Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Mechanisms in Catalysis with Inexpensive Metals
Discussion Leader: Alison Fout (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Opening Remarks
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm
Paul Chirik (Princeton University, USA)
"Cobalt
and Nickel Catalyzed C-H Functionalization: Mechanism and Applications"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Rebecca Ruck (Merck & Co, Inc., USA)
"Using
Metals and Mechanism to Develop and Improve Pharmaceutical Processes"
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mechanisms of Polymerization Catalysis
Discussion Leader: Crisita Carmen Atienza (ExxonMobil Chemical Company, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Brad Bailey (Dow Chemical Company, USA)
"New
Polyolefin Catalysts for the Production of Ethylene Based Fluids"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Eugene Chen (Colorado State University, USA)
"Chemoselective, Stereoselective, and Living Polymerization of Multifunctional Monomers to Advanced Materials"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Jian Yang (ExxonMobil Chemical Company, USA)
"Ansa-Metallocene Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Lawrence Sita (University of Maryland, USA)
"Increasing Mechanistic Complexity to Give New Life to the Living Coordination Polymerization of Olefins"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Rebecca Ruck (Merck & Co, Inc., USA) and Laurel Schafer (University of British Columbia, Canada)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Mechanisms of Electrocatalysis
Discussion Leader: Morris Bullock (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Jillian Dempsey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes in the Electrocatalytic Production of Hydrogen"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Yogesh Surendranath (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Mechanistic Insights into CO2 to Fuels Catalysis"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Ellen Matson (University of Rochester, USA)
"Assembly and Electronics of Iron Functionalized Polyoxovanadate-Alkoxide Clusters"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Smaranda Marinescu (University of Southern California, USA)
"Efficient Proton Assisted Reduction of CO2 to CO with Cobalt Aminopyridine Complexes"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mechanisms of Organometallic Catalysis
for Organic Synthesis
Discussion Leader: Daniel Weix (University of Rochester, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Jennifer Schomaker (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Synthetic Applications and Mechanistic Insights into Tunable, Silver-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Eric Simmons (Bristol-Myers Squibb, USA)
"Development and Mechanistic Study of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Processes in the Synthesis of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Michael Neidig (University of Rochester, USA)
"Structure, Bonding and Mechanism in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Carl Busacca (Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., USA)
"Hydrophosphinations
of Strained Systems"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Mechanisms at the Edge of the Periodic Table
Discussion Leader: Aaron Sadow (Iowa State University, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Suzanne Bart (Purdue University, USA)
"Coaxing New Chemistry out of f -Block Elements"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Eric Schelter (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Rare Earth Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds: Challenges and Opportunities"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Christopher Uyeda (Purdue University, USA)
"Catalytic Reductive Carbene Transfer Reactions"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Carsten Milsmann (West Virginia University, USA)
"Mechanistic Insight into the Photoredox Catalysis of Group 4 Photosensitizers"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mechanisms of Multimetallic Compounds
Discussion Leader: John Berry (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Theodore Betley (Harvard University, USA)
"Radical Processes in Chemistry: Nitrogen Valency Influence on Group Transfer Catalysis"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Zhaomin Hou (RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan)
"Cleavage and Transformations of Dinitrogen and Aromatic Skeletons by Molecular Titanium Hydride Clusters"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Christine Thomas (Brandeis University, USA)
"Cooperative Bimetallic Approaches to Bond Activation Processes"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Franc Meyer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
"Cooperative Small Molecule Activation at Bioinspired Bimetallic Sites"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Mechanisms on Metallic Surfaces
Discussion Leader: Susannah Scott (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Randy Yeates (Shell, USA)
"Ethylene Oxide Catalysis"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Alessandra Quadrelli (CPE Lyon, UMR 5265, CNRS, France)
"Reaction Mechanisms on Inorganic Surfaces: From Unusual N2 Splitting to Atomically-Thin Growth of 2D Materials"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
David Powers (Texas A&M University, USA)
"Lattice-Confined Catalysts for Selective Hydrocarbon Upgrading"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Daniel Suess (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Biosynthesis of the [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Active Site"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mechanisms in Bioinorganic Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Anne Jones (Arizona State University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Thomas Rauchfuss (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"The Elusive Hydrides of the FeFe Hydrogenases"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Stephen Ragsdale (University of Michigan Medical School, USA)
"Uncovering the Mechanism by Which a Nickel Metalloenzyme Catalyzes Methane Synthesis and Oxidation"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Julie Kovacs (University of Washington, USA)
"How
Thiolate Ligands Influence Iron Dioxygen Chemistry"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Lance Seefeldt (Utah State University, USA)
"Insights into the Nitrogenase Mechanism"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Mechanistic Techniques in Organometallic
Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Daniel Mindiola (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Gwendolyn Bailey (University of Ottawa, Canada)
"Catalyst Decomposition in Ru-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Jonathan Kuo (Columbia University, USA)
"Comparing Hydrogen Atom Transfers from Isoelectronic First-Row Transition-Metal Hydrides"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Zachary Davis-Gilbert (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Mechanistic Investigation of Titanium Mediated Oxidative Pyrrole Formation"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Robert Bergman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"The Application of Physical Organic Methods to the Investigation of Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms, or A Nostalgia Trip Through Organometallic Chemistry of the Late 20th Century"
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure