Saturday |
2:00 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 | Keynote Session: Nitrogen Fixation with Molecular Iron |
| Discussion Leaders: Jerzy Klosin (The Dow Chemical Company, USA) and Rachel Klet (Northwestern University, USA) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Jonas Peters (California Institute of Technology, USA) "Maybe Nature Is an Organometallic Chemist After All" |
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Ligand Design and Other Tools of the Trade |
| Discussion Leaders: John Walzer (Exxonmobil Chemical Co., USA) and Russell Wakeham (University of British Columbia, Canada) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Allegra Liberman-Martin (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Activation of Platinum Complexes by Ligand-Based Reactions with Lewis Acids" |
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Daniël Broere (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) "Odd Electron Reactivity at Late Transition Metals Mediated by Redox-Active Ligand-to-Substrate Single Electron Transfer" |
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Stephanie Daifuku (University of Rochester, USA) "Spectroscopic Investigation of In Situ Formed Phenylated Iron-Bisphosphines and Their Reactivity in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Matthew Wilding (Harvard University, USA) "Electronic Structure of Iron Catalysts Competent for ppm-Loading C-H Amination" |
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Alex Carpenter (University of California, San Diego, USA) "Low-Valent, Low-Coordinate Cobalt Isocyanides" |
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Spring Melody Knapp (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) "WiHP-NMRR: The Wisconsin High-Pressure NMR Reactor - Design and Applications" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Early and Main Group Metals for Organic Transformations |
| Discussion Leaders: Paul Fischer (Macalester College, USA) and Michael Haibach (California Institute of Technology, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Sorin Rosca (Université de Rennes 1, France) "Heteroleptic Calcium and Ytterbium(II) Complexes Stabilized by Secondary Interactions for Hydrofunctionalization Reactions of Alkenes" |
9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
9:20 am - 9:35 am | Madelyn Stalzer (Northwestern University, USA) "Novel (Stereo)Selective Catalysis by Cationic Supported Organozirconium Complexes" |
9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Charles Romain (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) "Chemoselective and Switchable Polymerizations Using Dimetallic Complexes: A Pick and Mix Approach Towards Tailor-Made Materials" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| Mentorship Component |
10:00 am - 11:00 am | Panel Discussion |
| "Career Paths for Organometallic Chemists" |
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- Eva Birnbaum (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
- Paul Fischer (Macalester College, USA)
- Annie King (Infinity Pharmaceuticals, USA)
- Jerzy Klosin (The Dow Chemical Company, USA)
- Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
- Jonas Peters (California Institute of Technology, USA)
- John Walzer (Exxonmobil Chemical Co., USA)
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| 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 | Small Molecule Transformations for Energy and Sustainability |
| Discussion Leaders: Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) and Amruta Ajit Joshi (Merck and Co., USA) |
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Atefeh Taheri (University of California, Davis, USA) "Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide in Water with Molecular Iron Carbonyl Clusters" |
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Christopher Zall (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) "Discovery, Thermodynamic Studies, and Mechanism of CO2 Hydrogenation Catalyzed by a Copper Tris-Phosphine Complex" |
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Aaron Bloomfield (Yale University, USA) "Iridium on Steroids: Using Rigid, Electrically Insulating, Polycyclic Ligands to Support a Highly Active Iridium-Based Water Oxidation Catalyst on Metal Oxide Semi-Conductor Surfaces" |
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 |