Abstracts of the 2023 49th Annual NATAS Conference.

We are pleased to announce that the 49th annual meeting of NATAS cwill be held in Rockville, MD, a beautiful city that is part of the Washington D.C. National Capital Area, on the DC metro system (allowing easy access to Washington museums and sites), and close to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL), Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Georgetown University, George Washington University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland.

Abstracts of the 2022 48th Annual NATAS Conference.

Following the successful first-ever virtual NATAS Conference in 2021, we now hope that you are all dreaming of traveling again and that the 2022 NATAS Conference is on your list. The venue will be the historic Case Western Reserve University (CSWU) campus in downtown Cleveland. We are looking forward to seeing you in person, beginning with a welcome reception on Monday, August 1st in the beautiful Havorka Auditorium along with our vendor exhibition.

A mixed-valence chloride-bridged (pincer)Ir(III)-(diene)Ir(I) complex.

The title compound, [2,6-bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)phenyl-1kappa(3)P,C(1),P']di-mu-chlorido-1:2kappa(4)Cl:Cl-(2eta(4)-cycloocta-2,5-diene)hydrido-1kappaH-diiridium(I,III) hexane hemisolvate, [Ir(2)(C(8)H(12))(C(24)H(43)P(2))Cl(2)H].0.5C(6)H(14) or [((tBu)PCP)IrH(mu(2)-Cl)(2)Ir(COD)][(tBu)PCP is kappa(3)-2,6-((t)Bu(2)PCH(2))(2)C(6)H(3) and COD is eta(4)-2,5-cyclooctadiene], is an Ir(III)/Ir(I) dimer bridged by two chloride ions.