Graduate programs in Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminars 2002-2003
Department Seminars
Seminars are usually held on Thursday afternoons in 152 Dunbar Hall unless otherwise noted. Seminars begin promptly at 3:45 pm with refereshments served 15 minutes before the seminar time.
| Sep 16 | Michael
Harmata University of Missouri - Columbia |
"From Benzothiazines to 4+3 Cycloaddition Reactions and Beyond" |
| Oct
4 (FRIDAY) |
Takeshi
Kitahara University of Tokyo |
"Stereoselective Synthesis of Heterocycles with Remarkable Bioactivities" |
| Oct
11 (FRIDAY) |
Rigoberto
Advincula University of Houston |
"Nanostructural Organic and Polymer Materials: From Ultrathin Film to Nanoparticles" |
| Oct
17 (3:45 pm) |
Chris
Schmid Eli Lilly and Company |
"A Convergent Kilogram Scale Preparation of PPAR alpha Agonist LY518674. Discovery of a Novel Trazolone Synthesis" |
| Nov 7 | Gene
Homandberg University of North Dakota |
"A
Model of Osteoarthritis Based on Amplification of Catabolism by the Damaged Cartilage Matrix" |
| Nov 14 | Kenneth
Nicholas University of Oklahoma |
"Transition Metal-Catalyzed Nitrogenation of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons- Adventures and Advances" |
| Nov
18 (MONDAY) |
Huw
Davies University of Buffalo |
"Discovery of New Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions for Organic Synthesis" |
| Nov 21 | Piotr
Piecuch Michigan State University |
"New Ideas in Electronic Structure Theory: Method of Moments of Coupled-Cluster Equations" |
| Dec 5 | Steven
Zimmerman University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign |
"Supramolecular Polymer Chemistry" |
| Dec 12 | Ann
Smith University of Missouri - Kansas City |
"The
hemopexin heme transport system: cellular defense against
heme-mediated oxidative stress" |
| Feb 20 | Bill
Pennington Clemson University |
"Crystal Engineering through Halogen Bonding" |
| Mar 7 | Nabuo
Kato Kyushu University |
“Clarification of Terpenoid Biosynthesis to Provide Derivatives of Parent Natural Products: Fusiccocin Case Study” |
| Mar 13 | Judith
Burstyn University of Wisconsin |
"Copper(II) Macrocycles as Synthetic Hydrolases" |
| Mar 20 | Tom
Hoye University of Minnesota |
"Powerful Yet Practical 1H NMR Methods for Interrogating Reactions and Deducing Structure" |
| Mar 21 (8:30 am) |
Tom
Hoye University of Minnesota |
"Strategies for Natural Product Synthesis" |
| Mar 21 | Roger
Anderson University of California - Santa Cruz |
“Achromatic lenses for polar molecules: mass spectroscopy without ionization” |
| Apr 3 | Richard
Larock Iowa State University |
"Synthesis of Carbocycles and Heterocycles via Palladium Catalysis" |
| Apr 7 | Greg
Friestad University of Vermont |
Radical Addition to Hydrazones: Versatile Carbon-Carbon Bond Constructions for Asymmetric Amine Synthesis" |
| Apr 10 | Vladimir
Gevorgyan University of Illinois at Chicago |
"Development of Novel Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthetic Methodologies" |
| Apr 14 | T.V.
RajanBabu The Ohio State University |
"Stereoselective synthesis with olefins and acetylenes. Ligands,Counterions and other Control Elements" |
| Apr 15 | Tom
Bitterwolf University of Idaho |
"Photochemistry of Iron Tetrahedranes" |
| Apr 17 | Sourav Bhunia Biomed |
"An Artificial Heart" |