Fraser Stoddart Sheffield

Following the opening of the Symposium and the welcome to the participants by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster, the theme of the Meeting was set by Fraser Stoddart (Sheffield). In keeping with the previous Symposia, this Meeting will continue to be innovative and to promote discussion. 

Fraser Stoddart (Sheffield), Giovanni Andreetti (Parma), Wolfram Saenger (Berlin), David NacNicol (Glasgow), Eric Davies (Lancaster), Jerry Atwood (Alabama), Nary Truter (London), David Ollis (Sheffield), Bernard Langley (ICI Academic Relations). 

Convener Eric Davies (Lancaster) and John Gibson (Royal Society of Chemistry), David MacNicol (Glasgow), Fraser Stoddart (Sheffield), Dick Wife (Shell, Amsterdam), David Williams (London). 

In the mid 1980s, J. Fraser Stoddart and Franz Kohnke, then from the University of Sheffield, UK, developed another rather less studied curved building block 6.5, which is derived from the reaction of 1,2,4,5-tetrabromobenzene with furan (Scheme 6.4). Kohnkene (6.39), which was named after its creator, is a very rigid structure, and possesses a small elliptical cavity that is unsuitable for inclusion of molecular guest species. However, the molecule may be deoxygenated to give dideoxykohnkene... 

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