Organic-Inorganic Chemistry Seminars - Fall 2017
Coordinated by Dr. Brian Northrop
Professor of Chemistry

  Shanklin 201, 12:00PM, Thursdays

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

September 21

Robie Ryan

Chemistry Department

"Computational and Synthetic Investigations of Di-Ortho Substituted Arylboronate Esters"

September 28

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 Biophysics Retreat

October 12

Vasileios Drogkaris

Chemistry Department

"Investigating Boronate Ester and Diazaborole Formation."

October 26

Zach Hillman

Chemistry Department

"Cleavage of Substituted 1,1-Diphenyl Ketones With Peroxides"

November 2

Stephen Frayne

Chemistry Department

"Evaluating and Eliminating Nucleophile Byproduct Formation During Phosphine- and Amine-Initiated Thiol-Michael Reactions"

November 9

Tsagan Ednyasheva

Chemistry Department

"Progress towards the total synthesis of Rocaglamide and its analogues"

November 30

Paul Brauchle

Chemistry Department

"A characterization of three cyclen-based macrocyclic ligands and their manganese(II) complexes"

December 7

Prachiti Bhatawdekar

Chemistry Department

"Retention of stereochemistry by using Catalytic, Asymmetric, Interrupted Feist-Binary Reaction"

Practice talks are held the week before each presentation.

 

Organic-Inorganic Chemistry Seminars - Spring 2018
Coordinated by Dr. Brian Northrop
Professor of Chemistry

Shanklin 201 - 12:00 to 1:00 pm - Thursdays

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

February 8

Yoana Gendzhova

Chemistry Department

"The Interrupted Feist-Bénary (IFB) Reaction and C-H Activation in the Synthesis of Biologically Active Benzofuranoids"

February 22

Andrea Lee

Chemistry Department

"Iron(II) ParaCEST Contrast Agents and Characterizing Mechanisms of Prototropic Exchange in Chromium(III)-Based Contrast Agents"

March 8

Corey Phillips

Chemistry Department

"Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Hydroxybrazilin"

April 5

Haeyoon Jung

Chemistry Department

"Progress Towards the Synthesis of Shaped Palladium-Silver Nanoparticles and their Catalytic Applications for Selective Hydrogenation"

April 26 (rescheduled from April 19)

Sean McDarby

Chemistry Department

"Exploring the Potential of Electrochemistry as a Route to Rational Nanoparticle Synthesis"

May 3

Melissa King

Chemistry Department

"Coupling Competitive Surface Interactions: A Synthetic Route to Enhanced Grain Boundaries at the Exterior of  Multiply Twinned Palladium Nanoparticles"

Practice talks are held the week before each presentation.