SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME |
| Discussion Leader: George Stanley (Louisiana State University) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Moungi Bawendi (MIT)
"Nanocrystal Quantum Dots for Bioimaging and Opto-electronics" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Raymond Schaak (Texas A&M)
"The Chemistry of Nanoscale Metallurgical Solids: Synthesis, Reaction Pathways, Reactivity, and New Structures" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Sophia E. Hayes (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Optically-polarized NMR of III-V Semiconductors and Their Heterostructures" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Chair's reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MECHANISTIC AND ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Andreja Bakac (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | John Bercaw (Caltech)
"Olefin Oligomerization and Polymerization with Early Transition Metal Catalysts" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Polly Arnold (University of Nottingham)
"Electropositive Metal Carbene Complexes with Unexpected Structures and Reactivities" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Mike Heinekey (University of Washington)
"Elongated Dihydrogen Complexes: Structure and Dynamics" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Mookie Baik (Indiana University)
"Understanding Water Oxidation Catalysis: How cis,cis-[(bpy)2RuO]2O4+ Converts Water to Dioxygen" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (Group # 1) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | COORDINATION AND MAIN GROUP CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Rick Kemp (University of New Mexico) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Rasika Dias (University of Texas at Arlington)
"Coinage Metal Complexes of Highly Fluorinated Scorpionates" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Philip Power (UC Davis)
"The Chemistry of Heavy Element Analogues of Acetylene" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Matthias Westerhausen (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
"Heavy Grignard Reagents: Challenges and Possibilities" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session (Group # 1) |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOINSPIRED INORGANIC CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Wayne Gladfelter (University of Minnesota) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Mary Beth Williams (Penn State)
"Metallated Artificial Oligopeptides as Structural and Functional Analogs of DNA" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Yi Lu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"What Can Biology Do for Inorganic Chemistry? Recent Progress in Biosynthetic Inorganic Chemistry" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Joanna Aizenberg (Lucent Technologies)
"Biologically Formed Inorganic Structures and Lessons for Biomimetic Materials Synthesis" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Patrick Holland (University of Rochester)
"New Reactions at Low-Coordinate Iron Inspired by Nitrogenase" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (Group # 1) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Kristin Bowman-James (University of Kansas) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Kenneth Raymond (UC Berkeley)
"From Siderophores to Supramolecular Clusters" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Yves Le Mest (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
"From the Supramolecular Control of the Coordination Spheres to Redox Regulation in Calixarene-Based Models of Copper Enzymes: An Electrochemical Approach" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Jerry Atwood (University of Missouri - Columbia)
"Metal-Ligand Binding Provides Stable Molecular Capsules" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session (Group # 1) |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOMEDICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Bahram Moasser (GE Global Research Center/Georgetown University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Thomas Meade (Northwestern University)
"Eliminating the Background in MR Imaging: The Future looks Bright" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Stephen J. Lippard (MIT)
"Detecting and Understanding Biological Nitric Oxide and Mobile Zinc" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:55 am - 11:25 am | Claudia Turro (Ohio State University)
"New Mononuclear and Bimetallic Complexes as Photo-Cisplatin Analogs" |
11:25 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:55 am | Poster Talk # 1 |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk # 2 |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (Group # 2) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting and Election of 2007 Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NANOSTRUCTURE SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION |
| Discussion Leader: John Leman (GE Global Research Center) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Debra Rolison (Naval Research Laboratory)
"Oxide Nanoarchitectures for Electrocatalysis, Energy Storage, and Nanoionics" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Larry Lewis (GE Global Research Center)
"Little Tiny Metal Oxide Particles, Aren't You Glad I Didn't Say 'Nano'?" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Jillian Buriak (University of Alberta)
"Nanoscale Patterning of Inorganic Materials on Semiconductor Surfaces" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session (Group # 2) |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PHYSICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Anna Larsen (Ithaca College) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Bill Evans (UC Irvine)
"The Expansion of Reductive F Element Chemistry" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | David Morris (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Multimetallic Architectures in Organo-f-Element Chemistry" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Gordon Yee (Virginia Tech)
"Molecular Magnetism: A Building Block Approach to Understanding Long Range Magnetic Order" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Monique Krom (Shell Global Solutions)
"Palladium-Catalyzed Dicarbonylation of Butadiene to Adipic Acid" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (Group # 2) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | INORGANIC CHEMISTRY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE |
| Discussion Leader: William Buhro (Washington University in St. Louis) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Conference Wrap-up |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Nancy Ryan Gray (Gordon Research Conferences)
"From Fe to Mo (Fernelius to Moasser): Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Conferences since 1951" |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm | David Goodstein (California Institute of Technology)
"Out of Gas: The end of the Age of oil" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session (Group # 2) |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |