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RMC 2026 Program

Program for the 40th Reaction Mechanisms Conference to be held at 麻豆传媒官网, Holland, Michigan, on June 7鈥�10, 2026.

Schedule

The 40th RMC will begin with check-in available from 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 7, and the opening session will begin at 5:30 p.m. EDT. The conference will conclude by 12:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 10, 2026. Included light breakfast will be available from 7:45 a.m., with sessions scheduled 8:30 a.m.鈥�9:30 p.m., daily. Adequate breaks will be incorporated for lunch and dinner (not included), and one afternoon will be set aside for networking and local tourism opportunities. There will be nightly receptions with a ticketed/cash bar and light refreshments included, with poster sessions currently planned for the evenings of Sunday, June 7, and Monday, June 8. The (separately registered) conference banquet on Tuesday, June 9, will follow the session honoring Prof. Dr. Peter Chen. Increasingly detailed schedules will be provided here as they become available.

Sessions

There will be a session honoring the career and scientific impact and legacy of Prof. Dr. Peter Chen (ETH Zurich). There will also be a session on mechanistic chemistry and trouble-shooting in industry. Additional plenary sessions will span the full range of mechanistic chemistry topics. Plenary speakers are listed here, and with planned sessions currently including: Expanding Catalysis in Organic Chemistry, Synthetic Methods and Chemical Reactivity, Predicting Reactivity: Computations and Data-Driven Models, Spectroscopic Windows into Molecular Mechanisms, and Functional Organic 蟺-Systems.

All attendees are invited to contribute to and participate in poster sessions spanning an even wider range of topics. Contributions are welcome from any experimental or computational area of mechanistic investigation or insight within organic, organometallic, inorganic, or biochemical reactions or processes, very broadly defined.

There will also be an undergraduate context session, a panel on industrial careers in mechanistic chemistry, and a panel on faculty careers at primarily undergraduate institutions.

There will be a separately ticketed banquet dinner, and additional opportunity for networking and exploration of scenic Holland, Michigan, and its Lake Michigan beaches.

Abstracts

Abstracts can be submitted with registration or after registration through May 1, 2026. Posters must be no bigger than 47.5" x 47.5" (120 x 120 cm). Tacks will be provided. Templates for abstract submission are provided along with the abstract submission form here.

Contact

Direct inquiries to RMC 2026 co-organizer and local host Professor Jason Gillmore at gillmore@hope.edu.