Satellite Meeting 4 (St. James Suite)
Structure and Change
Organised by Prof. Paul Raithby
Time resolved studies have long been prerogative of spectroscopists but recent advances in technology mean that diffraction methods can now be used to study fast reactions and identify transient species. Recently, there have been cutting edge time resolved single crystal studies on macromolecular and molecular systems where lasers have been used to induce photoexcited states with lifetimes in the nanosecond to microsecond range. EXAFS spectroscopy has also been used successfully to probe structural changes in short lifetime photoexcited species. In this symposium the complementarity of time resolved spectroscopic and diffraction will be illustrated by a series of keynote lectures from experts in the area.
Plenary speaker:
Philip Coppens (Buffalo)
Tuesday 13th (afternoon)
- 15:00Professor John Evans (Southampton/Diamond)
- In situ structure-function studies of oxide-supported platinum group metal catalysts
- 15:45 Dr Eric Collet (Rennes)
- Photoinduced phase transitions probed in real time by pulsed synchrotron radiation
- 16:30-17:00Break
- 17:00 Mr Shamus Husheer (Cambridge)
- Monochromatic and Laue photocrystallographic studies on metastable metal complexes
- 17:30 Professor Tony Parker (CLF)
- Time resolved IR studies in the solid state
Wednesday 14th (morning)
- 9:00 Professor Wendy Flavell (Manchester)
- Opportunities for time-resolved structural measurements on 4GLS and ERLP
- 9:30 Dr John Warren (SRS)
- Bad things happen to small crystals
- 10:00Professor John Helliwell (Manchester)
- An overview of SR time-resolved macromolecular crystallography
