Who should attend?
Scientists
and engineers; graduate and undergraduate students;
and media who cover science and technology.
Who will present?
Leading experts at the frontiers of catalysis. Prof. Heck's fellow Nobel Laureate, Ei-ichi Negishi, will be among our distinguished speakers.
Where will the event be held?
Clayton
Hall, on UD's main campus in Newark, Del. Ample parking
is available, and the Marriott Courtyard-University Hotel is conveniently
located next door.
What is the registration deadline?
Registration is now closed -- we have reached our capacity. We look forward to seeing all registrants at the May 26th event!
Questions?
Contact the symposium organizers here.
John M. Clayton Hall Conference Center
8:30 a.m. — Registration & Continental Breakfast
Sponsored by the journal ACS Catalysis
9:00 a.m. — Welcome & Introductions
Patrick Harker, President,
University of Delaware
Introduction of speakers by Joseph Fox, Associate Professor,
University of Delaware Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
9:15 a.m. — Fun and Games with Cross-Coupling
by Stephen L. Buchwald, Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:00 a.m. — Partnering Aromatic/Heteroaromatic
Lithium-Transition
Metal Catalyzed Chemistries
by Victor Snieckus, Bader Chair in Organic Chemistry, Queen's University
1o:45 a.m. — Break
11:00 a.m. — Concepts and Catalysts for Selective Additions to π-bonds
by Dean Toste, Professor of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley
Noon — Luncheon
Remarks and Sponsor Acknowledgments by Tom Apple,
University of Delaware Provost
Remarks by Steve Prescott, Director of Quality, Ashland Inc.
Remarks by Peter Freeman, Newark Site Leader,
The Dow Chemical Company
1:30 p.m. — High Oxidation State Palladium in Catalysis
by Melanie Sanford, Professor of Chemistry, University of Michigan
2:15 p.m. — Break
2:30 p.m. — Vignettes of Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions in
Drug
Discovery and Development
by Todd Nelson, Director of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck
3:15 p.m. —The Magical Power of d-Block Transition Metals
—
Pd-Catalyzed
Cross-Coupling and ZACA Reaction
by 2011 Heck Lecturer Ei-Ichi Negishi, Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University
4:00 p.m. — Concluding Remarks
by Nobel Laureate Richard Heck and Klaus
Theopold,
Chair,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of
Delaware
