Organic Seminars Spring 2009

TUESDAYS:  ROOM 1315 CHEMISTRY AT 3:30 PM 
THURSDAYS:  ROOM 1315 CHEMISTRY AT 11:00 AM

JANUARY 2009
20 (T) -   (Instruction Begins) - Faculty Recruiting
   22 (R) -   Danielle Stacey, Blackwell Group "Bisphenol A Hype or Science?"
27 (T) -   Faculty Recruiting
   29 (R) -   John Feltenberger, Hsung Group, "Lewis Basic Chiral Phosphine Organocatalysis"

FEBRUARY 2009
   05 (R) -   Brian Esselman, McMahon Group, "Structure and Synthesis of the Elusive 1,2-azaborine"
   12 (R) -   Anthony Breitbach, Blackwell Group, "Chemical Approaches to the Detection of Explosives"
   19 (R) -   Tianning Diao, Stahl Group "Insertion into sp(3) C-H Bond -- Tales of the Rhodium Carbenoid Intermediate"
   26 (R) -   Daria Fedyukina, Cavagnero Group "Magnifying from inside: where a smart gadolinium unites chemistry, physics, and medicine"

MARCH 2009
   03 (T) -   Professor Dennis Dougherty, Cal Tech "High Precision Studies of the Nicotine Receptor" (Host Nelsen)
   05 (R) -  Aaron Crapster, Blackwell Group "Expanding the Scope of Native Chemoselective Peptide Ligations"
   10 (T) -   Dr. Peter Petillo, Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, "Switch Inhibitors: Novel, Biomimetic, Small Molecule
                   Inhibitors of Protein Kinases" (Host Nelsen)
   13 (F) -   Professor Vichai Reutrakul, Mahidol University, Thailand, "Pyranonapthoquinones from Ventilago harmandiana: Chemistry, Biology and Synthesis"  (Host Nelsen)
   12 (R) -   David Tellers, Merck and Co.,  McEvlain Industrial Seminar "Application of Catalysis to Pharmaceutical Intermediates" (Hosts T. Benkovics, C. Schaffer and N. Stephenson)
   14-22 -   Spring Recess
   31 (T) -   Professor Andrew Phillips, University of Colorado "Opportunities and Lessons in Chemistry and Biology Stemming from an Investment in Total Synthesis" (Host Burke)

APRIL 2009
   02 (R) -   Kyle Dekorver, Hsung Group "Platinum-Catalyzed Enyne Cycloisomerizations:  The Intervention of Cyclopropyl Platainacarbenes"
   07 (T) -   Professor Jon Njardarson, Cornell University "Natural Products and New Synthetic Methods" (Host Yoon)
   09 (R) -   Kevin Williamson, Yoon Group
   09 (R)  -  Prof. Muir - McElvain Lecture, "Turning Virulence On and Off in Staphylococci" (Host Benkovics, Shaffer, Stephenson)
   15 (W) -  Hirschmann Lecturer Series - Prof. Helmut Schwarz, Technical University of Berlin,  “Ligand and Cluster-size Effects in Metal-mediated Activation of Methane: A Cold Approach
                   to a Hot Problem”
   16 (R) -   Hirschmann Lecturer Series - Prof. Helmut Schwarz, Technical University of Berlin, “Keto-Enol Tautomerism: A 125 Year Old Story Revisited”
   28 (T) -   Professor William Roush, Scripps Research Institute "Recent Studies on the Development of New Methodology and the Synthesis of Natural Products" (Host Yoon)
   30 (R) -  Thanit Praneenararat, Blackwell Group, "The Logic of Diversity-Oriented Synthesis: Complexity/Diversity/Efficiency"

MAY 2009
   04 (M) - Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University, Hirschmann Lecture Series, "Self Assembly of Dinuclear Main Group Catalysts for Asymmetric Synthesis"
   05 (T) -  Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University, Hirschmann Lecture Series, "On the Invention of New Synthetic Methods and Their Impact on Synthetic Strategy to Bioactive Targets"
   07 (R) -  Aaron Almeida, Gellman Group,  "Organoselenium Agents as in Vivo Reactive Oxygen Scavengers"
   12 (T) -  Professor Vy Maria Dong, University of Toronto, "Catalytic Transformations of C-H Bonds, Carbon Dioxide, and Simple Olefins"  (Host Yoon)
   14 (R) -  Finals Week