Sunday
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2:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 7:40 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
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7:40 pm - 9:30 pm |
Young Investigator Presentations
Session in memory of Greg Hillhouse.
Discussion Leader: Milton Smith (Michigan State University, USA)
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7:40 pm - 7:50 pm |
Introduction by Discussion Leader
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7:50 pm - 8:30 pm |
Ian Tonks (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions: Harnessing the TiII/TiIV Redox Couple for New Organic Methods"
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8:30 pm - 8:40 pm |
Discussion
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8:40 pm - 9:20 pm |
Alexander Radosevich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Spectators No More: New Roles for Phosphorus Compounds in Organometallic Catalysis"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Monday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Organometallic Chemistry of Earth-Abundant Metals
Discussion Leader: Theodore Betley (Harvard University, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Neal Mankad (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
"Copper Catalysis for Alkyne Hydrogenation and C-C Coupling by Bimetallic and Tandem Mechanisms"
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9:30 am - 9:45 am |
Discussion
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9:45 am - 10:15 am |
Liang Deng (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"Low-Coordinate 3d Metal Imido Complexes with NHC Ligation"
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10:15 am - 10:30 am |
Discussion
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Coffee Break
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11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Alison Fout (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogenations"
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11:30 am - 11:45 am |
Discussion
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11:45 am - 12:15 pm |
Xile Hu (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Cooperative Catalysis by Nickel Pincer Systems"
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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Jennifer Love (The University of British Columbia, Canada) and Bernadette Donovan-Merkert (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Main Group Chemistry
Discussion Leader: T. Don Tilley (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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7:30 pm - 8:00 pm |
Nathaniel Szymczak (University of Michigan, USA)
"Bringing Borazine Back: Lewis Acids for Fluoroalkylation"
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8:00 pm - 8:10 pm |
Discussion
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8:10 pm - 8:40 pm |
Rebecca Melen (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
"The Softer Side of Boron: Taming Hard Lewis Acids for Soft-Centred Chemistry"
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8:40 pm - 8:50 pm |
Discussion
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8:50 pm - 9:20 pm |
Makoto Yamashita (Nagoya University, Japan)
"Reactive Boron Compounds with Low Oxidation State"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Tuesday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Group Photo
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Transition Metal-Mediated Bond Activation and Formation Processes
Discussion Leader: Clifford Kubiak (University of California, San Diego, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Mu-Hyun Baik (KAIST, South Korea)
"Using DFT Calculations as a Predictive Tool: C-H and C-C Activation Catalysts Optimized in the Computer First"
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9:30 am - 9:45 am |
Discussion
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9:45 am - 10:15 am |
Nathan West (Eastman Chemical Company, USA)
"New Developments in Carbonylation Chemistry at Eastman Chemical"
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10:15 am - 10:30 am |
Discussion
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Coffee Break
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11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Joseph Sadighi (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Flexibly Bridged Dinickel Complexes: From No Bond, to a Hydride, to a Half-Bond"
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11:30 am - 11:45 am |
Discussion
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11:45 am - 12:15 pm |
Elizabeth Papish (The University of Alabama, USA)
"Pyridinol Based CNC Pincer Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: The Big Impact of One Small Remote Group"
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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Organometallic Approaches to the Synthesis of Polymers and Heterogeneous Catalysts
Discussion Leader: Glen Alliger (ExxonMobil Chemical, USA)
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7:30 pm - 8:00 pm |
Frederick Baddour (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
"A Molecular Approach to the Design of Nanostructured Metal Phosphide and Carbide Catalysts"
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8:00 pm - 8:10 pm |
Discussion
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8:10 pm - 8:40 pm |
Jeff Greco (Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, USA)
"Boron-Bridged Metallocenes: Catalysts for Increased 1-Hexene Incorporation"
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8:40 pm - 8:50 pm |
Discussion
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8:50 pm - 9:05 pm |
Caleb Martin (Baylor University, USA)
"9-Borafluorenes as Reagents to Generate Inorganic Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons"
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9:05 pm - 9:10 pm |
Discussion
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9:10 pm - 9:25 pm |
Brandon Barnett (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Augmenting Hydrogen Sorption Enthalpies via Pi-Backdonation: Thermodynamic Ramifications for Optimizing Adsorptive Hydrogen Storage"
