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Fall 2007 Colloquia

Sept 10

 

Professor Michael Knapp
Department of Chemistry

University of Massachusetts Amherst
(Host: Professor Sean Elliott)

 

Controlling Redox Chemistry in Metalloenzyme/Nanoparticle Hybrids

 

Sept 17

 

Russell P. Hughes

Frank R. Mori Professor of Chemistry

Dartmouth College

(Host: Professor Linda Doerrer)

Facile Activation of Carbon-Fluorine Bonds: Inner Sphere Construction of New Fluorinated Organic Ligands (Link to Abstract)

 

Sept 24

Dr. Sotiris Xantheas

Laboratory Fellow

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

(Host: Professor Bjoern Reinhard)

The Structural-Spectral-Energetic Correspondence for Hydrogen Bonded Networks: Adding an Energy Component to Badger’s Rule (Link to Abstract)

 

Oct 1

Professor Klaus H. Theopold

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Delaware
(Host: Professor Linda Doerrer)

 

The Beauty of "Chrome" —
New Chemistry of a Colorful Metal

 

Oct 8

No Colloquium (Columbus Day)

 

Oct 15

2007 Lambert Lecture

Robert H. Grubbs
Victor and Elizabeth Atkins

Professor of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology

 

Metathesis: Catalysts & Applications

 

Oct 22

No Colloquium (Cancelled)

 

Oct 29

Professor Dieter Seebach

Laboratory of Organic Chemistry

ETH Zuerich

(Host: Professor James Panek)

 

Lessons from Studying beta-Peptides

 

Nov 5

Jonas C. Peters

W.M. Keck Professor of Energy

Department of Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Host: Professor Sean Elliott)

Multi-electron Redox Events at Low Coordinate Late First Row Ions

 

Nov 12

No Colloquium (Veterans Day Observed)

 

Nov 19

Professor Philip P. Power

Department of Chemistry

University of California Davis

(Host: Professor Linda Doerrer)

New Metal-Metal Bonds

 

Nov 26

Professor Karen Allen

Department of Physiology & Biophysics

Boston University School of Medicine

(Host: Professor Rosina Georgiadis)

Chemistry of Phosphoryl Transfer in a Mechanistically Diverse Enzyme Superfamily (Abstract)

 

New Date - Feb 11, 2008

Mohammad Movassaghi

Firmenich Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Host: Professor Scott Schaus)

Cascade Reactions in
Complex Alkaloid Synthesis

 

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