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SUMMER 2013
SPRING 2013
FALL 2013
SPRING 2014

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SPRING 2013

January 8, 2013
O'Malley Lecturer
Professor Philip A. Cole, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
“Exploring the Language of Protein Post-translational Modifications”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

January 22, 2013
Professor Gregory Fu, MIT
“Metal-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Alkyl Electrophiles”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 21, 2013
Dr. De-En Jiang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee
“From Benzene to Graphene and Things In Between”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 26, 2013
Professor Gojko Lalic, University of Washington - Seattle
“New Methods for Hydrofunctionalization of Unsaturated Compounds”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 14, 2013
Professor Yuhuang Wang, University of Maryland
“Propagation Chemistry on sp2 Carbon Lattices”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 19, 2013
Professor Eli Zysman-Colman, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
“Illuminating Iridium: From Visual Displays to Solar Cells”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 20, 21, & 22, 2013
Boston College University Lecture Series in Chemistry
Professor Dennis A. Dougherty, California Institute of Technology

March 20, 2013
“Chemistry on the Brain: Understanding the Nicotine Receptor”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

March 21, 2013
“The Cation-π Interaction: A New View of Benzene, Phe, Tyr, and Trp”
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

March 22, 2013
“Chemical-Scale Studies of Neuroreceptors and Ion Channels: What Have We Learned?”
2:30 - 3:30 PM, Merkert 127

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April 2, 2013
Professor Daniel J. Weix, University of Rochester
“No More Nucleophiles: Direct, Selective Cross Coupling of Electrophiles”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 4, 2013
Professor Irwin Oppenheim, MIT
“Entropy in Systems away from Equilibrium”
4:00 PM, Merkert 124

April 9, 2013
Dr. Grier Wallace, Abbvie Bioresearch Center, Worcester, Mass.
“Agonists of S1P1 for Immunology: A Medicinal Chemistry Perspective on Asymmetric Synthesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 11, 2013
Professor Dr. Andreas Hirsch, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
“Chemical Functionalization of Synthetic Carbon Allotropes”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 16, 2013 - CANCELLED
Professor Erin Carlson, University of Indiana
“Chemical Probes to Explore and Inhibit Bacterial Pathogenesis”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 18, 2013
Professor Thomas Keyes, Boston University
“Statistical temperature molecular dynamics (STMD) and generalized replica exchange (gREM) algorithms for enhanced sampling of biomolecules and first order phase transitions”
4:00 PM, Merkert 129

April 30, 2013
Professor Eric Ferreira, Colorado State University
“Accessing and Harnessing Metalated Intermediates Toward Synthetic Utility”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130



SUMMER 2013

July 12, 2013
Professor Yoshito Tobe, Osaka University, Japan
“Indenofluorenes: Stabilized Quinodimethanes with Singlet Biradical Characters”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130



FALL 2013

September 17, 2013
Professor Hien Nguyen, University of Iowa
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 19, 2013
Professor Garegin A. Papoian, University of Maryland
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

September 24, 2013
Professor Joshua A. Kritzer, Tufts University
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 3, 2013
Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, University of Illinois
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 8, 2013
Professor Geoffrey W. Coates, Cornell University
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 17, 2013
Professor Sara E. Skrabalek, Indiana University
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 22, 2013
Professor Scott Rychnovsky, University of California, Irvine
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

October 24, 2013
Professor David Reichman, Columbia University
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

November 5, 2013
Professor Shawn Collins, Université de Montréal
“Advanced Strategies for Macrocyclization”
4:00 PM, Merkert 130



SPRING 2014

January 15, 2014
Professor Kenichiro Itami, Nagoya University
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

February 3, 2014
Professor Theodor Agapie, California Institute of Technology
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 4, 2014
Professor William B. Tolman, University of Minnesota
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 18, 2014
Professor William D. Jones, University of Rochester
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

March 25, 2014
Professor Michael Krische, University of Texas
TBA
4:00 PM, Merkert 130

April 2, 3, & 4, 2014
Boston College University Lecture Series in Chemistry
Professor Dr. Ben L. Feringa,  University of Groningen, Netherlands

April 2, 2014
TBA
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 3, 2014
TBA
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127

April 4, 2014
TBA
4:00 - 5:00 PM, Merkert 127


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