14^th INORGANIC DISCUSSION WEEKEND

Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

October 30, 31 and November l, 1981

Notes:

1. Registration and mixer at Donald Gordon Centre on Friday 8.00 - 12.00 p.m. and 8.30 - 8:55 a.m. Saturday at Duncan McArthur Hall.

2. Sessions begin at 8.55 a.m. sharp on Saturday morning, and at 9.20 a.m. sharp on Sunday morning.

3. Saturday oral sessions will be held in Room A237 Duncan McArthur Hall (see map). Poster session after dinner Saturday night and oral session on Sunday morning will be held in the Donald Gordon Centre.

4. Poster size is limited to 3 feet horizontally. The poster boards are 3 feet in the vertical direction; posters can be a little taller than this if stiff cardboard is used.

5. For accommodation phone the Donald Gordon Centre 613-547-5529 or the Capri Motel 613-549-2211. In case of problems, call Mike Baird 613-547-3119 or leave a message at 613-547-6180.

14^th INORGANIC DISCUSSION WEEKEND

Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

October 30, 31 and November l, 1981

ORAL SESSIONS

All time slots are 20 minutes long.

Session I: Saturday morning

Duncan MacArthur Hall, Room A237 - Chairman: M.C. Baird

8.55 Opening remarks

9.00 Chemistry of the Coordinatively Unsaturated Cluster Ru₃(CO)₉(H)(PPh₂).

S.A. Maclaughlin, A.J.Carty and N.J. Taylor (GWC² Waterloo)

9.20 Transition Metal Clusters: Close Analogues of the Boranes.

M.J. McGlinchey and G. Jaouen (McMaster)

9.40 New Preparative Routes to Dinitrogen Complexes.

L. Baigue, H. Azizian, R.H. Morris and H. Wong (Toronto).

10.00 Metallacyclobutane to Metallacyclopentane Ring Expansion Reactions.

R.J. Puddephatt and J.T. Burton (Western)

10.20 Coffee

10.40 The Comparative Chemistry of Bipyrazyl and Bipyridyl.

R.J. Crutchley and A.B.P. Lever (York)

11.00 Application of Fast Atom Bombardment Mass Spectroscopy to Bioinorganic Chemistry – Vitamin B₁₂ etc.

J.M. Miller and L. Taylor (Brock).

11.20 The Crystal and Molecular Structure of Two Seven-coordinated Molybdenum (II) Complexes.

A. Somogyvari, E.C. Alyea and G. Ferguson (GWC² Guelph)

11.40 High Resolution NMR Studies of Inorganic Solids Using Magic Angle Spinning and Very High Magnetic Field.

C.A. Fyfe, G.C. Gobbi and J.S. Hartmann (Guelph and Brock)

12.00 Return to Donald Gordon Centre for lunch

Session II – Saturday Afternoon

Duncan MacArthur Hall, Room A237 - Chairman: R.J.C. Brown

2.00 Absolute Asymmetric Syntheses on the Surfaces of Single Crystals.

M.F. Richardson, H.L. liolland and P. Ch. Chenchaiah (Brock)

2.20 Coordination of Simple Disulfides to Copper (I) Centres.

P.M. Boorman, K. Valentine and K.J. Moynihan (Calgary, Canmet Ottawa).

2.40 The SnF₂ – MF₂ Systems (M=Pb, Sr, Ba): Structures and Properties.

T.Birchall and G. Dénès (McMaster)

3.00 Magnetic Behaviour of the Sold Solutions Lx_xY_1-xTiO₃.

J.P. Goral and J.E. Greedan (McMaster)

3.20 Coffee

3.40 Inorganic Chemistry

D.G.Tuck (Windsor)

4.00 Preparation and Electrochemical Studies of Compounds h⁵ – C₅H₅MLL’R (M=Fe, Ru; L & L’= CO, PPh₃; R=CH₃, CH₂Ph)

M.F.Joseph and M.C.Baird (Queen’s)

4.20 N.M.R Studies of ⁹⁹Tc Complexes.

K.J.Franklin, C.J.L.Lock, B.G.Sayer and G. Schrobilgen. (McMaster)

4.40 High Resolution NMR Studies of Platinum(II) – Guanosine-5’-Monophosphate Interactions in Aqueous Solutions.

T.Théophanides, M.Polissiou, T.Phan Viet and M. St. Jacques (Montréal)

5.00 Return to Donal Gordon Centre for dinner and Poster Session.

Session III – Sunday Morning

Donald Gordon Centre.- Chairman: B.K. Hunter

9.20 Photochemical Fragmentation of Carbonyl Clusters.

A.J. Poë, J. Malito, R. Huq, S. Markiewicz (Toronto)

9.40 Nucleophilic Attack at Carbon in the Triosmium Cluster Os₃(CO)₉(m₃-CºCPh)(PPh2)

J.P. Johnson, A.J. Carty and N.J. Taylor (GWC² Waterloo)

10.00 Ir(bipy)₃X₃ · nH₂O: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde or a player to be named later.

P.H. Bird, N. Serpone and W. Wickramasinghe (Concordia)

10.20 The Reaction of Hexacyanoferrate(III) Ion with H₂O₂.

D. Eaton and M. Pankratz (McMaster).

10.40 Chemical and Biological Changes Induced in Sodium Gold Thiomalate (Myochrisine_TM) by Heat and Light.

D.A. Harvey, W.F. Kean, C.J.L. Lock and D. Singh. (McMaster).

11.00 New G-G Pairings Induced by N7-platination.

R. Faggiani, G. Lippert, G.J.L. Lock, and R.A. Speranzini. (McMaster).

11.20 Structure of Mixed Valence Platinum Compounds.

T. Theophanides and A.L. Beauchamp (Montréal).

11.40 Mechanisms and Inhibition by Lead of Heme Synthesis in the Liver.

B. Hollebone (Carleton).

POSTER SESSION

Donald Gordon Centre, following dinner.

1. Reactions of Cp₂ZrH₂ with Acetylenes and Fluoroarenes

M.J. McGlinchey, D.G. Bickley, N. Hao and B.G. Sayer (McMaster).

2. Spectroscopic and Structural Studies of Metal Complexes of Trimesitylphosphine.

E.C. Alyea and G. Ferguson (GWC² Guelph).

3. Meta1 Complexes of a New Phosphorus-olefin Chelating Ligand.

A. Vougioukas and E.C. Alyea (GWC² Guelph).

4. Complexes of HgCl₂, with Macrocyclic Ligands.

M.R. Burke and M.F. Richardson (Brock).

5. Structures of 8-Coordinate Hg and Cd Complexes with 18-Crown-6.

C.R. Paige and M.F. Richardson (Brock).

6. Structures of Some Metal Complexes of Vitamin B₆ Derivatives.

J.H.K.A. Acquaye, J. Longo and M.F. Richardson (Brock).

7. Structures of Some Transition Metal Complexes Related to Polarized Single Crystal Spectra.

D. Evans, M.R. Burke, P. McCarthy, I. Walker and M.F. Richardson (Brock).

8. Chemical and Structural Aspects of Strong Hydrogen Bonding.

J. Longo, S. Paone, J.M. Miller and M.F. Richardson (Brock).

9. Structure and Magnetic Properties of some Fluorotitanates.

S. Eicher and J.E. Greedan (McMaster).

10. Crystal Field Effects in Yb₂V₂O₇

L. Soderholm and J.E. Greedan (McMaster).

11. Point Charge Model in ⁵⁹Co NMR.

S.C.F. An-Yeung and D.R. Eaton (McMaster).

12. XAFS Studies of Pt Complexes of DNA.

A.F. Hitchcock, C.J.L. Lock and W.M.C. Pratt (McMaster)

13. Chromium Sandwiches with Mixed White and Brown Bread.

N. Hao, C.J.L. Lock and M.J. McGlinchey (McMaster).

14. N.M.R. Studies of Au^I -mercaptosuccinic acid complexes.

M.Hagar, D.A.Harvey, W. F. Kean and C.J. L. I.ock (McMaster).

15. Vibrational Spectra of ReO₂(CN)₄^2-, ReO₂(^l3CN)₄^2-, Re¹⁶O⁸O(CN)₄^2- and the "Re₂O₃ " System.

H.E. Howard-Lock, C.J.L. Lock and G. Turner (McMaster).

16. Structural Studies of Pt-(dien) Complexes.

J. Britten, C.J.L. Lock and W.M.C. Pratt. (McMaster).

17. The Problem of Pt(II) and Water.

J. Britten, B. Lippert, C.J.L. Lock, P. Pilon and M. Zvagulis (McMaster).

18. Structural Studies of Tc(V) Oxo-complexes.

A. Davidson, E. Deutsch, R. Faggiani, K..J. Franklin and C.J.L. Lock (McMaster).

19. Prior gold therapy does not influence the adverse effects of D-penicillamine in rheumatoid disease.

W. F. Kean, H.E. Howard-Lock, C.J. L. Lock and W.W. Buchanan (McMaster).

20. Anion reorientation in Hexachlorostannate Salts.

M.Mackowiak, , B.K. Hunter and R..I.C. Brown (Queen's).

21. Structural Aspects of Pentanuclear Osmium and Ruthenium Clusters.

D.H. Farrar^a, J. Lewis^b and B.F.G. Johnson^b ( ^aToronto and ^bCambridge, England).

22. Acid Cleavage Reactions of Alkyl cobaloximes.

S.B. Ferguson and M.C. Baird (Queen's).

23. Chemistry of Chelated Alkylpalladium Compounds.

E.L. Weinberg and M.C. Baird (Queen's).

24. Metal Ion-Biomolecule Interactions: Versatility of Mercury(II) Binding to Imidazoles and Nucleosides.

A.R. Norris, B.M. Kruse, S.E. Taylor and E. Buncel (Queen's).

25. High Resolution NMR and FT-IR Spectra of GMP-Mg²⁺ Interactions.

T. Théophanides and M. Polissiou (Montréal).

26. Mixed Metal Organometallics from cis-bis (phosphino-acetylene) complexes.

T. Rukachaisirikul, A.J. Carty and N.J. Taylor (GWC² Waterloo).

27. Rearrangement of Platinocyclobutanes via a-elimination.

S. Ling and R.J. Puddephatt (Western).

28. Structures of Molybdenum Arenediazo Complexes.

G. Ferguson, B. Ruhl, F.J. Lalor and M. Parvez (GWC² Guelph).

29. Structures of Palladium Macrocycles.

M. Parvez, G. Ferguson, R. McCrindle and A.J. McAlees. (GWC² Guelph).