Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Fall 1999 Seminar Program
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Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Fall 1999 Seminar Program |
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Rasika Dias, Coordinator Room 114 All seminars will be at 2:30
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August 27 Professor Doug Klein Department of Oceanography and Marine Science Texas A&M University at Galveston "High-spin Hydrocarbons & Molecular Magnetism" (Host: Keith McDowell)
September 2 **Thursday** Professor Mariappan Periasamy School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India "New Organic Synthetic Methods Based on Organometallics and Chiral Reagents" (Host: Martin Pomerantz)
September 10 Professor Steve Nolan Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans "Transition Metal Nucleophilic Carbene Complexes in Catalysis" (Host: Rasika Dias)
September 17 Dr. Upali Weerasooriya Vista Chemical Company, Austin, Texas "Ester Alkoxylation Technology" (Host: Carl Lovely)
September 24 Professor Bradley D. Smith Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame "Supramolecular Chemistry: Design and Development of Molecular Devices" (Host: Carl Lovely)
October 1 Dr. Steve Chum Polyolefin R&D, Dow Chemical Company "Use of Materials Science and Molecular Architecture Approach in Designing New Polymer FamiliesBased on INSITE Technology" (Host: Fred MacDonnell)
October 8 Professor Ilya Prigogine University of Texas at Austin, and the International Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1977 PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE: "Time-Symmetry Breaking and the Laws of Physics" (Host: Zoltan Schelly)
October 15 Dr. Tom Baker Chemical Science and Technology Div., Los Alamos National Laboratory "Metal-Catalyzed Direct Routes to Alpha-Substituted Boronic Acids" (Host: Rasika Dias)
October 22 Dr. John Janusz Health Care Research Center, Proctor and Gamble Co. "The Synthesis and Biological Activity of Dihydrobenzofuran Anti-inflammatory Agents: Dual Cyclooxygenase/5-Lipoxygenase Inhibitors" (Host: Fred MacDonnell)
October 29 Dr. Larry Lewis Central R&D, GE Company, Schenectady, New York "The Methylchlorosilane Reaction: Mechanism Discussion and New Results" (Host: Dennis Marynick)
November 5 Dr. Michael Krumpelt Fuel Cell Technology Section, Argonne National Laboratory "Fuel Cells: A Power Source for the 21st Century" (Host: Krishnan Rajeshwar)
November 12 Professor Don Darensbourg Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University "The Coordination Chemistry of Zinc and Cadmium Phenoxides. Catalysts for the Coupling of CO2 and Epoxides" (Host: Rasika Dias)
November 19 Professor Vicki L. Colvin Department of Chemistry, Rice University "Templating Diffractive Optics with Artificial Opals: Porous Metals, Polymers & Ceramics" (Host: Gary Kinsel)
December 3 Professor Jim Marshall Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas "Rediscovery of the Elements" (Host: Jimmy Rogers) |
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