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Department of Chemistry
Dartmouth College
6128 Burke Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: (603) 646-2501
Fax: (603) 646-3946

Seminars & Endowed Lecture Series

All seminars Thursdays 10:30 AM, Room 007 Steele (except where noted below)

 

 Spring 2013

  • March 28
    Professor Kay Brummond, University of Pittsburgh
  • April 4
  • April 11
  • April 16
    Professor Christopher D. Vaderwal, University of California - Irvine
  • April 25
  • May 2
    Professor Eric Ferreira, Colorado State University 
  • May 9
  • May 16
    Senior Presentations 
  • May 23
    Senior Presentations 

 Winter 2013

  • January 16
    Sir Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University - Camille & Henry Dreyfus Lecturer 
    Mingling Art and Science
  • January 16
    Sir Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University - Camille & Henry Dreyfus Lecturer
    New Twists and Turns in Radical Organic Chemistry
  • January 24
    Dr. Spiros Liras, Vice-President, Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer Global Research & Development
    Revisiting the Significance of Stereochemistry in Drug Design: (a) Opioid Antagonists (b) Peptide Macrocycles
  • February 7
    Professor Scott J. Miller, Yale University 
    Natural Products, Synthetic Catalysts, Unnatural Products
  • February 8
    Professor Ole Mouritsen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
    Deliciousness and The Gastroscience Behind It
  • February 21
    Professor Liz Dolan, MIT Chemistry
  • February 28
    Professor Sarah Michel, University of Maryland - Baltimore, Pharmacy
  • March 7
    Professor Richard J. Hooley, University of California, Riverside
    Biomimicry with Synthetic Receptors: Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition

Faculty Interviews 2012

  • November 15
    Faculty Interview
  • November 27
    Faculty Interview
  • December 6
    Faculty Interview
  • December 11
    Faculty Interview
  • December 13
    Faculty Interview
  • January 8
    Faculty Interview
  • January 10
    Faculty Interview
  • January 15
    Faculty Interview

Fall 2012

  • September 12
    Professor Phillip Crews, University of California Santa Cruz - Ross Lecturer
    Discovery of Inspirational Marine Natural Products ̶ Some Effective Paradigms and Significant Outcomes
    September 13
    Professor Phillip Crews, University of California Santa Cruz - Ross Lecturer 
    Using Insights from Marine Sponge-Derived Biosynthetic Products to Explore Chemically Prolific Microorganisms
  • September 20
    Professor Nathan Schnarr, UMass Amherst 
    Simplified Approaches for Improved Control Over Polyketide Engineering 
  • September 27
    Professor E. James Petersson, University of Pennsylvania
    Thioamides: Minimalist chromophores for studying protein conformation
  • October 2
    Professor Glenn Micalizio, The Scripps Research Institute
    Metallacycle Mediated Cross-Coupling: Reaction Development and Application in Stereoselective Synthesis
  • October 4
    Professor Jovica Badjic, Ohio State University
    Gated Molecular Encapsulation and Reactivity
  • October 11
    Professor Gregory B. Dudley, Florida State University
    Synthesis and Applications of High-value Alkynes
  • October 18
    Professor Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah, Tulane University
    Assembling porphyrinic nanostructures in water: Interplay of synthetic and biological supramolecular motifs
  • October 25
    Professor Michael M. Haley, University of Oregon
    Indenofluorenes ­ A New Class of Electron-Accepting Materials
  • November 1
    Professor Eric Block, SUNY University at Albany
    Smelling Garlic
  • November 8
    Professor Jimmy Wu, Dartmouth College - Chemistty
    Sulfur and Indole: Old Friends, New Methods
  • Novemmber 29
    Professor Armin de Meijere, University of Goettingen  
    From Simple Small Ring Building Blocks to Potent Biologically Active Compounds

 Summer 2012

  • July 20
    Professor Spencer Knapp, Rutgers University
    Organoselenium Adventures 
  • August 27
    Profesor Wojciech Bai, Polish Academy of Sciences 
    The issue of volume in the determination and interpretation of stability constants of metal ion complexes with biomolecules
    Dr. Malgorzata Rozga
    Mixed complexes between Abeta peptide, Cu(II) ions and small molecule neurotransmitters. Are they possible?
    Dr. Kurowska Ewa
    Histatin 5. Trojan horse of nickel allergy?

   Spring 2012

  • March 29
    Professor Dvora Perahia, Clemson University
    Poly-Dots: Where Polymer Physics, Quantum Chemistry and Bio Sensors Meet
  • April 5
    Professor Stefan France, Georgia Tech.
    Efficient Catalytic Approaches to Ring-Fused Heteroaromatics, Heterobiaryls and Annelated Indoles via Novel Diversity-Oriented Synthesis Strategies
  • April 12
    Professor Angel Kaifer, University of Miami
    Highly Stable Complexes Formed by Cucurbit[n]uril Hosts
  • April 19
    Professor Bradley D. Smith. Notre Dame
    Chemiluminescent and Fluorescent Squaraine Rotaxanes for Bioimaging
  • April 26
    Professor Rich G. Carter, Oregon State University
    Adventures in Natural Products: The Lycopodium Alkaloids
  • May 3
    Professor Miguel Garcia-Garibay, UCLA
    Amphidynamic Crystals and Artificial Molecular Machines: Order, Motion, and Function  
  • May 10
    Professor W. Robert Scheidt, Notre Dame
    Nitric Oxide & Hemes: From Toxic Gas to NRVS 
  • May 17
    Senior Presentations
    Stephen W.R. Dunbar 
    Molecular Imprinting of Carbon Nanotubes using Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) and Cotinine 
    Michael Funaro 
    Molecular Interactions between Sodium Alginate and Enzymes and their Functional Implications 
    Rebecca J. Rapf
    Thermodynamics of Toxic Metal Ions Binding to the Zinc Finger Peptide, GR-DBD 
    Jason R. Toffey
    Redox-Linked Axial Ligand Substitution in the Phe82His Variant of Yeast Iso-1-cytochrome c 
  • May 24
    Senior Presentations 
    Christopher R.D. Valleau
    Synthesis of the Chiral Triphosphine Heliphos and of Copper(DuPhos) Complexes 
    Elise B. Wilkes
    Synthesis and Characterization of Benzylcyclopen-tadienyl lithium Derivatives
    John H. Zeiter Jr.
    Synthesis of Potential Biofilm Inhibitors 

Winter 2012

  • January 5
    Professor Cassandra L. Fraser, University of Virginia
    Luminescent Boron Materials for Imaging and Sensing
  • January 12
    Using Evolution and Organic Synthesis to Design HIV Vaccines
    No Colloquium this week
  • January 19
    Allene Oxidation: New Methods & New Strategies for Complex Molecule Synthesis
    Professor Lawrence J. Williams, Rutgers
  • January 26
    Organorhenium chemistry and its application to biological problems
    Professor Richard S. Herrick, Holy Cross
  • February 2
    Target-Driven Total Synthesis
    Professor Seth Herzon, Yale University
  • February 9
    Cucurbituril Molecular Containers
    Professor Lyle Issacs, University of Maryland
  • February 16
    New Insights into Redox Processes on Mineral Surfaces
    Professor Dvon Renock, Dartmouth College, Earth Science
  • February 23
    Building Metal-Organic Frameworks with Mechanically Interlocked Molecules
    Professor Stephen J. Loeb, University of Windsor
  • March 1
    Gated Molecular Encapsulation and Reactivity
    Professor Jovica Badjic, Ohio State University

Fall 2011

  • September 22
    Professor Joel Thornton, University of Washington, Seattle ('96 Dartmouth Alumni)
    A Salty Nighttime Affair:
    nocturnal chlorine activation in polluted air ad its implications for air quality and climate
  • September 29
    Professor Jeff Johnson, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
    New Reactions Based on Glyoxylate Templates 
  • October 6
    Professor Jeffrey N. Johnston, Vanderbilt University
    Reagent and Reaction Development in the Service of Target-Oriented Synthesis:
    Chiral Proton Catalysis and the Advent of Umpolung Amide Synthesis 
  • October 12
    Professor Judith P. Klinman, UC - Berkeley, Chancellor's Professor
    Ross Lecturer
    Changing Paradigms for Enzyme Catalysis: Are the Textbooks Wrong?
    October 13
    Toward An Integrated Model for All of Enzyme Catalysis 
  • October 20
    Professor Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth Physics
    The Chirality of Life: From Phase Transitions to Astrobiology 
  • October 27
    Professor Anne-Frances Miller, University of Kentucky
    How proteins control electrons : Protons
  • November 3
    Professor Corey R.J. Stephenson, Boston University
    Photoredox catalysis: Enabling chemical synthesis with visible light
  • November 10
    Professor Regan J. Thomson, Northwestern University
    Development and Application of Carbon–Carbon Bond Forming Reactions
  • November 17
    Professor Nicolai Lehnert, University of Michigan
    The many Faces of the Coordination Chemistry of Nitric Oxide
    and its Biological Significance
  • November 24 - Thanksgiving Day (No Colloquium)

Spring 2011

  • April 7
    Professor Brandon Ashfield, University of Notre Dame
    Harnessing Masked Electrophilicity: Alternative Strategies for Selective Carbonyl Functionalization 
  • April 13 & 14
    No Colloquium this Week
  • APRIL 19
    Prof. John H. Dawson, Carolina Distinguished Professor, University of South Carolina
    Mechanistic Studies of Oxidative Halophenol Dehalogenation by the Catalytic Globin Dehaloperoxidase from Amphitrite Ornata
  • April 21
    Professor Jared T. Shaw, University of California • Davis
    Multicomponent Approaches to Organic Synthesis and Chemical Biology 
  • April 26
    Prof. Jon C. Antilla, The University of South Florida 
  • April 28
    Professor Shih-Yuan Liu, University of Oregon
    Developing the basic science and applications of boron (B)-nitrogen (N)-containing heterocycles
  • May 3
    Prof. X. Peter Zhang, Univ. of South Florida
    Metalloradical Catalysis for Stereoselective Carbene and Nitrene Transfers
  • May 5
    Prof. Amnon Stanger, Technion in Israel
    Aromaticity: Facts and Fiction
  • May 10 
    Prof. Babak Borhan, Michigan State University
  • May 12
    Professor Tehshik Yoon, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • May 19
    Professor Christopher J. Douglas, University of Minnesota 

Winter 2011

  • January 6
    Professor James Stambuli, Ohio State University
    Development of Palladium and Calcium Catalysts for Chemical Reactions 
  • January 12-13
    Cancelled due to weather conditions
  • January 20
    Professor Babak Borhan, Michigan State University 
    Stereoelectronic Determinants of Color Vision: Engineering Protein Mimics of Pigmented Rhodopsins, and Catalytic Asymmetric Chloro Functionalization of Olefins: Pursuit of the Elusive Chiral Chlorenium 
  • January 27
    No Colloquium 
  • February 3
    Cancelled due to weather conditions
  • February 10
    Professor Aaron Aponick, University of Florida
    Au-Catalyzed Transformations of Unsaturated Alcohols 
  • February 17
    Professor Timothy Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry, MIT
    Top-Down Chemistry: Reactions and Applications of Nano-Carbon Materials 
  • February 24
    Professor Webster L. Santos, Virginia Tech. University
    Organoboron: Synthesis and Application in Disrupting RNA/Protein Interactions in HIV-1 
  • March 3
    Professor Amar H. Flood, University of Indiana
    Strong CH hydrogen bonds and the photo-controlled regulation of anions 
  • March 10
    Professor Alexander Deiters, North Carolina State University
    Regulation of Biological Processes with Small Molecules and Light 

Fall 2010

  • September 23
    No Colloquium This Week
  • September 29
    Professor Charles P. Casey, Homer B. Adkins Emeritus Professor of Chemistry 
    University of Wisconsin, 42nd Annual Camille & Henry Dreyfus Lecturer
    The Future of U.S. Chemistry 
  • September 30
    Professor Charles P. Casey, Homer B. Adkins Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
    University of Wisconsin, 42nd Annual Camille & Henry Dreyfus Lecturer
    An Efficient Iron Catalyst for the Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Aldehydes and Ketones 
  • October 7
    Professor Daniel Seidel, Rutgers University
    Redox Neutral Reaction Cascades And New Concepts in Asymmetric Catalysis 
  • October 14
    Professor Martin A. Case, University of Vermont
    Protein Design by Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry 
  • October 21
    Professor Simon Blakey, Emory University
    Metallonitrene/Alkyne Metathesis and Beyond:
    Transition Metal Catalyzed Oxidative Amination for Organic Synthesis 
  • October 27-28
    Professor Peter Wolynes, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
    University of California, San Diago, Dreyfus Lecturer
    Wed., 10/27 - Landscapes of the Sciences
    Thurs., 10/28 - Recent Successes of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding 
  • November 4
    No Colloquium 
  • November 11
    Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles
    Complex Molecule Synthesis as Fuel for Discovery 
  • November 18
    Professor Stephen Waters (UVM)
    Strategies for the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles and Alkaloid Natural Products
  • November 25
    Thanksgiving Day

Spring 2010

  • April 1
    Michael Cimis, Environmental Health and Safety Annual Safety Seminar
  • April 8
    Professor Sunhee Choi, Middlebury College
    Stories of Platinum Anticancer Drug Research 
  • April 15
    Professor lawrence T. Scott, Boston College
    Methods for the Chemical Synthesis of Fullerenes
    and Carbon Nanotubes
     
  • April 22
    Professor Andre Beauchemin, University of Ottawa
    Methods and Strategies for Metal-Free Amination of Alkenes and Alkynes 
  • April 29
    Professor Gary Brudvig, Yale University
    Water Oxidation Chemistry of Photosystem II and Artificial Systems 
  • May 6
    Professor Jimmie D. Doll, Brown University 
  • May 13
    Professor Denyce Wicht, Suffolk University
    Increasing Undergraduate Awareness of Green Chemistry through Research 
  • May 20
    Professor John Straub, Boston University
  • May 27
    Dr. Stephen J. Doig D'82 (Leader, Energy & Resoures Team)
    Rocky Mountain Institute, Boulder, CO 

Winter 2010

  • January 7
    Professor Matthias Brewer, University of Vermont
    Ring Fragmentations and Intramolecular Cycloadditions:
    Efficient Approaches to Nitrogen Heterocycles
  •  January 14
    Professor Kurt Zilm, Yale University
    NMR Nanocrystallography: Probing Structure, Dynamics
    and Water in Proteins by Solid State NMR
     
  • January 21
    Professor Christine Thomas, Brandeis University
    Multi-electron Redox Processes in Early/Late Heterobimetallic Complexes 
  • January 28
    Professor James Morken, Boston College
    Catalytic Diboration: An Enabling Tool for Organic Synthesis 
  • February 11
    Professor Tobias Ritter, Harvard University
    Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Fluorine Bond Formation
     
  • February 25
    Professor Mukul Sharma, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth
    Osmium Isotopes in Natural Waters
  •  March 4
    Professor Todd D. Krauss, University of Rochester
    Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Insights from Synthesis and Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Fall 2009

  • September 24
    Professor Linda Doerrer, Boston University
    Late Transition Metal Complexes with Fluorinated Aryloxide and Alkoxide Ligands:
    The Power of Fluorine
  • October 1
    Professor Mark Spaller, Dartmouth Medical School & Norris Cotto Cancer Center
    Small Molecule and Peptide Approaches for Cellular Probe and Drug Discovery
  • October 8
    Professor Roald Hoffmann, Montgomery Fellow, Cornell University
    The Chemical Imagination at Work i Very Tight Places
    *006 Steele Hall*
  • October 15
    Professor Christoper L. Berger, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Vermont
    Tau-medicated Regulation of Kiesin Motility During Axonal Transport
  • October 22
    No Colloquium
  • October 29
    Dr. Jie Jack Li, Bristol-Myers/Squibb
    Broad-Spectrum and Specific MMP-13 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis
  • November 5
    Professor Bernard Trumpower, Dept. o Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School
    Regulatory Interactions in the Cytochrome bc1 Complex: A dimeric Redox Enzyme System
  • Novermber 12
    Professor Shawn Burdette, University of Connecticut
    Design and Properties of Caged Zn2+ Complexes for Biological Applications
  • November 19
    Professor Robert Boeckman, University of Rochester
    New Developments in Asymmetric Synthesis Methodology with
    Applications to Molecules of Biological Interest
  • November 26
    Thanksgiving Day
     

Spring 2009

  • April 2
    Professor James Omichinski, Universite de Montreal
    Structural and Functional Characterization of the Interactions of p53 with TFIIH and GATA-1
  • April 7
    Dr. Hemali Rathnayake, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Organic Senior Lecturer Candidate
    Key Synthetic Reactions of Aldehydes & Ketones towards Synthesis of Organic Macromolecles
  • April 9
    Dr. David H. Blank, Dartmouth College
    Organic Senior Lecturer Candidate
    Chemistry 51 Lecture on Bimolecular Nucleopphilic Substitution
  • April 14
    Dr. Mircea Gheorghiu, Mt. Ida College
    Organic Senior Lecturer Candidate
    The Diels-Alder Reaction
  • April 16
    Professor Marisa Kozlowsk, University of Pennsylvania
    Catalytic Asymmetric Oxidative Naphthol Coupling and Claisen Rearrangement Reactions
  • April 21
    Dr. Catherine O. Welder, Wake Forest University
    Organic Senior Lecturer Candidate
    An Introduction to Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
  • April 21
    Professor Marye Anne Fox, UCSD
    Dreyfus Spring Lecture 2009
    New Applications of Dendrimers
  • April 30
    Professor Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University
    Supramolecular Chemistry with DNA
  • May 7
    Mike Cimis, Dartmouth EHS
    Annual Lab Safety Seminar
  • May 14
    Professor Sean J. Elliott, Boston University
    One Heme is Not enough: Drect Electrochemical Studies of Multiheme Proteins
  • May 21
    Professor Kara L. Bren, University of Rochester
    Functional Consequences of Covalent Attachment of Heme /c/ to Proteins
  • May 28Dr. Barry Sharpless, Scripps
    Dreyfus Spring Lecture 2009
    Click Chemisty - The Latest News 

Winter 2009

  • January 8
    Professor Alison J. Frontier, Universy of Rochester
    New Twists on the Nazarov Cyclization
  • January 15
    Dr. Giovanni Pellegrini, University of Padova, Italy
    Optical Properties of Nanocluster Based Functional Plasomonic Materials
  • January 22
    No Seminar
  • January 29
    Professor Douglas C. Neckers, Bowling Green State University
    Chemists on Trial – I.G. Farben at Nürenberg
  • February 5
    Prof. David M. Lemal, Dartmouth College
    Flailing and Floundering with Fluorocarbons
  • February 12
    Prof. Michael A. Calter, Wesleyan University
    Asymmetric Catalysis of Various C-C-Bond-Forming Reactions
    By Cinchona Alkaloid Derivatives
  • February 19
    Professor Mohammad Movassaghi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis
  • February 26
    Dr. Carl Busacca, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
    Development of the BIPI Ligands for Asymmetric Hydrogenation
  • March 5
    Prof. Arthur Salomon, Brown University
    Quantitative Phosphoproteomic Dissection of Signaling Pathways
    Using Mass Spectrometry

Fall 2008

  • October 2
    Prof. Jonas C. Peters, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Surprisingly Bright Emission from Copper
  • October 9
    Industrial Speaker Program: Dr. Douglas Robello, Kodak
    Photoinitiated Chain Reactions in Solid Polymers: New Materials for Holographic Recording
  • October 15-16
    The Twelfth Annual Robert M. and Martha W. Ross Lectures
    Dr. Roy Vagelos, Retired Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.
    • Wednesday, October 15 - 4:00 PM - Room 006 Steele Hall
      Coping with Diseases of the Developing World

      Thursday, October 16 - 10:30 AM - Room 006 Steele Hall
      Strategy for Drug Discovery
  • October 23
    Dr. Deborah A. Hogan, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School
    Chemical Reactions between Bacteria and Fungi
  • October 30
    Cancelled
  • November 6
    Prof. Paul Williard, Brown University
    Solid State and Solution Structural Studies by X-ray Diffraction and Diffusion NMR Technigues
  • November 13
    Prof. Petia M. Vlahovska, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
    Lipid Vesicles as Tools to Study Cellular Biomechanics
  • November 20
    Prof. Rachel N. Austin, Bates College
    Exploring Structure-Function Relationships in Metalloenzyme-Mediated Alkane Oxidation: How does Nature Oxidize Alkane?

