RMC 2024

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 39th Reaction Mechanisms Conference (RMC) to be held at the University of New Mexico from 23rd to 26th of June 2024. The RMC is an historically important and vibrant meeting, first held in 1946, that concentrates on the recent advances in broadly defined mechanistic chemistry. The scope of discussions includes organic, organometallic, inorganic, materials, and biological research with significant mechanistic implications and insights on the connections between structure and reactivity.

The RMC resembles a Gordon Research Conference in both size and format. Discussion and sharing of ideas at the forefront of the field has always been the style. The conference will bring together industrial, government and academic chemists from all over the world to report their latest discoveries and share mechanistic insights into important reactions. The scientific program of 39th RMC will include invited lectures as well as poster sessions.

The conference generally attracts between 150 and 200 chemists from academia, government labs and industry. Graduate and undergraduate students are especially encouraged to participate and learn more about the field, as well as hear from our outstanding international program of speakers. Students will have formal and informal opportunities to discuss the latest discoveries with leaders in their fields.

The topics that RMC 2024 will focus on are, among others: new reactions and reactivity patterns, reactive intermediates in solution and gas phase, metal-catalyzed reactions, new concepts in catalysts, computational chemistry, biological systems, and materials.

This conference also includes a tribute to one of the leaders of mechanistic chemistry. The 2024 conference will honor Professor Cynthia Burrows, Thatcher Presidential Endowed Chair of Biological Chemistry at the University of Utah. Professor Burrows investigates nucleic acid chemistry ranging from oxidative damage to DNA, DNA repair and mutagenesis leading to cancer. These studies are documented in more than 200 papers, several book chapters and numerous patents.