June 30: Sunday Evening - 7:45 p.m. to 9:10 p.m.

• Discussion Leader: Carol Burns, Los Alamos National Laboratories (USA)
• Introduction/Welcome from Chair and Vice Chair
• Richard Jordan, University of Iowa (USA): "Metallocene-Based Olefin Polymerization Catalysts: Catalyst Synthesis and Models for Key Intermediates"
• Josef Michl, University of Colorado (USA): "Organometallic Surface-Mounted Reactants for Synthesis in Two Dimensions: Towards a Single Sheet Regular Grid Polymer"

July 1: Monday Morning - 8:30 a.m. to Noon

• Discussion Leader: Robert Bergman, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
• Introduction/Welcome from Salve Regina University staff
• Guillermo Bazan, University of Rochester (USA): "New Ligands for Electrophilic Complexes"
• Hansjörg Grützmacher, ETH-Zürich (SWITZERLAND): "From Heteroatom-stabilized Carbenium-Ions to Organometallics"
• Warren Roper, University of Auckland (NEW ZEALAND): "Recent Organometallic Chemistry of Ru and Os Including Insertion Reactions of Unusual Silyl and Boryl Derivatives"
• Sunaina Sharma, The University of Western Ontario (CANADA): "Synthesis and Applications of Polydentate Bis-Imine Ligands in Enantioselective Organic Syntheses"

July 1: Monday Evening - 7:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.

• Discussion Leader: Kathy Brown, 3M (USA)
• Helmut Werner, der Universität Würzburg (GERMANY): "Stoichiometric and Catalytic C-C Coupling Reactions Mediated by Low-valent Rhodium Complexes"
• Thomas Cundari, University of Memphis (USA): "Modern Computational Approaches to Organometallic Chemistry"
• Lanny Liebeskind, Emory University (USA): "Enantiomerically-pure pi-Complexes of Unsaturated Oxygen and Nitrogen Heterocycles Using the Hydridotrispyrazolylborato- dicarbonylmolybdenum Auxiliary. Scaffolds for the Enantiospecific Construction of Substituted

July 2: Tuesday Morning - 9:00 a.m. to Noon

• Discussion Leader: Gary Silverman, Elf-Atochem (USA)
• Hiroharu Suzuki, Tokyo Institute of Technology (JAPAN): "Activation of C-H and C-C Bonds on the Di- and Trinuclear Ruthenim Hydride Complexes"
• William Buhro, Washington University, St. Louis (USA): "Organometallic Solution-Liquid-Solid Growth of Crystalline III-V Semiconductors: A Solution-Based Crystallization Mechanism for Covalent Nonmolecular Solids"
• Soley Kristjansdottir, E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. (USA): "Catalysis of the Addition of N-H Bonds to Olefins"

July 2: Tuesday Evening - 7:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.

• Discussion Leader: Francis J. Timmers, Dow Chemical Company (USA)
• Karl Jorgensen, Aarhus University (DENMARK): "Metal-catalyzed Addition Reactions"
• Vernon Gibson, Imperial College (UNITED KINGDOM):"New alpha-Olefin Polymerization Catalysts Based on Imido Ligation"
• Lázslo Kollár, University of Veszprém (HUNGARY): "Catalytic and Mechanistic Aspects of Asymmetric Hydroformylation"

July 3: Wednesday Morning - 9:00 a.m. to Noon

• Discussion Leader: Joyce Corey, University of Missouri-Saint Louis (USA)
• Hideki Sakurai, Science University of Tokyo (JAPAN): "Structure and Properties of Alkali-Metal Complexes of Persilylated Ethylenes and Benzenes"
• Kenneth Caulton, Indiana University (USA): "Transition Metal Hydrides: Old Wine in New Bottles"
• Rob Larsen, Merck & Co. Inc. (USA): "Palladium-Catalyzed Heterocyclizations"

July 3: Wednesday Evening - 7:15 p.m. to 9:15 pm

• Discussion Leader: Narayan Hosmane, Southern Methodist University (USA)
• Cynthia Schauer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) "Building-Block Approaches to the Synthesis of Inorganic Molecular Assemblies"
• Guy Orpen, University of Bristol (UNITED KINGDOM): "Flexibility of Organometallics: Use of Structural Data in Calibration of Molecular Modelling"
• David Milstein, Weizmann Institute of Science (ISRAEL): "Transition Metal Insertion into Carbon-Carbon Single Bonds in Solution"

July 4: Thursday Morning - 9:00 a.m. to Noon

• Discussion Leader: Dennis Riley, Monsanto Company (USA)
• Donna Blackmond, Universität - GH Essen (GERMANY): "Kinetic Influences on Enantioselectivity in Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenation"
• Pierre Dixneuf, Université de Rennes I (FRANCE): "Ruthenium Activation of Alkynes: Design of Carbon-rich Molecules and Selective Catalysis"
• Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University (USA): "Designing Organometallic-based Electrocatalysts: From Molecules to Materials"

July 4: Thursday Evening - 7:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.

• Discussion Leader: Peter Wolczanski, Cornell University (USA)
• Election of Vice Chair for 1997 Conference, and other business
• Robert Crabtree, Yale University (USA): "Three New Reactions of Saturated Fluorocarbons"
• Charles Casey, University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA): "d^0 Transition Metal-Alkyl-Alkene Complexes: Models for Ziegler-Natta Polymerization Intermediates"