The 2000 Gibbs Award Dinner
Presented by the Chicago Section
of the American Chemical Society
 
Professor Turro
Speaker: Professor Nicholas J. Turro
Columbia University

Date:  Friday, May 19, 2000

Location:   Windows Ballroom
The DoubleTree Hotel
9599 Skokie Road
Skokie, Illinois
Time: 6:00 pm Social Hour, 7:00 pm Dinner, 8:30 pm Program

Introducing Professor Turro:   Professor Frederick Lewis of Northwestern University

Cost:  $35.00 for members of ACS and their guests/ $37.00 for non-members
     No discounts allowed for students or unemployed

Reservations:   (847) 647-8405

or,   REGISTER ON LINE !

No refunds after May 16 for cancellations or no-shows.
Tables of ten are available upon request.

From Molecular Photochemistry
to Supramolecular Photochemistry

Abstract:     During the last 50 years photochemistry has developed from a molecular level in which covalent, molecular structure and dynamics dominate to include a supramolecular level in which non-covalent, intermolecular structure and dynamics dominate. At still another level, in certain molecular and supramolecular systems magnetic interactions can exert a strong control over photochemical processes with magnetic field effects and the generation of nuclear and electron polarization. Examples will be given of research at Columbia which involves the investigation of supramolecular photochemistry and magnetic effects on supramolecular photoreactions involving radical pairs and radicals adsorbed on zeolite porous solids and colloidal micelles. The research emphasized the richness of chemical information that can be achieved through the investigation of the details of how a pair of carbon radicals recombine to form a carbon-carbon bond.

Biography:    Dr. Nicholas J. Turro is the William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry and Co-Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at Columbia University in New York City. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1960 and his Ph.D. in 1963 from the California Institute of Technology under George S. Hammond. Dr. Turro had a post doctoral position at Harvard University from 1963 to 1964. He has spent his professional career at Columbia University from 1964 until the present.

Dr. Turro was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981. He received a J.S. Guggenheim Award in 1984, and a Cope Scholar Award in 1986 and the James Flack Norris Award in 1987, both from ACS. He has also received the Havinga Medal from Leiden University in 1994, a Caltech Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1996, and the Strahlenchemie Preis from the Max-Planck-Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Mülheim, Germany in 1998, among other awards.

Directions:
From the City or the North:
Take Interstate 94 (Edens Expressway) to Old Orchard Road East exit. Go east (right) to Skokie Boulevard (Route 41). Turn right (south) 2.5 blocks to Golf Road. DoubleTree Hotel is on the southeast corner of Golf and Skokie Boulevard.

From O'Hare Airport:
Take Interstate 294 North to Dempster-East. Go east on Dempster Road to Potter Road, turn left, and proceed to Golf Road. Turn right (east) on Golf Road and proceed 8 miles to Skokie Boulevard (Route 41) and turn right. Hotel DoubleTree is at the intersection of Golf Road and Skokie Boulevard.

Parking:   Free

Dinner:
Mixed Field Greens with Sundried Cranberries & Candied Pecans,
with Champagne Vinaigrette
    Breast of Chicken with Spinach and Asiago, Porcini Mushrooms jus
           OR
    Fillet of Salmon in a Tomato-Fennel Ragout
Turtle Ice Cream Truffle, Mocha Crème Anglaise
Wine during dinner




Updated 3/28/00