Electron Transfer
Processes and Reactive Intermediates in Modern Chemistry
Symposium
Editor, Z.J. Jedlinski
Editor-in-Chief, Hartwig Hocker
Editors,
W. Guth, B. Jung, I. Meisel, and S. Spiegel
Wiley-VCH (1998), pp. 1-198
ISBN 3-527-29802-9.
Preface
It
is a pleasure to introduce this special volume of Macromolecular Symposia,
which consists of the Proceedings of the first International
IUPAC Symposium on Electron Transfer Processes and Short Lived Intermediates,
held on September 3-7, 1998 at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow,
Poland. The Symposium was organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Centre of Polymer Chemistry, Zabrze, and the Chemistry Department of
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, and was sponsored by the following
organizations and companies:
- Polish
Committee for Scientific Research
- Polish
Academy of Sciences
- Jagiellonian
University
- Polish
Chemical Society - Petrochemia Plock S.A. - CIECH S.A.
- Powszechny
Bank Kredytowy S.A. - Varian A.G.
-
For
the first time the international interdisciplinary symposium on various
aspects of electron transfer in chemical processes, in biology and in
material sciences has been organized under the auspices of IUPAC. The
scientific program covered the area of recent developments on electron
transfer in:
-
organic chemistry
- physical chemistry
- chemical physics
- polymer chemistry
- bioorganic chemistry and biochemistry - material
science
The studies on electron transfer processes and their multidisciplinary
implications are nowadays a strongly developing area of modem science.
Electron transfer reactions are playing an increasing role in synthetic
organic chemistry and physical chemistry. Moreover, the electron transfer
mechanism has been found to operate in many polymerization processes.
On the other hand numerous biochemical reactions in living organism
proceed via electron transfer mechanism being controlled by various
enzymatic systems. Supramolecular chemistry has developed various routes
of mimicking biochemical reactions in artificial systems, providing
access to the modem supramolecular materials for applications in molecular
informatics, nop-linear optics, molecular electronics and photonics,
and other still emerging new areas of contemporary material science.
All these aspects have found their reflection in the symposium contributions,
a selection of which is presented in the present volume.
The Symposium was attended by over 100 scientists from 17 countries
(Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, France, Israel, Japan, Poland,
Russia, Switzerland, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom,
USA); 22 invited lectures, 6 short talks and 25 posters were presented.
In the closing remarks Professor Joshua Jortner, the President of IUPAC,
summarized briefly the present state-of-art and promising perspectives
of the further research on electron transfer processes in the foreseeable
future.
Some foreign participants acknowledged the interesting program and good
organization of the Symposium and postulated organization of such meetings
every third year.
I would like to thank all the members of International Scientific
(J. Economy, J. Guillet, J. Jortner J. -M. Lehn, R. W. Lenz, M. Makosza,
B. Rånby, M. Szwarc, Y Yamamoto)
and Local Organizing Committees
(G. Adamus, E. Bortel,
K.
Brandt, H. Janeczek, J. GrobeIny, B. Kaczmarczyk, M. Kowalczuk, P. Kurcok,
M. Nowakowska, D. Sek, A. Stolarzewicz).
I would like also to express my sincere thanks to all speakers and poster
presenters for the high level of their research results and excellent
contributions to the scientific program of the symposium and to the
overall success of this meeting
Inspiring discussions took place during the Symposium. Therefore a valuable
contribution to the Symposium by all discussion leaders
(Prof. Prof.
0. Achmatowicz, A. Bielanski, M. Chanon, S. Gronowitz, J. Meyer, J.
Lisowski, S. Polowiliski, J. Wróbel)
and their enthusiastic participation is worth to be acknowledged. Last,
but not least, I would like to express my warmest thanks and regards
to the Rector of Jagiellonian University, Prof.
Aleksander
Koj, to Prof.
Stanislaw Waltoi,
and to the Dean of the Chemistry Department, Prof.
Maria Nowakowska.
Due to their valuable assistance the organization of the Symposium was
possible.
Zbigniew
Jedlinski
(Chairman, etpi '97)