Chicago Regional Inorganic Colloquium

The UW-Madison Department of Chemistry is honored to host CRIC 2024

If you will be traveling to Madison for this event, we encourage you to reserve your hotel room as soon as possible – information on room blocks reserved for this event can be found under the “Accommodations” tab.

Registration for this event is free. Please click the registration tab to tell us you will join us in Madison on September 21st, 2024.

Thank you for joining us!

Saturday, September 21st All times listed are in CDT

Time	Session	Location
8:30 – 9:15 AM	Sign-in Begins	North Tower Atrium
9:20 – 9:30 AM	Welcome Address	S429
9:30 – 10:00 AM	Plenary Lecture from Professor Omar Farha, Northwestern University Smart and Programmable Sponges from Basic Science to Implementation and Commercialization	S429
10:00 – 11:00 AM	Poster Session #1: Bioinorganic and Materials Chemistry	North Tower Atrium

	Nanomaterials Session		Coordination Chemistry Session
Time	Session	Location	Session	Location
11:00 – 11:20 AM	Professor Emily Tsui, Notre Dame Metal-Sulfur Interactions in Reduced Sulfur Solution Speciation	S429	Sagnik Chakrabarti, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign A General Synthesis of Catalytically Competent, Thermally Stable Dinuclear Ni(I) Complexes	S413
11:20 – 11:40 AM	Courtney Smoljan, Northwestern 3-dimensional linker-based metal–organic frameworks for sub-angstrom pore control		Roushan Singh, University of Illinois Chicago Reduction of transition metal carbonyl by aluminum-based all metal masked frustrated radical pairs reductant under photolytic conditions
11:40 – 12:00 PM	Michael Trenerry, University of Minnesota Ditopic ligand effects on solution structure and redox chemistry in discrete [Cu₁₂S₆] clusters with labile Cu–S bonds		Lauren McNamara, University of Chicago Tuning electronic structure and NIR II emission in tetrathiafulvalene tetrathiolate diradicaloids
12:00 – 12:30 PM	Lunch			North Tower Atrium
12:30 – 1:30 PM	Poster Session #2: Catalysis and Coordination Chemistry			North Tower Atrium

	Bioinorganic Session		Solid State Session
Time	Session	Location	Session	Location
1:30 – 1:50 PM	Professor Jarett Wilcoxen, UW-Miluwakee Mechanistic Studies of Nitrate Reductase	S429	Professor Kirill Kovnir, Iowa State	S413
1:50 – 2:10 PM	Rupal Baliyan, University of Minnesota Robust Encapsulation of Reactive [4Fe–4S] Cluster Models Inside Synthetic Cages as Protein-like Hosts		Raul Torres-Cadena, Notre Dame Hybrid bronzes: cost-effective, water- and air-stable materials with tunable electronic properties
2:10 – 2:30 PM	Shawn Eisenberg, University of Iowa Chelator development for the novel theranostic pair ²³⁰U/⁴⁸V		Qiucheng Chen, Northwestern Interfacial Control over Ag-Electrocatalyzed Reductive Electrophile Coupling
2:30 – 2:45 PM	Coffee Break			North Tower Atrium


	Computational Session		Catalysis Session
Time	Session	Location	Session	Location
2:50 – 3:10 PM	Professor Bess Vlaisavljeich, University of Iowa Metal‐Ligand Bonding in Trivalent Ln and An Complexes with Soft Donor Borohydride Ligands	S429	Professor Courtney Roberts, University of Minnesota	S413
3:10 -3:30 PM	Cory Schneider, Loyola University Impact of substrate structure on the Lewis acid-catalyzed carbonyl-olefin metathesis reaction		Asmaul Hoque, UW-Madison An Efficient Multi-Component Catalytic System for Aerobic Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Aldehydes
3:30 – 3:50 PM	Danica Gressel, UW-Madison Interface Nucleus Complementarity: A Process for the Discovery of Modular Intermetallics Guided by Chemical Pressure		Grace Murphy, University of Minnesota Understanding the Mechanism of Nickel-Catalyzed Decarbonylation
3:50 – 4:00 PM	Intermission, announcements for poster prize, and selection of next CRIC location			North Tower Atrium


	Session			Location
4:00 – 4:20 PM	Plenary Lecture from Professor John Anderson, University of Chicago			S413
4:20 – 4:40 PM	Plenary Lecture from Professor Thomas Brunold, UW-Madison
4:40 – 5:00 PM	Concluding Remarks and Awards

All events will take place in our new North Tower chemistry education building, located at the corner of University Avenue and North Mills Street.

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John Anderson – The University of Chicago

Thomas Brunold – University of Wisconsin – Madison

Omar Farha – Northwestern University

Kirill Kovnir – Iowa State University

Courtney Roberts – University of Minnesota

Emily Tsui – University of Notre Dame

Bess Vlaisavljevich – University of Iowa

Jarett Wilcoxen – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Poster boards will be provided
Poster size should be a maximum of 36″x48″

Poster Session #1 Participants

Bioinorganic
Poster Assignment	Name	Affiliation	PI		Title

1-Bio	Andrey Joaqui	UW-Madison	Eszter Boros
2-Bio	Madeline Rodemeier	UW-Madison	Andrew Buller		Metal-Carbene Catalysis with a Cobalt-Substituted Cytochrome P450 Enzyme
3-Bio	Sharmin Khandker Shampa	University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	Arsenio Andrew Pacheco		Truncated Hemoglobin N from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
4-Bio	Stephen Tochi Nkwocha	University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	Arsenio Pacheco		Investigating spectroscopic evidence of two-electron reduction of nitrite-loaded cytochrome c nitrite reductase
5-Bio	Temidayo Oke	University of Wisconsin Milwaukee	Andy Pacheco		Cytochrome C Nitrite Reductase (ccNiR) catalyzed the reduction of Nitrite to Ammonia using Indigo Dyes
6-Bio	Owen Glaser	UW-Madison	Eszter Boros		Charting the Coordinative Landscape of the 18F-Sc/44Sc/177Lu triad with the Tri-aza-cyclononane (tacn) Scaffold
7-Bio	Cristina Gonzales/Zachary Bennett	UW-Madison	Thomas Brunold
8-Bio	Ryan Hall	UW-Madison	Thomas Brunold
9-Bio	Tarek El Sayed	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign	Liviu Mirica		Development of Blood Pool Mn-based Magnetic Imaging Resonance (MRI) agents
10-Bio	Glenn Blade	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Liviu Mirica		Sulfur-containing chelators for Cu-64 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging applications
11-Bio	Shounak Nath	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Liviu Mirica		The Mechanism of Acetyl-CoA Synthase through the lens of a Synthetic Ni-organometallic Model Complex
12-Bio	Nguyen Phuong Tran	UW-Madison	Eszter Boros
13-Bio	Zhuoran Zhong	UW-Madison	Eszter Boros		Metal-Mediated Autolytic Amide Cleavage
14-Bio	Leslie Gray	UW-Madison	Eszter Boros		Exploring Chemical Reactivity of Metal Ions with High Lewis Acidity for Metal-Mediated Autolytic Amide Bond Cleavage
15-Bio	Abhijit Bera	UW-Madison	Eszter Boros		Radiometal ion Capture, labeling and Photorelease for Radiopharmaceuticals

Materials
Poster Assignment	Name	Affiliation		PI	Title
1-Mat	Preston Snee	University of Illinois Chicago	Preston Snee		Enhanced Property Tunability of Doubly-Doped Semiconductor Nanomaterials Using the Cluster Seed Method
2-Mat	Mawuli Degbevi	University of Notre Dame	Emily Y. Tsui		Organometallic chemistry at quantum dot surfaces: Effect of anion basicity on reduction potential
3-Mat	W. Lakna N. Dayaratne	University of Notre Dame	Adam Jaffe		Investigating the effect of pressure on hybrid organic-inorganic metal oxides
4-Mat	Lauren Feden	University of Minnesota	Gwendolyn Bailey		Towards functional synthetic models of ternary Mo/Cu nanocomposites: ligand and configurational approaches to nanocluster stabilization
5-Mat	Aiman Shahbaz	University of Iowa	Korey P. Carter		Synthesis and Application Exploration of d- and f-Block 6-Oxo-1,6-dihydro-2,5-pyridinedicarboxylic acid (H3PODC) Hybrid Materials
6-Mat	Anton Walte	University of Notre Dame	Adam Jaffe		Mixed Metal Alloying in Hybrid Bronzes
7-Mat	Grace Robertson	University of Notre Dame	Adam Jaffe		Atom transfer in solid-state materials: a molecular approach to solid-state synthesis
8-Mat	Kasuni Handunge	University of Notre Dame – Indiana	Emily Y. Tsui		Characterizing surface reduction and oxidation at colloidal CdSe and CdS nanocrystals
9-Mat	Laura Perlmutter	Northwestern University	Bryan Hunter		Tetrahedrite to Facilitate CO2 Adsorption and Reduction
10-Mat	Nandhini Nair	Northwestern University	Bryan Hunter		Tuning the Emission of Lanthanide-Doped Optical Probes for Biomedical Nanoparticle Imaging
11-Mat	Joshua Morales Campos	University of Notre Dame	Adam Jaffe		Isolation of potential reactive sites in 2D extended solids through atom-transfer/exchange reactions
12-Mat	Anwesa Samanta	University of Illinois Chicago	Jordi Cabana		Study of the Local and Average Structure of Vanadium Oxides As Potential Cathodes for Mg-Ion Batteries

Poster Session #2 Participants

Catalysis
Poster Assignment	Name	Affiliation	PI	Title
1-Cat	Dian Wang	Marquette University	Dian Wang	Visible-Light-Driven Activation of Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Halogen Bond in Nickel- and Copper Bipyridine Complexes
2-Cat	Malkanthi Karunananda	Saint Louis University	Malkanthi Karunananda	Trends in photosensitizers with metal-metal bonds
3-Cat	Adam Fiedler	Marquette University	Adam Fiedler	Probing the Magnetic Anisotropy of Transition Complexes Featuring Radical Ligands
4-Cat	Ian Garvey	UW-Madison	Shannon Stahl	Establishing Design Criteria for the Synthesis of Heterogeneous Fe-N-C Catalysts for Aerobic Oxidation of Organic Molecules
5-Cat	Tianxiao Jiang	UW-Madison	Shannon Stahl	Manganese-Mediated Electrochemical Oxidation of Thioethers to Sulfoxides Using Water as the Source of Oxygen Atoms
6-Cat	Evelyn Widmaier	UW-Madison	Shannon Stahl	Proton-coupled oxidation of hydrazones to diazo compounds with electron-transfer mediators using heterogeneous M-N-C catalysts
7-Cat	Kumuditha Rathnayake	University of Illinois Chicago	Jordi Cabana	An Operando Investigation of Molybdenum(IV) Oxo Benzene 1,2 Dithiolate Electrocatalyst toward Oxygen Atom Transfer Reaction
8-Cat	Jubyeong Chae	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Liviu Mirica	Mechanistic Studies and Applications of Nickel-Catalyzed Csp3-Csp3 Kumada Cross-Coupling Reactions
9-Cat	Romualda Aquino	University of Minnesota	Gwendolyn Bailey	Synthesis of Nickel Complexes with para-Substituted Bidentate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for C-F Activation
10-Cat	Eryck Garcia Labarca	University of Minnesota	Gwendolyn Bailey	Towards solution-stable, multimetallic-mediated reactivity with atomistic control: Exploring the reactivity of phosphine-stabilized copper sulfide clusters
11-Cat	Anthony Castro	UW-Madison	Dan Weix	Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Sterically-Hindered Aryl Bromides with Secondary Alkyl Bromides for C(sp2)–C(sp3) Bond Formation
12-Cat	Manuraj Kallumkal	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Gwendolyn Bailey	Multimetallic CuS clusters as molecular platforms for next generation catalysis

14-Cat	Sofie Hokanson	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	Courtney Roberts
15-Cat	Alex Tascher	University of Chicago	John Anderson	Electrocatalysis with a Dihydrazonopyrrole Copper Complex
16-Cat	Trevor Chau	Northwestern University	Bryan Hunter	Observation and characterization of “blue dimer” intermediates related to neutral water oxidation

