Conference Program

The full program will be made available on this site for electronic download before the conference.

Agenda

Friday, November, 14th

19:30-22:00

MBraun Mixer at the “Sir Winston Churchill Pub – Karina Lounge” at 1455-1459 Crescent Street

Saturday, November, 15th

8:00-8:30

Coffee Break (3200 Jean Brillant, 2nd floor, Cafétéria Chez Valère)

8:30

Opening remarks (B-2245)

9:00-10:20

Oral presentations O1-O8 (B-2325 and B-2245)

10:20-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-12:00

Oral presentations O9-O16 (B-2325 and B-2245)

12:00-14:00

Lunch Break (see map at the end of the booklet for possibilities)

14:00-15:20

Oral presentations O17-O24 (B-2325 and B-2245)

15:20-15:40

Coffee Break

15:40

Plenary Lecture (B-2245): Prof. John E. Bercaw, CALTECH

17:00-19:00

Poster Session (3200 Jean Brillant, 2nd floor)

19:00-22:00

Conference banquet (Cafétéria Chez Valère, 2nd floor)

Sunday, 16. Nov. 2014

8:30-9:00

Coffee Break

9:00-10:20

Oral presentations O25-O32 (B-2325 and B-2245)

10:20-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-11:20

Oral presentations O33-O36 (B-2325 and B-2245)

11:30

Plenary Lecture (B-2245): Prof. Joseph A. Schwarcz, McGill University

appr. 13:00

Closing remarks (B-2245)

Plenary Lectures

Prof. John E. Bercaw

 Centennial Professor of Chemistry, Caltech.

Prof. John E. Bercaw received his Ph. D. in chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1971. He joined the Californian Institute for Technology in 1972, where he became a faculty member in 1974. He is author of over 300 scientific publications and his contributions to organometallic chemistry have been noted with several prestigious awards, such as ACS awards for Pure Chemistry (1980), Organometallic Chemistry (1990), Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry (1997), the George A. Olah Award (1999), the Arthur C. Cope scholar Award (2000), the Bailar Medal (2003), the Basolo Medal (2005), the Tolman Medal (2013) and the Willard Gibbs Medal (2014). He was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Hydrocarbon Upgrading to Fuels and Chemicals: Progress towards Homogeneous Catalysts

Current technologies for conversion of natural gas and petroleum to fuels and commodity chemicals are energy intensive and polluting. New catalytic processes that are more efficient and “greener” are required to reduce CO2 emissions and to more effectively utilize our fossil fuel reserves. Discussed will be fundamental research efforts directed towards developing (1) a selective, homogeneous catalyst for direct, partial oxidation of light alkanes, (2) a homogeneous catalyst system for converting syngas (a mixture of CO and H2), obtained by steam reforming of light alkanes, to Cn>1 products, and (3) a catalytic tandem olefin dimerization/hydrogen transfer scheme for upgrading light alkane/alkene mixtures to transportation fuels.

Prof. Joseph A. Schwarcz

 Director of McGill University's Office for Science & Society.

Prof. Joe Schwarcz received his Ph. D. in chemistry from McGill University in 1973, but he is best known for his entertaining public lectures on scientific topics. He hosts "The Dr. Joe Show" on Montreal's CJAD and is the author of several bestselling books popularizing science, such as "Science, Sense and Nonsense", "Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs" and "The Right Chemistry". His contributions to chemistry have been recognized with several awards, including the Royal Society of Canada's McNeil Medal in 1992, the ACS Grady-Stack Award for demystifying chemistry 1999, the Sandford Fleming Award from the Royal Canadian Institute in 2005 and the CSC "Montreal Medal" in 2010.

Hey! There are cockroaches in my chocolate ice cream!

No, there really are no cockroaches in chocolate ice cream. But one of my radio listeners did jump to this conclusion after misinterpreting what had been said about a certain food colorant. Being on one end of a microphone and in front of television cameras for over thirty years has afforded some fascinating insight into the public's perception of science. It has also provided an opportunity to separate sense from nonsense in areas ranging from nutrition and medications to cosmetics and pesticides. This highly visual and entertaining presentation examines some serious as well as some frivolous experiences in dealing with the public and emphasizes the importance of fostering critical thinking.

