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Novartis Lecture

The Novartis Lecture is sponsored by the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) to feature the most innovative scientists working in synthetic organic chemistry today.

2008 Speaker

 

 

Professor Mohammad Movassaghi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Cascade Reactions in Complex Alkaloid Synthesis

February 11, 2008

The 4 pm talk (LSEB B01) will be followed at 5 pm by a reception in LSEB 103 (24 Cummington) to which the lecture audience is cordially invited.

Previous Speakers

 

2007 Lecture

Professor Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan

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

January 22, 2007


 

2006 Lecture

Professor Phil S. Baran
Department of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute

The Catalytic Cycle of Discovery in Total Synthesis

March 20, 2006

Photographs of the Reception Honoring Professor Baran and the Recipients of the Novartis Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Women and Minorities


 

2005 Lecture

Professor Brian Stoltz
California Institute of Technology

Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry

January 31, 2005

Photographs of the Reception Honoring Professor Stolz and the Recipient of the Novartis Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Women and Minorities


 

2004 Inaugural Lecture

Professor Michael Krische
University of Texas at Austin

Enones as Latent Enolates in Catalysis: Discovery of Catalytic C-C Bond- Forming Hydrogenations

March 29, 2004