SATURDAY |
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Presentation-Organometallic Chemistry of f-Block Metals |
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Richard Andersen (University of California, Berkeley) |
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 | Investigations in Catalysis and Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leader: Emilio Bunel (Argonne National Laboratory) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Charles Yeung (University of Toronto) "Palladium-catalyzed ortho-Arylation of O-Phenylcarbamates with Simple Arenes and Sodium Persulfate" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Alex Sun (University of British Columbia) "Ni-Catalyzed C-F Cross Coupling Reactions" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Silvan Scheller (ETH Zurich) "Is a Nickel sigma-Methane Complex the First Intermediate in Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane Catalyzed by Methyl Coenzyme M Reductase?" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Michael Lanci (University of Washington) "Developing a Catalytic Cycle for Oxidative Dimerization of Methane" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Applications and Theoretical Methods in Organometallic Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Mikhail Barybin (University of Kansas) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Christopher Tate (Imperial College London) "Reversible 11CO-binders for Use in PET Imaging" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Caroline Saouma (California Institute of Technology) "Characterization and Reactivity of Mono- and Diiron Species that Coordinate Hydrazine, Hydrazido and Diazene" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Ainara Nova (University of Montpellier) "Hydrohydrazination vs. Diamination of Alkynes by Group 4 Transition Metal Hydrazido Complexes: a DFT Study" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Morgan Macinnis (Dalhousie University) "Four-Coordinate, 14-Electron Ru(II) Complexes: Unusual Trigonal Pyramidal Geometry Enforced by Bis(phosphino)silyl Ligation" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | David McGinnis (University of Kansas) "Low-Valent Coordination and Surface Chemistry of Novel One-Dimensional Symmetric Biazulenic pi-Linkers" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Christine Brinkmann (Imperial College London) "Heavier Group 2 Metals: Application to Intermolecular Hydroamination, Studies towards C-H and C-F Activation" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
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 4:00 pm. |