36th IDW. McMaster University.

October 31-November 2, 2003

 

ACADEMIC PROGRAM

 

PLENARY LECTURES

Saturday AM. 09:10 Polynitrogen Chemistry, Karl Christe

Sunday AM. 09:00 Solid-State Coordination Chemistry of Molybdenum Oxides, Jon Zubieta

 

CONTRIBUTED ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Saturday AM. Room A

09:00 Introductory Remarks

10:20 A Novel Polymer-Bound Ir(III) Luminophore for Oxygen-Sensing Applications DeRosa M.C., Enright G., Evans C.E.B., Crutchley R.J.C.

10:40 Reactions of Phosphorus(V) Compounds with Boranes Hawkeswood S.B., Stephan D.W.

11:00 Syntheses and X-ray Crystal Structures of a- and b-[XeO2F][SbF6], [XeO2F][AsF6], and [FO2XeFXeO2F][AsF6]. Pointner B.E., Schrobilgen G.J., Suontamo R.J.

11:20 Rhodium-Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling of Phosphine Adducts of Heavy Group 13 Elements Clark T.J., Jaska C.A., Manners I.

11:40 The Detection and Reactions of Diphenylgermylene Harrington C.R., Leigh W.J.

 

Saturday PM. Room A 

13:20 Readily Available Low Oxidation State Phosphorus and Arsenic Salts: Synthesis and Reactivity Ellis B.D., Macdonald C.L.B.

13:40 The Supramolecular Association of Tellurium-Nitrogen Organic Heterocycles Cozzolino A.F., Rauscher S., Mahmoudkhani A.H., Vargas-Baca I.

14:00 An Oxidative Route to Halogen- and OTeF5-Substituted Carbocations Lehmann J.F., Moran M.D., Mercier H.P.A., Schrobilgen G.J., Steinberg C., Suontamo R.J.

14:20 Inorganic Rings Made Easy - Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of Dithiazolodithiazolyl Radicals Beer L., Brusso J.L., Clements O.P., , Matkovich K.M., MacGregor D.S., Oakley R.T., Reed R.W., Robertson C.M., Cordes A.W.Haddon R.C.

15:00 Activation of N2O Reduction by the Fully Reduced m4-Sulfide Bridged Tetranuclear CuZ Cluster in Nitrous Oxide Reductase Gorelsky S.I., Ghosh S., Solomon E.I.

15:20 Preparation and Characterization of the BrO3F2- Anion Lehmann J.F., Schrobilgen G.J.

15:40 Ruthenium tetradentate trans-dihydride and amido complexes derived from the precatalyst for ketone hydrogenation Li T., Lough A.J., Churlaud R., Abdur-Rashid K., Morris R.H.

16:00 The high structural adaptability of tin(II) fluoride when combined with other metal halides DENES G., MADAMBA M.C., MERAZIG H., MUNTASAR A.

End of Session

 

Saturday PM. Room B  

13:20 Diammine(o-benzoquinonediimine)dichlororuthenium(II) - Possibly a World Record for pi-Back-Donation Rusanova J., Rusanov E., Lever A.B.

13:40 Inner- and Outer-Sphere Perturbation of Class (III) Mixed-Valence Complexes AL-Noaimi M., Crutchley R.J.

14:00 Electronic Structures of Metal Phthalocyanine and Porphyrin Complexes from Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectra and Molecular Orbital Calculations Mack J., Stillman M.J.

14:20 QALE Analysis of CO Dissociative Kinetics of Ru(CO)4L (L = P-donor ligands): Accelerating Effects of Hydrogen in PR3-nHn Ligands Babij C., Poë A.J., Farrar D.H., Chen L., Koshevoy I.O., Sereda J.

 

Sunday AM. Room A 

10:20 Indolylphosphines: Synthesis and Reactivity Lam E., Yu J.O., Farrar D.H., Browning C.S., Lough A.J.

10:40 Organometallic Redox Chemistry of Group IV Transition Metal Phosphinimide Complexes. Graham T.W., Stephan D.W.

11:00 Synthesis, Self-assembly and Pyrolysis of Polystyrene-block-Polyethylmethylferrocenylsilane: Catalytic Growth of Carbon Nanotubes Rider D.A., Manners I., Lastella S., Ryu C.

11:20 The Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Class of Hindered Pnictogen Ligands for Use in Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions King A.S., Valliant J.F., Britten J.F., Ferguson G., Capretta A.

11:40 Chemical Modification of FePb4Sb6S14 to Enhance its Thermoelectric Properties Derakhshan S., Kleinke H.

 

 

 

 

CONTRIBUTED POSTER PRESENTATIONS

16:20 to 18:00

-        Synthesis and Characterization of New Nickel Pincer Complexes and Their Reactivities Castonguay A., Beauchamp A.L., Zargarian D.

-        Generation and kinetic studies of the reactivity of dimethylgermylene and methylphenylgermelyne in solution Dumbrava I., Harrington C., Leigh W.J.

-        Modification of Gold Surfaces by Metallothionein Chan J., Norton P.R., Stillman M.J.

-        Examining the Reactivity of Complexes RuHX(diamine)(PPh3)2, Prepared by Reaction of HX with Their Respective Amido Precursors. Clapham S., Soltay L., Rasool N., Morris R.H.

-        Relative Reactivity and Selectivity of Elemental Fluorine and Acetyl Hypofluorite Towards Acetylated D-Glucal in Non-aqueous Acid Media Ashique R., Chirakal R., Schrobilgen G.J., Gulenchyn K.

-        Solid-State NMR Characterization of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes Cahill L.S., Yao Z., Adronov A., Goward G.R.

-        Synthesis and Characterization of Ruthenium (II) Hexadecachloro- and Hexadecafluoro-Phthalocyanines David M.A., Christendat D., Lever A.B., Morin S.

-        Ball-Milling of Barium Tin(II) Fluoride and Chloride Fluorides DENES G., MUNTASAR A.

-        Crystal Structure of Ammonium Tin(II) Dichloride Fluoride, NH4SnCl2F: Isotypy with Tin(II) Chloride Dihydrate, SnCl2.2H2O DÉNÈS G., MERAZIG H., BELLAL N., BOUACIDA S.

-        Modifying band gap sizes in mixed valent seleno-stannates Assoud A., Kleinke H.

-        Chromium Chemistry Derived from [Cp*CrCl2]2 Species P. Wei and D. W. Stephan, School of Physical Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4. Wei P.

-        Hyperpolarizabilities of Compounds of Heavy Main-Group Elements Zhang W., Cozzolino A.F., Tulumello M., Vargas-Baca I.

-        Crystal Structure of Sn4ClF7 DÉNÈS G., MERAZIG H., BELLAL N., BOUACIDA S.

-        Synthesis of Indenyl Nickel Complexes Implicated in the Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Olefins and Polymerization of SilanesSynthesis of Indenyl Nickel Complexes Implicated in the Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Olefins and Polymerization of Silanes Boucher S., Vachon J., Sui-Seng C., Zargarian D.

-        Bifunctional Aminodiphosphine Pincer Ligands and their Transition Metal Complexes Abdur-Rashid K., Gusev D.G., Lough A.J.

-        Synthesis, Characterization and Spectroelectrochemical Studies of Ruthenium Complexes Incorporating Pyrazine and 1,4-Dicyanamidobenzene Ligands Kahenya JM., Crutchley RJ.

-        Sulfido bridged diiron(II) compounds as structural models for the FeMoco of Nitrogenase Vela J., Holland P.L.

-        Structural information from XANES spectra: Analysis of the coordination geometry of cadmium in cadmium thiolate clusters Chan J., Merrifield M.E., Soldatov A.V., Stillman M.J.

-        Differential Cu(I) Binding Specificity to the Individual Domains of Metallothionein Salgado M.T., Stillman M.J.

-        Rhodium-Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling of Fluorinated Phosphine-Borane Adducts Clark T.J., Rodezno J.M., Lough A.J., Manners I.

-        Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Li Fulleride Doped Mesoporous Ta Oxide. Skadtchenko B.O., Antonelli D.M., Dunn B., Kwon C.-W.

-        Mechanism of Metal-Induced Protein Folding From Kinetic and Molecular Dynamics Studies Rigby K.E., Stillman M.J.

-        Nanoscience of Polyferrocenylsilane Block Copolymers Rider D.A., Manners I.

-        Substituent Effects on the Photochemistry of 1,1-Diarylgermacyclobutanes and the Reactivity of Transient 1,1-Diarylgermenes Potter G.D., Harrington C.R., Leigh W.J.

-        Investigations of the Cyclo-Condensation of Acetyl-Substituted Organometallic Complexes Induced by SiCl4 Ogini F.O., Mahmoudkhani A.H., Ortin Y., McGlinchey M.J., Vargas-Baca I.

-        An Oxidative Route to Halogen- and OTeF5-Substituted Carbocations Lehmann J.F., Moran M.D., Mercier H.P.A., Schrobilgen G.J., Steinberg C., Suontamo R.J.

-        Synthesis and Characterization of XeOTeF5+Sb(OTeF5)6- Greiner M.T., Moran M.D., Mercier H.P.A., Sanders J.C.P., Schrobilgen G.J., Suontamo R.J.

-        Reactivity and Selectivity of OF2 Towards Organic Compounds. A Possible Synthon for Radiopharmaceuticals v. Mohrenschildt F., Chirakal R., Schrobilgen G.J., Gulenchyn K., Ashique R.

-        Determination of the metallation and structure of Fucus vesiculosus metallothionein Merrifield M.E., Stillman M.J.

-        Group 13 and Transition Metal Chemistry of a New Bulky Ligand: N-Ar-imidoyl-N,N'-bis-Ar-amidine (Ar=2,6-diisopropylphenyl) Masuda J.D., Stephan D.W.

-        Ni(II) And Pd(II) Complexes Based On A Bulky ß-Imino Phosphinimine Ligand Masuda J.D., Stephan D.W.

-        Synthesis and Study of Neutral Complexes of Ruthenium(II) Mapolelo D.T., Crutchley R.J.

-        Indium(I) Trifluoromethanesulfonate and Other Soluble Indium(I) Salts Useful for Indium(I) Chemistry Macdonald C.L.B., Andrews C.G., Corrente A.M.

-        Optical spectroscopy of Silicon Tetrabenzotriazacorroles and Silicon-Silicon Linked Cofacial Phthalocyanine Dimers. Mack J., Kobayashi N., Stillman M.J.

-        Ruthenium complexes of the new ligand 2,6-dipyrazinylpyridine Tharmalingam T., Potvin P.G., Lever A.B.P.

-        Structural Characterization of Krypton(II) Salts and Adducts Lehmann J.F., Schrobilgen G.J.

-        PhBPMe and MeBPMe: Novel resonance-stabilized 1,2,3-dithiazolo-1,2,3-dithiazolyls as neutral radical conductors, a structural investigation. Beer L., Britten J.F., Clements O.P., Hadoon R.C., Oakley R.T.

-        Spectroscopic aspects of Phosphorus Phthalocyanine and its Triazatetrabenz Corrole Keizer S.P., Stillman M.J.

-        The Role of Chelating Indenyl Ligands in Modeling the Mechanisms of Ni-Catalyzed Reactions Gareau D., Brisse F., Zargarian D.

-        Pb2SnF6: The First Lead(II)-Tin(II) Fluoride that is a Superstructure of a-PbF2 CALANDRINO R., COLLIN A., DÉNÈS G., LOGIOU M., MADAMBA M.C.

-        Design and Synthesis of Resonance Stabilized Dithiazolodithiazolyls as Neutral Radical Conductors Beer L., Britten J.F., Brusso J.L., Cordes A.W., Haddon R.C., MacGregor D.S., Oakley R.T., Reed R.W., Robertson C.M.

-        New [C6F5Xe]+ Salts of Weakly Coordinating Borate Anions, [BY4]- (Y = C6F5, CN, CF3, and OTeF5); Syntheses and Characterization by NMR Spectroscopy and the Crystal Structures of [C6F5Xe][B(CF3)4], [C6F5Xe][B(CF3)4]·CH3CN and [C6F5Xe][B(CN)4]. Koppe K., Frohn H.-J., Schrobilgen G.J.

-        Oxo-Rhenium(V) complexes to obtain electron-spin transition system. Sigouin O., Palardy M., Beauchamp A.L.

-        Cationic Titanium Phosphinimide Complexes Cabrera L., Hollink E., Stephan D.W.

-        Electrophilic Diazo Reactivity Activated by Three-Coordinate Iron Gregory E.A., Holland P.L., Lachicotte R.J.

-        Coordination Chemistry of a Pyridine - Pyridine N-Oxide Hybrid Ligand. Hoffart DJ., Loeb SJ.

-        An Organometallic Molecular Brake: Haptotropic Shifts as Controls over Barriers to Rotation Harrington L.E., McGlinchey M.J.

-        A Fully Reduced Diiron(II)-m-oxo Compound Eckert N.A., Smith J.M., Lachicotte R.J., Holland P.L.

-        Compounds of Heavy Main-Group Elements for Nonlinear Optical Applications Chapman A.E.A., Cozzolino A.F., Landry J.C., Vargas-Baca I.

-        Passivation of Barium Tin(II) Fluorides and Chloride Fluorides DÉNÈS G., MUNTASAR A.

-        Synthesis and structure of the novel borates Ba2MB4O9Cl (M = Ga, Al) Bakhtiiarov A., Penin N., Barbier J.

-        Cyclometallated platinum complexes with heterocyclic ligands. Anderson C., Crespo M.