Chemistry Events

Aug

Chemistry Alumni & Friends Breakfast

08/22/17 at 7:30 AM

Mount Vernon Square A, Renaissance Marriott, 999 9th St NW, Washington, D.C.

Sep

POLY/PMSE Seminar: Professor Karen L. Wooley

09/12/17 at 9:45 AM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor Karen Wooley
Website:
Karen Wooley
Department:
Department of Chemistry
University:
Texas A&M University
City:
College City
State:
TX

Sep

Student Seminar Series: Professor Eric Olaf Potma

09/14/17 at 9:45 AM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor Eric Olaf Potma
Website:
Eric Potma
Department:
Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences
University:
University of California, Irvine

Sep

Department Seminar: Professor William C.K. Pomerantz

09/19/17 at 9:45 AM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor William C.K. Pomerantz
Website:
William Pomerantz
Department:
Department of Chemistry
University:
University of Minnesota

Sep

Student Seminar Series: Professor Timothy E. Long

09/21/17 at 9:45 AM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor Timothy Long
Website:
Timothy Long
Department:
Department of Chemistry
University:
Virginia Tech
City:
Blacksburg
State:
VA

Sep

Department Seminar: Professor Igor Alabugin

09/26/17 at 9:45 AM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor Igor Alabugin
Website:
Igor Alabugin
Department:
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University:
Florida State University
City:
Tallahassee
State:
FL

Sep

Special Seminar: Professor David Michaelis

09/27/17 at 4:00 PM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor David Michaelis
Website:
David Michaelis
Department:
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University:
Brigham Young University
City:
Provo
State:
UT

Sep

Student Seminar Series: Professor Ginger Shultz

09/28/17 at 9:45 AM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor Ginger Shultz
Website:
Ginger Shultz
Department:
Department of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
University:
University of Michigan
City:
Ann Arbor

Oct

Gassman Lectureship #1: Professor Stephen L. Buchwald

10/03/17 at 9:45 AM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor Stephen L. Buchwald
Website:
Stephen Buchwald
Department:
Department of Chemistry
University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
City:
Cambridge
State:
MA

Oct

Gassman Lectureship #2: Professor Stephen L. Buchwald

10/04/17 at 4:00 PM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor Stephen L. Buchwald
Website:
Steven Buchwald
Department:
Department of Chemistry
University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
City:
Cambridge

Oct

Gassman Lectureship #3: Professor Stephen L. Buchwald

10/05/17 at 9:45 AM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor Stephen L. Buchwald
Website:
Stephen Buchwald
Department:
Department of Chemistry
University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
City:
Cambridge
State:
MA

Oct

Crawford Memorial Lectureship: Professor Keith A. Nelson

10/10/17 at 9:45 AM

331 Smith Hall

Name:
Professor Keith A. Nelson
Website:
Keith Nelson
Department:
Department of Chemistry
University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
City:
Cambridge
State:
MA

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Strategies and Tactics Inspired by Complex Natural Products

Recasting Laboratory Pedagogy to Fit Guided-Inquiry Experiments

Teaching Inquiry-Driven Organic Chemistry Labs

Special Seminar

New Organolanthanide Complexes Containing Tetraphenylethylene and Benzylidenefluorene

Mesoscopic Simulations of Membranes: What is Special About Cholesterol?

Studies in Asymmetric Catalysis: From Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Diels-Alder and 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions to Iridium-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution

Leveraging Small Molecules for Biology and Therapy—Discovery of Novel Tetracycline Antibiotics and Inhibitors of Histone Lysine Methyltransferases

Translating the Precision of Microelectronics to the Production of Highly Uniform, Shape-Specific Nanomedicines

Diverse Functions of Metal Tetrapyrroles in Biological Systems: Investigating How the Protein Active Site Tunes the Electronic Structure

Hot Electron Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Implications for Quantum-Dot Photovoltaics

Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols: Instrument Development, Aircraft Measurements, and Modeling

New Stimuli-Responsive Macromolecules: Polymer-Protein Bioconjugates and “Sweet Tooth” Micelles

Multiple Regulatory Modes That Control Translesion DNA Synthesis

3:45 p.m. Monday, Feb. 21, 100 Smith Hall, Materials Challenges for a Real Alternative Energy Scenario; 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, 331 Smith Hall, Metal-Organic Framework Materials for Energy Applications; 9:45 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, 331

The Many Faces of the Coordination Chemistry of Nitric Oxide and its Significance for the Biosynthesis, Sensing and Detoxification of Nitric Oxide in Biological Systems

