Ninth INORGANIC DISCUSSION WEEKEND

 

October 1-3  1976                                Skyline Hotel, Ottawa

 

All scheduled events will take place on the Convention Floor of the Skyline Hotel.  The location of the Skyline Hotel is indicated on the enclosed map (No. 15).

 

Registration

 

Delegates may register in the area in front of the Joliet-Frontenac rooms (Convention Floor) from 7:00-8:00 p.m. and 9:00-10:00 p.m. on Friday, or from 9:00-12:00 a.m. on Saturday.  There will be a mixer held in the Richelieu Room following Professor Faller's talk.

 

Dinner will be served in the Joliet-Frontenac room on Saturday at 7:00 p.m.; and a cash bar available from 6:00-7:00 p.m.

 

The registration fee covers the costs of the meeting itself, as well as the mixer on Friday night and the dinner on Saturday evening.

 

Registration Fees:  $14.00 for faculty and post-docs.

$9.00 for all others. including spouses of participants who  wish to attend the   dinner.

 

Papers

     All contributed papers (program attached) should be no longer than 15 minutes, to allow for a five minute discussion period between papers. Facilities will be available for the projection of 2" x 2" (35mm) slides only .

 

Parking and Transportation

Parking is available at the Skyline Hotel. Bus service ($2.5O) is available every 20 minutes, to or from the airport. The Skyline Hotel is one of the stops on the route.

 

 

We are indebted to the following for support of this meeting.

 

Carleton University

Noranda Research

University of Ottawa

van Nostrand Relnhold Ltd.

Ventron Corporation (Alfa Products)

 

All correspondence regarding this meeting should be addressed to: Dr. Howard Alper, Chairman, Inorganic Discussion Weekend, Department of Chemistry University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5

 

NINTH INORGANIC DISCUSSION WEEKEND

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Session I      Friday p.m.  October 1  1976 (Joliet-Frontenac) 

        Chairman:  H. Alper (Ottawa)

 

8.00–9.00    J.W. Faller (Yale University)

                 " Stereospecific Reactions  of Metal Complexes (Richelieu)

 

9.00–11.00  Mixer (Richelieu)

 

 

Session II    Saturday a.m. October 2, 1976 (Joliet-Frontenac)

        Chairman:  A. D.  Westland (Ottawa)

 

9:00-10:00   L.V. Interrante (GE Corporate Research and Development)

"Molecular Design of Solid State Systems.  Organic-Metal Complex p-Donor-Acceptor  Compounds”

 

10:00-10:20    Coffee

 

Session III     Saturday a.m.  Chairman:  M.J. McGlinchey (McMaster)

 

10:20-10:40   M. Moskovitz (Toronto)

                      "Physical Chemistry of Transition Metal Clusters"

 

10:40-11:00   P.D. Gavens and M. J.. Mays* (Cambridge)

  "Preparation and 13C n.m.r. Spectra of Some Isonitrile Substituted Complexes Related   to M3(CO)12 (M = Fe, Ru, Os)"

 

11:00-11:20   K. Stanley and M.C. Baird*  (Queen's)

"Steric Effects on the Properties of Diastereomeric  Iron Alkyl Complexes - A      Comparative Study"

 

 11:20-11:40   J.L. Roustan* and J. Collin (Ottawa)

                      “Carboalkoxylation of s-Propargylmolybdenum Complexes"

 

11:40-12:00    M. Fryzuk (Toronto)

                       "Asymmetric Synthesis.  Optically Active Amino Acids"·

 

Session IV     Saturday p.m. (Joliet-Frontenac)  Chairman:  C. H. Langford (Carleton)

 

2:00-3:00       H.B. Gray (California Institute of Technology)

         "Electron Transfer Pathways Employed by Metalloproteins"

 

3:00-3:20      Coffee

 

Session V      Saturday p.m.  Chairman:  B.  Bosnich (Toronto)

 

 3:20-3:40     R.J. Balahura,  J.L. Laird   and N.A. Lewis ((GWC)2 – Guelph)

                     "Reduction Studies of  b-Diketone Complexes of Cobalt"

 

3:40-4:00       I. W. Pang, S. Wilshire, and D.Y. Stynes*  (York)

"Reversible Binding of Carbon Monoxide and Benzylisocyanide to Ferrous TAAB    and Ferrous DOH"

 

4:00-4:20      A.B.P. Lever, L.K. Thompson, M.R. Hill, and J.P. Wilshire*  (York)

"Reactions of Metal Phthalocyanines with Oxygen.  The Formation of  Superoxide      Complexes"

 

4:20-4:40      T.F. Ignacz* and N. Serpone (Concordia - Sir George Williams)

         "Condensation and Cyclization of 1,3-Diketones Using Organohalosilanes"

 

4 :40-5:00     R.P. Hughes (Dartmouth)

                    "Metal Mediated Coupling Reactions of Organic Heterocycles"

 

6:00-7:00     Cash bar

 

7:00             Dinner (Joliet -Frontenac)

 

Session VI      Sunday a.m., October 3, 1976 (Ballroom Section)  Chairman M. C. Baird (Oueen ' s) 

 

9:00-9:20      D. Johnson* , S.E. Jacobson, and A.J. Carty ((GWC)2-Waterloo)

“Diphosphinoalkene Complexes of Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) via the Addition of    Secondary Phosphines to Coordinated Phosphinoalkynes "

 

9:20-9:40     H.C. Clark and C.R.C. Milne* (Western)

“Some Reactions of Palladium - Carbon and Palladium - Hydrogen Bonds with   Substituted Acetylenes"

 

9:40-10:00   R.G. Goel and P. Pilon* ((GWC)2-Guelph)

       "Tris(t-butyl)phosphine Complexes of Ag(I)

 

10:00-10:20  E.C. Alyea, S. A. Dias, G. Ferguson, R. Restivo and P. Roberts ((GWC)2-Guelph)

   "Synthesis and Structures of Some Mercury(II) Complexes of Tri-o-tolyl phosphine      and Tricyclohexylphosphine

 

10:20-10:40   Coffee

 

 

Session VII     Sunday a.m.  Chairman:  J.E. Greedan (McMaster)

 

10:40-11:00   J. Phillips, C.H. Langford, J.A. Koningstein, and R.G. Barradas (Carleton)

                      "Laser Generated Excited States at Semi-Conducting Electrodes"

 

11:00-11:20  P.N. Schatz (Virginia)

                      “MCD and MCPE Spectroscopy of Doped and Matrix Isolated Species”

 

11:20-11:40  G.M. Bancroft and D.K. Creber* (Western)

         "Shake-up Structure in the ESCA Spectra  of Transition Metal Complexes"

 

11:40-12:00   J.E. Greedan, D.A. MacLean, and J.D. Garrett (McMaster)

         "Unusual Magnetic Properties of Rare-Earth Titanium (III) Oxides”

 

12:00-12:20   P.C. Chieh ((GWC)2 - Waterloo)

                     "Packing of Configurations with Td or 43m Symmetry"

 

End of Meeting