UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

IVth INORGANIC DISCUSSION WEEKEND

INN ON THE PARK

WILKET CREEK SUITE

OCTOBER 1st-3rd, 1971

Programme and Conference Organizer:

Dr. G. A. Ozin, Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories and Erindale College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 2nd

Session I (Chairman J. T. Thompson, University of Toronto)

9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks

1. 9:35 a.m. Steric Control of Penta-coordination for titanium(IV) complexes, by E. C. Alyea and P. H. Merrell" (Guelph)_

2. 9:55 a.m. Polyatomic cations of mercury, by B. Cutforth" and R. J. Gillespie (MCMaster)

3. 10:15 a.m. Oxidative addition of silicon hydrides to some iridium(I) complexes. by J. F. Harrod (McGill)

4. 10:35 a.m. Reaction rates in some reactidns of co-ordinated ligands, by M. W. Lister (Toronto)

10:55 a.m. Coffee Break

5. 11:10 a.m. Circular dichroism and the vicinal effect in optically active molecules by O. W. Bailey and R. A. Haines" (Western)

6. 11:30 a.m. Transition metal complexes of diazonium salts as modals for nitrogenase, by G. W. Rayner Canham, A. B. Gilchrist and D. Sutton (York)

7. 11:50 a.m. Mass spectra of some perfluoroaromatic organometallic compounds, by J. M. Miller (Brock)

8. 12:10 p.m. Olefin and tertiary phosphine complexes of Copper(II) by M. C. Baird (Queen's)

9. 12:30 p.m. Charge density distributions in group (VIII) transition metal phosphine complexes, by W. L. Louch and D. R. Eaton (McMaster)

12:50 p.m. Discussion

Session II (Chairman A. J. Poë, University of Toronto)

10. 2:30 p.m. Displacement reactions in organoplatinum(II) cations and ligand reactivities, by M H. Chisholm" and H.C.Clark (Western)

11. 2:50 p.m. Formation of organoplatinum(II) carbene cations from isocyanide complexes, by H. C. Clark and L. Manter" (Western)

12. 3:10 p.m. Trans-influences in organo platinum compounds, by T. G. Appleton" and H. C. Clark (Western)

3:30 p.m. Coffee break

13. 3:45 p.m. N.M.R. studies of organo-tin derivatives, by C. E. Holloway" and K. S. A. Kandil (York)

14. 4:05 p.m. A stereochemical study of the thermally unstable penta co-ordinate silicon(IV) complexes SiC1₃X.NMe₃ (where X = H, F, Br or I). by D. H. Boal and G. A. Ozin" (Toronto)

15. 4:25 p.m. Mixed boron trihalide adducts; Is p-bonding present in the donor-acceptor bond ?, by J. S. Hartman* and C. V. Raman (Brock)

16. 4:45 pm Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of some inorganic single crystals, by D. Adams (Leicester)

17. 5:05 p.m. To be announced, by S. C. Nyburg (Toronto)

5:25 p.m. Discussion

Bar

6:00 p.m. Banquet dinner

SUNDAY OCTOBER 3rd

Session III (Chairman R. O. Harris, University of Toronto)

18. 9:30 a.m. Magnetic exchange in some binuclear tetrahedral cobalt(II) complexes by A. B. P. Lever", W. M. Reiff and L. K. Thompson (York)

19. 9:50 a.m. Cyclopentadienylmanganese carbonyl dithiocarbonyl and related complexes, by I. S. Butler" and A. E. Fenster (McGill)

20. 10:10 a.m. X-ray structural analysis of catalytically important platinum complexes, by B. W. Davies, N. C. Payne* and R. Stepaniak (Western)

10:30 a.m Coffee

21. 10:45 a.m Studies on ion-pairing in paramagnetic systems, by M. S. Qureshi, L. Rosenthal and I. M. Walker" (York)

22. 11:05 a.m Structure and bonding in iron(II) low spin isomers from Mossbauer quadrupole splittings, by G. M. Bancroft and E. T. Sibbey (Western)

23. 11:25 a.m To be announced, by J. Powell (Toronto)

24. 11:45 a.m. Recent kinetic studies on metal-metal bonded systems by A. J. Poë (Toronto)

25. 12:05 p.m Factor group tables and their use in single crystal vibrational spectroscopy by D. Adams (Leicester)

12:25 p.m. Discussion and closing remarks

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An overhead projector and a 2" x 2" slide projector will be available.