| Sunday, July 22 |
| Evening |
| Discussion Leader: Pete Wolczanski, Cornell |
| 7:30 | Welcome and Announcements |
| 7:45 | Alan Goldman, Rutgers University
"Alkane Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by Pincer-Ligated Iridium" |
| 8:15 | Discussion |
| 8:30 | Anne LaPointe, Symyx Technologies
"High Throughput Catalyst Discovery" |
| 9:00 | Discussion |
| 9:15 | Adjourn to Chair's Reception |
| Monday, July 23 |
| Morning |
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| Discussion Leader: Brett Lucht, U. Rhode Island |
| 8:45 | Sandro Gambarotta, U. of Ottawa
"Boosting the Reactivity of Low-Valent f-Metals" |
| 9:15 | Discussion |
| 9:30-10:15 | Conference Photo, Coffee Break |
| 10:15 | Jerzy Klosin, Dow Chemical
"Activation Chemistry and Polymerization Characteristics of Novel Constrained Geometry Complexes" |
| 10:45 | Discussion |
| 11:00 | Hideo Nagashima, Kyushu U.
"New Chemistry of Mono- and Dinuclear Organoruthenium-amidinates" |
| 11:30 | Discussion |
| 11:45 | Nora Radu, DuPont
"Luminescent Materials for Display Applications" |
| 12:15 | Discussion |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Evening |
| Discussion Leader: Jackie Kiplinger, LANL |
| 7:45 | Alan Vaughan, ExxonMobil Chemical Company
"Metallocenes for Next Generation Polyolefins" |
| 8:15 | Discussion |
| 8:30 | Jeffrey Stryker, U. of Alberta
"New Pathways for the Formation and Cleavage of Carbon-Carbon Bonds Using Transition Metals" |
| 9:00 | Discussion |
| 9:15 | Cassandra Fraser, U. of Virginia
"Responsive Properties of Polymeric Metal Complexes and their Higher Order Assemblies" |
| 9:45 | Discussion |
| Tuesday, July 24 |
| Morning |
| Discussion Leader: Lisa McElwee-White, U. of Florida |
| 9:00 | Peter Scott, U. Warwick
"Achieving High Diastereocontrol in Catalytic Enantioselective Alkene Cyclopropanation" |
| 9:30 | Discussion |
| 9:45 | Seth Brown, Notre Dame U.
"Amphoteric Reactivity of Osmium Nitrides" |
| 10:15 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | Coffee |
| 11:00 | Masahiro Murakami, U. Kyoto
"Activation of Carbon-Carbon Bonds Controlled by Rhodium" |
| 11:30 | Discussion |
| 11:45 | Poster Talk #1 |
| 12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:05 | Poster Talk #2 |
| 12:20 | Discussion |
| 12:25 | Lunch |
| Evening |
| Discussion Leader: Jasson Patton, Dow Chemical |
| 7:45 | Claudio Bianchini, U. Florence
"Evidence of a Meso Effect in the Alternating Copolymerization of Carbon Monoxide and Olefins by Pd-Diphosphine Catalysis" |
| 8:15 | Discussion |
| 8:30 | Jessica Cook, Union Carbide
"Novel Group IV Polyolefin Catalysts with Nitrogen Containing Ligands" |
| 9:00 | Discussion |
| 9:15 | William Tumas, LANL
"Biphasic Catalysis Approaches using Dense Phase Carbon Dioxide" |
| 9:45 | Discussion |
| Wednesday, July 25 |
| Morning |
| Discussion Leader: Janet Braddock-Wilking, UM-SL |
| 9:00 | Mitch Smith, MSU
"Catalytic Hydrocarbon Borylation: What Can We Learn from an Inefficient Catalyst?" |
| 9:30 | Discussion |
| 9:45 | Vivian Yam, U. Hong Kong
"Design Strategies Towards Luminescent Metal-Based Molecular Materials" |
| 10:15 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | Coffee |
| 11:00 | Jim Morken, UNC Chapel Hill
"Development of Catalytic Reactions with Arrayed Catalyst Evaluation" |
| 11:30 | Discussion |
| 11:45 | Poster Talk #3 |
| 12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:05 | Poster Talk #4 |
| 12:20 | Discussion |
| 12:25 | Lunch |
| Evening |
| Discussion Leader: Tom Baker, LANL |
| 7:45 | T. Don Tilley, UC Berkeley
"Sigma-Bond Activation Processes at Transition Metal Centers" |
| 8:15 | Discussion |
| 8:30 | Robin Perutz, U. York
"Nickel-Mediated C-F Bond Activation" |
| 9:00 | Discussion |
| 9:15 | David Bergbreiter, Texas A&M U.
"Polymer-Complexed Transition Metal Catalysts" |
| 9:45 | Discussion |
| Thursday, July 26 |
| Morning |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Fickes, Abbott Laboratories |
| 9:00 | Geoffrey Coates, Cornell University, "Promiscuous Catalysts: New Opportunities for the Synthesis of Defined Polymer Architectures" |
| 9:30 | Discussion |
| 9:45 | Phil Power, UC Davis
"Triple Bonds Between Heavier Main Group Elements" |
| 10:15 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | Coffee |
| 11:00 | Doug Grotjahn, SDSU
"Cues from Nature: Metal-Ligand Cooperativity Involving Proton Transfer or Hydrogen Bonding" |
| 11:30 | Discussion |
| 11:45 | Poster Talk #5 |
| 12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:05 | Poster Talk #6 |
| 12:20 | Discussion |
| 12:25 | Lunch |
| Evening |
| Discussion Leader: Howard Turner, Symyx Technologies |
| 7:45 | Election of Vice Chair for 2002 Conference and other business |
| 8:00 | Charles Casey, U. of Wisconsin
"New Catalysts for Simultaneous Transfer of H+ and H- to Polar Molecules: Hydroxycyclopentadienyl Ruthenium Hydrides" |
| 8:30 | Discussion |
| John Bercaw, Californa Institute of Technology
"Mechanisms of Chain Transfer during Proplyene Polymerization with Metallocene Catalysts" |
| 9:15 | Discussion |
| 9:30 | Adjourn Conference |
