigating chalcogen bonding in a series of zwitterionic thiopheno-thioureas”

10:30am – 11am Coffee break and informal discussions

11am – 11:50am Plenary Lecture 3 - Dr. Marc Fourmigué
"Halogen-bonded co-crystals: implications in crystal engineering and molecular conductors"

11:50am – 12:15pm Student awards and closing remarks

For participants going to the Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference:
12:32pm GO Bus Transit from Laurier to Union (Bus 25 -> Bus 21); arrive by 3:30pm
1:32pm GO Bus Transit from Laurier to Union (Bus 25 -> Bus 21); arrive by 4:20pm