| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Kickoff Session |
| Discussion Leader: Nora Radu (Dupont) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Welcome and Announcements |
| 7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Maurice Brookhart (UNC, Chapel Hill)
"Catalysis Using Cationic, Electrophilic Late Transition Metal Complexes" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Russ Hughes (Dartmouth College)
"Synthesis and Chemistry of Transition Metal Fluoroalkylidene Complexes" |
| 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 | Physical Methods and Techniques |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Bergman (UC Berkeley) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Graham Ball (University of New South Wales)
"Alkanes and Xenon as Ligands: NMR studies of Photo-generated, Highly Reactive Complexes" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Lily Ackerman (Symyx Technologies)
"The Discovery and Development of New Single-Site Olefin Polymerization Catalysts Using High-Throughput Techniques" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Christophe Coperet (CNRS)
"Design of More Efficient Olefin and Alkane Metathesis Catalysts: Differences and Similarities Between Surface and Molecular Systems" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | William Geiger (University of Vermont)
"Ferrocene-free Organometallic Electrochemistry" |
| 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 | Novel Reactivity and Transformations I |
| Discussion Leader: Karen Goldberg (University of Washington) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Richard Andersen (UC Berkeley)
"Getting the F-out of Hydrofluoroaromatic Compounds with Organocerium Hydride Metallocenes" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Philip Power (UC Davis)
"Quintuple Interactions Between Transition Metals" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Geoff Cloke (University of Sussex)
"Reductive Cyclo-oligomerisation of CO at U(III) Centres and Related Studies" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session #1 |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Applications to Organic Synthesis I |
| Discussion Leader: Dan Vanderlende (Dow) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Melanie Sanford (University of Michigan)
"Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions at Palladium(IV): Exploiting the Potential of this Unusual Oxidation State" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Antonio Togni (ETH)
"New Reactions with the Trifluoromethyl Group" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Patrick Lam (Bristol Myers Squibb)
"Copper-Promoted C-X bond Cross-Coupling via Boronic Acids - a Versatile Reaction Complementary to Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster Talk #1 |
| 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk #2 |
| 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 #1 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Mechanistic & Theoretical |
| Discussion Leader: John Walzer (ExxonMobil) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Alan Goldman (Rutgers University)
"Combining C-H Bond Activation with C-C Bond Formation" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Jack Norton (Columbia University)
"Ruthenium-Catalyzed Ionic Hydrogenation of C=N: Scope and Enantioface Selectivity" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Mookie Baik (Indiana University)
"Rhodium-Catalyzed Stereoselective Carbocyclization: New Mechanistic Insights" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session #1 |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organometallics in Materials Chemistry and Biology |
| Discussion Leader: Roberto Sanchez Delgado (Brooklyn College) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Mark Thompson (University of Southern California)
"The use of Organometallic Complexes as Active Materials in Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Norman Herron (Dupont)
"Materials' Development for Solution Processing of OLEDs - 'Let there be Lights … and Let them be for Signs and for Seasons and for Days and Years'" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Charles Riordan (University of Delaware)
"Organonickel Intermediates in Biocatalysis: Learning from Bugs that Chew on CO2" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster Talk #3 |
| 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk #4 |
| 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 |
| 7:00 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 | Novel Reactivity and Transformations II |
| Discussion Leader: Sylviane Sabo-Etienne (CNRS) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Dean Roddick (University of Wyoming)
"The Search for Superelectrophilic Complex Cations" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Poly Arnold (University of Nottingham)
"Bifunctional Activation of Small Molecules by Combining f-Block Metals with N-Heterocyclic Carbenes" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Oleg Ozerov (Brandeis University)
"Breaking and Making of Strong Bonds at Pincer-Ligated Metal Centers: Fundamental Studies and Applications in Catalysis" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session #2 |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Applications to Organic Synthesis II |
| Discussion Leader: Mao Minoura (Kitasato University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Laurel Schafer (University of British Columbia)
"Modular and Easily Assembled N,O Chelating Ligands for Early Transition Metal and Lanthanide Chemistry: New Complexes for Catalysis" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Yann Schrodi (Materia)
"Development of Olefin Metathesis Catalysts for Industrial Applications" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Rab Mulvey (University of Strathclyde)
"Synergic Alkali-Metal Mediated Magnesiation and Zincation: Introducing Directed meta Metalation" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster Talk #5 |
| 12:00 pm - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Poster Talk #6 |
| 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 | Back to the Future |
| Discussion Leader: William Jones (University of Rochester) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | General Discussion |
| 7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | John Bercaw (California Institute of Technology)
"Selective Catalytic Oxidations of Methane: Keys to the Effective Use of Natural Gas" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Richard Schrock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"The Development of High Oxidation State Organometallic Chemistry Involving Multiple Metal-Carbon Bonds" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session #2 |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |