SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Small Molecule Activation |
| Discussion Leader: Jim Mayer (University of Washington) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Dan Mindiola (Indiana University)
"Methane Activation and Dehydrogenation by Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonds" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:55 pm | Shannon Stahl (University of Wisconsin)
"Mechanism(s) of Catalyst Oxidation in Palladium Oxidase Reactions: Evidence for a Single Pathway" |
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm | Chair's Reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Atom and Electron Transfer |
| Discussion Leader: Carol Creutz (Brookhaven National Labs) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Leif Hammarström (Uppsala University)
"Controlling Coupled Electron Transfers in Artificial Photosynthetic Systems" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Penn State)
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Inorganic Reactions" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Tai-Chu Lau (City University of Hong Kong)
"Atom Transfer Reactions of Ruthenium Oxo and Nitrido Complexes" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Jeremy Smith (New Mexico State University)
"Nitrogen Atom Transfer from High Valent Iron" |
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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Redox Catalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Paul Chirik (Princeton) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Alan Heyduk (UC Irvine)
"Enabling Multi-Electron Reactivity at Group 5 Metals Through the Use of Redox-Active Ligands" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | David Milstein (Weizmann Institute)
"Bond Activation by Metal-Ligand Cooperation Based on Ligand Aromatization-Dearomatization" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Poster Talk #1 |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Poster Talk #2 |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bioinorganic |
| Discussion Leader: Pat Holland (University of Rochester) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Dan Stack (Stanford)
"Phenolate Hydroxylation with Copper-Dioxygen Species: An Alternative Mechanism from that Proposed for Tyrosinase" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Marcetta Darensbourg (Texas A&M)
"Chemical Models of Hydrogenase Enzyme Oxygen Sensitivity/Repair Possibilities: Effects of Sulfur-Based Oxygenations" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Jennifer DuBois (University of Notre Dame)
"Making Dioxygen Using Heme: Structure and Reactivity in a Novel Enzyme Family" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Marty Bollinger (Penn State)
"The Manganese-Iron Redox Cofactor of Chlamydia trachomatis Ribonucleotide Reductase: One of a Kind, or the First of Many?" |
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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Polymerization |
| Discussion Leader: John Walzer (Exxon-Mobil) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Geoff Coates (Cornell)
"Bimetallic Catalysis: Are Two Metals Better than One?" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Jerzy Klosin (Dow Chemical)
"Controlling Behavior of Olefin Polymerization Catalysts by Selective Ligand Modification" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Poster Talk #3 |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Poster Talk #4 |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | O2 Activation and Formation |
| Discussion Leader: Jack Norton (Columbia) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Jake Soper (Georgia Tech)
"Almost Alchemy: Redox-Active Ligands Facilitate Palladium-Like Aerobic Coupling Catalysis at Iron and Manganese" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Andreja Bakac (Ames Lab and Iowa State University)
"Thermal and Photochemical Reactivity of Transition Metal Complexes of Nitrogen Monoxide and Molecular Oxygen" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Antoni Llobet (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia)
"Catalytic Water Oxidation Reaction Mechanisms Based on Ru Complexes" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Jim Muckerman (Brookhaven National Labs)
"Reaction Mechanisms for Artificial Photosynthesis" |
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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Applications in Organic Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Laurel Schafer (University of British Columbia) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Shane Krska (Merck)
"What We Don't Understand About Catalysis: Using Parallel Experimentation and Mechanistic Approaches to Develop New Applications of Catalysis for Drug Synthesis" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Vy Dong (Toronto)
"Recent Efforts towards the Stereoselective Functionalization of C-H Bonds and Olefins" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Poster Talk #5 |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Poster Talk #6 |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organometallics |
| Discussion Leader: Oleg Ozerov (Texas A&M) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Andrei Vedernikov (University of Maryland)
"Organometallic Chemistry of Palladium and Platinum in Water" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Odile Eisenstein (University of Montpellier)
"Computational Determination of Reaction Mechanisms in Organometallic Chemistry. Some Pros and Cons" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Jackie Kiplinger (Los Alamos National Labs)
"Molecular Insights into Uranium Nitride: Synthesis and Reactivity of a Terminal Uranium Nitride Complex" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Doug Grotjahn (San Diego State University)
"Bifunctional Catalysis Involving Metals and Proton Transfer or Hydrogen Bonding" |
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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Olefin Metathesis |
| Discussion Leader: Morris Bullock (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Poster Talk #7 |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion |
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Poster Talk #8 |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Poster Talk #9 |
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:55 pm | Bob Grubbs (Caltech)
"Mechanistic Approaches to the Design of New Olefin Metathesis Catalysts" |
8:55 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm | Poster Session |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |