Conference Program
 
INORGANIC REACTION MECHANISMS

February 28 - March 5, 1999
Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express
Ventura, CA

Chair:
Dale W.. Margerum

Vice Chair:
Peter C. Ford

Sunday, February 28

  • 4:00 pm - Chair's reception, Harborview Room
  • 6:00 pm - Dinner
Sunday EveningAtom-transfer Reactions
Chair: James M. Mayer, University of Washington
  • Henry Taube, Stanford University
    7:30-8:00 pm - Introductory Remarks
  • James H. Espenson, Iowa State University
    8:10-8:50 pm - Atom-Transfer Reactions Catalyzed by Methyltrioxorhenium
  • Christopher C. Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    9:00-9:40 pm - Nitrido-Bridged Intermediates in Intermetal N-atom Transfer and New N-atom Abstraction Reactions

Monday, March 1

  • 8:30 am - Conference Photo
Monday MorningAtom-Transfer; Conformationally-Controlled Electron Transfer Reactions
Chair: David M. Stanbury, Auburn University
  • Thomas J. Meyer, University of North Carolina
    9:00-9:45 am - Atom-Transfer Reactions of Os(VI)-Nitridos
  • 10:00-10:30 am - Break
  • David B. Rorabacher, Wayne State University
    10:30-11:15 am - Gates and Stepladders in Conformationally-Controlled Electron Transfer
  • Harry B. Gray, California Institute of Technology
    11:30 am-12:15 pm - Substrates for Rapid Delivery of Electrons and Holes to Buried Active Sites of Metalloenzymes
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
Monday Afternoon
4:30-6:00 pm
Poster Session

Monday EveningOrganometallic Mechanisms
Chair: Jack R. Norton, Columbia University
  • John E. Bercaw, California Institute of Technology
    7:30-8:15 pm - Mechanisms of Stereocontrol in Metallocene-Catalyzed Polymerizations of Propylene
  • Ian P. Rothwell, Purdue University
    8:30-9:15 pm - Mechanistic Studies of the 4-Electron Reduction of Small Molecules by Tungsten Aryloxides

Tuesday, March 2

Tuesday MorningOrganometallic Mechanisms
Chair: William D. Jones II, University of Rochester
  • Alan S. Goldman, Rutgers University
    8:45-9:30 am - Transition Metal Catalyzed Alkane Dehydrogenation
  • 9:45-10:15 am - Break
  • Roy A. Periana, Catalytica Advanced Technologies, Inc.
    10:15-11:00 am - High Yield Oxidation of Methane to Methanol with CH Activation Platinum Catalysts: Chemistry and Mechanism
  • Karen I. Goldberg, University of Washington
    11:15 am-12:00 pm - Reductive Elimination and Oxidative Addition Reactions Involving C-C, C-H, and C-X Bonds at Pt(IV)/Pt(II)
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
Tuesday Afternoon
4:30-6:00 pm
Poster Session

Tuesday EveningOlefin Exchange Processes and Bioinorganic Mechanisms
Chair: Alison Butler, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Lars I. Elding, Lund University, Sweden
    7:30-8:15 pm - Olefin and Phosphine Exchange Processes at Platinum(II) Complexes
  • Alvin L. Crumbliss, Duke University
    8:30-9:15 pm - Mechanisms of Biologically Relevant Reactions at Iron Centers

Wednesday, March 3

Wednesday MorningBioinorganic Mechanisms
Chair: William H. Woodruff, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Ólöf Einarsdóttir, University of California, Santa Cruz
    8:45-9:30 am - The Mechanism of Oxygen Reduction by Cytochrome c Oxidase: Time-Resolved Optical Absorption Study
  • 9:45-10:15 am - Break
  • Gerald T. Babcock, Michigan State University
    10:15-11:00 am - Oxygen-Oxygen Bond Formation and Cleavage in Respiration and Photosynthesis
  • David A. Wink, National Cancer Institute
    11:15 am-12:00 pm - Mechanism of Reactive Nitrogen Oxide Species in Balance between Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
Wednesday EveningReactions of Nitric Oxide and Peroxynitrite: Some Biological Implications
Chair: Peter Lay, University of Sydney
  • James K. Hurst, Washington State University
    7:30-8:15 pm - Oxidative Chemistry of Peroxynitrite and Its Biological Implications
  • Willem H. Koppenol, ETH, Switzerland
    8:30-9:15 pm - The Carbon Dioxide Adduct of Peroxynitrite, 1-Carboxy-2-nitrosodioxidane: A Pulse Radiolysis Investigation
Wednesday Evening
9:30-11:00 pm
Poster Session

Thursday, March 4

Thursday MorningReactions of Nitric Oxide and Peroxynitrite: Some Biological Implications
Chair: William C. Trogler, University of California, San Diego
  • Judith N. Burstyn, University of Wisconsin
    8:45-9:15 am - NO and CO as Biological Signal Transducers: Allosteric Regulation through Coordination-Sphere Reorganization
  • 9:45-10:15 am - Break
  • Scott D. Bohle, University of Wyoming
    10:15-11:00 am - Superoxide Independent Formation of Peroxynitrite
  • Peter C. Ford, University of California, Santa Barbara
    11:15 am-12:00 pm - Mechanisms of Metal-Nitrosyl Bond Formation and Breaking
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
Thursday Evening...
Chair: Dale W. Margerum, Purdue University
  • 8:00 pm - Business Meeting
  • Ralph G. Wilkins, New Mexico State University
    8:30 pm - Fifty Years of Fun with Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms

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