| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Kickoff Session |
| Discussion Leader: Gerard Parkin (Columbia University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Welcome and Announcements |
| 7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Vlad Grushin (Dupont Co.)
"The F/Ph Rearrangement Reaction of [(Ph3P)3RhF], the Fluoride Congener of Wilkinson's Catalyst" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Gregory Fu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Metal-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
| 9:15 pm | Chair's Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Frontiers |
| Discussion Leader: Charles Casey (University of Wisconsin) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University)
"Allosteric Catalysts Made Possible via the Weak-Link Approach to Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | T. Don Tilley (University of California, Berkeley)
"Bond Activations and Catalytic Transformations Involving Platinum-group Metal Complexes" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Photograph / Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Angela Belcher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Virus-Based Genetic Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and Semiconducting Nanowires and Self-Assembling Structures" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Marcel Schlaf (University of Guelph)
"Ionic Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis Reactions of Polyols - Some Crazy Ideas for New Approaches to Biomass Conversion" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #1 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Applications in Organic Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Russell P. Hughes (Dartmouth College) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Barry M. Trost (Stanford University)
"A Mechanistic Enigma but a Synthetic Bonanza in Hydrosilylation" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | M. Christina White (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Hydrocarbon Oxidation Methods for Synthesis" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Timothy Warren (Georgetown University)
"Later First Row Nitrene and Carbene Complexes: Insights into Group Transfer Catalysis" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session #1 |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organometallics and Physical Methods |
| Discussion Leader: R. Morris Bullock (Brookhaven National Laboratory) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Michael George (University of Nottingham)
"Photochemistry in Conventional and Supercritical Fluids: From Alkane and Noble Gas to Solvent Control of Spin Crossover" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Paul S. Pregosin (ETH)
"PGSE Diffusion and 1H,19F HOESY NMR Studies on Catalysts and
Precursors. Old Methodologies with New Applications" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Dermot O'Hare (University of Oxford)
"Metallocenes and Pentalenes: Electronic and Magnetic Properties" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster Talk #1 |
| 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk #2 |
| 12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #1 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organometallic Catalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Anne M. Lapointe (Symyx Technologies, Inc.) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | David Tellers (Merck & Co., Inc.)
"Application of Asymmetric Hydrogenation to Pharmaceutical Intermediates at Merck" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Johannes G. de Vries (DSM)
"The Combinatorial Approach to Asymmetric Hydrogenation: Monophos, Ruthenacycles and Artificial Metalloenzymes" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Maurice Brookhart (Univ.of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Organic Transformations Catalyzed by Late Transition Metal Complexes" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session #1 |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Early Metals, Lanthanides, Actnides |
| Discussion Leader: Nora Radu (Dupont) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Lawrence Sita (University of Maryland)
"De Novo Designed Stereoblock and Stereogradient Polypropylene Elastomers by Living Ziegler-Natta Polymerization" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | William J. Evans (University of California, Irvine)
"Synthesis and Reactivity of Long Bond Organometallic Complexes" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Karsten Meyer (University of California, San Diego)
"Uranium Coordination Chemistry: From Alkane Coordination to CO/CO2 Activation & Nitrogen Atom Transfer Chemistry" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster Talk #3 |
| 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk #4 |
| 12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #2 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Novel Transformations I |
| Discussion Leader: Alan Goldman (Rutgers University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Joseph O'Connor (University of California, San Diego)
"Metal-Accelerated Enediyne and Dienyne Cycloaromatizations" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | James Mayer (University of Washington)
"Alkane and Other sigma-Bond Oxidations by Osmium Tetroxide" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Peter Wolzanski (Cornell University)
"Some Consequences -- Reactivity and Bonding -- of Unusual Electronic States" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session #2 |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Novel Transformations II |
| Discussion Leader: Folami Ladipo (University of Kentucky) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Daniel J. Mindiola (Indiana University)
"Making Metal-Carbon Bonds Through One Electron Oxidation Reactions" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Paul J. Chirik (Cornell University)
"Catalytic Bond-Forming Reactions with Well-Defined Iron Precursors" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Ernesto Carmona (Universidad de Sevilla)
"Zincocenes: From Slipped-Sandwich to Dimetallocene Structures" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster Talk #5 |
| 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk #6 |
| 12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #2 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Back to the Future |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Jordan (University of Chicago) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Business Meeting / Election of Vice Chair for 2006 Conference |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Richard Heck (University of Delaware (retired))
"Beginnings of Organopalladium and Organocobalt in Organic Synthesis" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:15 pm | Alexander Cruickshank Lecturer: Robert H. Grubbs (California Institute of Technology)
"Ligand Design for Efficient Olefin Metathesis Catalysis" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session #2 |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
