The Gordon Research Seminar on Inorganic Chemistry is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.
The focus of this meeting is the highly diverse field of modern inorganic chemistry, which includes solid state, theoretical, bioinorganic, coordination, materials and organometallic chemistry and impacts the highly multi-disciplinary areas of catalysis, energy, environment, nanoscience, biomedicine, and many more. The purpose of the GRS is both for the exchange of ideas on the most recent unpublished results in the field and to inspire new ideas and promote a spirit of fellowship among participants at the informal gatherings that are an important part of the conference.
| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Lecture |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Harry B. Gray and Jillian Dempsey (Caltech University)
"Powering the Planet with Solar Fuel" |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Coordination Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Judith Stein (GE Global Research) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Thomas S. Teets (MIT)
"Synthesis and Photochemistry of Metal-Metal Bonded Iridium(II)-Gold(II) Heterobimetallic Complexes" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Yuen-Ying S. Carpenter (Dalhousie University)
"Expanding the Chemistry of Functionalized Phosphinophosphonium Cations" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Michael C. Nippe (University of Wisconsin)
"On the Nature of Heterometallic Interations in Trinuclear String Complexes" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | David K. Britt (UCLA)
"Efficient Separation of CO2 in Metal Organic Frameworks" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Catalysis and Computational Studies |
| Discussion Leader: Sally Brooker (University of Otago, New Zealand) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | W. Christopher Boyd (University of California)
"Cobalt-Mediated Vinylic C-H Functionalization of Alkenes" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Anne Poduska (Indian Institute of Science)
"Changing Ligands, Changing Lone Pair Stereochemical Activity: A Theoretical Study of a Divalent Lead Coordination Polymer" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Ryan E. Cowley (University of Rochester)
"Hydrogen Atom Abstraction by an Iron(III) Imido Complex" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am | Jason M. Keith (Texas A&M)
"Oxygen Atom Transfer Catalysis: Ligand Effects on Key Reaction Barrier in Molybdenum (VI) Dioxo Systems" |
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:40 am | Cameron A. Lippert (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Non-Innocent Ligands as Electron Reservoirs for Bimetallic Cleavage of Dioxygen" |
| 11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
| 11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Career Panel |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| 3:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
Last Updated: March 17, 2010