19th
Winter Fluorine Conference
“Fabulous Future with Fluorine”
January 11 - 16, 2009
Tradewinds
Island
Grand Resort Hotel
St. Petersburg
Beach ,
Florida
USA
Sponsored by the ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry
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The Nineteenth Biennial American Chemical Society Winter Fluorine Conference, sponsored by the Division of Fluorine Chemistry, will be held at the TradeWinds Island Grand Resort in St. Pete's Beach, Florida on January 11-16, 2009. The conference, Fabulous Future with Fluorine, will feature invited plenary and oral presentations as well as contributed papers and posters by fluorine chemists from around the world on different aspects of modern fluorine chemistry, such as fluoroorganic synthetic methods, and synthesis, inorganic and theoretical fluorine chemistry, fluorine in biological chemistry, industrial fluorine chemistry, fluorine in polymers and energy research, etc. In addition, a special symposium entitled, "Fluorine in Medicines" will feature presentations from pharmaceutical industry research labs on the importance of fluorine in pharmaceuticals. This six-day international interdisciplinary forum will also feature the Award address by the recipient of the 2009 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry.
Chair
: Prof. P. V. RamachandranDepartment of Chemistry
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2084
Phone: (765) 494-5303
Co-Chair
: Dr. Charles MartinW. L. Gore Associates
Phone:(410) 506-7553
Conference Manager:
Ms. Vernar BeattyAmerican Chemical Society
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 872-4398
Plenary Lecturers
| Professor Tomas Braun, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany | Professor Valery Kukhar, Kiev, Ukraine |
| Professor Karl Christe, Univ Southern California, CA | Dr. James McCarthy, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN |
| Professor William Dolbier, University of Florida, FL | Professor Josef Michl, Colorado |
| Prof. Santos Fustero, Spain | Professor Koichi Mikami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
| Dr. Andrei Gakh, Oakridge National Labs, TN | Professor Iwao Ojima, SUNY Stony Brook, NY |
| Professor Seza Gulec, University of Miami, FL | Professor Herbert Roesky, Gottingen Germany |
| Professor Veronique Gouverneur, Oxford Univ., UK | Professor Manfred Schlosser, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Professor Jinbo Hu, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, China | Professor Max Schmidt, Indiana University, IN |
| Professor Junji Ichikawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan |
Professor Gary Schrobilgen, McMaster University, Canada |
| Dr. Dale Kiesewetter, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD | Professor Tibor Soos, Chemres, Hungary |
Invited Lecturers
| Professor David Berkowitz, Nebraska, NE | Professor Surya G. K. Prakash, USC, CA |
| Professor Brian O'Brian, Saint Peter, MN | Professor Giuseppe Resnati, Italy |
| Professor Donald Burton, IA | Prof. Gerd-Volker Roeschenthaler, Bremen, Germany |
| Professor Philippe Buhlmann, Univ Minnesota | Professor Norio Shibata, Nagoya, Japan |
| Professor Darryl DesMarteau, Clemson University | Professor Dennis Smith, Clemson, SC |
| Professor Stephen DiMagno, Nebraska | Professor Vadim Soloshonok, Oklahoma |
| Professor David Dixon, Alabama | Professor Steve Strauss, Colorado |
| Professor Michael Gerken, Lethbridge, Canada | Professor Alison Stuart, Leicester, UK |
| Professor G. B. Hammond, Louisville, KY | Dr. Robert G. Syvret, Air Products, PA |
| Professor Gunter Haufe, Munster, Germany | Professor Joseph Thrasher, Alabama |
| Dr. Ming H. Hung, Dupont | Professor Alain Tressaud, ICMCB, France |
| Professor Krishna P. Kaliappan, IIT Bombay, India | Professor Kenji Uneyama, Okayama Univ., Japan |
| Professor David Lemal, Darmouth | Dr. Swamy R. Vaidyanathan, SRF, India |
| Professor Rüdiger Mews, Bremen, Germany | Professor John T. Welch, SUNY Albany, NY |
| Professor David O'Hagan, St. Andrews, Scotland | Professor John Winfield, Glasgow, UK |
| Dr. Slava Petrov, Dupont | Professor Yurii L. Yagupolskii, Kieve, Ukraine |
| Professor Nicola Pohl, Iowa State Univ., IA |
Professor Matteo Zanda, Italy |
| Professor Charles Portella, Reims, France | Professor Brois Zemva, Slovenia |
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