10th Inorganic Discussion Weekend

Department of Chemistry

YORK UNIVERSITY

September 30 - October 2, 1977

Registration

Delegates may register at the mixer on Friday evening or in the Senate lounge on Saturday.

$10.00 for faculty, post-does and industry

$6.00 for students

$8.00 for all others attending the dinner

The registration fee covers the meeting, mixer, and the dinner at Black Creek Pioneer Village.

All contributed papers (programme attached) should be no longer than 15 minutes allowing a five minute discussion period between papers.

To accommodate the large number of papers received (33) we have added a session Friday evening. We strongly urge all delegates to plan to arrive in time for this session. Refreshments at the mixer following the Friday evening session are included in the conference registration fee,

Directions

Arriving via 401; take highway 400 North to tm FINCH EAST exit (DO NOT MISS THIS EXIT) proceed along FINCH to JANE ST. go North on JANE to SHOREHAM DRIVE, go East. on SHOREHAM mat BLACK CREEK PIONEER VILLAGE to ATHABASCA RD. and PARKING LOT DD.

Arriving from Highway 7; take JANE ST. South to SHOREHAM DRIVE and proceed as above.

From Parking Lot DD:

Friday evening - Petrie Science Bldg. (#23 on the map) is directly in front of you.

Saturday & Sunday - Ross Bldg. (#12 on the map) is reached by walking through Central Square (#14) via Curtis Lecture Halls (#13). Take the North elevator to the 9th floor and the Senate Chamber.

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

CANADA PACKERS

VARIAN ASSOCIATES

FALCONBRIDGE NICKEL

YORK UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES

YORK UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SCIENCE

D.V.Stynes

Department of Chemistry

York University

Programme

8.00 - 9.00 Friday p.m., September 30^th 1977

Registration and Mixer (Petrie Science Bldg., Rm. 315)

Session I Friday p.m., September 30, 1977 (Petrie Science Bldg, Rm. 317)

9.00 - 9.20 G. Ozin and H. Huber (Toronto)

‘ Cryophotoagregation, A new Technique for Probing the Molecular metal Cluster - Bulk Metal Particle Interface'

9.20 - 9.40 D.R Eaton (McMaster)

'Electron Transfer Through Imidazole in Hemeproteins'

9.40 - 10.00 A.B.P. Lever(York)

'Charge Transfer Spectra of Metal Dioxygen Complexes'

10.00 - 11.00 Mixer (Petrie Science Bldg, Rm. 315)

Session II Saturday am., October 1, 1977 (Senate Chamber)

Chairmam: A.B.P. Lever (York)

9.00 - 9.20 T. Birchall and J.P. Johnson (McMaster)

'Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Some Mixed Oxidation State Compounds of Tin'

9.20 - 9.40 M. Moskovits and J.E. Hulse (Toronto)

'Transition Metal Molecules Without Ligands'

9.40 - 10.00 A.J. Carty and D.K. Johnson (GWC)

'Addition of 2^o Phosphines to Phosphinoacetylene Complexes: A Stereospecific Route to Unsymmetrical Diphosphines and Their Complexes'

10.00 - 10.20 Coffee

Session III Saturday a.m.

Chairman: N. Payne (Western)

10.20 – 10.40 W.P. Smith, A.J. Carty and M.J. Taylor (GWC)

'Acetylene Iron Tetacarbonyls: Classic Organometallic Intermdiates: Synthesis and Structure of Fe₂(CO)₈(Ph₂PC≡CBu^t)

10.40 - 11.00 G.J. Erskine, J. Hartgerink, S.E. Todd, E. Weinberg and J.D. McCowan (Queen's)

‘Thermal Decomposition of Biscyclopentadienyldimethyltitanium(IV)'

11.00 - 11.20 R.G. Goel and P. Pilon (Guelph)

'Triphenylphosphine Complexes of Mercury(II) Acetate and Mercury(II) Haloacetates, Synthesis, Characterization and Spectral Studies'

11.20 - 11,40 D. Dong and M.C. Baird (Queen's)

'Stereochemistry and Mechanisms of Electrophilic Cleavage of Compounds'

11.40 - 12.00 J. Miller(Brock)

'Applications of HSAB to Organometallic Mass Spectrometry'

Session IV Saturday p.m.

Chairman: C.E. Holloway (York)

2.00 - 2.20 A. Faggiani, C. J. L. Lock and G. Turner (McMaster)

'Dimeric Couples of Platinum with Pyrimidines - A new Type of Interaction'

2.20 - 2.40 C. Trivedi and RJ. Balahura (Guelph)

'Redox Reactions of Water Soluble Porphyrins'

2.40 - 3.00 Katharine Martin and M.J. Stillman (Western)

'A Magnetic Circular Dichroism Study of Phthalocyanine Complexes'

3.00 - 3.20 D. Coucouvanis, C.N. Murphy and S. Kanodia (MeMaster)

'Copper Mercaptide Complexes, Chemical and Structural Characteristics'

3.20 - 3.40 Coffee

Session V Saturday p.m.

Chairman: T. Jack (Toronto)

3.40 - 4.00 C.R. Langford, J.A. Koningstein and N. Hershey (Carleton)

'Photochemistry at Optically Transparent Electrodes

4.00 - 4.20 G.M. Harris and S.F. Chan (S.U.N.Y., Buffalo)

'Mercury(II) Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Chloroaquarhodium(III)

4.20 - 4.40 W. Klotzbucher, G.A. Ozin, J. Norman and H. Kolari (Toronto)

'BiMetal Atom Chemistry, Relevance to Alloy and BiMetallic Cluster Catalysis

4.40 - 5.00 G.R. Clarke, D. R. Russel, W.R Roper and A. Walker (Toronto)

'A Chelate Methyldisulphide Ligand from Methylation of Coordinated Disulfur. Structure of (Os(n²-S₂Me)(CO)₂(Ph₃)₂)ClO₄

5.00 - 5.20 J.L. Roustan, A. Guinot and J. Collin (Ottawa)

'Insertion of Allenes into an Iron Acyl Bond. Formation of Unsaturated Ketones.

6.00 - 7.00 Cash Bar (Black Creek Pioneer Village, Halfway House)

7.00 - Dinner (Black Creek Pioneer Village, Halfway House)

Session VI Sunday am., October 2, 1977 (Senate Chamber)

Chairman: M. Richardson (Brock)

9.00 – 9.20 R.J. Balahura and W.C. Kupferschmidt (Guelph)

'Reduction of the Linkage Isomers of 4-cyanobenzoatopentammine Cobalt(III) by Cr(II). Orbital paths for Reduction.'

9.20 – 9.40 D.R Eaton, J.P.K. Tong and A. Majid (McMaster)

'Metal Complex Catalyzed Reactions of Anils. Kinetic and mechanistic studies.

9.40 – 10.00 T. Inoue and G.M. Harris (S.U.N.Y., Buffalo)

'Hydrolysis Reactions of the Carbonatochlorobisethylenediaminecobalt(III) Complex Ion'

10.00 – 10.20 A.D. Westland and G.R Makhija (Ottawa)

'Halide Affinities of Same Metal Tetrahalides'

10.20 - 10.40 Coffee

Session VII Sunday a.m.

Chairman: I.M. Walker (York)

10.40 - 11.00 A. Baranyi, W.R. Datars and R. J. Gillespie (McMaster)

'Low Temperature Structural Studies of Some One Dimensional Compounds'

11.00 – 11.20 T. G. M. H. Dikhoff, R. G. Goel and W. G. Ogini (Guelph)

‘Metal d⁸ and d¹⁰ Complexes of Sterically Hindered Phosphines’

11.20 – 11.40 K. Franklin and M. Richardson (Brock)

‘Crystal Structure of a Copper Pyridoxamine Complex’

11.40 – 12.00 E. A. Robinson and R. Aroca (Toronto)

‘Hydrogen Bonding by Methyl Groups’

12.00 – 12.20 G. M. Bancroft, D. K. Creber abd L. L. Coatsworth (Western)

‘High Resolution He(II) Photoelectron Studies of Core Levels’

End of Meeting