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Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
March 8-13, 2009
Hotel Galvez
Galveston, TX
Chair:
Clark R. Landis

Vice Chair:
Seth N. Brown

Chemical phenomena of intense current interest - catalysis, atmospheric chemistry, the creation of new materials, small molecule activation, driving chemical reactions with renewable energy sources, green chemical processes, biological production of chemicals, etc. - intrinsically involve reactions of elements from throughout the periodic table. This conference focuses on the mechanisms of these reactions and the techniques that are used for elucidation of reaction mechanisms. Our goal is to bring together a diverse group of participants - a worldwide collection of researchers representing academics, national laboratories, and industry - to share broad-based approaches - kinetics, spectroscopy, isotopic effects, and computations - to understanding of how reactions occur in many contexts - catalysis, coordination chemistry, main group reaction, atomospheric, biological, electrochemical, fuels, solar conversion, and organic. Participants will receive exposure to a wide range of techniques used to study reaction mechanisms of contemporary interest.

SUNDAY
4:00 pm - 8:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:10 pmENERGY SOLUTIONS AND ELECTRON TRANSFER I
Discussion Leader: Jim Mayer (University of Washington)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm Fraser Armstrong (Oxford)
"Rapid and Efficient Production and Oxidation of Hydrogen by Air-sensitive Metalloenzymes: Electrochemistry, Mechanisms, and Implications for Life and Energy"
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:55 pm Dan Nocera (MIT)
"An Artificial Photosynthesis Evolved from Inorganic Chemistry - Setting the Stage for Personalized Energy"
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm Discussion
9:10 pm Chair's Reception
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmENERGY SOLUTIONS AND ELECTRON TRANSFER II
Discussion Leader: David Stanbury (Auburn University)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Tom Meyer (UNC-Chapel Hill)
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer"
9:30 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am Stefan Bernhard (Princeton)
"Efficient Transition Metal Catalysts for the Photogeneration of Hydrogen"
10:15 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break / Group Photo
11:00 am - 11:30 am James Hurst (Washington State)
"Homogeneous Catalysis of Water Oxidation - More Mechanisms than Investigators?"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Mark Ratner (Northwestern)
"Electron Transfer and Energy Transfer Mechanisms"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNITROGEN ACTIVATION AND SYNTHESIS
Discussion Leader: Paul Chirik (Cornell)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Laurel Schafer (UBC)
"New Catalysts for the alpha-Alkylation of Primary and Secondary Amines"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm Larry Sita (U. Maryland)
"New Platforms and Pathways for Dinitrogen Activation by Early Transition Metals"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm Marc Robert (U. Paris)
"Electrochemical Approach to Proton Coupled Electron Transfers in Transition Metal Complexes"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm Craig Grapperhaus (Louisville)
"Redox Regulated Binding of Alkenes to a Rhenium Thiolate"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmCATALYSIS FOR FUELS
Discussion Leader: Jack Norton (Columbia)
9:00 am - 9:30 am John Bercaw (Caltech)
"Mechanistic Aspects of Oxidative Functionalizations of C-H Bonds with Platinum and Palladium Complexes"
9:30 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am Alan Goldman (Rutgers)
"Mechanistic Studies of Catalytic Alkane Metathesis"
10:15 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am Karen Goldberg (U Washington)
"Reactions of Late Transition Metal Complexes with Molecular Oxygen"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Jim Haw (USC)
"Towards Uniform Single Site Supported Catalysts"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSURFACES AND INORGANIC REACTION MECHANISMS
Discussion Leader: Aaron Sadow (Iowa State University)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Stacy Bent (Stanford)
"The Role of Dative Bonding in Reactions at Semiconductor Surface"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm Janet Blümel (Texas A&M)
"Reactions of Immobilized Catalysts and Linkers with Oxide Surfaces"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm Aaron Sadow (Iowa State/Ames Lab)
"Agostic Structures and Reactions of Homoleptic Hydrosilyl(alkyl) Complexes"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm Jake Soper (Georgia Tech)
"Ligand-Mediated Multielectron Bond-Making and Bond Breaking Reactions at Square Planar Cobalt(III): Towards Cobalt-Catalyzed Cross Coupling"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:30 pm Poster Session
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmCATALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS
Discussion Leader: Mahdi Abu-Omar (Purdue)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Tobin Marks (Northwestern)
"Cooperative Effects in Catalytic Polymerization"
9:30 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am Phil Hustad (Northwestern)
"Catalysis and the Production of New Polymers"
10:15 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am Jack Norton (Columbia)
"Catalytic Tin-Free Radical Cyclizations by H Atom Transfer"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Don Darensbourg (Texas A&M)
"Coordination Chemistry and Polymerization Catalysis"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmMETHODS AND MECHANISM
Discussion Leader: Andreja Bakac (Ames Lab)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Rudi van Eldik (Erlangen)
"Application of High Pressure Techniques in the Study of Inorganic/Bioinorganic Reaction Mechanisms"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm Jacqueline Barton (Caltech)
"DNA-mediated Signaling"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm Amanda King (U. Wisconsin)
"Mechanistic Study of Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Arylboronic Esters and Methanol: Insights into an Organometallic Oxidase Reaction"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm Amanda Bowman (Cornell U)
"Bis(imino)pyridine Iron Imides: Differences between Singlet and Triplet Ground States"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:30 pm Poster Session
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmOXIDATION AND BIOINORGANIC
Discussion Leader: Seth Brown (Notre Dame)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Timothy H. Warren (Georgetown University)
"Copper-Catalyzed C-H Amination with Unactivated Amines"
9:30 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am Henrique Teles (BASF)
"Oxidation from an Industrial Perspective: the New HPPO Process"
10:15 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am Thomas Brunold (U Wisconsin)
"Spectroscopic and Computational Insights into the Biosynthesis and Reactivity of Coenzyme B12 (Adenosylcobalamin)"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Michael Ashby (U Oklahoma)
"Kinetics of the Reactions of Hypohalites: Small Molecules to Whole Cells"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting
(Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
7:30 pm - 9:15 pmPAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Discussion Leader: Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Willem Koppenol (ETH-Zurich)
"Peroxynitrate and Nitrite Are Intermediates in the Decomposition of Peroxynitrite"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm Elon Ison (North Carolina State U)
"Mechanistic Investigations of the Iridium(III) Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidations of Primary and Secondary Alcohols"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm Anne-Frances Miller (U. Kentucky)
"Tuning of the Reduction Midpoint of Fe Over Almost 1eV in a Structurally Conserved Protein Context"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:55 pm Rich Eisenberg (Rochester)
"(AARP)2 Chemistry - An Adventurous Research Project All About Relevant Priorities"
8:55 pm - 9:15 pm Discussion
9:15 pm Poster Session
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart
 
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