Reception at 3:45 PM, Colloquium at 4:00 PM
Room 1-019 Center for Science & Technology (each Tuesday during the semester, unless otherwise noted)

Fall 2009

September 8		Yan-Yeung Luk, Syracuse University Water-Driven Bioorganic Reactions and Nonamphiphilic Colloidal Science: From Adhesion Biology to Enhanced Biocatalysis
September 15		John Caradonna, Boston University Using Synthetic Models to Reevaluate the Mechanisms of Binuclear Non-Heme Iron Monooxygenases: Do Diamonds Last Forever? Host: Doyle
September 22		Kim R. Dunbar, Texas A&M University   Willem Prins Memorial Lecture Magnetic and Conducting Materials: A Coordination Chemist's Perspective Host: Zubieta
September 29		Daniel Seidel, Rutgers Enantioselective Organocatalysis and the Study of Redox Neutral Reaction Cascades Host: Luk
October 1 Thursday		Peter Goekjian, University of Lyon Synthesis of exocyclic enol ethers from lactones; total synthesis of Bistramide A
October 20		R. Stanley Brown, Queen's University Dinuclear Zn(II) Catalysts as Biomimics of RNA and DNA Phosphoryl Transfer Enzymes: Changing the Medium From Water to Alcohol Gives Spectacular Rate Enhancements of Phosphate Diester Cleavage Host: Baldwin
November 3		Shawn Burdette, University of Connecticut Design and Properties of Caged Zn2+ Complexes for Biological Applications Host: Zubieta
November 10		Christof Grewer, Binghamton University Title TBA Host: Braiman
November 19 Thursday		Zhibin Guan, University of California, Irvine Title TBA Host: Luk

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