Mixer

The mixer will be held in the Karina Club Lounge of the Sir Winston Churchill Pub.

  • Printable directions to the mixer.
  • Start: 19:30, Registration Desk until 22:30
  • Address: 1455-1459 Crescent Street, please use the "Karina Lounge" entry (staircase on the right of the pub)
  • Food: The mixer location has some pub-style food on offer. The organizer's tip is a trip to Boustan on 2020 Crescent St.: Best hole-in-the-wall lebanese food in town (see "1" on the map below).
  • Arrival:
    • via Metro 5 - 10 min walking distance from green-line stations Peel or Guy-Concordia or orange-line station Lucien L'Allier (see map below).
    • from the Youth hostel 10 min walking distance (see map below)
    • by car If you really want to drive to the mixer and park in down-town Montreal on a Friday night, figuring out how to get there is your smallest problem.
  • After the mixer: The pub is open until 2 am. If that is not enough, Crescent Street is a famous Montreal night-life area (after 11pm, of course). Organizer's recommendation is "Brutopia", a pub-style micro-brewery on 1215 Crescent, where life is a bit quieter. (see "2" on the map below).

Instructions for presenters

Oral presentations

Please verify date and time of your presentation in the official program. A time limit of 17 min for oral presentations will be strictly enforced. Please prepare your presentations on a USB stick in Powerpoint format and upload it to the computer provided at the beginning of your session. For the sake of time, the use of personal laptops will not be permitted.

Poster presentations:

Please verify the number of your poster presentation in the official program. You are welcome to place your poster on Saturday morning (after 9 am) and to leave it installed until the end of the conference.

If you have submitted an abstract for a poster presentation and you do not find it in the program, please inform us (all abstracts were accepted).

Schedule of oral presentations

Saturday, 8:30 : Opening remarks (B-2245)

 

Group A (B-2325)

Group B (B-2245)

9:00-9:20

O1 Nuclearity control at iron(II) with hemilabile SNS pincer-type ligands: Facile C-S bond activation and imine coupling to redox-active N2S2 Ligand

Uttam K. Das   University of Ottawa

O2 Direct synthesis of silver nanocatalyst from bulk metal: cellulose nanocrystals as active support and reductant

Madhu Kaushik  

McGill University

9:20-9:40

O3 Synthesis and Reactivities of New NCN-Type Pincer Complexes of Nickel

Jean-Philippe Cloutier

Université de Montréal

O4 Gold Chemical Vapour Deposition Using Gold(I) Amide Precursors

Sara E. Koponen

Carleton University

9:40-10:00

O5 Cyclometallation and Coupling of a Rigid 4,5‑Bis(imino)acridanide Pincer Ligand Promoted by Yttrium

Edwin W. Y. Wong   

McMaster University

O6 Metal-Containing Micro-/Nano-Structures from the Pyrolysis of Ion Exchanged Phosphonium Polymer Blend Films

Vanessa A. Béland

University of Western Ontario

10:00-10:20

O7 Ketone Asymmetric Hydrogenation Catalyzed by P-NH-P’ Pincer Iron Catalysts: an Experimental and Computational Study

Kai Yang Wan   

University of Toronto

O8 Synthesis and Characterization of Thiophene Functionalized Dithiatetrazocines

François Magnan

University of Ottawa

 

10:20-10:40 : Coffee Break

 

 

Group A (B-2325)

Group B (B-2245)

10:40-11:00

O9 Emission Properties of Three Coordinated Organoboron Compounds Containing B=N

Soren Mellerup

Queen’s University

O10 Activation of Robust Bonds by Aluminum(I)

Terry Chu

Brock University

11:00-11:20

O11 Tuning Luminescence Properties of Au(I) Compounds through Au(I)-Au(I) Interactions: Application of Pressure-Dependent Spectroscopy to Dithiocarbamates

Nicolas B. Desmarais    Université de Montréal

O12 Reaction and Coordination Chemistry of Poly-(Chalcogenotrimethylsilanes)

