| 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: Structure-Reactivity Relationships in Lithium Enolates: Working at the Academic-Industrial Interface |
| Discussion Leader: Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:25 pm | David Collum (Cornell University, USA)
"Structure-Reactivity Relationships in Lithium Enolates: Working at the Academic-Industrial Interface" |
| 4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Frontiers in Organometallic Synthesis |
| This session will focus on the design of novel ligands
and organometallic complexes. Coordination complexes possessing unusual
dn/valence combinations as well as new modes of reactivities will be
described. |
| Discussion Leaders: Emilio Bunel (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) and Alexander Spokoyny (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Charles Mokhtarzadeh (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"The Extremes of π-Backdonation: The Isolation of Reactivity of an m-Terphenyl Isocyanide Stabilized Co-Carbyne" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Nicole Camasso (University of Michigan, USA)
"Synthesis and Reactivity of High-Valent Organometallic Ni Complexes" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Jonathan Axtell (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"B12(OR)12 Reagents as Tunable One-Electron Oxidants" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Diana Iovan (Harvard University, USA)
"Characterization of Iron-Imido Species Relevant to N-Group Transfer Chemistry" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Robert Comito (Dinca Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Selective Heterogeneous Catalysts for Hydrocarbon Chemistry by Cation Exchange in Metal Organic Frameworks" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Carolin Braun (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
"[2.2]Paracyclophane Containing N,O-Chelating Ligands and Their Titanium and Tantalum Complexes for Hydroamination and Hydroaminoalkylation" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Organometallic Catalysis / Mentorship Component: Career Panel |
| This session will focus on recent developments in organometallic catalysis for synthesis. In addition, this session will include a mentorship component in the form of a
career panel representing scientists from academic, industrial and government research organizations. |
| Discussion Leader: Bernadette Donovan-Merkert (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Dominic Pye (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
"Base-Metal, Heterobimetallic Catalysis for the Carbonylative Formation of Ketones" |
| 9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
| 9:20 am - 9:35 am | Anna Dunn (University of Michigan, USA)
"Flow Electrochemical C-H Activations" |
| 9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Mark Levin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"A Supramolecular Strategy for Transition Metal Catalysis" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Panel Discussion |
| "Scientific Career Paths in Academia, Industry and Government" |
|
- Emilio Bunel (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
- Crisita Carmen-Atienza (ExxonMobil Chemical, USA)
- David Collum (Cornell University, USA)
- Bernadette Donovan-Merkert (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
- Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
- Alexander Spokoyny (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Christine Thomas (Brandeis University, USA)
- Sarah Trice (Sigma Aldrich Millipore Sigma, USA)
- Benjamin Warner (Icagen, Inc., USA)
|
| 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 | Energy, Sustainability and Small Molecule Activation |
| This session will focus on
efforts to develop organometallic catalysts for applications related to solar fuels and small-molecule activation. Development of new sustainable organometallic catalytic processes will also be discussed. |
| Discussion Leader: Christine Thomas (Brandeis University, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Nicholas Isley (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
"Advances in Organometallic Chemistry via Micellar Catalysis Using Benign 'Designer' Surfactants" |
| 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
| 1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Catherine Pitman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"The Aqueous Reactivity of Half-Sandwich Metal Hydride Complexes in the Ground and Excited States" |
| 2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
| 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Allan Jay Cardenas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
"Optimizing Proton Delivery by Controlling Ligand Dynamics in Nickel H2 Production Electrocatalyst" |
| 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 |
