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Friday evening, June 28, 2002 (Lawrence Lecture Hall, 1000 McPherson Laboratory)
7:00 - 7:10 pm Welcoming Remarks
Dynamics in Molecular Rearrangements
Session Chair: Wes Borden (University of Washington)
7:10 - 8:10 pm Barry Carpenter (Cornell University)
"The Influence of Nonstatistical Dynamics on the Interpretation of Reaction Mechanisms"
8:10 - 9:10 pm Chuck Doubleday (Columbia University)
"Dynamics of Hydrocarbon Isomerizations"
9:10 - ?:?? pm Social Mixer on 1st floor McPherson Laboratory
 
Saturday, June 29, 2002 (Lawrence Lecture Hall, 1000 McPherson Laboratory)
Protein Dynamics/Tunneling
Session Chair: Barry Carpenter (Cornell University)
8:30 - 9:30 am Dick Schowen (University of Kansas)
"Protein Motion and Enzyme Catalysis"
9:30 - 10:30 am Judith Klinman (University of California-Berkeley)
"Tunneling and Dynamics in Enzyme Reactions"
10:30 - 10:45 am Break
10:45 - 11:45 am Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Pennsylvania State University)
"Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Relation between Enzyme Motion and Activity"
12:00 - 1:30 pm Box lunch (provided by conference)
1:30 - 3:00 pm Poster Session
Mechanistic Investigations in Synthesis and Synthetic Method Development
Session Chair: T. V. RajanBabu (Ohio State University)
3:00 - 4:00 pm Dave Hughes (Merck Pharmaceuticals)
"Mechanistic Studies of the Molybdenum-Catalyzed Asymmetric Alkylation"
4:00 - 5:00 pm Ian Davies (Merck Pharmaceuticals)
"A Study of Reactive Intermediates in Catalytic and Stoichiometric Processes"
5:00 - 7:00 pm Dinner (not provided by conference)
Diradicals
Session Chair: Gideon Fraenkel (Ohio State University)
7:10 - 8:10 pm Wes Borden (University of Washington)
"B3LYP Calculations of Substituent Effects on Degenerate Cope Rearrangements --Interpretations and Predictions of Experimental Results"
8:10 - 9:10 pm Wolfrom Sander (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum)
"Matrix Isolation of Benzynes and Related Compounds"
9:10 - ?:?? pm Social Mixer on 1st floor McPherson Laboratory
 
Sunday, June 30, 2002 (Lawrence Lecture Hall, 1000 McPherson Laboratory)
Gas-Phase Mechanistic Chemistry
Session Chair: Paul Wenthold (Purdue University)
8:30 - 9:30 am Frank Turecek (University of Washington)
"Transient Intermediates Relevant to Electron Capture Dissociation"
9:30 - 10:30 am Vicki Wysocki (University of Arizona)
"The Use of H/D Exchange, Ion Mobility, and Fragmentation Studies to Determine Unimolecular Dissociation Mechanisms of Peptides"
10:30 - 10:45 am Break
10:45 - 11:45 am Evan Williams (University of California-Berkeley)
"Zwitterions, Salt Bridges, and the Role of Solvent"
12:00 - 1:30 pm Box lunch (provided by conference)
Bartlett session: Transition State Theory and Alternative Models
Session Chair: Dick Schowen (University of Kansas)
2:00 - 2:10 pm Dick Schowen (University of Kansas)
Introduction and Orientation
Transition-state theory and alternatives for small-molecule reactions
2:10 - 2:25 pm Chuck Doubleday (Columbia University)
2:25 - 2:40 pm Barry Carpenter (Cornell University)
2:40 - 3:20 pm Open discussion (1 - 2 transparencies per person, at most)
Transition-state theory and alternatives for complex biochemical systems
3:20 - 3:40 pm Ross Stein (Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair)
"Ensembles of transition states"
3:40 - 3:50 pm Judith Klinman (University of California-Berkeley)
3:50 - 4:20 pm Open discussion (1 - 2 transparencies per person, at most)
4:20 - 4:30 pm Floyd Romesberg (Scripps Research Institute)
"Protein dynamics"
5:00 - 7:30 pm Dinner (not provided by conference)
7:30 - 9:00 pm Poster Session #2
9:10 - ?:?? pm Social Mixer on 1st floor McPherson Laboratory
 
Monday, July 1, 2002 (Chemical Abstracts Service)
8:30 - 9:00 am Bus transportation to Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
9:15 - 9:30 am Sign in at CAS and Welcome by Robert Massie, Director & Chief Executive Officer, CAS
Reaction Mechanisms of Organometallic Compounds
Session Chair: Bruce Bursten (Ohio State University)
9:30 - 10:30 am Charles Casey (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Hydroxy-Cyclopentadienyl Metal Hydrides are Homogeneous Hydrogenation Catalysts for Polar Molecules that Deliver a Hydride and a Proton Simultaneously"
10:30 - 10:45 am Break
10:45 - 11:45 am William Tolman (University of Minnesota)
"Which Happens First? O-O Bond Breaking vs. Hydrocarbon Oxidation in Reactions of Metalloenzyme Model Complexes"
11:45 - 12:45 pm Peter Chen (ETH Zurich)
"Organometallic Chemistry by Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry"
1:00 - 2:30 pm Lunch provided by the conference in the CAS cafeteria
Mechanism and Design of Bioactive Agents
Session Chair: Robert Coleman (Ohio State University)
2:30 - 3:30 pm Robert Williams (Colorado State University)
"Mechanistic Studies on Synthetic and Natural DNA-Reactive Alkaloids"
3:30 - 4:30 pm History and new products/content from CAS
4:30 - 6:00 pm Robert Rich (ACS - Petroleum Research Fund)
Workshop on "Writing Excellent Research Proposals"
4:30 - 6:00 pm CAS - Demonstration of SciFinder
4:30 - 6:00 pm CAS - Demonstration of CASREACT
6:00 - 8:00 pm Conference banquet and entertainment
8:30 - 9:30 pm Bus transportation from CAS