Mahmood A. Fard

University of Western Ontario

11:20-11:40

O13 On the Coordination Chemistry of N,N’-Disubstituted  Amidine-N-oxides

Mihaela Cibian

Université de Montréal

O14 Creating Phosphine Based Polymer Networks Using Air-Stable Primary Phosphines

Ryan Guterman

University of Western Ontario

11:40-12:00

O15 Pure hydrogen evolution from small organic molecules using iron photocatalysts

Jacob M. Sommers

University of Ottawa

O16 The Highly Lewis Acidic Dicationic Phosphonium Salt: [(SIMes)PFPh2][B(C6F5)4]2

Meera Mehta

University of Toronto

 

12:00-14:00 : Lunch Break

 

 

Group A (B-2325)

Group B (B-2245)

14:00-14: 20

O17 Platinum Complexes of an Alane-Appended Analogue of ,1'‑Bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene

Bradley E. Cowie

McMaster University

O18 Synthesis and Reactivity of Novel Low Valent Cationic Gallium Complexes

Jeremy L. Bourque

Western University

14:20-14:40

O19 Coordination of phosphido-boratabenzene ligands to transition metals to obtain zwitterionic complexes

Viridiana Perez  

Université Laval

O20 Facile 1,1-carboboration of mono- and bis(alkynyl)tellurides

Fu An Tsao

University of Toronto

14:40-15:00

O21 New Designs for 1,2,3,5- dithiadiazolyl Radical Ligands

Carolyn A. Michalowicz

University of Guelph

O22 Synthes­­is of 1,2,4,6-Thiatriazinyl and 1,2,4,6-Selenatriazinyl π-Radicals for Molecular Electronics

Nathan Yutronkie   

University of Ottawa

15:00-15:20

O23 Isolation and Characterization of a Tetramethyliron(III) Ferrate: An Intermediate in the Reduction of Ferric Salts with MeMgBr

Malik H. Al-Afyouni   

University of Rochester

O24 Rhenium Complexes of Carboxamides Acids

Zhijie Chua

McGill University

 

15:20-15:40 : Coffee Break

15:40 : Plenary Lecture: Prof. John E. Bercaw, CALTECH (B-2245)

17:00 : Poster Session (3200 Jean Brillant, 2nd floor)

·      Authors with odd numbers, please be present from 17:00-18:00 at your poster

·      Authors with even numbers, please be present from 18:00-19:00 at your poster

19:00 : Conference banquet (Cafétéria Chez Valère, 2nd floor)

Sunday, Nov. 16

 

Group A (B-2325)

Group B

9:00-9:20

O25 Synthesis and Reactivity of Metal Fluorocarbene Complexes

Graham M. Lee

University of Ottawa

O26 The First Family of Lanthanide Molecule-Based Magnets Assembled from Crown Ether Ligands

Majeda Al Hareri

Brock University

9:20-9:40

O27 Elucidating effects of nucleophile variation in (SciOPP)FeX2 catalyzed Kumada cross-coupling reactions: the case of alkyl-alkynyl couplings

Jared L. Kneebone   University of Rochester

O28 A strategy to create a class III mixed-valence complex via a non-innocent terpyridine structural mimic

Katie L. M. Harriman

University of Ottawa

9:40-10:00

O29 Titanocene-based Catalysts for the Dehydrocoupling/Dehydrogenation of Amine-Boranes

Titel Jurca   

University of Bristol

O30 Synthesis and characterization of new half sandwich ruthenium silyl complexes

Van Hung Mai

Brock University

10:00-10:20

O31 Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylative C-H Functionalization of Heterocycles

Jevgenijs Tjutrins

McGill University

O32 The Destructive Interaction of Dirhodium(II) Tetraacetate and Human Metallothionein

Daisy L. Wong

University of Western Ontario

 

10:20-10:40 : Coffee Break

 

Saturday

Group A (B-2325)

Group B

10:40-11:00

O33 Reduction of Ketones using

Fe(II)(P-NH-N-P’) Catalysts

Samantha A.M. Smith

University of Toronto

O34 Mechanism of a Cu-Catalyzed Phenolic Oxygenation

Mohammad S. Askari

Concordia University

11:00-11:20

O35 What causes isomerization during olefin metathesis?

Carolyn S. Higman

University of Ottawa

O36 Ligand and Redox Derivatives of a Core Heteroligated Analogue of the Nitrogenase Cofactor

Lay Ling Tan  

University of Waterloo

 

11:30 : Plenary Lecture: Prof. Joseph A. Schwarcz, McGill University (B-2245)

13:00 : Closing remarks (B-2245)

 

List of poster presentations

Anderson, Craig M.

Bard College

42

Andreychuk, Nicholas

McMaster University

28

Armstrong, David

University of Toronto

67

Auvray Thomas

Université de Montréal

54

Bailey, Gwendolyn A.

University of Ottawa

56

Berline Mougang-Soumé

Université de Montréal

1

Bessette, André

Université de Montréal

14

Binder, Justin

University of Windsor

21

Botti, Adrian

University of Ottawa

29

Chaloner, Laura

Concordia University

55

Charbonneau, Mathieu

UQAM

72

Chaves, Maria Carolina

Université de Montréal

32

Daniel Chartrand

Université de Montréal

9

Demmans, Karl

University of Toronto

10

Denes, George

Concordia University

64

Dubrulle, Laurent

Université de Montréal

35

El Asmy, Hala

INRS

13

Feng, Yuting

INRS / McGill University

16

Griffiths, Matthew

Carleton University

24

Harrypersad,Shane

Ryerson University

23

Hayes, Cassandra

University of Rochester

31

Hazlehurst, Richard

Western University

12

Hiranandani, Rashi

University of Toronto

8

Ho, Peter C.

McMaster University

18

Hollingshead, Andrew

University of Guelph

52

Hosseini-Kharat, Mahboubeh

Université de Montréal

60

Hull, Laura

University of Ottawa

58

Jacobs, Brad

Ryerson University

69

Julien, Patrick

McGill University

70

Kashani, Pargol

Université de Montréal

45

Kayser, Laure V.

McGill University

65

Kosnik, Stephanie

University of Windsor

40

Lapointe, Sébastien

Université de Montréal

6

Laramée-Milette, Baptiste

Université de Montréal

30

Latreche, Saïda

Concordia University

68

Leblanc Mathieu

Université de Montréal

51

Lee, Lucia Myongwon

McMaster University

48

Li, Yufei

Queen’s University

2

Li, Yuxuan

Concordia University

7

Maahs, Adam

University of Guelph

49

Mackenzie, Scott

University of Guelph

37

Mandia, David J.

Carleton University

11

Martin Torres, Gerardo

McGill University

39

Mayo, R. Alex

University of Guelph

53

McClennan, William

University of Ottawa

43

Merazig, Hocine

Concordia University

62

Merazig, Hocine

Concordia University

63

Morim, Derek

McMaster University

26

Morris, Richard

York University

38

Muntasar, Abdualhafed

Concordia University

61

Mushtaq Ambreen

Université de Laval

47

Olivier SCHOTT

Université de Montréal

20

Paul, Mirna

McGill University

34

Pham, Amy

Brock University

36

Poirier, Stéphanie

Université de Montréal

50

Poisson, Joël

McGill University

5

Prack, Ernest

University of Toronto

59

Price, Jeffrey

McMaster University

46

Regier, Jeffery

Brock University

57

Rodríguez-Solano, Laura A.

Concordia University

41

Rousset, Elodie

Université de Montréal

27

Shabana, Ahmed

INRS

33

Sheibany, Nooshin

Concordia University

19

Stubbs, James

Western University

71

Taullaj, Fioralba

University of Toronto

25

Vabre Boris

Université de Montréal

15

Veryard, Evan

RMC

73

Viasus, Camilo

University of Ottawa

17

Walsh, Aaron

University of Rochester

44

Wang, Xiang

Queen’s University

4

Weicker, Sarah

University of Toronto

3

Yang, Dengtao

Queen’s University

22

Zakharova, Maria

Université de Laval

66