Sunday evening, 21 July 1996
Welcome; Introductory Remarks
Coordination Chemistry, part 1: A Celebration of Varied Coordination Environments
- Nadine de Vries (DuPont), Discussion Leader
- Frank Feher (University of California, Irvine) - "Coordination Chemistry of Silsesquioxanes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
- Helmut Schwarz (Berlin) - "Bond Activation by 'Bare' Transition Metal Ions: An Intersection of Theory and Experiment"
- Kit Cummins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - "New Bond Cleavage and Atom Transfer Reactions of Low-Coordinate Complexes"
Monday morning, 22 July
Main-group and Cluster Chemistry
- Steve Strauss (Colorado State University) - "Fluorinated Polyhedral Heteroboranes as Weakly Coordinating Anions"
- Richard Holm (Harvard University) - "Metal Clusters in Biology"
- Mercouri Kanatzidis (Michigan State University) - "Recent Developments in the Solid State Chemistry of Metal Chalcogenides"
- Moungi Bawendi (Massassachusetts Institute of Technology) - "Semiconductor nanocrystallites: from isolated quantum dots to complex structures"
Monday evening, 22 July 1996
Catalysis and Catalysts
- Richard Kemp (Shell) - "Recent Work in Polyolefin Catalysis"
- Elisabeth Bordes (Compiegne) - "Heterogeneous Catalysis in Selective Oxidation of Hydrocarbons: from Bulk, Crystalline to Supported, Monolayered Catalysts"
- Jo Ann Canich (Exxon) - "Single-Site Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization"
Tuesday morning, 23 July 1996
Surfaces, Particles, and More Clusters
- Norm Herron (DuPont) - "Molecular Precursors to Functional Materials"
- Mike Sailor (University of California, San Diego) - "Surface Chemistry of Luminescent Porous Silicon"
- Ken Klabunde (Kansas State University) - "Unique Surface Chemistry of Nanoparticles of Metal Oxides and Layered Metal Oxides"
- Terry Turney (CSIRO, Australia) - "Mechanical Activation of Chemical Processes"
Tuesday evening
Deposition Chemistry
- Andrew Barron (Rice University), Discussion Leader
- Wayne Gladfelter (University of Minnesota) - "Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metallic Compounds"
- Chuck Winter (Wayne State University) - "Chemistry of Precursors to Metal Nitride Films"
- Tony Jones (Epichem LTD, U.K.) - "Developments in Metalorganic Precursors for Vapour Phase Epitaxy"
Wednesday morning, 24 July 1996
Coordination Chemistry, part 2: Electrons, Photons, and Radicals
- Kim Dunbar (Michigan State University), Discussion Leader
- Dan Nocera (Michigan State University) - "Optical Supramolecules"
- Dave Tyler (University of Oregon) - "Cage Effects in Inorganic Radical Chemistry"
- Arne Vogler (Regensberg) - "Charge Transfer Excited States of Transition Metal Complexes and Implications for Bioinorganic Chemistry and Catalysis"
- Chuck Grissom (University of Utah) - "The Role of Magnetic Spin in B-12 Dependent Enzymatic and Photochemical Reactions"
Wednesday evening
Inorganic Chemistry in Biological Systems
- Jacqueline Barton (California Institute of Technology) - "DNA-mediated Electron Transfer with Metallo Intercalators"
- Julie Kovacs (University of Washington) - "Structure and Reactivity of Models for Sulfur-Ligated Sites of Metalloenzymes"
- Scott Cunningham (DuPont) - "Phytoremediation of Soils Contaminated with Heavy Metals"
Thursday morning, 25 July 1996
New Solids
- Robert Haushalter (NEC Research) - "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Organically Templated Vanadium Oxide andVanadium Phosphate Solids"
- Neil Bartlett (University of California, Berkeley) - "The Preparation of Thermodynamically-Unstable Transition Metal Fluorides and their Remarkable Oxidizing Properties"
- Mike Whangbo (North Carolina State University) - "Surface Analysis with Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy"
- David Mitzi (IBM) - "Organic-Inorganic Perovskites"
Thursday evening
Business meeting
- Francis Via (Akzo-Nobel) - "The Global Research Enterprise: Leveraging Resources"
- Jay Labinger (Beckmann Institute - California Institute of Technology) - "Science and its Critics"
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