207th ECS Meeting - Quebec City, Canada

May 15 - May 20, 2005

PROGRAM INFORMATION
 

W2 - Electron Transfer Through Organic and Biological Bridges II

Organic and Biological Electrochemistry
 

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Room 207, Level 2, Quebec City Convention Center

Co-Chairs: M.A. Rampi & H.B. Kraatz
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
08:00 1409 The Effects of Bridge Fluctuations on Electron Transfer Matrix Elements and Rates S. Skourtis (University of Cyprus)
08:25 1410 Electron Transfer Through Conformationally Constrained Oligopeptides F. Maran, S. Antonello, L. Fabris and F. Polo (University of Padova)
08:50 1411 Electron Transfer in Hydrogen-bonded Peptides H. Kraatz (University of Saskatchewan)
09:15 1412 Inner Reorganization Energies as Evaluated by Photoelectron Spectroscopy: 1,4-Bis(dimethylamino)benzene, 3,6-Bis(dimethylamino)durene and 9,10-Bis(dimethylamino)anthracene D. Evans and N. Gruhn (University of Arizona)
09:40 Intermission (20 Minutes)
10:00 1413 Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of the Intra- and Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding Effects on the Redox Behaviors of Aminoanthraquinone Derivatives H. Randriamahazaka and G. Sini (University of Cergy-Pontoise)
10:20 1414 Anchoring Redox-active Molecular Shuttles to Acid-terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold F. Paolucci (University of Bologna), F. Cecchet (LISE FUNDP Namur Belgium), C. Bruno (Dept Chemistry Univ Bologna), J. Baggerman, F. Brouwer, N. Haraszkiewicz (Institute of Molecular Chemistry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), E. Kay, D. Leigh (School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom), M. Marcaccio (University of Bologna) and P. Rudolf (Materials Science Centre, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
10:45 1415 SECM Measurements of Rapid Electron Transfer Kinetics across Self-assembled Molecular Monolayers M. Mirkin and P. Sun (Queens College - CUNY)
11:10 1416 Correlations of Electrical Properties and Molecular Structure in Junctions Incorporating Self Assembled Monolayers M. Rampi (Universit di Ferrara)
11:35 1417 Fundamental Studies of Electron Tunneling between Electrodes and Proteins D. Waldeck, H. Yue, J. Wei (university of pittsburgh), R. Clark (saint francis university) and H. Liu (michigan technological university)
 
Co-Chairs: F.A. Schultz & W. Geiger
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:00 1418 Protein-Surfactant Film Voltammetry of Wild-Type and Mutant Cytochrome P450 BM3 M. Hill (Occidental College) and A. Udit (California Institute of Technology)
14:25 1419 An Electrochemical Investigation of Thymine-Dimer Repair by E. coli Photolyase on DNA-Modified Gold Electrodes M. DeRosa (California Institute of Technology), A. Sancar (University of North Carolina) and J. Barton (California Institute of Technology)
14:50 1420 Electrostatic Binding of a Host-Guest Assembly to Cytochrome c Probed by Electron Transfer P. Piotrowiak, C. Pagba (Rutgers University), J. Vanderkooi (University of Pennsylvania), E. Piatnitski (ImClone, Inc.) and K. Deshayes (Genentech, Inc.)
15:15 1421 Chemically Gated Electron Transfer in Thin-film Voltammetry of the Manganese Cluster Within Spinach Photosystem II J. Rusling, K. Alcantara, Z. Pendon and H. Frank (University of Connecticut)
15:40 1422 Ultra-High Electron-Transport Ability of p-Conjugated Bis(terpyridine)metal Polymer Chain H. Nishihara, K. Kanaizuka, Y. Nishimori and M. Murata (The University of Tokyo)
16:00 Intermission (20 Minutes)
16:20 1423 Metal-to-Metal Intramolecular Electron Transfer Through Different pi-Spacers. The Role of Bridging Ligand S. Santi, A. Ceccon, L. Orian, C. Durante (Universit di Padova), C. Lo Sterzo and M. Apicella (Universit di Teramo)
16:45 1424 Experimental and Computational Studies of Two-Electron Transfer in Ligand-Bridged Mo and W Dimers F. Schultz (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), D. Uhrhammer (Indiana University-Purdue Unibersity Indianapolis), X. Yang and M. Baik (Indiana University)
17:10 1425 New Organometallic Electrochemistry: From Reactions to Modified Electrodes W. Geiger, D. Laws and D. Chong (University of Vermont)
17:35 1426 Abstract Withdrawn
 

Room 200A/200B/200C, Level 2, Quebec City Convention Center

Tuesday Evening Poster Session

Co-Chairs: D.H. Evans & F. Maran
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
o 1427 Redox Modulating Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Interpenetrating Conducting Composites Based on Poly(1,5-Diaminoanthraquinine) and Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) H. Randriamahazaka (University of Cergy-Pontoise), V. Noel (University Paris VII) and C. Chevrot (University of Cergy-Pontoise)
o 1428 Dinuclear Ruthenium Complexes and the Electronic Communication Through Tetrazolyl Bridging Ligands M. Marcaccio, F. Paolucci (University of Bologna), C. Bruno (Dept Chemistry Univ Bologna) and S. Zanarini (University of Bologna)
o 1429 Ab initio calculation of transport through DNA and its sodium salt O. Pupysheva, A. Farajian, R. Belosludov, H. Mizuseki and Y. Kawazoe (Tohoku University)