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Spring 2008January 25, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Matthew Soyk, Houk Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Design and Construction of a Linear Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer for Ion-Ion Reactions of Biological Molecules"
February 8, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:30 pm
Prof. Brent Gunnoe, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University - Raleigh
http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/facultyPages/tbg.html
"Development of Homogeneous Catalysts for the Conversion of C-H, N-H, O-H and S-H Bonds"
(Petrich)
February 15, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:30 pm
Covance Labs, Inc., None
"TBA"
(Windus)
February 20, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. Malika Jeffries-EL, Iowa State University
"Navigating Your Way to the Ivory Tower: Preparing Yourself for a Scientific Career in Academia"
The seminar will discuss steps to take as a graduate student or post-doc to prepare for a faculty position. Dr. Jeffries-EL will focus on specific topics such as resume/CV preparation, networking and scientific laboratory establishment and management. Sponsored by Iowa Sigma Pi.
February 22, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Dr. Ted Heise (PhD '93, Yeung Group), Cook Inc.
http://www.cookgroup.com/
"Careers for Scientists in Medical Technology"
(Yeung)
February 22, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Atul N. Parikh, Department of Applied Sciences, University of California - Davis
http://parikh.ucdavis.edu/
"Materials Science of Membrane Lipid Bilayers"
(Smith)
March 10, 2008, Monday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 8:00 pm, Gilman Lecture
Prof. Dr. François Diederich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.diederich.chem.ethz.ch/
"Advanced Organic Materials: From Nano-patterned Surfaces to Dendritic Electron Reservoirs"
The first part of the lecture describes the self-assembly of designed porphyrins, using multipolar CN...CN and CN...H–Csp2 interactions, under formation of nano-patterned surfaces with guest hosting properties. The monolayers on Cu and Ag surfaces, obtained by vapor-phase deposition under ultrahigh vacuum, are investigated using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). An unprecedented set of experiments reveals the formation of one- and two-dimensional fullerene networks upon evaporation of pristine C60 on the preorganized porphyrin monolayers. Repositioning experiments with the STM tip demonstrate that the C60 molecules can be easily relocated without disrupting the underlying porphyrin layers. An example for a supramolecular single-molecule rotor, that can be brought to motion using the STM tip, will be presented. The hosting networks can be varied in terms of the spacing and size between the various recognition sites by changing the shape and size of the porphyrins, the peripheral solubilizing and imaging groups, and the orientation and number of the peripheral CN groups undergoing dipolar interactions.
The second part of the lecture illustrates the construction of new chromophores expanding into one, two, and three dimensions, obtained by starting from a versatile library of acetylenic building blocks. Specifically, progress towards new organic super-acceptors will be reported. Cyanoethynylethenes and 1,1,4,4-tetracyanobutadienes are introduced as a new classes of organic electron acceptors, available through efficient, "click"-type reaction cascades. Among the interesting properties of these new advanced materials are expectional electron uptake and storage capacity, electronic transitions extending into the near infrared, as well as strong nonlinear optical properties and efficient two-photon absorption cross-sections. The lecture finishes with the presentation of unprecedented dendritic donor-acceptor molecules, that can be multiply charged in a large number of reversible reduction steps. New AB-type oligomers have become accessible in a cascade reaction, involving repetitive sequences of [2+2]cycloadditions, followed by retro-electrocyclizations. The regular AB sequence is controlled by the electronic nature of the involved acetylenes that are being functionalized.
The Gilman Lecture Series is funded by contributions to the Gilman Lecture Endowment.
