SATURDAY |
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Main Group Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Bernadette Donovan-Merkert (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Alexandra Velian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Anthracene-Based Molecular Precursors for Reactive Small Molecules: P2, P2O, PNCO, and HCP" |
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Ekaterina Vinogradova (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Structural Reevaluation of the Electrophilic Hypervalent Iodine Reagent for Trifluoromethylthiolation Supported by the Crystalline Sponge Method for X-Ray Analysis" |
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (Last Names A-K Present) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organometallic Structures and Reactivities |
| Discussion Leader: Susan Hanson (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Matt Winston (University of California, Berkeley)
"Remarkably Fast Carbon-Carbon Bond Reductive Eliminations from Gold(III)" |
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Jessica DeMott (Texas A&M University)
"The Goldilocks Complex: Refining Pincer Ligands for the Isolation of Stable Alkane Sigma Complexes" |
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Merle Arrowsmith (University of Bath)
"Carbon Dioxide as a C1-Synthon in Alkaline Earth-Catalyzed Reactions" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Dinesh Aluthge (University of British Columbia)
"Chiral Indium Catalysts for Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide" |
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Shaoguang Zhang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
"Synthesis and Characterization of CpMo(Phosphine)H Complexes and Cationic Mo Dihydride Complexes With or Without Pendant Amines" |
8:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Ryan Gilbert-Wilson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Influence of Ligand Protonation on Metal Hydrides" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Olefin Metathesis |
| Discussion Leader: Jerzy Klosin (The Dow Chemical Company) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Keynote: Robert Grubbs (California Institute of Technology)
"Design and Applications of Selective Olefin Metathesis Catalysts" |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Hyangsoo Jeong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Synthesis of New Mo/W Tert-Butylimido Olefin Metathesis Catalysts and Their Reactivity in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP)" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 11:00 am | Career Panel Discussion: "Career Prospects for Organometallic Chemists" |
| Mentorship Component with Discussion Leaders and Keynote Speaker |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II (Last Names L-Z Present) |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Multimetallic Complexes |
| Discussion Leader: Vlad Iluc (University of Notre Dame) |
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Stephen Tereniak (University of Minnesota)
"The Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of a Dicobalt Benzyl Molecule" |
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Alejo Lifschitz (Northwestern University)
"Bioinspired Coordination Switches for Photoredox Catalysis" |
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Gabriel Menard (Harvard University)
"Polynuclear Metal Complexes for Multi-Electron Reactions" |
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |