Session Chair: Steve Strauss (Colorado State University)

• Chris Reed (University of Southern California)
  "Superacids and Superanions"
• Ken Seddon (Queens University-Belfast)
  "Ionic Liquids as Solvents for Inorganic Chemistry"
• Tom Baker (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  "Studies Toward Alkene Hydroamidation: Reactivity of Late Metal Amidate Complexes"

Session Chair: Ken Takeuchi (SUNY - Buffalo)

• Makoto Fujita (Institute Molecular Sciences, Okazaki)
  "Self-Assembly of Catenanes and Cages Through Coordination"
• Andrew Borovik (University of Kansas)
  "Design and Synthesis of Immobilized Metal Sites in Porous Organic Hosts"
• Karl Wieghardt (Max-Planck Institute-Muelheim)
  "New Coordination Chemistry of Radical Ligands: Phenoxyl, Aminyls and Thiyls"
• Daryle Busch (University of Kansas)
  "Exploiting the Compleat Coordination Chemistry: Catalysis, Separations, and Mechanically Interlocked Structures."

Session Chair: Richard Finke (Colorado State University)

• James Mayer (University of Washington)
  "Hydrogen Abstraction by Metal Complexes"
• Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin)
  "Molecular Shapes: VB Theory and Molecular Mechanics Computations of Inorganic Systems"
• James Espenson (Iowa State University/Ames Laboratories)
  "Mechanistic Aspects of Catalytic Activity of Methylrioxorhenium"

Session Chair: Charles Riordan (University of Delaware)

• John Groves (Princeton University)
  "Metalloporphyrin Probes of the Chemistry and Biology of Peroxynitrite"
• Thomas O’Halloran (Northwestern University)
  "How Does the Required Metal Ion Find the Correct Protein? Chemistry of Metal Ion Chaperones"
• Nick Farrell (Virginia Commonwealth University)
  "Dinuclear and Trinuclear Platinum Phase I Clinical Agents"
• Alison Butler (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  "New Marine Siderophores"

Session Chair: Bill Tumas (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

• Jack Norton (Columbia University)
  "Transfer Rates on Polymerization Reactions"
• Ken Maloy (DuPont Corp.)
  "Phosphine Substitution Thermodynamics: Importance of Reorganization Energies in Assessing Metal-Ligand Bond Strengths"
• Holger Geissler (Hoechst)
  "New Chemistry Using Carbon Monoxide"
• George Stanley (Louisiana State University)
  "Bimetallic Hydroformylation Catalysts"

Session Chair: Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University)

• Alan Balch (University of California, Davis)
  "Preparation and Properties of Two Component, Redox-Active Films by Electrolysis of Fullerenes and Transition Metal Complexes"
• Kent Mann (University of Minnesota)
  "Synthesis and Characterization of Vapochromic Pt Compounds for Sensors"
• Thomas Meade (California Institute of Technology)
  "Electron Transfer Through DNA: A New Generation of Molecular Biosensors"
• Bo Hong (University of California, Irvine)
  "Photoresponsive and Redox-Active Supramolecular Systems"

Session Chair: Mike Lemanski (Shell Chemical Co.)

• Ronnie Newman (The Hebrew University)
  "PolyoxoMetallates: Oxidation and the Activation of O₂ , H₂O₂, and O₃"
• Mikhail Rodkin (Solutia Corp.)
  "Selective Partial Oxidation Of Organics by Nitrous Oxide with ZSM-5 Catalysts"
• Terry Collins (Carnegie Mellon University)
  "Iron Catalysts for Homogenous Bleaching with H₂O₂"
• Ron Pearlstein (Air Products Corp.)
  "Application of Site Isolation by Self-Assembly: Stabilization of Solid-State Reversible O₂ Carriers"

Session Chair: Peter Dorhout (Colorado State University)

• John Newsam (Molecular Simulations, Inc.)
  "Structure Solution, Prediction, Design, and Optimization through Simulation"
• Bill Buhro (Washington University)
  "Catalyzed Growth of Covalent Nonmolecular Solids"
• Omar Yaghi (Arizona State University)
  "Synthetic Strategies, Structure Patterns and Emerging properties in the Chemistry of Modular Porous Materials"
• Howard Turner (Symyx Corp.)
  "Combinatorial Approaches to the Discovery of Inorganic Materials"
• Jerry Ebner (Monsanto Corp.)
  "Self-Assembled Base Metal Catalysts"

Session Chair: Kim Dunbar (Michigan State University)

• Derek Davenport (Purdue University)
  "A Chrestomathy of Chemical Curmudgeons"