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.
Winter 2007
| Monday, January 22 |
Viktor Zhdankin, University of Minnesota-Duluth Chemistry of Hypervalent Iodine Heterocycles and Pseudoheterocycles | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, January 29 |
Yun Lu, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Application of Non-Steady-State Kinetics to Solve Mechanistic Problems In Organic Chemistry | Host: J. O'Brien |
| Monday, February 5 |
Ram S. Mohan, Illinois Weslyan University Environmentally Friendly Organic Synthesis Using Bismuth Compounds | Host: E. Bauer |
| Monday, February 12 |
Kevin Johnson, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Identification of Volatile Arsenical Comopounds Produced During Phytoremediation Using a Novel Sampling and GC-MS Technique | Host: A. Demchenko |
| Monday, February 19 |
Ronald K. Castellano, University of Florida Unconventional Donor-Acceptor Architectures for Supromolecular Applications | Host: G. Gokel |
| Monday, February 26 |
Matt Leevy, Notre Dame University Zinc(II) Coordination Complexes Target Fluorescent Probes to Bacteria in Vitro and In Living Mice | Host: G. Gokel |
| Friday, March 21 p.m. |
Daniel Kost, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel Penta- and Hexacoordinate Silicon Compounds: Structure, Rearrangements and Interconversion | Host: J. Wilking |
| Monday, March 5 |
Lou Messerle, University of Iowa Dinuclear and Polynuclear Clusters of the Early Transition Metals and Lanthanides, and Applications to Biomedical Imaging | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, March 12 |
The Tenth Annual Robert W. Murray Lecture, Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University Nanoparticles in Diagnostics and Therapeutics | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, March 19 |
Charles C. Chusuei, University of Missouri-Rolla Probing Pt Nanoparticle Binding on Carbon Nanotube Fuel Cell Catalyst Surfaces | Host: L. Barton |
| Friday, March 23 1:00 p.m. |
Chris Orvig, University of British Columbia Carbohydrate Conjugates in Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry | Host: W. Harris |
| Monday, March 26 |
ACS Meeting/Spring Break | |
| Monday, April 2 |
Milton R. Smith, Michigan State University Iridium Catalyzed Borylations of C-H Bonds: Evolution of an Intriguing Observation into an Efficient and Selective Synthetic Method. | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, April 9 |
Gregory L. Côté, U.S. D. A. Prebiotic research at USDA | Host: A. Demchenko |
| Monday, April 16 |
J. David Van Horn, University of Missouri-Kansas City Quantitative Aspects of Uranium Bio-transportation | Host: C. Dupureur |
| Monday, April 23 |
Christopher D. Spilling, University of Missouri-St. Louis Application of Hydroxy Phospohonates to Natural Product Synthesis | Host: L. Barton |
| Monday, April 30 |
The 20th Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Joseph P. Bono, Laboratory Director, U. S. Secret Service, Washington, D.C. | Host: L. Barton |