Coordination Chemistry
Poster Assignment	Name	Affiliation	PI	Title
1-Coo	Milton Acosta	UW-Madison	John Berry	Computational Design, Synthesis, and Electrochemical Investigation of Diosmium Paddle Wheel Complexes for the Ammonia Oxidation Reaction
2-Coo	Nathan Lopez	University of Chicago	John Anderson	Ligand Influence on the Electronic Properties of Platinum-bound Tetrathiofulvalene Tetrathiolate (TTFtt) Compounds
3-Coo	Rana Abdu	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	Courtney Roberts	Elucidating the Impact of Rare Earth Metal Identity on the Physical and Electronic Structural Properties of a Series of Redox–Active Tris(amido) Complexes
4-Coo	Georgia Sands	UW-Madison	Eszter Boros	Distinguishing Between Intramolecular and Intermolecular Cherenkov Excitation with Luminescent Lanthanide Probes
5-Coo	Rebecca Walde	UW-Madison	John Berry	Modular Trimetallic Systems for Molecular Electronics
6-Coo	Shilin Zeng	University of Chicago	John Anderson	Synthesis and Characterization of High Valent Cobalt Complexes
7-Coo	Luke Westawker	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Liviu Mirica	Photochemistry of Ni(II) aryl halides supported by bidentate frameworks
8-Coo	Catherine Getty	UW-Madison	John Berry	Diruthenium Paddlewheel Complexes with Tunable Hydroxyquinoline Ligands for Second Generation Ammonia Oxidation Electrocatalysts
9-Coo	Joe Scott	University of Chicago	John Anderson	Observing and isolating high valent Co-O and -N species supported by an oxidatively robust tris(imidazol-5-ylidene)borate ligand
10-Coo	Morgan Dierolf	UW-Madison	Eszter Boros	Studying the chelation of Sb(V) with the catecholamide ligand TREN-CAM
11-Coo	Luke Mangas	UW-Madison	John Berry	Implementation of p-block metals into heterometallic extended metal atom chain (HEMAC) complexes
12-Coo	Leah Garman	UW-Madison	Danny Fredrickson	The Fermi Sphere-Jones Zone Interactions in Intermetallic Compounds: As Explored by the Mott-Jones Hamilton Population
13-Coo	Muhammad Sohail	University of Notre Dame	Emily Y. Tsui	Metal-Dependent Sulfur Reactivity of Group 12 Metal Thiolates
14-Coo	Gaby Muñoz Sánchez	UW-Madison	John Berry	Water-Soluble Diruthenium R-Hydroxypyridine Electrocatalysts
15-Coo	Patrick Cross	UW-Madison	Danny Fredrickson	Understanding Electronic and Atomic Structural Distortions in Charged Density Waves
16-Coo	Trey Pankratz	UW-Madison	John Berry	Computational Studies on Equitorial Ligand Rearrangements
17-Coo	Alexandra Krupinski	University of Chicago	John Anderson
18-Coo	Sophia Wang	Northwestern University	Bryan Hunter	Investigating the Structure and Electronic Properties of Heteroleptic Co(III) Polypyridines

We have reserved room blocks at both the Double Tree Hotel and the Wisconsin Union Hotel in downtown Madison.

Reservations will be made by the individual, and each guest will be responsible for payment of the room, taxes, and incidental charges.

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At the Double Tree parking is $18 per night and it is a 12 minute walk from the chemistry building, but the hotel provides a free shuttle service to both the airport and anywhere downtown including the chemistry building.

To reserve a room in the block, please follow this link: Double Tree Block Reservations

Room Rates: $269.00 for traditional rooms with one or two beds.

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Wisconsin Union Hotel (Union South) is across the street from the Chemistry department. Parking at the hotel is $18.00, and there is no shuttle service.

To reserve a room in the block, please follow this link: Wisconsin Union Block Reservations

Room Rates: $215.00 for traditional rooms with one or two beds and $243 for queen suites.

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Please see the list of other hotels below that are within walking distance of the chemistry department.

The Fluno Center is a 10 minute walk from the chemistry building, parking is $15, and there is no shuttle service.
The Hilton Garden Inn is an 11 minute walk from the chemistry building, parking is $20, and there is no shuttle service.
The Hampton Inn & Suites Madison/Downtown is a 15 minute walk from the chemistry building, parking is $20, and there is no shuttle service.
The Best Western Plus InnTowner is a 25 minute walk from the chemistry building, has free parking, and an airport shuttle.
The Edgewater is a more upscale hotel. It is a 25 minute walk from the chemistry building, Parking is $24, and there is an airport shuttle.

Registration for the event has now closed.

If you will need to park a car, we encourage you to reserve a spot by clicking on the link below. Parking is $15.00 per day and needs to be submitted two weeks prior to the event. The closest space is lot 80, the Union South Parking ramp. Lot 7 (Granger Hall) is also nearby. You may also try parking on the same day without reserving, but spots in these lots are not guaranteed. The link provides real-time updates of available parking. The Chemistry building is at the corner of Mills and University avenues.

Lot 56 and the metered street parking are free on weekends, but the spots are limited.

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Saturday, September 21st All times listed are in CDT