SATURDAY |
2:00 pm | Check-in Begins |
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by GRS Conference Chair |
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Presentation |
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Tom Baker (University of Ottawa) "Studying Polar Molecules in the Great White North: Synthesis and Reactivity of Aminoborane Metal Complexes, [MLn(HRN-BH2)]" |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Reactions and Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Jordan (University of Chicago) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Vincent Lavallo (California Institute of Technology) "The Diverse Interactions of Stable Carbenes with Non-Carbonyl Iron(0)" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Xinping Wang (University of California, Davis) "Reactivity of a Digermyne toward Nitrosoarene: Unexpected Formation of the Germanium-centered Singlet Diradicaloid via N=O Bond Cleavage" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Brenda A. Frazier (Cornell University) "Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of First-Row Dipyridylazaallyl Transition Metal Complexes" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Neal P. Mankad (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "N-N coupling of arylazides to form azoarenes via putative trigonal bipyramidal Fe(III)-imido intermediates" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Welcome Reception |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Applications of Organometallic Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Wolczanski (Cornell University) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Insa Prochnow (University of Oldenburg) "Titanium-Catalyzed C-H Bond Activation Adjacent to Nitrogen Atoms" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Kevin D. Hesp (Dalhousie University) "Iridium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Hydroamination of Unactivated Alkenes with Primary and Secondary Alkyl- and Aryl-amines" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Elizabeth A. Mader (Argonne National Laboratory) "Partial Alkane Oxidation using Supported Pt(II) and Pt(IV) halides" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:05 am | Robert V. O’Brien (Boston College) "Hydrogen Bonding as a Control Element in Stereoselective Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis" |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
11:15 am - 11:35 am | Beth M. Moscato (University of Wisconsin) "Information-Rich Investigations into Metallocene-Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:05 pm | Alexander M. Spokoyny (Northwestern University) "Generation of WLA (Weak-Link Approach) Structures via Pt(II) Chemistry" |
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | GRS Evaluation |
| (Discuss request for a subsequent GRS; Fill out Evaluation Forms) |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II |
3:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 2:00 pm. |