January 21
Prof. Charles M. Garner
Baylor University
"C6F5- as a Good Leaving Group"
(Host: Rasika Dias)
January 28
Prof. Weston T. Borden
University of North Texas
"Substituent Effects on the Degenerate Cope Rearrangements of
1,5-Hexadienes
and Semibullvalenes -- Interpretations and Predictions"
(Host: Martin Pomerantz)
February
4
Prof. Tim Warren
Georgetown University
"Metal-Ligand Multiple-Bonding in Later, First Row Complexes:
Novel
Structures to Catalytic Group Transfer Reactions"
(Host: Frederick
MacDonnell)
February
11
Prof. Onofrio Annunziata
Texas Christian University
"Phase Transitions of Protein Aqueous Solutions"
(Host: Zoltan Schelly)
February
18
Prof. Dean Roddick
University of Wyoming
"Applications of Perfluorinated Phosphine Ligands:
Coordination Chemistry
and Catalysis in Acidic and Superacidic Media"
(Host: Rasika Dias)
February
25
Prof. John Reynolds
University of Florida
"Conjugated Polymers: From
Texas to Florida"
(Host: Martin Pomerantz)
March
4
Prof. Miklos Kertesz
Georgetown University
"Structural and Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and
Organic Crystals"
(Host: Dennis Marynick)
March 11
Dr. Maher Kalaji
University of Wales, Bangor, U.K.
"To Sniff or Not to Sniff: the
Detection of Explosives"
(Host: Krishnan Rajeshwar)
March 18
Spring Break
March
25
Prof. Luke Hanley
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Ions In, Ions Out: Synthesis
& Analysis of Molecular Surfaces via Polyatomic Ions"
(Host: Gary Kinsel)
Tuesday
- March 29, 1:30 PM - Tuesday
Prof. Steven Ealick
Cornell University
“Structural Evidence
for Evolution of the Purine Biosynthetic Pathway”
(Host: Zoltan
Schelly)
April
1
Prof. Sergey Kozmin
University of Chicago
"Chemical Synthesis: From
New Reactivity to Complex and Diverse Molecular Architecture"
(Host: Carl Lovely)
April
8
Prof. Kay Brummond
University of Pittsburgh
"Allenes and Transition Metal Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming
Reactions"
(Host: Carl Lovely)
April
15
Prof. Mary Cloninger
Montana State University
"Using Dendrimers to Study Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions"
(Host: Dmitry Rudkevich)
April
22
Prof. John Fackler
Texas A&M University
"New Chemistry from a Very Old and Enduring Element, Gold"
(Host: Rasika Dias)
April
29
Prof. Gregg Dieckmann
University of Texas at Dallas
"Noncovalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Using Designed
Peptide Systems"
(Host: Rasika Dias)
May
6
Prof. Claudia Turro
Ohio State University
"Excited State Properties of Transition Metal Complexes:
DNA Binding, Photocleavage,
and Photoinduced Cytotoxicity"
(Host: Frederick MacDonnell)
Thursday
- July 14, 1:30 PM
- Thursday
Prof. Daniel Armstrong
Iowa State University
"Mechanism
and Use of High Efficiency Microbial Separations"
(Host: Zoltan Schelly)