March 14, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Bradley D. Smith, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame
http://chemistry.nd.edu/faculty/detail/bsmith3/
"Squaraine-Rotaxanes As Fluorescent Imaging Probes for Cells and Whole Animals"
(Zhao)
March 14, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Robert E. Blake Jr., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/chemistry/Faculty/blake/index.php
"The Chemistry Scholars Program: Undergraduate Teaching is Learning"
(Greenbowe)
March 24, 2008, Monday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm
Dr. Graham R. Fleming, Professor of Chemistry, Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley
http://chem.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/fleming/fleming.html
"Photosynthetic Light Harvesting: From Quantum Mechanics to the Response to Changing Light Levels"
(Petrich)
March 25, 2008, Tuesday, The Sun Room, Iowa State University Memorial Union, 8:00 pm, Iowa State Presidential Lecture in Chemistry Series
Graham R. Fleming, Professor of Chemistry, Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley
http://chem.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/fleming/fleming.html
"Providing the World's Energy: Problems and Solutions"
Professor of Chemistry and Deputy Laboratory Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Born 1949; B Sc.(Honours) Chemistry, Bristol University, UK, 1971; Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of London, UK, 1974; Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, USA, 1974-75; University Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia, 1975-76; Leverhulme Fellow, Royal Institute, UK, 1977-79; University of Chicago: Assistant Professor, 1979-83; Associate Professor, 1983-85; Professor, 1985-87; Arthur Holly Compton Distinquished Service Professor, 1987-97; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991; Fellow, Royal Society of London, 1994; Inter-American Photochemical Society Award, 1996; Centenary Lecture and Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1996; Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 1998; Harrision Howe Award in Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 1999.
(Petrich)
March 26, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm, Cotton-Uphaus Competition
Finalists in the competition are:
Alex Blom (Stauffer)
Youngchao Su (Hong)
Wei Sun (Yeung)
Kaking Yan (Sadow)
March 28, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 11:00 am
Dr. Melinda Duer, Department of Chemistry, Robinson College at the University of Cambridge
http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/mjd.html
"Probing the Structure of Biomaterials with Solid-state NMR"
(Schmidt-Rohr)
March 28, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Deborah E. Leckband, Reid T. Milner Professor of Chemical Sciences, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.chemeng.uiuc.edu/Faculty/leckband.php
"Molecular Recognition and Bio-Adhesion: From Single Molecules to Living Cells"
(Smith)
March 28, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Dr. Gerd Meyer, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cologne
http://www.gerdmeyer.de/
"Clean-up Chemistry: In Search for New Reduced Metal Halides"
(Corbett)
March 31, 2008, Monday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Thomas F. Fässler, Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
http://www.chemie.tu-muenchen.de/base/index_e.htm
"Substitution Effects in Intermetallic Compounds"
(Miller)
April 2, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Fei Wang, Miller Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Crystal Structures of EuAg(x)Al(11-x) Ternaries: BaCd(11)-type vs. BaHg(11)-type"
(Sadow)
April 14, 2008, Monday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Arndt Simon, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
http://www.fkf.mpg.de/simon/people/simon/
"A Chemical View on Superconductivity"
(Miller)
April 17, 2008, Thursday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Timothy A. Cross, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Flordia State University
http://www.fsu.edu/profiles/cross/
"TBA"
(Hong)
April 18, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Marc J. A. Johnson, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/faculty/johnson/
"Development of Catalysts for Cross-Metathesis Reactions of Nitriles, Alkynes, and Vinyl Halides"
(Sadow)
April 18, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Peter C. Stair, Professor, Director of Center for Catalysis and Surface Science, Department of Chemistry and Center for Catalysis and Surface Science, Northwestern University and Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/faculty/details?assetID=1449
"The Chemical Nature of Supported Vanadium Oxide"
(Thiel)
April 22, 2008, Tuesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 8:00 pm, This special seminar is sponsored by the Ames Section of the American Chemical Society.
Dr. Conrad Stanitski, Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
http://www.fandm.edu/x14406.xml
"Alfred Nobel: The Man and His Chemistry Prizes"
(burnett)
April 25, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Yun-Ming Lin, Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo
http://www.chem.utoledo.edu/FAC_INFO/Lin/SOURCE.htm
"Chiral Lewis Base-Dependent Asymmetric Bifunctional Catalysis (ABC): Rational Design, Predictability and Synthetic Applications"
(Larock)
April 25, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Dr. Chris Hollinsed, Director, The American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
"Energy Issues for the 21st Century"
(Jeffries-EL)
April 30, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Erik Klobukowski , Woo Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"The Catalytic Role of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Palladium Complexes"
May 2, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm, V.A. Fassel Lecture in Analytical Chemistry
Prof. David E. Clemmer, Robert & Marjorie Mann Chair, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University - Bloomington
http://www.indiana.edu/~clemmer/
"New MS-based Techniques for Measuring Proteomes"
(Houk)
May 9, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm, Graduate Spring Awards Ceremony
May 12, 2008, Monday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
James Dunne, Sadow Group,Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Tris(oxazolinyl)borates: New d0 Metal Scorpionate Complexes"
May 20, 2008, Tuesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm
Dr. Julia White, Group Leader, User Assistance and Outreach, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Leadership Computing: Research Resources and Opportunities"
Dr. White presents an overview of tera- and peta-scale Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation (NSF) computing resources co-located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. These systems are available to computational and computer researchers across the country on a peer-reviewed basis. The next DOE call for proposals will be announced in mid-May: the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, which grants allocations of several hundred thousand to several million hours. Come learn more about the computers, scientific simulations, and opportunities available for researchers to request small-, mid- and large-scale allocations.
(Windus)
August 4, 2008, Monday, 1810 Gilman Hall, 11:00 am
Dr. Horst Borrmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Condensed Matter, Dresden, Germany
http://www.cpfs.mpg.de/departments/structure/index_en.html
"Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction: New Tricks for an Old Dog"
(Miller)
August 29, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 2:10 pm, 2008 Department of Chemistry Fall Convocation
Prof. Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Klaus_Schmidt-Rohr/
"NMR of Complex Materials: From Soil to Bone and Fuel-Cell Membranes"
September 5, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. William J. Evans, Department of Chemistry, University of California - Irvine
http://www.chem.uci.edu/people/faculty/wevans/
"The Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions: Some Lessons from the Lanthanide and Actinides"
(Bakac)
September 5, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Dr. Man-kit Leung (PhD '91, Trahanovsky), Professor and Associate Chairman, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
http://www.ch.ntu.edu.tw/faculty.db/en/faculty_personal_01.php?id=45
"Electropolymerization of Bis, Tri, or Poly(triarylamine)s Derivatives for Optoelectronic Applications"
(Trahanovsky)
September 9, 2008, Tuesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 7:30 pm
Dr. Badal C. Saha, Fermentation Biotechnology Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=4898
"Enzymes in Biotechnology: Green Chemistry Challenges "
Abstract: Enzymes play important roles in food and beverage industry and have already been recognized as valuable catalysts for organic transformations and production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. At present, the most commonly used enzymes in biotechnology are hydrolytic enzymes which catalyze the breakdown of larger biopolymers into smaller units. Enzymes catalyze reactions in a selective manner, not only regio- but also stereoselectively and have been used both for asymmetric synthesis and racemic resolutions. The chiral selectivity of enzymes has been employed to prepare enantiomerically pure pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and food additives. Enzymatic methods have already replaced some conventional chemical processes. Biocatalytic routes in combination with chemical synthesis are finding increased use in the synthesis of novel polymeric materials. The discovery of new and improved enzymes and their use in various processes and products will create new market opportunities for enzymes and solve environmental problems.
Biography: Dr. Badal Saha is a Research Chemist and Lead Scientist with the Fermentation Biotechnology Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA-ARS, Peoria, IL. He conducts basic and applied research on the conversion of agricultural residues to fuel alcohol and value-added fermentation products. Dr. Saha was previously a research scientist with the Michigan Biotechnology Institute, Lansing, MI (1985-92) and Assistant Visiting Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Dr. Saha did his post-doctoral training in Enzymology at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD after receiving his M. S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) in Microbial Technology from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. He received his B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr. Saha also holds a post-graduate diploma in Microbiology and Biotechnology (one year UNESCO course) from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. Dr. Saha has over 130 research publications that include book chapters, review articles and patents. In addition, he has 120 published abstracts. Dr. Saha has edited four books: Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass (1997), Applied Biocatalysis in Specialty Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals (2000), Fermentation Biotechnology (2003) and Lignocellulose Biodegradation (2004). He serves on the Editorial Board of seven journals: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Bioresource Technology, Journal of Biobased Materials & Bioenergy, Journal of Food, Agriculture & Environment, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, and Process Biochemistry. Dr. Saha served as an Editor of Process Biochemistry for 1½ years (2005-2006). He is an ad-hoc reviewer of 27 other scientific journals and research grant proposals for USDA and NSF. He has given 30 invited seminar presentations and organized 20 symposiums at national and international meetings. Dr. Saha has served Peoria (renamed Illinois Heartland) Local Section-ACS as Chair-Elect (2000), Chair (2001) and Past Chair (2002). He is currently serving as Director, The Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM), Chair of SIM Awards & Honors Committee, and 2007 SIM Annual Meeting Program Chair. He has also served in three SIM Annual Meeting Program Committees (2003-2005).
(Burnett)
September 10, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. Andrew V. Pawlikowski, Sadow Group
"Tris(oxazolinyl)borate yttrium alkyl compounds and their reactivity"
September 12, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Greg L. Hillhouse, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
http://glh-group.uchicago.edu/
"Unusual Reactivity of 2- and 3-Coordinate Nickel: Chemistry Outside the Square Plane"
(Sadow)
September 17, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
David Mukherjee, Sadow Group
"Tricarbonyl compounds of tris(oxazolinyl)borates: Synthesis, reactivity, and comparisons with Cp and Tp"
September 19, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Seth C. Rasmussen, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, North Dakota State University
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/chemistry/people/faculty/rasmussen.html
"Nitrogen-Functionalized, Fused-Ring Polythiophenes: Adventures in Synthesis and Approaches to Advanced Materials"
(Jeffries-EL)
September 19, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Dr. Antonio Ferreira, St Jude's Research Hospital
"Large scale ab initio calculations of DNA oligomers: A Molecular Orbital Analysis of DNA/Drug Interactions"
(Windus)
September 24, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Erik Klobukowski, Woo Group
"Various Reactions Catalyzed by Iron Porphyrins and Related Complexes"
September 26, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Tehshik P. Yoon, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison
http://www.chem.wisc.edu/people/profiles/display_profile.php?name=Yoon%2C+Tehshik+P.
"New Reactions of Oxaziridines"
(Jeffries-EL)
October 1, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Sumohan Misra, Miller Group
"Structural Flexibility in Magnetocaloric RE5T4 (RE = Rare-earth; T = Si, Ge, Ga) Materials: Effect of Chemical Substitution on Structure, Bonding and Properties"
October 3, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Dr. Edward Shughrue, ConocoPhillips
http://www.conocophillips.com/index
"Evolution of Fuel to Biofuel"
Currently approximately 150 billion gallons of transportation fuels are produced from petroleum each year in the United States. The infrastructure to transport petroleum and refine it into fuels and then to transport, store, and market the fuels is tremendous in size. In this infrastructure. replacing petroleum with biomass will be an evolutionary process. Starting with a review of current refining technology, fuel specifications, and fuel composition, biofuel molecules are evaluated for their potential as components in the current fuel system. Pyrolysis of biomass to an oil has been long studied at Iowa State University. While pyrolysis processes offer good conversion and potential lower costs, upgrading pyrolysis oil to biofuels presents some significant challenges.
Presented by Dr. Edward L Shughrue, Managing Consultant, Downtstream Technology, Bartlesville Research and Development, ConocoPhillips.
(Petrich)
October 3, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Evelyn Goldfield, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
http://chem.wayne.edu/~evi/
"Theoretical study of the effects of confinement on reactivity: The D + H2 reaction inside carbon nanotubes"
(Windus)
October 6, 2008, Monday, 301B Spedding Hall, 3:10 pm, Sponsored by Ames Laboratory
Prof. Atsushi Fukuoka, Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
http://www.cat.hokudai.ac.jp/fukuoka/e_top.htm
"Sustainable Green Catalysis by Supported Metal Nanoparticles"
(Lin)
October 8, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. Ewa Szajna-Fuller, Bakac Group
"Homogeneous H2 evolution catalyzed by a Co macrocycle"
October 10, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Lyle Isaacs, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland
http://www.chem.umd.edu/Faculty_Directory/faculty.php?id=20
"Nor-Seco-Cucurbit[n]uril Molecular Containers"
(Zhao)
October 10, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Nicola L. Pohl, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Nicola_Pohl/
"Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesis and Vaccine Design"
October 13, 2008, Monday, 1352 Gilman Hall (refreshments at 7:00 pm), 7:30 pm, ACS Seminar
Professor Wayne E. Jones, Chemistry Department and Institute of Materials Research, State University of New York at Binghamton
http://chemistry.binghamton.edu/JONES/jones.htm
"How Small Can You Go? Molecular Wires and Devices in the Modern World"
The development of ever smaller electronic and photonic technologies has been hyped in both the scientific literature and the popular press. Recently, efforts have focused on the preparation of molecular scale wires and devices with nanometer or smaller dimensions. There is a continuing need for new synthetic and processing strategies to prepare these nanomaterials. We have been pursuing new approaches to the preparation of sensors and switches in the context of conjugated polymers, electrically conducting plastics, and molecular wires. Using a combination of organic chemistry and coordination chemistry, new polymers can be prepared which exhibit long range electron and energy transport behaviors. In some cases, these polymers act as fluorescent sensors, responding selectively to environmental systems to ensure safe drinking water or identify industrial pollutants. Derivatives of these materials can also be prepared as nanofibers, thin films on fiber optics, and metal-organic hybrid materials to provide a suite of new materials that can be used for future molecular electronic and photonic devices.
(Ames Local Section ACS/Burnett)
October 15, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. Brian Trewyn, Lin Group
"A new look at mesoporous silica nanoparticle applications: a walk through the garden and a swim in the pond"
October 17, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Paula Diaconescu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/pld/
"Reactivity of heterocycles with electrophilic ferrocene diamide complexes"
(Sadow)
October 17, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Robert Schurko, Department of Chemistry, University of Windsor
http://mutuslab.cs.uwindsor.ca/schurko/
"Seeing the "invisible" nucleus: ultra-wideline NMR of solid inorganic and organometallic materials"
(Pruski)
October 22, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. Qisheng Lin, Corbett Group
"Quasicrystals and approximants: have you ignored them?"
October 24, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Svilen Bobev , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware
http://www.udel.edu/chem/bobev/Site/Personal%20Web.html
"Novel Zintl phases with the d-metals"
(Miller)
October 29, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. C.V. Venkat Reddy, Verkade Group
"Proazaphosphatranes: Efficient Catalysts for Mukaiyama Aldol, Trifluoromethylation, Wadsworth-Emmons, Amidation, and Stille Cross-Coupling Reactions"
October 31, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Michael F. Brown, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona
http://www.chem.arizona.edu/faculty/profile/profile.php?fid_call=brow
"Dynamics of Rhodopsin as Illuminated by Solid-State NMR"
(Hong)
November 5, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Heather Spangler, Pohl Group
"Automated solution-phase synthesis of cellulitis-associated group A streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus oligosaccharides"
November 7, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Edward G. Gillan, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa
http://www.chem.uiowa.edu/faculty/gillan/index.html
"Synthesis of Metal Oxides and Pnictides Using Energetic Precursors"
(Corbett)
November 7, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Edward F. Valeev, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech University
http://www.chem.vt.edu/faculty/valeev.php
"Adventures in Electronic Structure: From Computational Thermochemistry to Charge Transport"
(Gordon)
November 12, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. Srinivasa Thimmaiah, Miller Group
"Developments in Hume-Rothery Phases: Derivatives of gamma-Brass and a New Quasicrystal"
November 14, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Jovica D. Badjic, Ph.D. 2001 ISU, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University
http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/cgi/brochure?Faculty=Badjic
"Gated Molecular Baskets"
(Zhao)
November 14, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Sanjeevi Sivasankar, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University
http://www.physics.iastate.edu/index.php?cmd=people.profile&PeopleID=2218
"Manipulating and detecting single biomolecules: Resolving cadherin interactions at the single molecule level"
(Thiel)
November 19, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Dr. Oleg Pestovsky, Bakac Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"Identification and Characterization of Aqueous Iron(IV) Complex"
November 21, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Haitao Guo, Kraus Group, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
"One-Pot Synthesis of Indoles from 2-Aminobenzyl Phosphonium Salts"
December 3, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Juan Luis Vivero Escoto, Lin Group
"Mesoporous Silica-Based Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery"
December 5, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 1:10 pm
Prof. Rory Waterman, Department of Chemistry, The University of Vermont
http://www.uvm.edu/~chem/faculty/?Page=waterman.html
"Mechanistic Variety in Zirconium-Catalyzed Bond-Forming Reactions"
(Sadow)
December 10, 2008, Wednesday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 4:10 pm
Kuntal Manna, Sadow Group
"Bis(oxazolinyl)phenylborane and tris(oxazolinyl)borane: Ligands for homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis"
December 12, 2008, Friday, 1352 Gilman Hall, 3:10 pm
Prof. Hyung-June Woo, Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno
http://www.chem.unr.edu/faculty/hjw/
"Energetics of spatial movements in polymerases: theory and simulations"
(Song)
