ORGNWednesday, 16 March 2005

1:00 PM-5:00 PM Convention Center -- Room 11A, Oral
Physical Organic Chemistry: Calculations, Mechanisms, Photochemistry, and High-Energy Species
Presiding:Joel M. Karty
1:00 PM4,5-Dehydro-1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-octafluoro[2 2]paracyclophane: Reaction and mechanism
Yi-An Zhai, William R. Dolbier, Ion Ghiviriga, Merle A. Battiste, Khalil A. Abboud
1:20 PMTowards new concepts for the (organo-)catalytic activation of hydrogen peroxide for the epoxidation of olefins
Albrecht Berkessel, Jens A. Adrio
1:40 PMBuffer catalysis of the aqueous reaction of N-(hydroxymethyl)benzamide: A new mode of aqueous reactivity
Richard W. Nagorski
2:00 PMMechanistic investigation of the Staudinger ligation
Fiona L. Lin, Helen M. Hoyt, Herman van Halbeek, Robert G Bergman, Carolyn R. Bertozzi
2:20 PMBiomimetic inorganic H2Sx reaction which yields polysulfane products from ortho-quinone
Edyta M. Brzostowska, Alexander Greer
2:40 PMSynthesis of a C2-symmetric bis-dioxirane and the study of vicinal proximity effects on dioxirane stability
Nahed Sawwan, Alexander Greer
3:00 PMEnhancing the reactivity of SmI2 in THF: Mechanic aspects of the role of photochemical excitation and added water
Robert A. Flowers II, Prasad Edamana
3:20 PMPhotochemical synthesis of 1,5-diaryl substituted homoquadricyclanes: Mechanisms and applications
Tarek A. Zeidan, Serguei V. Kovalenko, Ronald J. Clark, Ion Ghiviriga, Thomas Gedris, Igor V. Alabugin
3:40 PMDissecting the Bergman cycloaromatization kinetics for ortho-substituted benzannelated enediynes
Tarek A. Zeidan, Serguei V. Kovalenko, Mariappan Manoharan, Igor V. Alabugin
4:00 PMA theoretical study on the mechanisms of "Hydride Shift" rearrangements of carbocations
Tianming Zuo, Liaosa Xu, Diego Troya, Harry C. Dorn
4:20 PMExperimental and theoretical NMR studies on the cleavage of highly substituted epoxides with organoalane reagents
Gerardo Torres, Jose A. Prieto, Yasuyuki Ishikawa
4:40 PMAb initio study of stereoselectivity and mechanism of Schmidt-type reactions
Jennifer Radkiewicz-Poutsma

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The 229th ACS National Meeting, in San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 2005