| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:45 pm - 9:30 pm | Kickoff Session: A Bipartisan Approach to Organometallic Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Alan Goldman (Rutgers University) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Michael Heinekey (University of Washington)
"Coordination Chemistry of Dihydrogen: Structure, Dynamics and Reactivity" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | James Boncella (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Bis(imido)uranium(VI): The Effects of Covalency in Actinide Chemistry" |
| 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 Ligand Platforms |
| Discussion Leader: Rick Broene (Bowdoin College) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | John Arnold (University of California, Berkeley)
"Multidentate Monoanionic Ligands and Their Use in Supporting New Transition Metal Chemistry" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Philip Mountford (Oxford University)
"The Imido-Macrocycle Ligand Platform: Questions of Reaction Site Selectivity in the
Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions of Isolobal Analogues of Metallocenium Alkyl
Cations" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Warren Piers (University of Calgary)
"Extreme Makeover: Ligand Edition! Meeting Challenges in Group 3 Organometallic Chemistry Through Ligand Design" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Yutaka Matsuo (University of Tokyo)
"Drawing Out the Intrinsic Functions in Fullerenes with Organic and Inorganic Synthetic Chemistry of Fullerenes" |
| 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 | New Reactivity and Transformations: s & p Block Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Sevva Rostovtsev (DuPont Co.) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Christopher Reed (University of California, Riverside)
"Strong yet Gentle Superacidity. Its all about the Anion" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Carl Busacca (Boehinger Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
"Organoaluminums in the Synthesis of Organophosphines" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | David Glueck (Dartmouth College)
"Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of P-Stereogenic Phosphines" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:45 pm | Poster Session #1 |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Asymmetric Catalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Alan Allgeier (Amgen, Inc.) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Bernadette Donovan-Merkert (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
"Electrochemistry in Asymmetric Catalysis: Zapping our way to Enantiomeric Purity" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Amir Hoveyda (Boston College)
"New N-Heterocyclic Carbenes for New Strategies and Methods in Enantioselective Catalysis" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Patrick Walsh (University of Pennsylvania)
"Asymmetric C-C and C-O Bond-Forming Reactions" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster Talk #1: TBA |
| 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk #2: TBA |
| 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 | Mechanistic and Theoretical Organometallic Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Fisher (Symyx Technologies) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Arkadi Vigalok (Tel Aviv University)
"Carbon-Halogen vs. Carbon-Carbon Reductive Elimination in Late Transition Metal Complexes: A Top-Down Approach" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Marc Johnson (University of Michigan)
"Controlling the Strength of Metal-Nitride and Metal-Carbide Interactions for More Efficient Catalysis of Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Odile Eisenstein (Université Montpellier)
"Optimizing a Catalyst with a DFT Approach" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:45 pm | Poster Session #2 |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Reactivity and Transformations: d Block Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Gary Casty (ExxonMobil) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Kristopher McNeill (University of Minnesota)
"Cleaning Up the Environment One Chlorine Atom at a Time: Studies of Dechlorination Catalysis" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Alan Heyduk (University of California, Irvine)
"Oxidative and Reductive Bond-Activation Pathways at d0 Metals: Harnessing Guilty (Non-Innocent) Ligand Platforms" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Mikhail Barybin (Kansas University)
"Isocyanide 'Alligator Clips' in the Design of Novel Organometallic Architectures Involving Linear Nonbenzenoid Azulenic and Biazulenic Linkers" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster Talk #3: TBA |
| 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk #4: TBA |
| 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 #3 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organometallics in Materials Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: T. Don Tilley (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Christina Older (DuPont Co.)
"A Commercially Viable Thermomorphic Catalyst for Controlled Free Radical Polymerization" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Keith Hall (Symyx Technologies)
"New Advances in the Discovery of Homogeneous Catalysts Relevant to Olefin Polymerization Using High-Throughput Techniques" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Brian Frost (University of Nevada)
"A New Twist on an Old Ligand: Recent Developments in the Coordination Chemistry and Reactivity of PTA" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:45 pm | Poster Session #3 |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Applications to Organic Methodology and Pharmaceuticals |
| Discussion Leader: Mitch Smith (Michigan State University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Alison Frontier (University of Rochester)
"The Impact of Catalyst Complex on the Nazarov Cyclization Pathway" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Anil Guram (Amgen, Inc.)
"Development of Catalyst Technologies for Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Peter Sadler (University of Edinburgh)
"Organometallic Anticancer Complexes" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster Talk #5: TBA |
| 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk #6: TBA |
| 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 #4 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Back to the Future |
| Discussion Leader: Tom Baker (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Russell Hughes (Dartmouth College)
"Can You Believe They Actually Said That?" |
| 7:30pm - 8:15 pm | Gerard Parkin (Columbia University)
"Alice in Wonderland Chemistry" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Dan Nocera (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"The Energy Problem Needs Organometallic Chemists!" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:45 pm | Poster Session #4 |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
