SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Electron-Transfer in Energy Reactions |
| Discussion Leader: Andreja Bakac (Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | James Mayer (University of Washington)
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Energy Reactions and Nanoparticles" |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:55 pm | Patrick Holland (University of Rochester)
"Using Low-Coordinate Iron Complexes to Understand Nitrogen Fixation" |
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Short Talk: Jan-Uwe Rohde (University of Iowa)
"Insights into Dioxygen Activation/Alkene Oxidation Mediated by Iridium" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Chair's Reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Catalytic Polymerization and Oxidation Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Wayde Konze (The Dow Chemical Company) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Sandro Gambarotta (University of Ottawa)
"Engineering Mechanisms for Introducing Selectivity in the Ethylene Oligomerization Cycle" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Robert Waymouth (Stanford University)
"Kinetics and Mechanism of Selective Catalytic Oxidation Reactions" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
"Catalytic Polymerization Studied by NMR and Chromophore Labeling" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Joo Kang (The Dow Chemical Company)
"Direct Conversion of Methane to Methanol with Copper Promoted Fe-ZSM5" |
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 | Kinetics and Spectroscopy of Heterogeneous Catalysts |
| Discussion Leader: Tom Baker (University of Ottawa) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Jeffrey Miller (Argonne National Laboratory)
"Improved Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation of Acrolein" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Susannah Scott (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Complex Oxides as Robust Environmental Catalysts: Kinetic/Mechanistic Studies of Gas-Solid Reactions" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Short Talk: Javier Vela (Iowa State University)
"Molecular Inorganic Chemistry Approaches to Nanoscale Composition, Morphology and Function: From Compositionally Graded Nanorods to Photochemical Alcohol Dehydrogenation" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Metal-Organic Chemistry and its Application in Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Aaron Sadow (Iowa State University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Jin-Quan Yu (Scripps Research Institute)
"On the Origin of Reactivities in C-H Activation Reactions" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Xuefeng Fu (Peking University)
"Visible Light Promoted Organometallic Transformations Mediated by Metallo-porphyrins" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Lisa Rosenberg (University of Victoria)
"Parsing the Early/Late Metal Behavior of a Ruthenium Phosphido Complex in P-C Bond-Forming Reactions" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | William Jones (University of Rochester)
"Why Do Weaker Metal-Carbon Bonds Lead to More Stable Complexes? What's Going On?" |
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 | Green Energy Conversion |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Reynolds (Shell Global Solutions) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Shunichi Fukuzumi (Osaka University)
"Photocatalytic Production of Hydrogen Peroxide and Its Fuel Cells" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Theodor Agapie (California Institute of Technology)
"Heterobimetallic Models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Poster Presentation: John Gilbertson (Western Washington University)
"Investigations into the Production of CO2-Derived Syngas" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Poster Presentation: Connie Lu (University of Minnesota)
"Design Concepts: Metal-Metal Bonds" |
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 | Organometallic Chemistry and Activation of Small Molecules |
| Discussion Leader: Christine Thomas (Brandeis University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Elon Ison (North Carolina State University)
"More than Spectator: Exploiting the Diverse Reactivity of Transition Metal Oxos" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Zeev Gross (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
"From Small Molecule Deactivation to Medicinal Chemistry" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Louise Berben (University of California, Davis)
"Redox Reactions of Aluminum(III): Including C-H and CO2 Activation" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Ivana Ivanovic-Burmazovic (Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen)
"Catalytic Transformation of Superoxide, NO, and H2S for Medical and Industrial Applications" |
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 | Advances in Kinetics Modeling and Green Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Willem Koppenol (ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Gabor Lente (University of Debrecen)
"Stochastic Aspects of Autocatalytic Reactions: Experiments and Theory" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Richard Finke (Colorado State University)
"The 'Who's the Catalyst?' Problem: From Benzene Hydrogenation to Water Oxidation Catalysis" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Poster Presentation: Wes Bernskoetter (Brown University)
"Catalysis with non-Precious Metals" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Poster Presentation: Mike Zdilla (Temple University)
"Mechanistic Interrogation of Rearrangement and Assembly Reactions in Manganese Clusters with Flexible Cores" |
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 | Metals in Biology and Disease |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Ashby (University of Oklahoma) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Akif Tezcan (University of California, San Diego)
"Evolution of Inorganic Reactivity in Biological Scaffolds" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Mi Hee Lim (University of Michigan)
"Chemical Tools and Tactics to Study the Role of Metal-Associated Misfolded Proteins in Human Neurodegnerative Diseases" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Kenneth Karlin (Johns Hopkins University)
"Copper-Dioxygen Adduct Formation, Reactivity and O2-Reduction" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Yi Lu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Why Heme-Copper is Efficient at O-O Bond Cleavage While Heme-non-heme Iron Promotes N-N Bond Formation? Mechanistic Insights from Biosynthetic Modeling Studies" |
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 | Frontiers in Catalytic Bond Activation and Cleavage |
| Discussion Leader: John Gladysz (Texas A&M University) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Poster Presentation: Max Friedfeld (Princeton University)
"Asymmetric Alkene Hydrogenation" |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion |
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Poster Presentation: Chae Yi (Marquette University)
"Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Catalytic C-H Coupling Reactions of Alkenes and Arenes with Alcohols" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Poster Presentation: Alison Suess (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
"Organometallic and SET Mechanisms of CuII-Mediated Aerobic C-H Oxidation" |
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Tobin Marks (Northwestern University)
"Activating Difficult Bonds. New Approaches to Carbon-Oxygen and Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Cleavage" |
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |