Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Reaction Pathways of Fuel-Producing Molecular Electrocatalysts
Discussion Leader: Alfred Barney (Strem Chemicals Inc., USA)
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm
Jillian Dempsey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Reaction Pathways of Fuel-Producing Molecular Electrocatalysts"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Making and Breaking Bonds: Organometallic Catalysis and Mechanism
Discussion Leader: Neal Mankad (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Yunjung Baek (Harvard University, USA)
"Mechanistic Studies on Catalytic C-H Amination Processes Mediated by Dipyrrinato Cobalt(III) Imidos"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Eric Cueny (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Mechanistic Studies of Hafnium-Pyridyl Amido-Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization in the Presence of Chain-Transfer Agents Using Chromophore Quench-Labeling Technology"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
David Kaphan (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
"Mechanistic Investigation of a Surface Organometallic Vanadium(III) Catalyzed Olefin Hydrogenation"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Rose Kennedy (Princeton University, USA)
"Regio- and Stereocontrolled Iron-Catalyzed Cycloaddition Reactions of Alkenes and Dienes"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Sudipta Pal (Purdue University, USA)
"Nickel-Catalyzed Cycloaddition Reactions: Alkyne Cyclotrimerizations and Reductive Vinylidene Transfer Reactions"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Noam Saper (UC Berkeley College of Chemistry, USA)
"Undirected Anti-Markovnikov Nickel Catalyzed Hydroarylation of Alkenes"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Organometallic Synthesis and Structure / Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Discussion Leader: Chip Nataro (Lafayette College, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Lauren Grant (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Accessing Rare Metal Ligand Multiple Bonds: Spectroscopic Characterization, Reactivity Studies, and Theoretical Analysis of Titanium Methylidene, Nitride, and Nitridyl Complexes"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Kathryn Gramigna (Brandeis University, USA)
"Bimetallic Cooperativity Facilitating Small Molecule Activation in a Zirconium-Cobalt Bis(phosphinoamide) System"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Lisa Vondung (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
"Ancillary Ligand Induced H2-Liberation from Phosphine Borane Complexes: Fe-B-Bond Formation vs. Hydride Protonation"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Panel Discussion
Oh the Place You'll Go: Careers in Chemistry and How to Get Them
Michael Andrews (Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom)
Todd Senecal (The Dow Chemical Company, USA)
Matthew Wilding (McKinsey & Company, 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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Energy, Sustainability and Small Molecule Activation
Discussion Leader: Alexander Radosevich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Sergio Gonell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Mechanism of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction by Carbene-Supported Ruthenium Complexes"
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm
Discussion
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm
Natalia Loewen (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Exploring New Reactivities of [Fe4 N(CO)12 ]- "
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm
Discussion
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm
Sean McWilliams (Yale University, USA)
"Nitrogen Binding and Functionalization at Low-Valent Organometallic Iron Complexes"
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