Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Sustainable Ligand and Catalyst Design for Next-Generation Solutions
Discussion Leader: Courtney Roberts (University of Minnesota, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Connie Lu (University of Bonn, Germany)
"Organometallic Reactivity at Heterobimetallic Metal-Lewis Acid Sites"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Frontiers in Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis
Discussion Leader: Jessica Klinkenberg (DuPont, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Mita Halder (Ames National Laboratory, United States)
"Well-Defined Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Ru Pincer Catalysts for the Reduction of Polyesters"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Alexander Umanzor (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States)
"Crystallographic and Electronic Structure Studies of PHOX-Ni Aryne Complexes: Origins of Regioselectivity in Metal-Bound Aryne Formation and Difunctionalization"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Melanie Kascoutas (University of Oregon, United States)
"Tunable In Situ Nickel Hydride Alkene Isomerization Catalyst"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Jin Yang (New York University, United States)
"ProPhos: A Ligand for Promoting Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling Inspired by Mechanistic Insights into Transmetalation"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Kelsie Wentz (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
"Linear and Conjugated Polysilanes as Functional Materials"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Margaret Ball (The Ohio State University, United States)
"The Role of Electron-Transfer in Copper-Mediated C(sp2 )-H Trifluoromethylation"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Small Molecule Activations and Organometallics
Discussion Leader: Nicholas Ball (Pomona College, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Souvik Mandal (Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, United States)
"New Pincer-Molybdenum Complexes for Catalytic Reduction of N2 to Ammonia. Mechanistic Studies Reveal Unanticipated Pathways for Bimetallic N2 Cleavage and Nitride/Imide N-H Bond Formation"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Ila Castro De la Torre (University of Michigan, United States)
"Isolating and Studying Reactivity of High Valent Nickel and Copper Complexes for Directed C-H Functionalization"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Fabio Masero (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of 7-Coordinate Molybdenum Alkyl Complexes Supported by ß-Diketonates"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Rohan Bhimpuria (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"Photocatalytic Generation of Divalent Lanthanide Reducing Agents"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Seryeong Lee (Northwestern University, United States)
"Metal–Organic Frameworks as a Tunable Platform to Deconvolute Stereoelectronic Effects on the Catalytic Activity of Thioanisole Oxidation"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Emma Finfer (University of Vermont, United States)
"Greener Pastures: The Search for a Sustainable Hydrophosphination System"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
At the Finish Line of Your Program, What’s Next?
Discussion Leaders: Santanu Malakar (University of Pennsylvania, United States) and Roman Belli (University of Minnesota, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
At the Finish Line of Your Program, What’s Next?
Nadine Gruhn (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Nicholas Ball (Pomona College, United States)
Jessica Klinkenberg (DuPont, United States)
Courtney Roberts (University of Minnesota, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes