| Sunday, February 25 |
| 2:00--6:00 PM | Registration |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| Sunday Evening Session: |
| 7:30--7:40 PM | Welcome and Announcements |
| Session Chair: Thomas J. Meyer, Los Alamos Nat'l. Laboratory |
| 7:40--8:10 PM | Clifford P. Kubiak, UC San Diego
"What is the Rate Determining Step When the Rate Constant is Ten-to-the-Twelfth per Second?" |
| 8:25 --8:55 PM | Rudi van Eldik, University of Erlangen-Nurenburg (Germany)
"Mechanistic insight from volume profile analysis" |
| 9:10 | Close |
| 9:15 -11:00 pm | Chair's Reception, Harborview Room |
| Monday February 26 |
| 8:30 am: | Conference Photo |
| Monday Morning Session---Organometallic Mechanisms |
| Session Chair: Thomas C. Flood, Univ. So. California |
| 9:00-9:30 am | Robert G. Bergman, University of California, Berkeley
"Metal- and Ligand-Activation of Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds in Organic Molecules" |
| 9:45-10:15 am | Richard Schultz, Bar Ilan University ( Israel)
"Watching ligands with fast time-resolved infrared spectroscopy." |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| Session Chair: Robert Hembre, Eastman Chemicals |
| 10:50-11:20 am | Michael B. Hall Texas A & M University
"Theoretical Studies of Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation" |
| 11:35-12:05 am | James M. Mayer, University of Washington.
"Reactions at Ligands Activated by Oxidizing Metal Centers" |
| 12:20 | Close |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| Monday Evening Session: Catalysis |
| Session Chair: Charles Riordan, University of Delaware. |
| 7:30--8:00 pm | R. Morris Bullock, Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Catalytic Ionic Hydrogenations: Hydrogenation of Ketones and Dehydroxylation of Diols" |
| 8:15--8:45 pm | Paul Fagan, DuPont
"Combinatorial Chemistry and Mechanistic Insight into the Ullmann Ether Forming Reaction" |
| 9:00--9:20 pm | Short talk--Luis A. Oro, University of Zaragoza, Spain
"Noticeable Reactivity Features of Dinuclear Iridium Complexes" |
| 9:30pm | Close |
| 9:30-11:00 | Poster Session |
| Tuesday February 27 |
| Tuesday Morning Session-- Excited state mechanisms |
| Session Chair: Richard Eisenberg, Univ. Rochester |
| 9:00-9:30 am | James K. McCusker, Michigan State University
"Photo-Induced Dynamics of Non-Thermalized Excited States in Transition Metal Complexes" |
| 9:45-10:15 am | Antonin Vlcek, Jr., Queen Mary College, University of London (UK)
"Ultrafast metal-ligand bond splitting in organometallic diimine complexes" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| Session Chair: Karen Brewer, Virginia Polytechnic Univ. |
| 10:50-11:20 am | Gerald Meyer, Johns Hopkins University
"Reaction Mechanisms of Molecular Excited States Bound to Semiconductor Surfaces" |
| 11:35-12:05 am | Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology
"Mechanistic Aspects of Light-Induced Charge Transfer at Semiconductor/Liquid Contacts" |
| 12:20 | Close |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| Tuesday Evening Session |
| Session Chair: Douglas Franco, USP, Sao Carlos |
| 7:30--8:00 pm | Daniel G. Nocera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Hydrogen Production by Transition Metal Photocatalysts in Homogeneous Solution " |
| 8:15--8:35 pm | Short talk--Elias Tfouni, Univ. Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto
"Chemical, photochemical, and biological behavior of some Ru(II)amines with nitrosyl and other unsaturated ligands"
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| 8:45--9:05 pm | Short talk--James D. Martin, North Carolina University
"Mechanism of the Solid-State Phase Transition and Small Molecule Sorption into CuAlCl4"
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| 9:15 pm | Close |
| 9:30-11:00 | Poster Session |
| Wednesday February 28 |
| Wednesday Morning Session---Bioinorganic mechanisms |
| Session Chair: Alison Butler, UC Santa Barbara |
| 9:00-9:30 am | Vince Pecoraro, University of Michigan
"Some Provisional Thoughts on Manganese and its Role in Photosynthetic
Water Oxidation Chemistry" |
| 9:45-10:15 am | William B. Tolman, University of Minnesota
"Insights into Dioxygen Activation by Nonheme Metalloenzymes through Studies of Model Complexes" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| Session Chair: Dave Stanbury, Auburn Univ. |
| 9:00-9:30 am | Jane Nelson, University of Belfast
"Electron Transfer Behavior of Average-Valence Dicopper(1.5) Assemblies." |
| 9:45-10:15 am | Hideo Takagi, Nagoya University
"Electron Transfer Reactions of Copper(II)/(I) Complexes with Bidentate and Quadridentate Polypyridine Ligands" |
| 12:20 | Close |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| Wednesday Evening Session Bioinorganic mechanisms |
| 7:15 pm | Business meeting |
| Session Chair-- Geoff Strouse, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 7:30--8:00 pm | Gerard Canters, University of Leiden
"Engineering the redox properties of copper sites in proteins".
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| 8:15--8:35 pm | short talk: Katrina Miranda, NIH--Radiation Biology Branch
"Oxidative Mechanisms for the Reactive Nitrogen Oxide Species, Nitroxyl Anion."
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| 8:45--9:05 | short talk: W. Koppenol--ETA, Zurich
"O, NO ·OH from ONOOH!" |
| 9:15 pm | Close |
| 9:30-11:00 | Poster Session |
| Thursday February 26 |
| Thursday Morning Session---Bioinorganic Mechanisms |
| Session chair: H. B. Gray, Caltech |
| 9:00-9:30 am | Yoshi Watanabe, Institute for Molecular Science (Japan)
"Molecular Mechanism on the Formation of High Valent Heme Intermediates. |
| 9:00-9:30 am | Ilme Schlichting, Max Planck Inst. for Molecular Physiology (Germany)
"Crystal structures of heme proteins showing intermediate states of
binding and catalysis" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| Session Chair: Mahdi Abu-Omar, UCLA |
| 10:50-11:20 am | Shelah Ferguson-Miller, Michigan State University.
"Electron Transfer in Cytochrome c Oxidase " |
| 11:35-12:05 am | Peter A. Lay, University of Sydney (Australia)
"Mechanisms of Cr-Induced In Vitro DNA Damage of Relevance to
Cr-Induced Cancers" |
| 12:20 | Close |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| Thursday Evening Session |
| Session Chair: Peter C. Ford, UC, Santa Barbara |
| 8:00 pm | Fred Basolo, Northwestern University
A double header:
"Recollections of our Research on the Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions"
"The Early History of Metal Complexes".
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| 9:30 pm | Close |
| Friday AM March 2: |
| Check out. |
