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Sunday Evening, July 30 - Discussion Leader: Carol Burns, LANL 7:45 - Welcome and Announcements
8:00 - Howard Alper, University
of Ottawa, Catalysis Today: New Opportunities for Tommorrow.
 8:30 - Discussion
 8:45 - Ged Parkin, Columbia University,
Ansa
Effects in Metallocene Chemistry.
 9:15 - Discussion
 10:00 - Chairs's Reception
 
Monday Morning, July 31 - Discussion Leader: Alan Vaughan, Exxon
Chemical 9:00 - Sylviane Sabo-Etienne, Laboratoire
de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS, Toulouse , Novel Developments in the
Chemistry of Sigma-Silane Ruthenium Complexes.
9:30 - Discussion
 9:45 - Morris Bullock, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Catalysis with Cheap Metals: Catalytic Ionic Hydrogenations
of Ketones using Mo Catalysts.
 10:15 - Discussion
 10:30 - Coffee
 11:00 -  Greg Hillhouse, The
University of Chicago, Oxidative-Addition and Reductive-Elimination
Reactions that Break and Make C-N Bonds.
 11:30 - Discussion
 11:45 - Alison Bennett, duPont
Central Research & Development, Iron Based Ethylene Polymerization
Catalysts:  From Discovery to Commercialization.
 12:15 - Discussion
 12:30 - Lunch
 
Monday Evening, July 31 - Discussion Leader: Chris Roger, Elf Atochem
North America 7:45 - Jay Labinger, California
Institute of Technology, Towards Selective Catalytic Alkane Oxidation:
A Road Paved with Platinum?
8:15 - Discussion
 8:30 -  John Arnold, University
of California, Berkeley, Reactivity of Metal Complexes with New Monoanionic
Ligands.
 9:00 - Discussion
 9:15 -  Sonbinh Nguyen, Northwestern
University, The Cyclopropanation of Olefins as Catalyzed by Group VIII
Metal Schiff-Base Complexes.
 9:45 - Discussion
 
Tuesday Morning, August 1 - Discussion Leader: Juventino Garcia,
UNAM, Mexico 9:00 - Paul S. Pregosin, Laboratory
of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zentrum, Chiral Arene Complexes of Ruthenium
Derived from Binap and MeO-Biphep.
9:30 - Discussion
 9:45 - Pat Walsh, University of
Pennsylvania, Chiral Environment Amplification and Insights into the
Mechanism of Chirality Transfer.
 10:15 - Discussion
 10:30-Coffee
 11:00 - Michel R. Gagne, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, A Biologically Inspired Approach to
Selective Catalysts Based on Associated Chiral Cavities.
 11:30 - Discussion
 11:45 - Poster Talk #1
 12:15 - Poster Talk #2
 12:30 - Lunch
 
Tuesday Evening, August 1 - Discussion Leader, Elisabeth Hauptman,
duPont Central Research 7:45 - Emilio Bunel, duPont Central
Research & Development, Butadiene Carbonylation Catalyzed by Pd-Complexes.
8:15 - Discussion
 8:30 - Tom Flood, University of
Southern California, Hydrocarbon Chemistry in the Coordination Sphere
of 'Classical' Inorganic Complexes of Rhodium and Iridium.
 9:00 - Discussion
 9:15 - Ben Warner, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, Catalytic Activity of Actinides.
 9:45 - Discussion
 
Wednesday Morning, August 2 - Discussion Leader, Jessica Cook, Union
Carbide, Bound Brook 9:00 - Shinji Murai, Osaka University,
Ruthenium
Catalyzed C-H/Olefin Coupling.   A New Tool for Synthesis.
9:30 - Discussion
 9:45 - John Hartwig, Yale University,
Development
of a Catalytic, Regiospecific Functionalization of Alkanes.
 10:15 - Discussion
 10:30-Coffee
 11:00 - Joe Zoeller, Eastman Chemical
Company Research Laboratories, Molybdenum Catalyzed Carbonylation of
Ethylene.
 11:30 - Discussion
 11:45 - Poster Talk #1
 12:15 - Poster Talk #2
 12:30 - Lunch
 
Wednesday Evening, August 2 - Discussion Leader, Jerry Keister,
SUNY Buffalo 7:45 - Jilliam Buriak, Purdue University,
Organometallic
Surface Chemistry on Semiconducting Silicon and Germanium.
8:15 - Discussion
 8:30 - James Mayer, University
of Washington, Seattle, Reactions at Ligands Activated by Oxidizing
Metal Centers.
 9:00 - Discussion
 9:15 - Ian Rothwell, Purdue University,
Mechanistic
Studies of the Activation of O2
and Organic Diazo and Nitroso Compounds by Early Transition Metal Aryloxides.
 9:45 - Discussion
 
Thursday Morning, August 3 - Discussion Leader, Roy Periana, University
of Southern California 9:00 - John Gladysz, Inst. fur
Organische Chimie, Univ. Erlangen, From sp Carbon Chains to sp3 Carbon
Double Helices:  How to Insulate a Molecular Wire.
9:30 - Discussion
 9:45 - Mats Tilset, University
of Oslo, Aliphatic and Aromatic C-H Activation at Cationic Pt Complexes.
 10:15 - Discussion
 10:30-Coffee
 11:00 - Mike Fryzuk, University
of British Columbia, Ligand Design For Early Metal & Lanthanides
Chemistry.
 11:30 - Discussion
 11:45 - Poster Talk #1
 12:15 - Poster Talk #2
 12:30 - Lunch
 
Thursday Evening, August 3 - Discussion Leader: Christian Mehnert,
Exxon 7:45 - Election of Vice Chair for 2000 Conference and other business.
8:00 - Rich Eisenberg, University
of Rochester, Luminescent Square Planar Complexes: Towards Molecular
Photochemical Devices..
 8:30 - Discussion
 8:45- Robert Grubbs, California
Institute of Technology, Better Polymers from New, Improved Catalysts.
 9:15 - Discussion
 9:30 - End of the 2000 Gordon Conference on Organometallic Chemistry
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