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Spring 2007 Schedule


January 22

2007 Novartis Lecture in Organic Chemistry

Melanie Sanford

Department of Chemistry

University of Michigan

(Host: Professor Scott Schaus)

Synthetic Applications and Mechanistic Investigations of Transition Metal Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization


January 29

Helen Blackwell

Department of Chemistry

University of Wisconsin - Madison

(Host: BUWIC)

Expanding the Language of Bacterial Communication with Synthetic Ligands


February 5

Michael Brenowitz

Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York

Towards Solution of the RNA Folding Problem


February 12

No colloquium


February 19

No colloquium (Presidents Day)


February 26

No colloquium


March 5

Jeffrey Aube

Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Kansas University

(Host: James Panek)

Azides as Precursors to Natural and Unnatural Products


March 12

Justin Gallivan

Department of Chemistry

Emory University

(Host: Sean Elliott)

Reprogramming Bacteria with Small Molecules and RNA


March 19

Lance Seefeldt
Department of Chemistry

Utah State University
(Host: Professor Sean Elliott)

Intermediates on the N2 Reduction Pathway
Catalyzed by Nitrogenase


March 26

Deborah Zamble

Department of Chemistry

University of Toronto

(Host: Professor Sean Elliott)

Biosynthesis of the [NiFe] Hydrogenase Enzyme:
The Nickel Accessory Proteins


April 2

Antonio Echavarren

Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

(Host: Professor Scott Schaus)

The Mechanistic Puzzle of Gold-Catalyzed
Cyclizations of Enynes and Beyond


April 9

Udayan Mohanty

Department of Chemistry

Boston College

(Host: Professor Tom Keyes)


Polyelectrolyte Behavior of RNA


April 16

No colloquium (Patriots Day)


April 23

George Whitesides

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Harvard University

(Host: BUYCC)

Reinventing Chemistry


April 30

Joel Bowman
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Emory University
(Host: Professor David Coker)

Molecules Without a Structure, Reactions that Bypass the Transition State --- What's Going On?