The Forty-First Midwest Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C) Conference

1 – 2 August 2023.   Michigan State University, East Lansing. MI.

All talks will be in the Biomedical Physical Sciences Building, Room 1415.

 

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

9:00 a.m.   Start gathering and light breakfast

9:25 a.m.  Keith Kuwata, Macalester College

Conference welcome

Session 1

9:30 a.m.  Aidan Khan and Claire Lee-Zacheis, Carleton College

Computational Explorations of Cobalt Silylene and Related Catalysts

10:00 a.m.  Renee Nicholson, Macalester College 

Computational Studies on Copper(I)-perfluoroalkyl-phenanthroline Complexes

10:30 a.m.  Sierra Hilditch, Grand Valley State University

Mechanistic Analysis of CO Oxidation to CO2 at Bimetallic Complexes

11:00 a.m.  Break

11:15 a.m.  Will Lyons, Wabash College

Mechanism of Sonogashira Reaction Catalyzed by CuPdO2 Nanoparticles

11:45 a.m.  Professor Angela Wilson, Michigan State University

12:15 p.m.  Lunch at the Gallery at Snyder Phillips 

(paid for by MSU Chemistry Department)

 

Session 2 

1:30 p.m.  Gabriel Withun and Samuel Owen, Grand Valley State University

Molecular Modeling of Molten Lithium Carbonate

2:00 p.m.  Katherine Geist, Carleton College 

Cation Behavior within Zeolites

2:30 p.m.  Henry Wolters and Nathan Wang, Carleton College

Ammonia Adsorption on Silanol Terminated Zeolites

3:00 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m.  Yuji Xue, Macalester College

Computational Studies of Partial Mechanism of the Criegee Intermediates from β-pinene Ozonolysis

3:45 p.m.  Professor Kathy Hunt, Michigan State University

4:15 p.m.  MU3C faculty business meeting in Chemistry Building, Room 481E; MSU computational chemistry graduate student poster session for MU3C students

6:30 p.m.  Conference dinner at The Old Bag of Nails Pub, 210 Cascade Blvd., Lansing, MI 48912

MSU faculty are welcome to join MU3C students and faculty

 

All talks will be in the Biomedical Physical Sciences Building, Room 1415.

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

9:00 a.m.  Start gathering and light breakfast

Session 3

9:30 a.m. Lilianna Rolands, Alexis Budzinski, and Moriah Klejeski, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Oxidation of Vinoxy Radicals from Beta-Pinene Ozonolysis

10:00 a.m.  Joe Madell, Macalester College

Improved Computational Modeling of the Kinetics of the Acetonylperoxy + HO2 reaction

10:30 a.m.  Sami Charleville, Truman State University

Computational Investigation into the Stereospecific Tautomerization of a Troggers Base Derivative

11:00 a.m.  Break

11:15 a.m.  Clarence Pan, Macalester College

Computational Mechanism Studies: OH Production in Gas-Phase α-Pinene Ozonolysis with Stereochemical Emphasis

11:45 a.m.  Professor Jose Mendoza-Cortez, Michigan State University

12:15 p.m.  Lunch at the Gallery at Snyder Phillips

(paid for by individual MU3C faculty)

Session 4

1:30 p.m.  Abby Miller, Grand Valley State University

Transferring More Than Two Electrons: Multielectron Transfer in Heavy Transition Metal Complexes

2:00 p.m.  Arian Ghafoori, Macalester College

Atmospheric Ozonolysis of Hydrofluoroolefins through Lenses of Singlet Diradical Pathways

2:30 p.m.  Break

2:45 p.m.  Nathan France and Alex Amore, Wabash College

Rotation of Central Ring in Trapezoid Complexes of Ag+ and PdCl2

3:15 p.m.  Professor Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University

3:45 p.m.  Break

4:00 p.m.  MU3C faculty lead a panel on teaching at primarily undergraduate institutions; MU3C student have a lab tour

6:30 p.m. Dinner for those still in town; to be arranged.

 

Summer 2023 Conference Participating MU3C Groups

Dennis Cao, Macalester College

Daniela Kohen, Carleton College

Brent Krueger, Hope College

Keith Kuwata, Macalester College

Christopher Lawrence, Grand Valley State University

Richard Lord, Grand Valley State University

Joe Scanlon, Wabash College 

Stacey Stoffregen, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Stuart Winikoff, Truman State University