Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Young Investigator Presentations
Session in memory of Greg Hillhouse.
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm
"Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions: Harnessing the TiII /TiIV Redox Couple for New Organic Methods"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm
"Spectators No More: New Roles for Phosphorus Compounds in Organometallic Catalysis"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Organometallic Chemistry of Earth-Abundant Metals
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Copper Catalysis for Alkyne Hydrogenation and C-C Coupling by Bimetallic and Tandem Mechanisms"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Low-Coordinate 3d Metal Imido Complexes with NHC Ligation"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogenations"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Cooperative Catalysis by Nickel Pincer Systems"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Bringing Borazine Back: Lewis Acids for Fluoroalkylation"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"The Softer Side of Boron: Taming Hard Lewis Acids for Soft-Centred Chemistry"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Reactive Boron Compounds with Low Oxidation State"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Transition Metal-Mediated Bond Activation and Formation Processes
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Using DFT Calculations as a Predictive Tool: C-H and C-C Activation Catalysts Optimized in the Computer First"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"New Developments in Carbonylation Chemistry at Eastman Chemical"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Flexibly Bridged Dinickel Complexes: From No Bond, to a Hydride, to a Half-Bond"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Pyridinol Based CNC Pincer Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: The Big Impact of One Small Remote Group"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Organometallic Approaches to the Synthesis of Polymers and Heterogeneous Catalysts
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"A Molecular Approach to the Design of Nanostructured Metal Phosphide and Carbide Catalysts"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Boron-Bridged Metallocenes: Catalysts for Increased 1-Hexene Incorporation"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
"9-Borafluorenes as Reagents to Generate Inorganic Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
"Augmenting Hydrogen Sorption Enthalpies via Pi-Backdonation: Thermodynamic Ramifications for Optimizing Adsorptive Hydrogen Storage"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Organometallic Chemistry of the Early Transition Metals, Lanthanides, and Actinides
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Advances in Neptunium and Plutonium Organometallic Chemistry"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
"Catalytic Cyclic Polymer Synthesis"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
"Designer Anisotropy, Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets and the Venerable Cyclopentadienyl Ligand"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am
"P,B-Zwitterions: A Tale of Boron-Based Allyl Equivalents and a Marriage Between PPh3 and BPh4-"
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:05 pm
"Multimetallic Complexes Supported by Carborane Ligands"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
"Fine Tuning of the Electronic Structure of Organolanthanides: What Influence on Their Reactivity and Physical Properties"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"I Find Your Lack of Bis(phosphino)metallocene Ligands Disturbing: The Varying Coordination Modes Exhibited by These Ligands to Encoil Transition Metals"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Organometallic Complexes Supported by Protic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for CO2 Reduction and Related Transformations"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Nitrogen Cations as Ligands and Lewis Acids"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Applications of Organometallics to Organic Synthesis
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
"New Chemistries of Sulfuryl Fluoride"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
"Design, Development and Scale-up of a Homogeneous Chan-Lam Coupling"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am
"Small Molecule Activation by a Au(I)/Pt(0) Metallic Frustrated Lewis Pair"
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:05 pm
"Electronic and Structural Modification of Pincer-Based Bis(N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Copper Complexes: Application in Strong Bond Activation and Catalysis"
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
"Direct Characterization and Catalysis with Very Low Coordinate Late Metal Complexes Ligated by a Single Diamondoid Phosphine"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: New Strategies in Catalysis
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Making Ni and Pd Olefin Polymerization Catalysts Great Again"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 9:00 pm
"Addressing the Unbalanced Nitrogen Cycle: Earth-Abundant Metal Complex Reduction of Nitrate with Purpose-Designed Ligands"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
General Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure