Seminars & Endowed Lecture Series
All seminars Thursdays 10:30 AM, Room 007 Steele (except where noted below)
Spring 2012
- March 29
Professor Dvora Perahia, Clemson University
- April 5
Professor Stefan France, Georgia Tech.
- April 12
Professor Angel Kaifer, University of Miami
- April 19
Professor Bradley D. Smith. Notre Dame
- April 26
Professor Rich G. Carter, Oregon State University
- May 3
Professor Miguel Garcia-Garibay, UCLA
- May 10
Professor W. Robert Scheidt, Notre Dame
- May 17
Senior Presentations
- May 24
Senior Presentations
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
