| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organometallics |
| Session Chair: Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin |
| 7:30 pm | Welcome and Announcements |
| 7:40 pm | Bill Jones, University of Rochester
"Dynamics of Alkane Complexes as Intermediates in C-H Bond Activation Reactions" |
| 8:25 pm | John Hartwig, Yale University
"Inorganic Chemistry of Organic Methods" |
| 9:15 pm - | Chair's Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Conference Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Oxidations |
| Session Chair: John Bercaw, California Institute of Technology |
| 9:00 am | Shannon Stahl, University of Wisconsin
"Mechanistic Features of Palladium Oxidase Catalysis" |
| 9:45 am | Klaus Theopold, University of Delaware
"Reactivity of Dioxygen and Oxo Complexes of Chromium" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Seth Brown, Notre Dame University
"Cycloaddition Reactions of Osmium Nitrides" |
| 11:35 am | Ronny Neumann, Wiezmann Institute
"Oxidation and Hydrocarbon Activation Catalyzed by Polyoxometalates" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Session I (A - K) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Environmental and Inorganic |
| Session Chair: Alison Butler, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 7:30 pm | George Luther, University of Delaware
"Aqueous Metal Sulfide Clusters and Their Importance in the Environment: From the Lab to Hydrothermal Vents" |
| 8:15 pm | Paul Tratnyek, Oregon Health & Science University
"Contaminant Reduction at the Iron (Oxide)/Water Interface" |
| 9:00 pm | Mike Fryzuk, University of British Columbia
"Cleavage and Functionalization of Molecular Nitrogen" |
| Poster Session I (A - K) |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Electron transfer and photochemistry |
| Session Chair: Dan Nocera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 9:00 am | Claudia Turro, The Ohio State University
"Excited States of Bimetallic and Mononuclear Transition Metal Complexes: Photoreactivity in Solution and with DNA" |
| 9:45 am | Franklin Schultz, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis
"Coupled Electron-Transfer and Spin-Exchange Reactions. Insight from Electrochemical Activation Parameters" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | John Endicott, Wayne State University
"Experimental Probes of the Interdependencies of the Donor-Acceptor Electronic Coupling and the Nuclear Coordinates in Electron-Transfer Systems" |
| 11:35 am | POSTER TALK I |
| 12:00 am | POSTER TALK II |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Session I (A - K) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Materials and Polymers |
| Session Chair: Mark Thompson, University of Southern California |
| 7:30 pm | Daniel Gamelin, University of Washington
"Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots" |
| 8:15 pm | Jullian Buriak, Purdue University
"The Hydrosilylation Reaction: Does the Si-H Group React Differently on a Surface as Opposed to a Molecule?" |
| 9:00 pm | Bill Tolman, University of Minnesota
"Mechanistic Insights into the Catalytic Synthesis of Polymers from Renewable Resources" |
| Poster Session I (A - K) |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Biological and Bioinorganic Chemistry |
| Session Chair: Al Crumbliss, Duke University |
| 9:00 am | Ken Karlin, Johns Hopkins University
"Copper-Dioxygen Complex Formation and Their Exogenous Substrate Oxidation Reactions" |
| 9:45 am | Charlie Riordan, University of Delaware
"The Mechanism of Reductive Dioxygen Activation by Low Valent Nickel Complexes" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Joan Broderick, Michigan State University
"Fe-S Clusters in Radical Catalysis" |
| 11:35 am | Diane Cabelli, Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Fast Kinetic Studies of Superoxide Dismutases" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Session II (L - Z) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Biological and bioinorganic chemistry |
| Session Chair: Harry Gray and Jay Winkler (Caltech) |
| 7:30 pm | Larry Que, University of Minnesota
"High Valent Iron-Oxo Species in Nonheme Iron-Catalyzed Oxidations. Fact or Fiction" |
| 8:15 pm | Sason Shaik, Hebrew University
"The Protein, the Active Species and the Chameleon: on Oxygen Transfer Reactivity Patterns of the Enzyme Cytochrome P450" |
| 9:00 pm | Don Kurtz, University of Georgia
"Bacterial Non-heme Iron Proteins that Combat Oxidative Stress" |
| Poster Session II (L - Z) |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organometallics |
| Session Chair: Joe Templeton, University of North Carolina |
| 9:00 am | Gerhard Erker, University of Munster
"Synthesis and Reactions of Zwitterionic Zirconium Complexes" |
| 9:45 am | Pete Wolczanski, Cornell University
"Olefin to Alkylidene Equilibria in the (silox)3M System (M = Nb, Ta)" |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Jack Norton, Columbia University
"Ionic Hydrogenation: Transfer of H2 as H+ and H-" |
| 11:35 am | POSTER TALK III |
| 12:00 am | POSTER TALK IV |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 5:00 pm | Poster Session II (L - Z) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organometallics |
| Session Chair: Rich Eisenberg, University of Rochester |
| 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| 8:00 pm | Maurice Brookhart, University of North Carolina
"Mechanistic Investigations of Olefin Polymerizations Catalyzed by Late Transition Metal Complexes" |
| Poster Session II (L - Z) |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