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9:25 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Wednesday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Organometallic Chemistry of the Early Transition Metals, Lanthanides, and Actinides
Discussion Leader: Paula Diaconescu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Andrew Gaunt (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
"Advances in Neptunium and Plutonium Organometallic Chemistry"
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9:30 am - 9:40 am |
Discussion
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9:40 am - 10:10 am |
Adam Veige (University of Florida, USA)
"Catalytic Cyclic Polymer Synthesis"
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10:10 am - 10:20 am |
Discussion
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10:20 am - 10:50 am |
Coffee Break
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10:50 am - 11:20 am |
Richard Layfield (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
"Designer Anisotropy, Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets and the Venerable Cyclopentadienyl Ligand"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am |
Discussion
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11:30 am - 11:45 am |
Marcus Drover (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"P,B-Zwitterions: A Tale of Boron-Based Allyl Equivalents and a Marriage Between PPh3 and BPh4-"
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11:45 am - 11:50 am |
Discussion
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11:50 am - 12:05 pm |
Dmitry Peryshkov (University of South Carolina, USA)
"Multimetallic Complexes Supported by Carborane Ligands"
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12:05 pm - 12:10 pm |
Discussion
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12:10 pm - 12:25 pm |
Gregory Nocton (Ecole Polytechnique / CNRS, France)
"Fine Tuning of the Electronic Structure of Organolanthanides: What Influence on Their Reactivity and Physical Properties"
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12:25 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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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
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Ligand Design
Discussion Leader: Aaron Appel (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
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7:30 pm - 8:00 pm |
Chip Nataro (Lafayette College, USA)
"I Find Your Lack of Bis(phosphino)metallocene Ligands Disturbing: The Varying Coordination Modes Exhibited by These Ligands to Encoil Transition Metals"
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8:00 pm - 8:10 pm |
Discussion
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8:10 pm - 8:40 pm |
Brandi Cossairt (University of Washington, USA)
"Organometallic Complexes Supported by Protic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for CO2 Reduction and Related Transformations"
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8:40 pm - 8:50 pm |
Discussion
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8:50 pm - 9:20 pm |
Mark Gandelman ( Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
"Nitrogen Cations as Ligands and Lewis Acids"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Thursday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Applications of Organometallics to Organic Synthesis
Discussion Leader: Bernadette Donovan-Merkert (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Jennifer Love (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time"
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9:30 am - 9:40 am |
Discussion
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9:40 am - 10:10 am |
Patrick Hanley (The Dow Chemical Company, USA)
"New Chemistries of Sulfuryl Fluoride"
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10:10 am - 10:20 am |
Discussion
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10:20 am - 10:50 am |
Coffee Break
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10:50 am - 11:20 am |
Alison Brewer (Eli Lilly and Company, USA)
"Design, Development and Scale-up of a Homogeneous Chan-Lam Coupling"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am |
Discussion
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11:30 am - 11:45 am |
Jesus Campos (CSIC / University of Sevilla, Spain)
"Small Molecule Activation by a Au(I)/Pt(0) Metallic Frustrated Lewis Pair"
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11:45 am - 11:50 am |
Discussion
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11:50 am - 12:05 pm |
Laleh Tahsini (Oklahoma State University, USA)
"Electronic and Structural Modification of Pincer-Based Bis(N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Copper Complexes: Application in Strong Bond Activation and Catalysis"
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12:05 pm - 12:10 pm |
Discussion
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12:10 pm - 12:25 pm |
Brad Carrow (Princeton University, USA)
"Direct Characterization and Catalysis with Very Low Coordinate Late Metal Complexes Ligated by a Single Diamondoid Phosphine"
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12:25 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Keynote Session: New Strategies in Catalysis
Discussion Leader: Alfred Barney (Strem Chemicals Inc., USA)
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7:30 pm - 8:10 pm |
Maurice Brookhart (University of Houston, USA)
"Making Ni and Pd Olefin Polymerization Catalysts Great Again"
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8:10 pm - 8:20 pm |
Discussion
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8:20 pm - 9:00 pm |
Kenneth Caulton (Indiana University, USA)
"Addressing the Unbalanced Nitrogen Cycle: Earth-Abundant Metal Complex Reduction of Nitrate with Purpose-Designed Ligands"
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9:00 pm - 9:10 pm |
Discussion
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9:10 pm - 9:15 pm |
General Discussion
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9:15 pm - 9:30 pm |
Closing Remarks
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Friday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am |
Departure
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