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Inorganic Chemistry

Gordon Research Conference

July 17 - 22, 2005
Chair George G. Stanley
Vice Chair Bahram Moasser
Salve Regina University
100 Ochre Point Avenue
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
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Conference Program

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEVENING SESSION
Discussion Leader: Bruce Bursten (Ohio State University)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmJaqueline Kiplinger (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"New Developments in Organometallic Actinide Chemistry"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmDavid Vicic (University of Arkansas)
"Emerging Synthetic Chemistry Involving Nickel-Alkyls"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pmDiscussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pmPaul Chirik (Cornell University)
"Nitrogen Fixation with Group 4 Metallocene Complexes"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pmChair's Reception
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMORNING SESSION
Discussion Leader: Tracy Hanna (Texas Christian University)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Julia Chan (Louisiana State University)
"So Many Lobes, So Little Time: Heavy Fermion Magnetic Superconductors"
9:30 am - 9:45 amDiscussion
9:45 am - 10:15 amDaniel Mindiola (Indiana University)
"Expounding the Chemistry of Titanium Imides and Phosphinidenes"
10:15 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 amPhotograph / Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 amJonathan Wilker (Purdue University)
"Inorganic Chemistry at the Beach: How Mussels and Barnacles Use Metals to Stick"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pmKarina Almeida Leñero (Shell Amsterdam)
"Pd-Catalyzed Carbonylations at Shell"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Group # 1)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEVENING SESSION
Discussion Leader: Brian Goodall (Rohm and Haas)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Cassandra L. Fraser (University of Virginia)
"Synthesis and Reactivity of Polymeric Iron Complex Biomaterials"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pmDiscussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmPeter Caravan (Epix Pharmaceuticals)
"Coordination Chemistry of Gd(III) Complexes of Interest in MR Imaging"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pmDiscussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm Makoto Fujita (University of Tokyo)
"Function through Architecture: New Phenomena within Self-Assembled Coordination Cages"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pmPoster Session (Group # 1)
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMORNING SESSION
Discussion Leader: George Stanley (Louisiana State University)
9:00 am - 9:30 amRoy Periana (University of Southern California)
"Design and Study of Coordination Catalysts for the Selective Oxidation of Hydrocarbons via the CH Activation Reaction"
9:30 pm - 9:45 amDiscussion
9:45 am - 10:15 amJanis Louie (University of Utah)
"The Versatility of Nickel Cycloaddition Catalysts"
10:15 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
10:55 am - 11:25 amPascal Le Floch (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
"New Heteroditopic Ligands for Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis"
11:25 am - 11:40 am Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 amPoster Talk # 1
11:55 am - 12:05 pmDiscussion
12:05 pm - 12:20 pmPoster Talk # 2
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Group # 1)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEVENING SESSION
Discussion Leader: Linda Doerrer (Barnard College)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmJeffrey Long (University of California - Berkeley)
"Directed Assembly of Metal-Cyanide Cluster Magnets"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pmDiscussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmMichael Fryzuk (University of British Columbia)
"Functionalization of Coordinated N2 by Early Transition Metal Complexes"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pmDiscussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm Christopher Cummins (MIT)
"Metathetical N- and P- Atom Transfer Reactions and Related Chemistry"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pm Poster Session (Group # 1)
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMORNING SESSION
Discussion Leader: Andrew Maverick (Louisiana State University)
9:00 am - 9:30 amWilliam Geiger (University of Vermont)
"Surprising Reactions of Organometallic Radical Cations, or What a Difference an Anion Makes"
9:30 pm - 9:45 amDiscussion
9:45 am - 10:15 amWilliam Buhro (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Wires"
10:15 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
10:55 am - 11:25 amMark Mason (University of Toledo)
"Reactions of Carbon Monoxide and Isocyanides with Group 13 Reagents"
11:25 am - 11:40 am Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 amPoster Talk # 3
11:55 am - 12:05 pm Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:20 pmPoster Talk # 4
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Group # 2)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEVENING SESSION
Discussion Leader: Kim Dunbar (Texas A&M University)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmKarl Wieghardt (Max Planck Institut - Mülheim an der Ruhr)
"Coordination Chemistry with o-Dithiolato(1-) Radicals"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmSusan Kauzlarich (University of California - Davis)
"Synthesis of Si and Ge Nanoparticles: Size, Surface, and Properties"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pmStephen Koch (SUNY - Stony Brook)
"Iron Cyanide Chemistry Highlights from the First Two Billion Years"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:30 pm Poster Session (Group # 2)
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMORNING SESSION
Discussion Leader: James Mayer (University of Washington)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Russell Hughes (Dartmouth College)
"Breaking Carbon-Fluorine Bonds Selectively Using Metals"
9:30 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 amFrancis DiSalvo (Cornell University)
"Needed: Better Catalysts for Fuel Cells. What are the possibilities?"
10:15 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 amDavid Tyler (University of Oregon)
"H2 and N2 Activation in Aqueous Solution"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Clifford Kubiak (University of California - San Diego)
"Ultrafast Inorganic Ground States"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Group # 2)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmElection of Vice Chair for 2006 Conference / Business Meeting
8:00 pm - 9:30 pmEVENING SESSION
Discussion Leader: Bahram Moasser (General Electric Global Research)
8:00 pm - 8:30 pmRichard Eisenberg (University of Rochester)
"Living with dz2 and the Graying of America"
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pmHarry Gray (Caltech)
"Adventures in Inorganic Spectroscopy and Photochemistry"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pmPoster Session (Group # 2)
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

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