The 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry - Molecular Design and Synthesis will be held at Holderness School, Holderness, New Hampshire from June 28 - July 03.

This traditional yet vivid conference has continuously been broadening its perspective, and the title extension for the upcoming 2009 conference reflects this by including molecular design as well as synthetic aspects of physical organic chemistry. The constant development and renewal of mechanistic, structural, synthetic, and computational tools and their mutual interplay will be presented by a list of selected expert speakers and discussion leaders (see below) from diverse areas of organic chemistry. Topics include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): carbon materials, catalysis, computational chemistry, enzymatic reactivity, excited states, gas phase reactions, isotope effects, mechanisms and bonding, molecular machinery, reactive intermediates, and spectroscopy.

Attendees are encouraged to present their latest research results in the poster sessions. Abstracts are not required and every registrant who wishes to do so may present a poster. A selection of the best posters will be chosen for short oral presentations on the last evening of the conference.

Mark your calendar for this event, and we hope to see you there!