Organic Seminars
Spring 2007
TUESDAYS:
ROOM 1315 CHEMISTRY AT 3:30 PM
THURSDAYS:
ROOM 1315 CHEMISTRY AT 11:00 AM
JANUARY 2007
22 (M) - Instruction Begins
25 (R) - Joseph Stringer, Blackwell
Group, "Chemical Approaches to the Disruption of Telomerase
Function"
30 (T) - Professor Marc A. Hillmyer,
University of Minnesota (Host Mahanthappa), "Self-assembly
of Multi-Component Block Copolymers in Dilute Solution"
FEBRUARY
2007
06 (T) - Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones, University of
Bristol, UK (Host Landis), "What Goes Around Comes Around -
Exploring Homogeneous Transition Metal Mediated Catalysis"
08 (R) - Tamas Benkovics,
Yoon Group "Rhodium-catalyzed C-H Amidation
Reactions"
15 (R) - James Hrovat, Stahl Group
"Duel Enantioselectivity: Inducing a
Single Chiral Ligand to
Reverse a Reaction's Enantioselectivity"
26 (M) - Sprague Lectures, Professor Koichi Komatsu, Kyoto
University, Japan (Host Nelsen), "Chemistry of
Pi-Conjugated Systems Having Sigma-Pi Interaction with Rigid Sigma-Frameworks"
27 (T) - Sprague Lectures, Professor Koichi Komatsu, Kyoto
University, Japan (Host Nelsen), "Organic Chemistry
of Fullerenes: Solid-State Reaction to Molecular Surgery"
MARCH 2007
06 (T) - Professor Andrei Yudin, University of
Toronto (Host Stahl), "Construction of Complex Amines: Mechanistic
Insights and Synthetic Applications"
08 (R) - Katherine Traynor,
McMahon Group "Xanthate Transfer Reactions:
Adding Functionality via Reversible, Degenerate Radical Processes"
15 (R) - Jessica Menke, McMahon
Group "Solar Energy Going Organic: Use of Organic Dyes in
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells"
20 (T) - McElvain Lecture, Adrian Whitty, Biogen (Hosts Wysocki and Pomerantz), "Expanding
the Druggable Proteome: Finding Small Molecule
Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions"
22 (R) - Margrith Mattmann, Blackwell Group "Designing Artificail Transcription Factors"
25 - 29 - ACS Meeting Chicago, Illinois
APRIL 2007
01- 08 - Spring Recess
02 (M) - Prof. Ulrich Koert, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany (Host Burke) :"Synthesis of Molecular Switches, Ion-Channels and
Natural Products"
12 (R) - Elizabeth Moscato-Goodpaster,
Landis Group "The Use of Ferrocenyl Ligands in Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation"
17 (T) - Professor Victor Snieckus,
Queen's University, Ontario, Canada (Host Reich), "Sight-seeing the Metalated Flatlands Carbanion-mediated
Strategies for Synthetic Aromatic Chemistry"
19 (R) - Rebecca Splain, Kiessling Group "Recent Advances in Cinchona
Alkaloid Organocatalysis: Making Use of the Phenolic Oxygen"
24 (T) - Professor Paramjit Arora, NYU (Host Kiessling) "Towards
a Toolkit of Distinctly Folded Oligomers as
Modulators of Biomolecular Function"
26 (R) - Peerasak Paoprasert, Gopalan Group "Design
and Fabrication of Materials for High Performance Organic Thin-Film
Transistors"
MAY 2007
01 (T) - Professor Dan Kahne,
Harvard University (Host Blackwell) "Structure and Function of an
Essential Component of the Outer Membrane Protein Assembly Machine"
02 (W) - McElvain Lecture, Prof. F. Dean
Toste, University of California-Berkeley (Hosts
Wysocki and Pomerantz) "Development
and Application of Gold(I)-Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis"
03 (R) - Maren Buck, Lynn Group "Chemical and Biosynthetic Methods Toward
Mimicking Nature's Strong Fiber: Spider Dragline Silk"
10 (R) - Julee Byram,
Mecozzi Group "Indicator Displacement Assays
for Solute Sensing"
11 (F) - Last day of class
12 (S) - Study day
13 (S) - Exams begin
15 (T) - Professor David MacMillan, Princeton University
(Yoon) "New Catalysis Concepts"
19 (S) - Exams end
JUNE 2007
6-10 (W-S) Eigth International Symposium on Carbanion Chemistry (ISCC-8) Organizing Committee - Hans
Reich