September 18

Martin Kirk
Department of Chemistry

University of New Mexico
(Host: Professor Sean Elliott)

Electronic Structure Contributions to Catalysis in Pyranopterin Molybdenum Enzymes

September 25

Paulo Cezar Vieira

Professor of Chemistry

Federal University of São Carlos

São Paulo, Brazil

(Host: Professor John Snyder)

Strategies for the isolation of antiparasitic natural products from Brazilian plants

October 16

Mukund Sibi

Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology

North Dakota State University

(Host: Professor John Porco)

A New Dimension to Enantioselective Catalysis: Templates Come to the Rescue

October 23

Richard C. Holz

Department of Chemistry
Loyola University-Chicago
(Host: Professor John Caradonna)

Design and Development of Biomotor Power Units

October 30

Jeffrey W. Bode

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Host: Professor Scott Schaus)

Organic Redox Reactions: A Strategy for Chemoselective Ligations and Catalytic Annulations

November 6

Matthew B. Francis

Department of Chemistry

University of California, Berkeley

(Host: Professor Scott Schaus)

New Synthetic Strategies to Build Protein-Based Nanomaterials

November 20

Jinquan Yu

Department of Chemistry

Brandeis University

(Host: Professor Scott Schaus)

Formation of C-Heteroatom and C-C Bonds from Unactivated C-H Bonds

November 27

David Benson

Department of Chemistry

Wayne State University

(Host: Professor Sean Elliott)

Measuring Small Molecule Concentrations Using Charge Transport Processes in Biopolymer Tethered Nanoparticles