Tuesday, May 20, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Medical Arts Building, Rm M-134 (Queensborough Community College)
Applications of Organometallic Chemistry
Organometallic chemists from inorganic and organic backgrounds will discuss how organometallic compounds are being used to solve new and interesting problems in their labs.
Sponsor: Strem Chemicals, Air Products, Boulder Scientific
Organizer:Chip Nataro
8:30 AMTuning the Electronic and Structural Properties of a Ferrocene Based Bifunctional Lewis Acid
Thilagar Pakkirisamy, Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah, Frieder J�kle
8:50 AMAnchored Wilkinson's Catalyst: Comparison with the Homogeneous Catalyst and Supported Rhodium with Respect to Reaction Selectivity
Robert L. Augustine, Setrak K Tanielyan, Norman Marin, Gabriela Alvez
9:10 AMNovel Approaches to the Cross-Coupling Reactions
Jing Liu, Yingsheng Zhao, Xiancai Luo, Aiwen Lei
9:30 AMRegioselectivity of Platinum-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Alkynes in Silyl-Substituted Ferrocenes and Related Sandwich Compounds
John B. Sheridan, Rhyan Terrado
9:50 AMMicrowave Heating: A Tool for Fast Preparation of Organometallics
Nicholas Leadbeater
10:10 AMIntermission
10:25 AMNew Transition Metal Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions
John D. Chisholm
10:45 AMCatalysis as Means to Perform Organic Synthesis: Cheaper, Cleaner and Greener
John R. Sowa Jr.
11:10 AMTandem Asymmetric C-C Bond-Forming Reactions
Patrick J. Walsh
11:35 AMUse of Vanadium Hydrides to Effect Radical Cyclizations
Jack Norton, Mary E. Pulling, Deborah M. Smith

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