Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Elon Ison (North Carolina State Universty, United States)
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm
Wonwoo Nam (Ewha Womans University, South Korea)
"Biomimetic Metal-Oxygen Intermediates in Dioxygen Activation and Formation Reactions"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Eva Nichols (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Mechanistic Insights into Electrochemical CO2 Reduction via Second Sphere Modification"
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
In Situ and New Methods
Discussion Leader: Ethan Crumlin (LBNL, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Robert Gilliard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Unusual Boron-Doped Heterocycles: Synthesis, Structure, and Mechanistic Insight"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Coffee Break
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Renee Sifri (Merck, United States)
"Application of Transition Metal Catalysis to Pharmaceutical Intermediates at Merck"
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Scott McIndoe (University of Victoria, Canada)
"Continuous Addition Kinetic Elucidation: Catalyst and Reactant Order, Rate Constant, and Poisoning from a Single Experiment"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Michael Zdilla (Temple University, United States)
"Electronic Structure Basis for Water Oxidation in Mineral Chydoloxides: A New Role for the Catalytically Active egl Electronic State"
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
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Lucie Nurdin (Terraform Industries, United States) and Marcus Drover (The University of Windsor, Canada)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Ligand Non-Innocence: Redox Active/M-L Cooperativity
Discussion Leader: Tianning Diao (New York University, United States)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Karen Goldberg (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
"Ligand Non-Innocence: Effect on Reaction Mechanism"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Kensha Clark (University of Mississippi, United States)
"A Hop, Skip, and a Jump: Enabling Rapid Electron Transfer for Multielectron Transformations"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Courtney Roberts (University of Minnesota, United States)
"First d0 Metal-Catalyzed Alkyl-Alkyl Cross Coupling Enabled by a Redox-Active Ligand"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Rachel Baker (California Institute of Technology, United States)
"Electrochemical Domino Carboxylation"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Polymers and Materials
Discussion Leader: Derek Wasylenko (NOVA Chemicals, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Aaron Sattler (ExxonMobil, United States)
"Alkane Dehydrogenation & H2 Removal Reactors"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Parisa Mehrkhodavandi (UBC, Canada)
"Exploration of Ligand Hemilability in Cationic Indium Complexes for Ring Opening Polymerization"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Michael Reynolds (Shell USA, Inc, United States)
"Applying Green Chemicals as Modifiers for Controlling Inorganic Scale and Implications for Homogeneous Catalyst Design"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
David Steelman (Dow Chemical Company, United States)
"Heterogeneous Catalyst Development for Ring Opening Polymerization of Alkylene Oxides"
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
Computational Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Laurent Maron (INSA, Toulouse University, France)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Yale University, United States)
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Stuart Macgregor (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)
"Modelling s-Alkane Structure and Reactivity in the Solid State"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Amy Kynman (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
"Lanthanide Photocatalyst for C (sp3) - Halide Bond Activation and Functionalization: Importance of Metal-Ligand Cooperativity"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
William Whitehurst (Princeton University, United States)
"C-H Activation by Cobalt & Iron Metallacycles"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Alternative Energy, Energy Conversion and Electrocatalysis
Discussion Leader: Michael Pegis (Sila NanoTechnologies, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
James Mayer (Yale University, United States)
"Reactive Hydrogen on Silicon and Oxide Surfaces"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Gwendolyn Bailey (University of Minnesota, United States)
"New Approaches to CO2 Reduction Using Atomically Precise Copper Nanoclusters"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Shannon Stahl (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
"Exploring the Boundaries Between Thermal and Electrochemical Catalysis"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Ba Tran (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States)
"Mechanism-Guided Isolation and Reactivity of Monomeric and Dimeric Copper Hydrides"
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
f-Block Chemistry
Discussion Leader: James Blakemore (University of Kansas, United States)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Suzanne Bart (Purdue University, United States)
"Understanding New Actinide-Element Multiple Bond Formation"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Andrew Gaunt (Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States)
"Molecular Transuranium Synthetic Chemistry"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Md Estak Ahmed (Michigan State University , United States)
"Electrocatalytic Ammonia Oxidization by Earth - Abundant Metal Complexes"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Megan Fieser (University of Southern California, United States)
"Catalytic Methods for the Chemical Upcycling of Waste Poly (Vinyl Chloride)"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
First Row Metals
Discussion Leader: Warren Piers (University of Calgary, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Nicholas Ball (Pomona College, United States)
"Unlocking Fluorine: Activation of Sulfur(VI) Fluorides for New Sulfur-Fluorine Exchange (SuFEx) Reactions"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Karsten Meyer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany)
"“Super-Oxidized” Iron Nitrido and “Super-Reduced” Iron Nitrosyl Complexes in Tris-Carbene Coordination Spheres: How Iron Really Feels About it"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Marcus Drover (The University of Windsor, Canada)
"Exterior Decorating: Lewis Acid Secondary Coordination Spheres for Cooperative Reactivity"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Michael Whittlesey (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
"Reactivity and Mechanisms in Transition Metal-Zinc Heterobimetallic Chemistry"
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
Keynote Session: Active Sites and Mechanistic Probes Related to Catalytic Alkene Polymerization
Discussion Leader: Patrick Holland (Yale University, United States)
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
"Empirical Determination of Reaction Mechanisms: Novel Instrumentation and Kinetic Modeling"
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
General Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Closing Remarks
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Emily Tsui (University of Notre Dame, United States)
"Sulfur Effects on Zinc Nucleophilicity"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Deven Estes (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
"Proton-Electron Transfers from Transition-Metal Hydrides to Bulk Metal Oxide Surfaces"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure