History of the RMC
The history of this distinguished conference goes back to 1946 and it has held a position of long-standing significance in mechanistic chemistry even since. The list of the organizers for the early conferences includes the names of many of the progenitors of modern organic chemistry.
| Reaction Mechanisms Conferences | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | University of Notre Dame Paul D. Bartlett, Charles C. Price | 1946 |
| 2nd | Gordon Research Conference William v E. Doering, Frank H. Westheimer, Frank Mayo, Saul Winstein | 1948 |
| 3rd | Northwestern University Stanley J. Cristol, John D. Roberts, Cheves Walling | 1950 |
| 4th | Bryn Mawr College Ernst Berliner, Herbert C. Brown, David Y. Curtin, C. Gardiner Swain, Wyman E. Vaughan | 1952 |
| 5th | University of New Hampshire Donald J. Cram, Nathan Kornblum, Henry Kuivila, Richard M. Noyes | 1954 |
| 6th | Swarthmore College Frederick G. Bordwell, George S. Hammond, Harold Kwart, Robert W. Taft | 1956 |
| 7th | University of Chicago Weldon G. Brown, Elias J. Corey, Ralph G. Pearson | 1958 |
| 8th | Princeton University George Buchi, DeLos F. DeTar, Paul v R. Schleyer, Andrew Streitwieser, Jr. | 1960 |
| 9th | Brookhaven National Laboratory Frederick D. Greene, William McEwen, Kenneth B. Wiberg (Chair), Alfred P. Wolf | 1962 |
| 10th | Oregon State University Ronald Breslow, John L. Kice, Elliot N. Marvell, V. J. Shiner (Chair), Howard E. Zimmerman | 1964 |
| 11th | McMaster University Jerome A. Berson, Arthur N. Bourns, Joseph F. Bunnett (Chair), Gerhard L. Closs, John Warkentin | 1966 |
| 12th | Brandeis University Harlan L. Goering, Ernst Grunwald, Maurice M. Kreevoy, Howard E. Simmons (Chair) | 1968 |
| 13th | University of California, Santa Cruz Joseph F. Bunnett, Harold Hart, Ross Robertson, William F. Saunders, Jr. (Chair) | 1970 |
| 14th | University of Vermont Paul G. Gassman, William M. Jones, John L. Kice, Calvin D. Ritchie (Chair) | 1972 |
| 15th | Colorado State University John I. Brauman, Kenneth E. DeBruin, Anthony M. Trozzolo (Chair), Charles E. Wilcox, Jr. | 1974 |
| 16th | College of William and Mary Robert J. Crawford, Charles H. DePuy (Chair), Eddie Hedaya, Melvyn D. Schiavelli | 1976 |
| 17th | University of Minnesota – Duluth Robert G. Bergman, Ronald Caple, Maurice M. Kreevoy, J. C. Martin (Chair), Robert A. Moss | 1978 |
| 18th | University of Massachusetts – Amherst Charles P. Casey, E. Thomas Kaiser, C. Peter Lillya, J. Michael McBride (Chair), Bernard Miller | 1980 |
| 19th | University of Utah Peter B. Dervan, Josef Michl (Chair), Ned A. Porter, Peter J. Stang | 1982 |
| 20th | Duke University Edward M. Arnett (Chair), Robert D. Miller, Richard R. Schrock | 1984 |
| 21st | University of Texas – Austin Marye Anne Fox, Joseph J. Gajewski, John C. Gilbert, Kendall N. Houk (Chair), L. M. Stephenson | 1986 |
| 22nd | University of Pittsburgh John I. Brauman, Paul Dowd, David McClure, Julius Rebek, Jr., Stuart W. Staley, Patricia L. Watson | 1988 |
| 23rd | University of Colorado Cynthia J. Burrows, Gerhard L. Closs, Paul Dowd, G. Barney Ellison, Matthew S. Platz (Chair), Phillip M. Warner | 1990 |
| 24th | University of Maine Udo H. Brinker (chair), Joseph J. Dannenberg, Gideon Fraenkel, Raymond C. Fort, Jr., James E. Jackson, Philip T. S. Lau, Allan R. Pinhas | 1992 |
| 25th | University of Notre Dame Edward M. Arnett, John E. Baldwin, Joseph P. Dinnocenzo, William v E. Doering (Chair), Paul Dowd, Kendall N. Houk, Frank-Gerrit Klärner, Daniel J. Pasto, Matthew S. Platz, Richard L. Schowen, Robert R. Squires, Kenneth B. Wiberg | 1994 |
| 26th | State University of New York – Stony Brook William J. le Noble, Kenneth B. Wiberg (Chair) | 1996 |
| 27th | Asilomar Conference Center – Pacific Grove, California Donald H. Aue, John E. Baldwin, Cynthia J. Burrows, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, Kendall N. Houk (Chair), Frank-Gerrit Klärner, Yves Rubin | 1998 |
| 28th | University of Wisconsin – Madison Barry K. Carpenter (Chair), Robert J. McMahon | 2000 |
| 29th | The Ohio State University – Columbus Christopher M. Hadad, Hilkka Kenttämaa (co-Chair), Matthew S. Platz, Craig Wilcox (co-Chair) | 2002 |
| 30th | Northwestern University Weston T. Borden (Chair), Joseph B. Lambert | 2004 |
| 31st | University of Maryland Donald H. Aue (Chair), Daniel E. Falvey | 2006 |
| 32nd | University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Malcolm D. E. Forbes, Richard P. Johnson (Chair), Clelia W. Mallory | 2008 |
| 33rd | University of Massachusetts, Amherst Robert S. Sheridan (Chair), Paul R. Rablen (Vice Chair), Paul M. Lahti (Local Organizer), Sally Mallory (Convener) | 2010 |
| 34th | University of Missouri in Columbia Christopher Hadad (Chair), Rainer Glaser (local host) | 2012 |
| 35th | UC Davis Paul G. Wenthold (Chair), Dean Tantillo (Local Organizer) | 2014 |
| 36th | St. Louis University John P. Toscano and Dina C. Merrer (co-Chairs), Ryan D. McCulla (Local Organizer) | 2016 |
| 37th | University of British Columbia, Vancouver William Jenks and Anna Gudmundsdottir (co-Chairs), Jason Hein (Local Organizer) | 2018 |
| 38th | University of Colorado, Boulder Igor Alabugin and Jeehiun Lee (co-chairs),Oana Luca and Michael Marshak (Local Organizers) | 2022 |