1995 Gordon Research Conference on Inorganic Chemistry

Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
July 23-28, 1994

Herbert D. Kaesz (UCLA),			David Thorn (Du Pont),
Chair			                        Vice Chair


Monday, July 24
8:45 a.m.	Introductory Remarks and Welcome
9:00 a.m. 	Bioinorganic Chemistry
	       Peter Legzdins (British Columbia), Discussion Leader 

Stephen J. Lippard        Biomimetic Studies with Carboxylate-Bridged
      (MIT)                 Dimetallic Complexes

Judith N. Burstyn         Activation of Soluble Guanynyl Cyclase by NO: the
    (Wisconsin)	            Role of the Heme Ligand Bond
		
Heinrich Vahrenkamp       Coordination Chemistry of Zinc Related to Biological
    (Freiburg)              Functions

Michelle M. Millar        Aspects of H+/H2 Activation in Coordination Compounds
    (SUNY Stony Brook) 	    and in Hydrogenase

7:30 p.m.      Main Group Elements
	T.O. Beachley, Jr. (SUNY Buffalo), Discussion Leader

Herbert W. Roesky         Symbiosis Between Main Group and Transition Elements
    (Göttingen)
	
Arlan D. Norman           Skeletal Stabilization: The Basis for Novel 
    (Colorado)              Cyclophosphazane Chemistry

Dale W. Margerum          Non-metal Redox Kinetics: Base Decomposition of 
    (Purdue)                Chloramines in aqueous solution



Tuesday, July 25

8:45 a.m.	Group Photo
9:00 a.m.	Coordination Compounds and Supramolecular Complexes
	Steven H. Strauss (Colorado State), Discussion Leader	

Klaus H. Theopold         The Taming of O2 - Towards Catalytic Oxidations with Air
    (Delaware)

Bruce M. Foxman	          Single-Crystal Reactions of Coordination Compounds
    (Brandeis)	

Charles E. Strouse        A Molecular Masonry Approach to Lattice Engineering
    (UCLA)

Carlos A. Murillo         The Search for Elusive Metal-Metal Bonded Low Valent
   (Texas A&M)	    Compounds

		

7:30 p.m.     	Lanthanides and Actinides
	             	David L. Clark (Los Alamos), Discussion Leader

William J. Evans          The Main Group Chemistry of the Lanthanide Metals
   (U.C. Irvine  )

Carol J. Burns	Metal-Main Group Bonding in f-Element Chemistry: Steric
   (Los Alamos)	          and Electronic  Control in Reactivity

Josef Takats            Hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borates: Versatile Ligands for f-Element
   (Edmonton, Alberta)	  Complexation.



Wednesday, July 26
9:00 a.m.    Metal Clusters and Organometallic Chemistry - I
	        Kenton H. Whitmire (Rice), Discussion Leader  

Dieter Fenske           Transition Metal Clusters with Main Group Elements
   (Karlsruhe) 	          as Ligands

Georg Süss-Fink    Cationic Multinuclear Benzene-Ruthenium Complexes
    (Neuchâtel)       Containing Bridging  Hydride Ligands: Cluster Build-up
                          in Aqueous Solution

Jean-Yves Saillard      Electronic Structure, Bonding, and Electron Counting in Some 

    (Rennes)		  Inorganic Transition-Metal Cubic Clusters

Guy Lavigne             Cluster-mediated Synthesis of High-value Organic Products
     (LCC, Toulouse)


 7:30 p.m.   	Metal Clusters and Organometallic Chemistry - II
                Richard D. Adams (South Carolina), Discussion Leader

Duward F. Shriver       Clusters of Early d-block Metal Clusters
    (Northwestern)	

N. John Cooper	        The Chemistry of Benzene in Low Valent Transition Metal
    (Pittsburgh)	  Complexes.

Ben Ziling Xue          Metal Silyl Complexes and Metal Silicides
    (Tennessee)	



Thursday, July 27



9:00 a.m.    Inorganic Chemistry of Materials
                Douglas Loy (Sandia), Discussion Leader

Andrew R. Barron        Chemical Routes to Group 13 Chacogenides
    (Harvard)	 	

William S. Rees, Jr.    Designed Precursors for Electronic Materials
    (Georgia Tech)		

Jon McCleverty          Molecular Design for Optoelectronics
    (Bristol)	

Sandy L. Issler	        X-ray Phosphors Used in Medical Radiography	
    (DuPont Medical)



7:30 p.m.    Governmental Science Policy and Trends in Education 
             	F. Albert Cotton (Texas A&M), Discussion Leader

A.P. Sattelberger       Redefining the Missions of Our National Laboratories
    (Los Alamos)

Luther S. Williams      Education Reform
    (NSF)





Friday, July 28

8:30 a.m.    Industrial Forum    
	David Thorn (Dupont), Discussion Leader

J.S. Thompson           Activation of Gold Dissolution	
    (DuPont)	

Dennis P. Riley	        An Industrial Perspective for Chemical Research in the
    (Monsanto) 	          Nineties

Gregory J. Kubas        Small Molecule Activation Relevant to Energy and the
   (Los Alamos)	          Environment 	

Austin H. Reid, Jr.    	Inorganic Chemistry in Industry: Future History
    (Du Pont Minerals)



 Two poster sessions are planned. Send proposed title, authorship and
short Abstract before June 30, 1995 to Dr. David Thorn, E.I. duPont de
Nemours & Co., Inc., Central Res. & Dev. Dept. Experimental Station,
POB 80328, Wilmington, DE 19880-0328, Telefax: (302) 695-9799. 

     A limited number of places at the conference will be reserved for
post-doctoral fellows or senior graduate students presenting posters on
noteworthy results. Contact: H.D. Kaesz,  Dept. of Chem. & Biochem., Univ.
of Calif., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, e-mail: hdk@argon.chem.ucla.edu.


     For conference application forms contact: Dr. C.B. Strom, Director
GRC, University of Rhode Island, P.O. Box 984, West Kingston, RI 02892-0984.
Tel. (401) 783-4044 or 3372; Telefax: (401) 783-7644.