Spring 2008

  • March 27
    Prof. Brian P. Coppola, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry, University of Michigan
    The Most Beautiful Theories...
  • April 3
    Prof. Yi Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Biosynthetic Inorganic Chemistry
  • April 4 - Friday 2:00 PM
    Prof. Stefano Ciurli, University of Bologna
    Nickel Biochemistry: Urease as a Paradigm for Enzyme Efficiency and Metal Ion Cellular Handling
  • April 9 - Wednesday 4:00 PM
    Prof. James M. Mayer, University of Washington
    Metal-Mediated Oxidations of C-H and O-H Bonds: Radical and Non-Radical Pathways
  • April 10
    Annual Laboratory Safety Training
  • April 16 and 17 - The 38th Annual Camille and Henry Dreyful Lectures
    Prof. Timothy P. Lodge, Distinquished McKnight University Professor and Lloyd H. Reyerson Professor of Chemistry,University of Minnesota
    • Wednesday, April 16 - 4:00 PM-Room 006 Steele: Block Copolymer Self-assembly: The Flexible Route to Nanostructure Control
    • Thursday, April 17 - 10:30 AM-Room 006 Steele: Block Copolymers in Ionic Liquids: A New Class of Functional Nanocomposites
  • April 24
    Prof. Markus Meuwly, University of Basel
    Quantitative Atomistic Simulations: From Ligands in Myoglobin to Doped Ices
  • May 1
    Prof. Patrick Holland, University of Rochester
    Three Coordinate Iron Complexes: Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Insights into Nitrogenase Mechanism
  • May 8 - Industrial Speaker Program
    Dr. Michael Cukan, Glycofi
    Recombinant Human Lactoferrin Expressed In Clycoengineered Pichia Pastoris: Effect of terminal N-Acetylneuraminic Acid on in vitro Secondary Humoral Immune Response
  • May 15
    Prof. Erin Pelkey, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Developing Methodology for the Synthesis of Biologically Active 3-Pyrrolin-2-ones
  • Tuesday, May 27
    Prof. Emily A. Carter, Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
    Disentangling High Temperature Evolution of Thermal Barrier Coatings

Winter 2008

  • January 31
    Prof. Brian Jackson, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences
    Coupled Analytical Techniques for the Determination of Arsenic and Mercury Speciation in the Environment
  • February 7
    Prof. Michael Knapp, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    Controlling O2: A)Hypoxia Sensing B)Metalloenzyme/Nanoparticle Hybrids
  • February 14
    Prof. Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin
    Transforming a Commodity Chemical Process into a Route to Pharmaceuticals
  • February 21
    Industrial Speaker Program - Dr. Jason Ness, Arkema Inc., King of Prussia, PA
    Advanced Materials through Polymer Design
  • February 28
    Prof. Rory Waterman, University of Vermont
    Zirconium-Catalyzed Bond-Forming Reactions
  • March 6
    Prof. Karl A. Scheidt, Northwestern University
    A Tale of Two Pyrones: Challenges and Opportunities for Discovery in Natural Product Synthesis

Fall 2007

  • September 27
    Dr. Peng Chen, Cornell University
    From Bioinorganic Chemistry to Nanocatalysis One Molecule at a Time
  • October 3-4
    The Eleventh Annual Robert M. and Martha W. Ross Lectures
    Prof. Roger Y. Tsien, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Pharmacology
    • Wednesday, October 3
      4:00 PM - Room 006 Steele Hall
      Sculpting Molecules for Fun and Profit
    • Thursday, October 4
      10:30 AM - Room 006 Steele Hall
      Building Molecules to Spy on Synapses and Tumors
  • October 11
    Dr. Pat Confalone, DuPont
    Topics in Agrochemicals Research and Pharmaceutical Process R&D
  • October 18
    Dr. Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley
    Cycloalkadienes in the Synthesis of Natural Products
  • October 25
    Cancelled: Industrial Speaker Program: Dr. Lee R. Lynd, Mascoma Corporation and Thayer School of Engineering
  • November 1
    Prof. Huw M.L. Davies, SUNY at Buffalo
    C-H Functionalization: Applications in Organic Synthesis

Spring 2007

  • April 5
    Industrial Speaker Program: Dr. Nora Radu, DuPont Central Research
    Design of Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
  • April 12
    Prof. Richard Eisenberg, University of Rochester
    Making Hydrogen from Water using Platinum Complexes; the Reductive Side of Water Splitting
  • April 26
    Annual Departmental Laboratory Safety Seminar
  • May 3
    Prof. Benjamin Enhrenberg, Bar Ilan University, Israel
    The Topography Porphyrins in Membranes Affects their Photosensitization Reaction
  • May 17
    Prof. N. Dennis Chasteen, University of New Hampshire
    Ferritins and Dps Proteins: Different Strategies for Iron Storage and Detoxification
  • May 24
    Prof. Daniel J. Kosman, State University of New York at Buffalo
    Linear Free Energy Relationships in Iron Uptake in Yeast

Winter 2007

  • January 18 - Note: Colloquium in Room 007 Steele, 10:30 AM
    Dr. Daesung Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Metal-Catalyzed Ene-Yne Coupling Reactions and Their Use in Synthesis
  • February 1
    Industrial Speaker Program: Dr. John Kadow, Director, Discovery Chemistry, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
    Inhibitors of HIV Attachment
  • February 8
    Prof. Thomas A. P. Seery, University of Connecticut
    Total Synthesis of Nanocomposites
  • Tuesday, February 13 - Room 315 Steele - 10:30 AM
    Dr. Ryan E. Looper, Harvard University
    Zooming Out on Small-Molecule Structure and Function
  • February 15
    Prof. Scott A. Gerber, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Department of Genetics, Lebanon, NH
    Analytical Infrastructure for High-Performance Proteomics
  • February 22
    Prof. Dean R. Madden, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    The CAL PDZ domain: a Candidate Therapeutic Target for Cystic Fibrosis
  • March 1
    Prof. Tillman R. Gerngross, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
    The Use of Humanized Yeast to Explore the Glyco-Design Space - A Novel Discovery Platform for Biotheraptutics

Fall 2006

  • October 5 & 6 - The Tenth Annual Robert M. and Martha W. Ross Lectures
    Prof. Robert H. Grubbs, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology.
  • Thursday, October 5, 10:30 AM-006 Steele Hall: The Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules
    Using Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
  • Friday, October 6, 4:00 PM-006 Steele Hall:
    Applications of Olefin Meththesis Catalysts: Fundamental Research to Commercial Products
  • October 12
    Dr. Joel M. Hawkins, Pfizer Global Research and Development
    New Technologies for Process R&D in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Case Studies, Work Flows and New Approaches
  • October 19
    Dr. Lawrence Hamann, Bristol Meyers Squibb
    Discovery of Saxagliptin (BMS-477118): A Long-Acting Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV Inhibitor for the Treatment of Type II Diabetes
  • Friday, October 27 - The 38th Annual Camille and Henry Dreyfus Chemistry Lectures
    Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, Director, Institute of Science and Supramoléculaires Engineering, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, Professor, College of France, Paris
    • 4:00 PM-006 Steele Hall: From Supramolecular Chemistry to Constitutional Dynamic Chemistry
    • 8:00 PM-006 Steele Hall: From Matter to Life: Chemistry? Chemistry!
  • November 9
    Prof. Robert H. Crabtree, Yale University
    Homogeneous Catalysis: CH Activation, Carbenes and Molecular Recognition
  • November 30
    Prof. Benjamin King, University of Nevada, Reno
    Polymeric Helicenes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

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