Lectures Presented at the 39 Th IUPAC Congress and 86 Th Conference Of

Pure and Applied Chemistry Vol. 76, Nos. 7–8 (2004)

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Lectures presented at the 39th IUPAC Congress and 86th Conference of the Canadian Society for Chemistry: Chemistry at the Interfaces, Ottawa, Canada, 10–15 August 2003 vi Foreword, A. McAuley ix Part 1: Controlling the self assembly in macromolecular systems: From nature to chemistry to functional properties x Preface, P. R. Sundararajan 1295 Development of acid-sensitive copolymer micelles for drug delivery E. R. Gillies and J. M. J. Fréchet 1309 Block copolymer vesicles J. A. Opsteen, J. J. L. M. Cornelissen, and J. C. M. van Hest 1321 Polymeric micelles for oral drug delivery: Why and how M. F. Francis, M. Cristea, and F. M. Winnik 1337 Directing self-assembly in macromolecular systems: Hydrogen bonding in ordered polymers C.-Y. Chao, X. Li, and C. K. Ober 1345 Controlling the assembly of hydrogen-bonded supramolecular polymers by the strategy of molecular tectonics M.-È. Perron, F. Monchamp, H. Duval, D. Boils-Boissier, and J. D. Wuest 1353 Morphology of blends of self-assembling long-chain carbamate and stearic acid M. Moniruzzaman and P. R. Sundararajan 1365 Composite tectocapsules via the self-assembly of functionalized poly(divinylbenzene) microspheres L. M. Croll and H. D. H. Stöver 1375 Dendritic polymers composed of glycerol and succinic acid: Synthetic methodologies and medical applications N. R. Luman, T. Kim, and M. W. Grinstaff 1387 Controlling the physicochemical properties of weak polyelectrolyte multilayer films through acid/base equilibria S. E. Burke and C. J. Barrett xi Part 2: Polymers in electronics and photonics: Synthesis, characterizations and device applications xii Preface, W. Z. Y. Wang 1399 Dendritic polyphenylazomethines: Synthesis, structure, and metal- assembling function K. Yamamoto and M. Higuchi 1409 Multifunctional properties of monodisperse end-functionalized oligophenylenevinylenes M. S. Wong and Z. H. Li 1421 Organic electro-optic materials L. R. Dalton 1435 Near-infrared absorbing organic materials Z. Y. Wang, J. Zhang, X. Wu, M. Birau, G. Yu, H. Yu, Y. Qi, P. Desjardins, X. Meng, J. P. Gao, E. Todd, N. Song, Y. Bai, A. M. R. Beaudin, and G. LeClair 1445 Using light to control physical properties of polymers and surfaces with azobenzene chromophores R. H. El Halabieh, O. Mermut, and C. J. Barrett 1467 Photoinduced bending and unbending behavior of liquid-crystalline gels and elastomers Y.Yu, M. Nakano, and T. Ikeda 1479 Light-induced motions in azobenzene-containing polymers C. Cojocariu and P. Rochon 1499 New photoactive polymer and liquid-crystal materials Y. Zhao 1509 Morphological reasoning for the enhanced charge carrier mobility of a hole transport molecule in polystyrene F. Khan, A.-M. Hor, and P. R. Sundararajan xiii Part 3: Chemistry of nucleic acids xiv Preface, A. M. MacMillan 1521 Fifty years of “Watson–Crick” A. M. MacMillan 1525 Ribozymes that use redox cofactors S. Tsukiji, K. Ramaswamy, and H. Suga 1537 Structure–function investigation of a deoxyribozyme with dual chelatase and peroxidase activities H.-W. Lee, D. J.-F. Chinnapen, and D. Sen 1547 Engineering DNA aptamers and DNA enzymes with fluorescence-signaling properties R. Nutiu, S. Mei, Z. Liu, and Y. Li 1563 Abasic site stabilization by aromatic DNA base surrogates: High-affinity binding to a base-flipping DNA-methyltransferase I. Singh, C. Beuck, A. Bhattacharya, W. Hecker, V. S. Parmar, E. Weinhold, and O. Seitz 1571 Selection and characterization of DNAzymes with synthetically appended functionalities: A case of a synthetic RNAsea mimic R. Ting, L. Lermer, J. Thomas, Y. Roupioz, and D. M. Perrin 1579 Minimalist proteins: Design of new molecular recognition scaffolds J. A. Shin 1591 Chemistry for the synthesis of nucleobase-modified peptide nucleic acid R. H. E. Hudson, R. D. Viirre, Y. H. Liu, F.Wojciechowski, and A. K. Dambenieks 1599 Conformationally restricted cationic polyamide analogs of nucleic acids: Design, synthesis, and DNA/RNA binding studies V. A. Kumar, M. D’Costa, P. S. Lonkar, Meena, P. S. Pallan, and K. N. Ganesh

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Lectures presented at the

39th IUPAC CONGRESS AND 86th CONFERENCE OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR CHEMISTRY: CHEMISTRY AT THE INTERFACES

Held in Ottawa, Canada 10–15 August 2003

Congress President ALEX MCAULEY

Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3V6, Canada

Local Organizing Committee: P. Sundararajan, Chair, Carleton University, Canada; J. Giorgi, University of Ottawa, Canada; L. Johnston, National Research Council, Canada; E. Lai, Carleton University, Canada; C. Levert, The Canadian Society for Chemistry, Canada; P. Mayer, University of Ottawa, Canada; J. Trohon, The Canadian Society for Chemistry, Canada.

International Advisory Board: Robert Gilbert, University of Sydney, Australia; Joshua Jortner, Tel Aviv University, Israel; J. Fraser Stoddart, University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Stephen Hanessian, Université de Montréal, Canada; John C. Polanyi, University of Toronto, Canada; Brian R. James, University of British Columbia, Canada; Gerhard Ertl, Fritz-Haber-Institute der MPG, Germany; Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, USA; Steven Ley, Cambridge University, UK; Sir John Meurig Thomas, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK; C. N. R. Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India; Norm Dovichi, University of Washington, USA; Lars-Ivar Elding, Lund University, Sweden; Keitaro Yoshihara, Japanese Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.