Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Room 451 Benton Hall, unless otherwise specified. Refreshments 15 minutes prior to seminar time. Seminars are typically attended by faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from all divisions, as well as undergraduate chemistry majors in their senior year.
| Monday, August 26 |
Dr. Kamyar Afarinkia, King's College London, Asymmetric Induction by Chiral Phosphorus |
Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, September 9 |
Professor W. Dean Harman, University of Virginia, Osmium, Rhenium, and Molybdenum Dearomatization Agents for Organic Synthesis | Host: F. C. Pigge |
| Wednesday, September 11 |
Dr. Alfred Bader, Founder of Aldrich Chemical Company, Richard Anshutz, Achibald Scott Couper and Josef Loschmidt: A Detective at Work |
Host: L.Barton |
| Monday, September 16 |
James J. O'Brien, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Intracavity Laser Absorption Spectroscopy of Small Molecules | Host: J. O'Brien |
| Monday, September 23 |
Cynthia M. Dupureur, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Biophysical Approaches to Metalloendonuclease Structure and Function | Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, September 30 |
Christopher L. Cahill, George Washington University, Open-Structured Actinide Compounds by Design: A Chemist's Interest in Mineralogy |
Host: N. Rath |
| Monday, October 7 |
Todd L. Lowary, Ohio State University, Glycoside Syntheses via 2,3-Anhydrosugar Derivatives | Host: C. Spilling/ Demchenko |
| Monday, October 14 |
Alexei V. Demchenko, University of Missouri-St Louis, New Methods and Strategies for the Synthesis of Ambiguous 1,2-cis Glycosides" | Host: C. Spilling |
| Monday, October 21 |
Mark Hannink, University of Missouri-Columbia, Molecular Mechanisms That Control Nuclear Localization of Transcription Factors | Host: D. Becker |
| Monday, October 28 |
Graham R. Moran, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase: Transition States and Tyrosinemia | Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, November 4 CANCELLED |
Peng George Wang, Wayne State University-Detroit, MI, Sugar Chemistry and Glycotechnology: From Research Laboratory to Industrial Production | Host: A.Demchenko |
| Monday, November 11 CANCELLED |
Thomas A. Holme, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Computers in Education and Research: Computing vs Thinking in Undergraduate Chemistry - What is the Right Balance? | Host: H. Harris |
| Wednesday,November 13 Begins at 3:00 |
Dr. Selwyn F. Mapolie, The University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa, Ethylene Polymerization Using Catalyst Precursors Based on Palladium Complexes With N-Donor Ligands. | Host: G. Anderson |
| Monday, November 18 |
Jonathan L. Sessler, University of Texas-Austin, Synthesis and Applications of Expanded Porphyrins | Host: F. C. Pigge |
| Monday, November 25 |
David Y. Gin, University of Illinois-Urbana, Exploring New Methods for Carbohydrate and Alkaloid Synthesis David Y. Gin, University of Illinois-Urbana | Host:. A.Demchenko |
| Monday, December 2 |
Richard P. Hsung, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, Stereoselective Methodologies using Chiral Allenamides and Ynamides | Host: C. Spilling/ F. C. Pigge |
| Monday, December 9 |
Stephen A. Kolodziej, Pharmacia Corporation, St. Louis, The Use of Parallel Medicinal Chemistry to Optimize Potency and Selectivity of Hydroxamic Acid-Based MMP Inhibitors | Host: C. Spilling |