Ring Forming Strategies in Asymmetric Catalysis

The Suf Fe-S cluster assembly pathway: In vivo and in vitro characterization of a multi-protein factory for metal cofactor biosynthesis

Coordination Complexes with Multiple Inorganic Functional Groups

Actuated spiny surfaces à la echinoderms: En route for adaptive materials

Chemoenzymatic Approaches for Chemical Glycobiology

Kinetic Cooperativity in a Monomeric Enzyme

Teaching Old Polymers New Tricks: Novel Conjugated Materials Based on Benzobisazoles

Computational Quantum Chemistry: Two Extremes

Turning a Single Molecule into an Electric Motor

Lecture #2: Designer Lewis and Brønsted Acid Catalysts

Exploring New Ligand Designs for Asymmetric Catalysis

Chemically Imaging Living Cells by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

Late-Stage Fluorination

Amino acids, polymers, and water: a bottom-up approach to understanding protein adsorption at surfaces

Critical Thinking

Oxidation of Peptides and Proteins by Iron Complexes

The Electrospray Kool-Aid Litmus Test: New Capabilities and Research in the Department of Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Facility

Hydrogen Activation and Proton Transport in the Fluorous Phase: Development of a Water-Free Fuel Cell

Marine Natural Products in extremis: Synthesis, Stereochemistry and Nanomole-Scale Structure Elucidation

A Family of Uranium-Based Nano-Scale Cage Clusters

One-Bead-One-Compound Technique Assisted uFFE-SELEX—an Improvement in Complex Separation

Peptidomimetic Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Materials Properties

Turning Toxins into Tools Through De Novo Chemical Synthesis

Monitoring in vivo Neuropeptide Dynamics by Microfluidic SPE-CE-MS

Intellectual Property Workshop

Research Proposal Presentation: Influence of Dissolved Organic Matter on Microbial Function

Enzyme Studies with Ion-Selective Membranes

Bioanalytical Tools to Investigate Rapamycin and the Aging Brain

Novel Drug Leads from Natural Products and Their Derivation from Microbial and Biosynthetic Diversity

Critical Considerations in Design of Graphene/Silica Nanotheranostics

Gassman Lecture #1: Rapid Synthesis of Polyketides

Gassman Lecture #3: Asymmetric Oxidation

New Twists in Nazarov Cyclization Chemistry

Development of a Practical Synthetic Route to Tetracyclines Leads to Potent New Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics

Development of a Highly Convergent, Scalable Synthetic Route to Trioxacarcins, DNA-Targeting Antiproliferative Natural Products

Bringing the Full Power of Chemical Synthesis to Bear on the Discovery of New Antibiotics

Lecture #1: Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry

Lecture #2: Supramolecular Approaches to High-Throughput Screening of Enantiomeric Excess

Chalk Talk #1: Solvation, Molecular Recognition

What's the Point of Nanostructures in Energy Storage Materials?

Alkyne Chemistry: New Strategies and Tactics

Enantioselective Photoredox Organocatalysis: A New Catalysis Concept of Broad Utility to Chemical Synthesis

Analytical Tools for Studying Nanoparticle-Protein Interaction

The Optimal Approach to Renewable Chemicals and Fuels: Combining Chemistry and Synthetic Biology

A Unified Vision of Synthesis Based on Stereospecific Reagent Controlled Homologation

Dynamical Outcomes of Quenching: Reflections on a Conical Intersection

Spectroscopic Studies of Prototype Actinide Compounds (and closely related species)

Frustrated Lewis Pairs: A New Paradigm for Metal-Free Hydrogenation Catalysis and Small Molecule Activation

Beyond Wrinkling: Stress Relaxation in Lung Surfactant Monolayers and Other Thin Films

What can we do with and learn from a single cell?

Unraveling Nanoparticle Properties Using Density Functional Theory

The Unique Reactivity of Mo or W MonoAlkoxidePyrrolide (MAP) Olefin Metathesis Catalysts

Lecture #1: Using Mass Spectrometry to Understand Protein Misfolding Diseases

Lecture #2: Interpreting Mass Spectrometry Bar Codes—The Horse That Pulls The Cart

Lecture #3: Going Big Time—Large Scale in vivo Proteomics to Study Disease

Molecular Shape in Materials Design: Triptycene Based Materials

Progress Toward the Rational Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA from Genomic Sequence

Comparing the Primary Electron Transfer Process in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers with Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunctions

Lecture #1: The Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells

Lecture #2: Optimizing Photon Harvesting and Charge Carrier Collection in Mesoscopic Solar Energy Conversion Systems

Teaching Inquiry-Driven Organic Chemistry Labs