Sunday, July 20: Evening Session
5:30 - Dinner
7:30 - Welcome; Introductory Remarks
7:45 - Session 1:
Ken Whitmire, (Rice University), Discussion Leader
- 7:45-8:25 - Guy Bertrand, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS - "From Exotic Molecules to Applied Chemistry"
- 8:35-9:15 - Cliff Kubiak, Purdue University - "Electron Transfer on the Vibrational Time Scale in Inorganic Charge Transfer Complexes"
- 9:25-10:05 - Charles Riordan, Kansas State University - "Bioorganometallic Chemistry: Synthetic and Mechanistic Models of Nickel Sites in Proteins"
- 10:15-? - Reception
Monday, July 21: Morning Session
7:00-9:00 - Breakfast
9:10 - Session 2:
Tim Boyle, (Sandia National Laboratory), Discussion Leader
- 9:10-9:50 - John Lockemeyer, Shell Chemical - "Ethylene Epoxidation over Silver Based Catalysts --The Past and Present Future"
- 10:00 - Photograph and Break
- 10:40-11:20 - Debbie Crans, Colorado State - "Bioinorganic Chemistry of Vanadium: Complex Structure, Lability and Redox Chemistry versus Biological Properties"
- 11:30-12:10 - Gabor Somorjai, University of California at Berkeley - "Similarity of Bonding (CO, alkylidyne) and catalytic activity (olefin hydrogenation, CO Oxidation) of Metal (Pt, Rh) Surfaces and Clusters"
- 12:30-1:30 - Lunch
Monday, July 21: Evening Session
6:00-7:00 - Dinner
7:30 - Session 3:
John Briggs, (Union Carbide), Discussion Leader
- 7:30-8:10 - Bill Tumas, Los Alamos National Laboratory - "Homogenous Catalysis in Supercritical Fluids: Towards Solvent Replacement and Selectivity Enhancement"
- 8:20-9:00 - Malcolm Green, Oxford University - "Z-ligand Chemistry: Co-ordination Chemistry of an Empty Low-lying Orbital"
- 9:10-9:50 - Paul Sharp, University of Missouri-Columbia - "Gold(I) Nitrogen and Carbon Chemistry"
Tuesday, July 22: Morning Session
7:00-9:00 - Breakfast
9:00 - Session 4:
Andrew Barron, (Rice University), Discussion Leader
- 9:00-9:40 - Bruce Bursten, Ohio State University - "New Aspects of the Photochemistry of Dinuclear Organometallic Complexes"
- 9:50-10:30 - Peter Hofmann, Universitaet Heidelberg - "The Fascinating Chemistry of dtbpm Transition Metal Complexes"
- 10:40 - Break
- 10:50-11:30 - T. Daniel P. Stack, Stanford University - "Dioxygen Activation by Copper(I) with Simple Diamine Ligands: Cu(III) in Discrete Trinuclear and Binuclear Species"
- 11:40-12:20 - Vivian W. W.Yam, University of Hong Kong - "Molecular Design of Luminescent Polynuclear Transition Metal Complexes - Structural and Photophysical Aspects"
- 12:30-1:30 - Lunch
Tuesday, July 22: Evening Session
6:00-7:00 - Dinner
7:30 - Session 5:
Simon Bott, (University of North Texas), Discussion Leader
- 7:30-8:10 - Dan Reger, University of South Carolina - "Poly(pyrazolyl)methane Ligands: Similar or Different from Poly(pyrazolyl)borate Ligands"
- 8:20-9:00 - Michael Lattman, Southern Methodist University - "Main Group-Element Calixarenes: Rooms with Moving Walls"
- 9:10-9:50 - Charles Lieber, Harvard University - "One-Dimensional Nanostructures: Rational Synthesis, Novel Properties and Higher Order Structures"
Wednesday, July 23: Morning Session
7:00-9:00 - Breakfast
9:00 - Session 6:
Ron Cook, (TDA Research), Discussion Leader
- 9:00-9:40 - Allen Apblett, Tulane University - "Synthesis of Ceramic Materials Via Metal Carboxylate Precursors"
- 9:50-10:30 - Roswell E. King III, Ciba Additives - "Potential Interaction of Catalyst Residues on Polyolefin Stabilization"
- 10:40 - Break
- 10:50-11:30 - Lon Wilson, Rice University - "Creation and Study of Radioactive Metallofullerenes"
- 11:40-12:20 - Thomas Ziegler, University of Calgary - "Beating the Heavy Metal Blues by DFT"
- 12:30-1:30 - Lunch
Wednesday, July 23: Evening Session
6:00-7:00 - Dinner
7:30 - Session 7:
John Leman, (GE), Discussion Leader
- 7:30-8:10 - Frank Bottomley, University of New Brunswick - "Inorganometallic Clusters as Molecular Magnets"
- 8:20-9:00 - Kim Dunbar, Michigan State University - "Open-shell Crystalline Solids Based on Metal-Nitrile Interactions: Correlation of Structure with Magnetic and Electical Properties"
- 9:10-9:50 - Andy Lipton, Pacific Northwest Laboratory - "Is Cadmium a Viable Surrogate Strategy for Zinc-Metalloproteins?"
Thursday, July 24: Morning Session
7:00-9:00 - Breakfast
9:00 - Session 8:
Fred Basolo, (Northwestern University), Discussion Leader
- 9:00-9:40 - Anthony Haynes, University of Sheffield - "Two Metals are Better than One: Mechanisms in Catalytic Carbonylation"
- 9:50-10:30 - Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University - "Catalysis in a Cage: The "Weak-link" Approach to Synthesizing Large Organometallic Ring Structures"
- 10:40 - Break
- 10:50-11:30 - David Morris, Los Alamos National Laboratory - "Surface Complexation Processes for Aqueous Uranyl Species of Layered Aluminosilicate Minerals"
- 11:40-12:20 - David Rankin, University of Edinburgh - "The Structures of BIG Small Molecules"
- 12:30-1:30 - Lunch
Thursday, July 24: Evening Session
6:00-7:00 - Dinner
7:30 - Business Meeting
8:00 - Session 9:
Dennis Riley, (Monsanto), Discussion Leader
- 8:00-8:40 - Stralser, Steven M., University of Arizona - "The Third Partner in Technology Transfer--A look at Faculty and the Commercialization of University Research" or "Amuse me, abuse me...just get my name right on the royalty check"
- 8:50-9:30 - Ebner, Jerry R., Monsanto Company - "Chemistry and Sustainability"
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