Bert Meijer Lecture
About this event
- Category
- Educational
- Organizer
- Education Committee
- Date and time
- Apr 3, 2023 14:00 - 16:00
- Location
- 5111.0080
- Participants
- 58 participants
Dear Members,
renowned expert in macromolecular chemistry and distinguished RUG alumni E.W. “Bert” Meijer will give a guest lecture on Monday the 3rd of April 2023. The lecture will focus on challenges in stereochemistry and the development of supramolecular polymers. More information can be found in the abstract below.
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A personal journey through my chiral world
Bert Meijer
With my first classes Organic Chemistry in Groningen during the period of 1972-1975, I fell in love with stereochemistry and the chiral world around us. In my PhD with Professor Hans Wynberg, I was able to study many novel aspects in chirality; a research filed I always kept close to my heart even during my days in industry. In the lecture I will give an overview of our science in stereochemistry. From a historical perspective and the challenges of today, I hope to show my excitement for science and how I used my education in Groningen in my present position in Eindhoven.
One of the topics that I will discuss is the development of supramolecular polymers, being one of the main parts of our research today. Although the word polymer was already coined by Jöns Jakob Berzelius in 1833, it was through the pioneering work of Hermann Staudinger in 1920, that it was recognized that the macroscopic properties of polymers both in solution and solid state are the result of the macromolecular nature of the molecules. The impressive progress in supramolecular chemistry, however, paved the way to design polymers and polymeric materials that lack the macromolecular structure. Instead, highly directional secondary interactions are used to assemble the many repeating units into a polymer array. Especially ordered arrays of monomers are highly interesting due to the cooperative nature of their supramolecular polymerization processes and the chirality of the polymers formed.
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