Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Frontiers in Organometallic Synthesis
Discussion Leader: Nancy Williams (Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Jenny Yang (University of California, Irvine, United States)
"Charge it up! Secondary Sphere Cationic Effects on Transition Metal Properties and Reactivity"
4:15 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
Organometallic Perspectives in Catalysis
Discussion Leader: Kensha Clark (University of Mississippi, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Ting-An Chen (Michigan State University, United States)
"Copper Catalyzed sp3 C-H Alkenylation"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Nahiane Pipaon Fernandez (University of Victoria, Canada)
"High-Throughput Experimentation Applied to C-H Activation Reaction Discovery and Optimization"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Allison Smith (UNC Chapel Hill, United States)
"Progress Towards a Photoelectrochemical Molecular CO2 to Methanol Cascade"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Brett Barden (The Ohio State University, United States)
"Catalytic activity of Ti/Ni heterobimetallic complexes"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Hai-Xu (HX) Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Hydrogen Reduction Reaction (HRR)"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Anthony Wong (UC Berkeley, United States)
"Catalytic Dinitrogen Conversion to Secondary Silylamines using Electropositive Bimetallic Aryloxides"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Organometallic Catalysis for Sustainable Materials and Energy Solutions
Discussion Leader: Amymarie Bartholomew (Yale University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Zoha Syed (Northwestern University, United States)
"Investigation of Sulfated Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as Precise and Tunable Supports for Augmenting Organoiridium Catalysis"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Rashmi Jena (Michigan State University, United States)
"Syntheses, Structure and Properties of Y(II) and Dy(II) Complexes"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Karli Sipps (The Pennsylvania State University, United States)
"Shapeshifting Ligand Masks Lewis Acidity of Palladium(II)"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Kelly Gullett (Texas A&M University , United States)
"Formation of Red Elemental Selenium from Seleniferous Oxyanions"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Leyla Valerio (University of Rochester, United States)
"Actinide Complexes Supported by Pyridine Dipyrrolide Ligands: Characterization, Activation, and Reactivity"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
César Luís Ruiz Zambrana (Universitat Jaume I (Spain), Spain)
"A Naphthalene-di-imide Derived Au(I) Complex as Redox Switchable and -single- dual Metallaphotoredox Catalyst"
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: Intersectionality and Careers in Organometallic Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Saeed Fosshat (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Panel
Nancy Williams (Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges, United States)
Kensha Clark (University of Mississippi, United States)
Heather Spinney (Dow, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes