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Seminar Schedule - Fall 2008
Seminars are held Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. in A203 of the Chemistry
Building with refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. in the second
floor atrium.
Coordinator: Shawn Burdette(860) 486-6718
Department Office (860) 486-2012
A PDF version
of the seminar schedule is available here.
Aug. 26 (Tue) Liming Zhang, University of Nevada, Reno (M.
Smith)
Au/Pt catalysis: Novel Reactivities and Efficient Synthetic
Methods
Sept. 10 Rajeswari Kasi, UConn (V. Kumar)
Cholesterol Containing Nanostructured Polymers
Sept. 11 Jotham Coe, Pfizer (M. Peczuh)
The Discovery of Varenicline, a Nicotinic Receptor Partial
Agonist for Smoking Cessation: From Idea to Tablet
Sept 17 John Golbeck, Penn State (H. Frank)
A Hybrid Biological/Organic Photochemical Half-Cell for Generating
Dihydrogen
Sept. 24 Catherine Fenselau, U. Maryland (X. Yao)
Residue specific chemical cleavage for proteomics
Sept. 25 Scott Miller, Yale (G. Fenteany)
A Biomimetic Approach to Asymmetric Catalysis
Oct. 1 Sara O’Conner. MIT (A. Howell)
Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Periwinkle
Oct. 2 Lauren Stencel, UConn (N. Leadbeater)
Probing the Effect of Microwave Irradiation on Biomolecules
Oct. 8 Yinsheng Wang, UC Riverside (A. Basu)
Chemistry and Biology of DNA Damage Induced by Reactive Oxygen
and Reactive Carbonyl Species
Oct. 14 Jack Li, Bristol Myers Squibb (M. Smith)
Applications of Palladium Chemistry in Drug Discovery
Oct. 15-16 R.T. Major Lectures: Alison Butler, UC Santa
Barbara; Julie Kovacs, U. Washington
TBA
Oct. 22 Gary R. Weisman, U. New Hampshire (W. Bailey)
Cross- Bridged Tetraamines: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry,
Biomedical Utility, and Conformational Contortions
Oct. 23 Ohyun Kwon, UCLA (A. Howell)
Phosphine-Catalyzed Annulations and Their Applications
Oct. 29 Tim Jamison, MIT (G. Fenteany)
Epoxide-Opening Cascades
Oct. 30 Linda Doerrer, Boston U. (S. Burdette)
Late Transition Metal Complexes with Fluorinated Aryloxide
and Alkoxide Ligands
Nov. 5 David Carini, Bristol Myers Squibb (M. Smith)
The Discovery of Losartan, a Nonpeptide Angiotensin II Receptor
Antagonist
Nov. 6 Michael Invernale, UConn (G. Sotzing)
Solid-state Oxidative Conversion for Electrochromic Polymers
Nov. 12 Peter Weber, Brown University (R. Bohn)
Time-resolved studies of ultrafast energy relaxation processes:
internal conversion, crossings through conical intersections,
isomerization and conformerizations
Nov. 13 Gary Jensen, UConn (J. Rusling)
Multiplexed Detection of Cancer Biomarkers
Nov. 19 Armen Zakarian, UC Santa Barbara (A. Howell)
Development of Chemical Transformations in the Synthesis of
Natural Products
Nov. 20 Besnik Bajrami, UConn (J. Rusling)
Liver Enzyme-Coated Bioreactors For Efficient LC-MS Drug Metabolism,
Drug-Drug Interactions And Genotoxicity Studies
Dec. 3 Elsa Yan, Yale (J. Gascon)
Photoactivation of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin
Dec. 4 Yu Shi, UConn (X. Yao)
Marker ions for phosphate-specific mass spectrometry
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