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: Radical Reactivity of Carbenes and Nitrenes Controlled by Cobalt
Discussion Leader: Mitch Smith (Michigan State University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm
Bas DeBruin (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Radical Reactivity of Carbenes and Nitrenes Controlled by Cobalt"
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
Ligand Design for 1st Row Transition Metals: Experiments Guided by Theory
Discussion Leader: Tianning Diao (New York University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Amy Speelman (Yale University, USA)
"Synthesis and Reactivity of Nitrogenase Model Complexes with Sulfur- and Carbon-Based Coordination Environments"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Diana Iovan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Using Chemical Tools to Identify New Copper-Protein Interactions"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Joseph Tassone (Dalhousie University, Canada)
"CyPAd-DalPhos and PhPAd-DalPhos: Tailored Ancillary Ligands for Challenging Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Lorena De Luca (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation with a Bifunctional Iron(II) Hydride: Experiment Meets Computation"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Malkanthi Karunananda (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
"Mechanistic Elucidation of Regio- and Stereoinduction Models for Directed Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Functionalization of Alkenes via Theoretical Calculations"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Marcus Drover (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET) from an S = 1/2 Iron Indenyl Complex"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Metal-Ligand Cooperativity: Organometallics at the Energy Frontier
Discussion Leader: Deanna Zubris (Villanova University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Brian Cook (Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
"Hydrogen Atom Abstraction from Group 7 and Group 9 Ammonia Complexes"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Elizabeth Johnson (Harvard University, USA)
"Exploring Cooperative Redox Chemistry in Diiron and Dicobalt Bridging Hydroxide Complexes"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Sophie Rubashkin (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Ir(III) Complexes for Aerobic Alkane Dehydrogenation"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Jason Braun (University of Manitoba, Canada)
"Iron Coordination Complexes with Panchromatic Absorption and Nanosecond Charge-Transfer Excited States"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Max Siebert (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
"An Alternative Approach Towards Formaldehyde: Univariate and Multivariate Analysis in the Ruthenium-Catalyzed Transformation of Carbon Dioxide to Dimethoxymethane"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Michael Pegis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Anion-Coupled Electron Transfer at Graphite Conjugated Rhodium Complexes"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
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
Mentorship Component: Career Trajectories and Perspectives
Discussion Leader: Alexandra Velian (University of Washington, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Trajectories and Perspectives
Marshall Brennan (ChemRxiv, American Chemical Society, USA)
Jenny Yang (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Morris Bullock (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Stephen Ritter (American Chemical Society Publications, USA)
Bas DeBruin (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Deanna Zubris (Villanova University, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes