ECA SIG-13

ECA SIG-13 has organised or co-organised the following Plenary Lectures and Microsymposia at the ECM-23 European Crystallographic Meeting.

Plenary Lectures

Gastone Gilli (also SIG-7)
Modern hydrogen bonding theory
Chair: Roland Boese

Lee Brammer
Halogen-mediated supramolecular chemistry in the solid state
Chair: André Roodt

Israel Goldberg
Crystal engineering of porphyrin network materials
Chair: Giuseppe Filippini

Microsymposia

MS28 Supramolecular compounds and assemblies
Chair: Petra Bombicz, Co-chair: Jean-Marc Planeix

Speakers:
Christer B. Aakeröy
Constructing co-crystals with molecular sense and supramolecular sensibility
Mino R. Caira
Polymorphism and isostructurality of cyclodextrins and their inclusion complexes
Alajos Kálmán
Past and present: the meaning of morphotropism
Gaelle Ramon
Inclusion compounds from a Diol Host
Yves Boland
Structures of iron(II) and copper(II) coordination polymers with , aw-bis(tetrazol-1-yl)di(ethylene glycol)

MS29 Advanced methods for computer simulation of molecular crystals
Chair: Graeme Day, Co-chair: Davide Viterbo

Speakers:
Panagiotis G. Karamertzanis
Energy minimisation of crystal structures containing flexible molecules
Bartolomeo Civalleri
Ab-initio quantum-mechanical investigation of molecular crystals
Natalia Panina
Crystal structure prediction of organic pigments
Andrew G. Beasley
The influence of disorder on polymorphism
Jürg Hauser
Analysing stacking disorder with a genetic algorithm

MS41 Structural coordination chemistry
Chair: Enrique Gutierrez-Puebla, Co-chair: Marie-Rose Spirlet

Speakers:
Ernesto Carmona
The structural diversity of Zincocenes: half-sandwich, slipped-sandwich and dimetallocenes structures
Yann Garcia
Tuning cooperative effects in azole based iron(II) spin crossover coordination polymers
Dominik Schaniel
Photocrystallography with neutrons - Light-induced structural changes in Na2[Fe(CN)5NO]·2D2O
Richard Welter
Very strong ferromagnetic interaction in a new asymmetrical binuclear µ-methoxo-bridged Mn(III) complex
Ekkehart Tillmanns
New compounds of L-Alanine with inorganic materials

MS42 Structure-property relationships in molecular crystals
Chair: Chick Wilson, Co-chair: Leonard Barbour

Speakers:
Luigi R Nassimbeni
Molecular recognition and selectivity in organic clathrates
Joel Bernstein
Polymorphism and structure-property relations in molecular crystals
Graeme M. Day
Computational investigations of the influence of polymorphism on the lattice dynamics of molecular organic crystals
Christophe M.L. Vande Velde
The packing of methoxy-substituted distyryl-benzenes: questions and answers
Dmitry Chernyshov
A complex spin crossover scenario as seen by synchrotron diffraction and Small Angle Neutron Scattering

MS43 Molecular crystallography under non-ambient conditions
Chair: Juerg Hulliger, Co-chair: Daniel Chasseau

Speakers:
Sébastien Pillet
Structural investigation of light-induced metastable states
Andrew Harrison
Tuning the structure and magnetism of model systems under pressure
Ross J. Angel
High pressure as a tool to study structure and function of molecular crystals
Sophia Petrova
Stability of the nanocrystalline LaMnO3±d under non ambient conditions
Dirk Poelman
In-situ X-ray diffraction measurements for monitoring carbide and silicide phase formation

Full details of the Scientific Programme, and links to Abstracts of Presentations, can be found on the ECM-23 site.