| July 27: Sunday Evening - 7:30 p.m. to 9:10 p.m.Discussion Leader:   Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
7:30 - Introduction/Welcome from Chair and Vice Chair 
7:40 - Welcome from Salve Regina University staff 
7:40 - Klaus Theopold, University of Delaware (USA): "Organo-chromium Chemistry in High Oxidation States"
8:20 - Discussion
8:30 - Kenneth Caulton, Indiana University (USA): "Old Wine in New Bottles: Some New Views of Transition Metal Unsaturation  and Its Implications for Gas/Solid Reactivity"
9:00 - Discussion
9:10 - Adjourn to Chair's and Vice Chair's Reception
 July 28: Monday Morning - 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.M-C and M-H BondsDiscussion Leader:   Elisabeth Hauptman, DuPont Company (USA)
9:00 - Group Photograph
9:30 - Roy Periana, Catalytics Advanced Technologies, Inc (USA): "Novel C-H Activation Catalysts for High-Yield Oxidation"
10:00 - Discussion
10:15 - Bruno Chaudret, Laboratoire dc Chimie de Coordinatioon/CNRS (France): "Dihydrogen Bonds and Dihydrogen Complexes in Ruthenium Chemistry"
10:45 - Discussion
11:00 - Coffee Break
11:20 - Odile Eisenstein, University of Montpellier II (France): "Transition Metal Hydride Complexes:  Paradise and Hell for Theory"
11:50 - Discussion
12:05 - Gregory Kubas, Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA):  "Sigma Bond Coordination to Organometallic 'Superelectrophiles'"
12:35 - Discussion
12:50 - Lunch
 July 28: Monday Evening - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.Main Group and Early Transition Metal Extended StructuresDiscussion Leader:   Tom Baker, Los Alamos National Labs (USA)
7:30 - Herbert Roesky, University of Gottingen (Germany): "New Facets of Organoaluminum Chemistry"
8:00 - Discussion
8:10 - Andrew Barron, Rice University (USA): "The Chemistry of Group 13 Metals" 	
8:40 - Discussion
8:50 - Frank Feher, U. C. Irvine (USA):  "Folklore, Fantasy and Fun with Silsesquioxanes"
9:20 - Discussion
9:30 - Adjourn to Poster Session
 July 29: Tuesday Morning - 9:00 am. to 12:30 p.m.Ligand ReactivityDiscussion Leader:   Bernadette Donovan-Merkert, University of North Carolina (USA)
9:00 - David Glueck, Dartmouth College (USA): "Metal-Mediated Formation and Cleavage of Phosphorus-Carbon Bonds"
9:30 - Discussion
9:45 - Michael Therian, University of Pennsylvania (USA): "Spectroscopic Studies of Alkane Oxidation Reactions That Feature New Electron Deficient (Porhinato) Iron Catalysts"
10:15 - Discussion
10:30 - Break
10:50 - William Crowe, Emory University (USA): "Cyclopentadienyl Reductive Elimination and Other New Reactions of Titanocene-Derived Oxa- and Azametallacycles"
11:20 - Discussion
11:35 - 1st Presentation from Poster Submissions
11:50 - Discussion
12:00 - 2nd Presentation from Poster Submissions
12:15 - Discussion
12:25 - End of Session
12:50 - Lunch
 July 29: Tuesday Evening -7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.Asymmetric CatalysisDiscussion Leader:   Tara Meyer, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
7:30 - T. V. (Babu) Rajanbabu, Ohio State University (USA): "Enantioselective Catalysis of Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions"
8:00 - Discussion
8:10 - Amir Hoveyda, Boston College (USA): "Catalyst Discovery Through Ligand Diversity"
8:40 - Discussion
8:50 - Xumu Zhang, The Penn State University (USA): "Asymmetric Catalysis Based on New Chiral Phosphine Ligands"
9:20 - Discussion
9:30 - Adjourn to Poster Session
 July 30: Wednesday Morning - 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Polymerization CatalysisDiscussion Leader:   Richard Fisher, Exxon Chemical (USA)
9:00 - Lynda Johnson, The DuPont Company (USA): "Late Metal Catalysis for Olefin Polymerization"
9:30 - Discussion
9:45 - Tony Rappe, Colorado State University (USA): "Agoraphilia, a Catalytically Important Concept"
10:15 - Discussion
10:30 - Break
10:50 - Colin Schaverien, Shell (The Netherlands): "Phosphorous-bridged Metallocenes - New Catalysts  for the Stereospecific Polymerization of Olefins"
11:20 - Discussion
11:35 - 3rd Presentation from Poster Submissions
11:50 - Discussion
12:00 - 4th Presentation from Poster Submissions
12:15 - Discussion
12:25 - End of Session
12:50 - Lunch
 July 30: Wednesday Evening - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 pmMain Group and f-element ReactivityDiscussion Leader:   Eric Moore, Amoco Chemical Co. (USA)
7:30 - Joyce Corey, University of Missouri-St.Louis (USA): "Dehydrocoupling of Hydrosilanes:  Another use for Group IV Metallocenes"
8:00 - Discussion
8:10 - Don Berry, University of Pennsylvania (USA): "New Metal-Catalyzed Routes to Si-C, Si-Si and Ge-Ge bonds: Applications to the Synthesis of Aryl Silanes and Polymers"
8:40 - Discussion
8:50 - Richard Andersen, University of California, Berkeley (USA):  "Carbon monoxide Complexes of the f-Block Metallocenes"
9:20 - Discussion
9:30 - Adjourn to Poster Session
 July 31 Thursday morning - 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Novel Approaches to Organic SynthesisDiscussion Leader:   Manfred Bochmann, University of Leeds (UK)
9:00 - Greg Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA): "Asymmetric Catalysis with Planar-Chiral Heterocycles"
9:30 - Discussion
9:45 - Ronn Grigg, University of Leeds  (England): "Pd Catalysed Molecular Queuing Processes"
10:15 - Discussion
10:30 - Break
10:50 - Anton M. Echavarren, University of Madrid (Spain): "Palladium-Tin Transmetallations and Related Processes:  Fundamentals and Synthetic Applications"
11:20 -Discussion
11:35 - 5th Presentation from Poster Submissions
11:50 - Discussion
12:00 - 6th Presentation from Poster Submissions
12:15 - Discussion
12:25 - End of Session
12:50 - Lunch
 July 31: Thursday Evening - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.Future VisionsDiscussion leader:   Gerard (Ged) Parkin, Columbia University (USA)
7:30 - Election of Vice Chair for 1997 Conference, and other business
7:50 - Howard Turner, SYMYX Technologies (USA): "Emerging Combinatorial Methodologies in Chemical Catalysis"
8:30 - Discussion
8:40 - Lou Hegedus, Colorado State University (USA): "Chromium Carbene Complex Photochchemistry in Heterocycle Synthesis"
9:20 -Discussion
9:30 - Adjourn to Poster Session
 August 1: Friday Morning
Logan Airport Bus Departs at 9:00 AM
Arrives at Logan Airport at Approximately 10:30 AM
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