Conference Program
 
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

July 16-21, 2006
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI

Chair:
Bahram Moasser

Vice Chair:
William E. Buhro

The Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference provides an unparalleled setting for discussion of the most cutting-edge research in inorganic chemistry. Scientists from academic, industrial and national laboratories come together to define the important problems of the field and to highlight emerging opportunities through exchange of ideas and discussion of unpublished results. Active participation by a traditionally diverse group of participants at this conference often results in cross-fertilization among the many constituencies of the vibrant and multifaceted field of inorganic chemistry.

Please check this website for updated information on the conference program. Because the conference is still many months away and presentations are on new and unpublished work, the titles of presentations should be considered tentative and may change as we get closer to the conference date. In addition to the invited presentations we will have two poster sessions (Mon/Tue and Wed/Thurs) and we encourage registrants to participate in the poster program by contributing their most recent research. Finally, two outstanding posters submitted for judging will be selected (at the conference) for short oral presentations. Although open to everyone, emphasis will be placed on posters by junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows.

The Inorganic Chemistry GRC holds a special place in the 75-year history of the Gordon Research Conferences as demonstrated by its endurance and its rich tradition of breaking new scientific grounds. This conference has been the forerunner of the field of inorganic chemistry and the 75th anniversary milestone is especially fitting for highlighting the most innovative areas of the field.


SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 11:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmTHE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Discussion Leader: George Stanley (Louisiana State University)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmMoungi Bawendi (MIT)
"Nanocrystal Quantum Dots for Bioimaging and Opto-electronics"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pmDiscussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmRaymond Schaak (Texas A&M)
"The Chemistry of Nanoscale Metallurgical Solids: Synthesis, Reaction Pathways, Reactivity, and New Structures"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pmDiscussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pmSophia E. Hayes (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Optically-polarized NMR of III-V Semiconductors and Their Heterostructures"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pmChair's reception
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMECHANISTIC AND ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Andreja Bakac (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University)
9:00 am - 9:30 amJohn Bercaw (Caltech)
"Olefin Oligomerization and Polymerization with Early Transition Metal Catalysts"
9:30 am - 9:45 amDiscussion
9:45 am - 10:15 amPolly Arnold (University of Nottingham)
"Electropositive Metal Carbene Complexes with Unexpected Structures and Reactivities"
10:15 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 amGroup Photo / Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 amMike Heinekey (University of Washington)
"Elongated Dihydrogen Complexes: Structure and Dynamics"
11:30 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pmMookie Baik (Indiana University)
"Understanding Water Oxidation Catalysis: How cis,cis-[(bpy)2RuO]2O4+ Converts Water to Dioxygen"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Group # 1)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmCOORDINATION AND MAIN GROUP CHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Rick Kemp (University of New Mexico)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmRasika Dias (University of Texas at Arlington)
"Coinage Metal Complexes of Highly Fluorinated Scorpionates"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pmDiscussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmPhilip Power (UC Davis)
"The Chemistry of Heavy Element Analogues of Acetylene"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pmDiscussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pmMatthias Westerhausen (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
"Heavy Grignard Reagents: Challenges and Possibilities"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pmPoster Session (Group # 1)
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmBIOINSPIRED INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Wayne Gladfelter (University of Minnesota)
9:00 am - 9:30 amMary Beth Williams (Penn State)
"Metallated Artificial Oligopeptides as Structural and Functional Analogs of DNA"
9:30 am - 9:45 amDiscussion
9:45 am - 10:15 amYi Lu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"What Can Biology Do for Inorganic Chemistry? Recent Progress in Biosynthetic Inorganic Chemistry"
10:15 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 amJoanna Aizenberg (Lucent Technologies)
"Biologically Formed Inorganic Structures and Lessons for Biomimetic Materials Synthesis"
11:30 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pmPatrick Holland (University of Rochester)
"New Reactions at Low-Coordinate Iron Inspired by Nitrogenase"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Group # 1)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Kristin Bowman-James (University of Kansas)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmKenneth Raymond (UC Berkeley)
"From Siderophores to Supramolecular Clusters"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pmDiscussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmYves Le Mest (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
"From the Supramolecular Control of the Coordination Spheres to Redox Regulation in Calixarene-Based Models of Copper Enzymes: An Electrochemical Approach"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pmDiscussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pmJerry Atwood (University of Missouri - Columbia)
"Metal-Ligand Binding Provides Stable Molecular Capsules"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pmPoster Session (Group # 1)
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmBIOMEDICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Bahram Moasser (GE Global Research Center/Georgetown University)
9:00 am - 9:30 amThomas Meade (Northwestern University)
"Eliminating the Background in MR Imaging: The Future looks Bright"
9:30 am - 9:45 amDiscussion
9:45 am - 10:15 amStephen J. Lippard (MIT)
"Detecting and Understanding Biological Nitric Oxide and Mobile Zinc"
10:15 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 amCoffee Break
10:55 am - 11:25 amClaudia Turro (Ohio State University)
"New Mononuclear and Bimetallic Complexes as Photo-Cisplatin Analogs"
11:25 am - 11:40 amDiscussion
11:40 am - 11:55 amPoster Talk # 1
11:55 am - 12:05 pmDiscussion
12:05 pm - 12:20 pmPoster Talk # 2
12:20 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Group # 2)
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting and Election of 2007 Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNANOSTRUCTURE SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION
Discussion Leader: John Leman (GE Global Research Center)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmDebra Rolison (Naval Research Laboratory)
"Oxide Nanoarchitectures for Electrocatalysis, Energy Storage, and Nanoionics"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pmDiscussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmLarry Lewis (GE Global Research Center)
"Little Tiny Metal Oxide Particles, Aren't You Glad I Didn't Say 'Nano'?"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pmDiscussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pmJillian Buriak (University of Alberta)
"Nanoscale Patterning of Inorganic Materials on Semiconductor Surfaces"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pmPoster Session (Group # 2)
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmPHYSICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Anna Larsen (Ithaca College)
9:00 am - 9:30 amBill Evans (UC Irvine)
"The Expansion of Reductive F Element Chemistry"
9:30 am - 9:45 amDiscussion
9:45 am - 10:15 amDavid Morris (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Multimetallic Architectures in Organo-f-Element Chemistry"
10:15 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 amGordon Yee (Virginia Tech)
"Molecular Magnetism: A Building Block Approach to Understanding Long Range Magnetic Order"
11:30 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pmMonique Krom (Shell Global Solutions)
"Palladium-Catalyzed Dicarbonylation of Butadiene to Adipic Acid"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Group # 2)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmINORGANIC CHEMISTRY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Discussion Leader: William Buhro (Washington University in St. Louis)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmConference Wrap-up
8:00 pm - 8:30 pmNancy Ryan Gray (Gordon Research Conferences)
"From Fe to Mo (Fernelius to Moasser): Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Conferences since 1951"
8:30 pm - 8:45 pmDiscussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pmDavid Goodstein (California Institute of Technology)
"Out of Gas: The end of the Age of oil"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pmPoster Session (Group # 2)
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

Last Updated: October 11, 2006