2010–2011 Organic Seminar Schedule & CEM 958 Instructions & Templates

Seminar Time:     Wednesdays 3:00–4:30 pm, room 136 Chemistry Building

Course Website: http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/courses/cem958/index.html

An archive of student seminars from previous years is available at: http://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/courses/cem958/OrganicSeminars.asp

Instructor:

Professor Robert E. Maleczka, Jr.
phone: 355-9715 x124
email: maleczka@msu.edu
office hours: by appointment (540 Chemistry)

Seminar Secretary:

Ms. DeAnn Pierce
email: pierce@chemistry.msu.edu

Instructions & Templates:

For a handout on the instructions, rules, and suggestions for all students giving an organic seminar in the 2010-2011 academic year click here (PDF)

For a power point slide that can be used as a template for the preparation of your slides click here (ppt)

For a ChemDraw slide that can be used as a template for the preparation of your schemes click here (cdx)

Tentatative Schedule:

To down load the current 2010-2011 organic seminar schedule click here (PDF)

FALL 2010

Dates	Speaker	Host	Title
September 1
September 8	Dr. Jingjun Yin Merck	Professor Huang	Towards Asymmetric Manufacturing Routes to Complex Drug Candidates
September 15	Professor Rosetta Reusch Michigan State University	Professor Borhan	A Chemist's Adventures in Microbiology Land
September 22	TBD
September 29	Professor Richard G. Blair University of Central Florida	Professor Poltavets	Mechanocatalysis for the Realization of Chemicals from Biomass
October 6	Professor Armen Zakarian UC Santa Barbara	Professor Borhan	Synthesis and Biology of Spiroimine Toxins
October 13	Professor Paul Erhardt University of Toledo	Professor Huang	Directing Drug Distribution: Avoiding Multidrug Resistance while Targeting Cancer Cells
October 20	Micah Luderer MSU	Professor Tepe	From Racemate to Enantiopure Compound: Recent Applications of Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformations
October 27	Ipek Yapici MSU	Professor Borhan	RNA Nanopuzzles
November 3 7:00 pm Room 581E	Professor R. B. Woodward Harvard University (Special time & place: 7:00 pm, Room 581E)	Professor Maleczka	The Total Synthesis of Cephalosporin
November 10	Xin Zhang MSU	Professor Wulff	Selective sp³ C-H Hydroxylation
November 17	Chun Ho (Jason) Lam MSU	Professor Jackson	"Forbidden 1,2-Carbanion Shifts" - Mechanism and Application of the Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell Rearrangement
November 24	Wenjun Zhao MSU	Professor Wulff	Recent Developments of Decarboxylative Coupling Reactions
December 1	Nishanka Dilini Ratnayake MSU	Professor Walker	Peptide-Based Asymmetric Synthesis
December 8	Ruth Muchiri MSU	Professor Walker	RGD Tumor Targeting Conjugates

(Student seminars will be uploaded within a week after their seminar, clicking on the title will down load that student's presentation as a pdf file)

Spring 2011

Dates	Speaker	Host	Title
January 12	Max T. Rogers Lectureship Professor Ann McDermott Columbia University	Professor Weliky	1/12 - Shifting Shapes - How to See a Protein's Moves 1/13 - Choreography of an Ion Channel in Bilayer Membrane: An NMR Study of KcsA
January 19	Meisam Nosrati MSU	Professor Geiger	Alkyne (Diyne) Metathesis - Catalyst Development and Application in Total Synthesis
January 26	Herbert Kavunja MSU	Professor Huang	Molecular Logic Gates: Synthesis and Application in Photodynamic Therapy
February 2	campus closed due to snow		talk rescheduled for 3/30/11
February 9	Greg Spahlinger MSU	Professor Baker	Recent Advances in High Nitrogen Energetic Materials
February 16	Zhe Jia MSU	Professor Baker	Recent Developments in Copper-Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling Reactions Using Oxygen as the Oxidant
February 23	Professor Tom Driver Univ. of Illinois - Chicago	Professor Maleczka	Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthesis of N-Heterocycles from Azides - Relationship Between Mechanism and Metal
March 2	Professor Peter Andreana Wayne State University	Professor Huang	Entirely Carbohydrate Vaccine Constructs and their Application in Probing Glycoimmunology
March 9	Professor Webster Santos Virginia Tech	Professor Borhan	Organoboron: Synthesis and Application in Disrupting RNA/Protein Interactions in HIV-1
March 16	Rosario Amado MSU	Professor Maleczka	Learning About Recent Reactions from the Mistakes of Others
March 23	Professor Eran Pichersky University of Michigan	Professor Walker	How Plants Have Evolved the Ability to Synthesize so Many Compounds
March 30	Ke Qu MSU	Professor Tepe	Waste as Catalyst in Domino Processes
April 6	Heyi Hu MSU	Professor Baker	Development and Application of Shape Memory Polymers
April 13	Professor Brandon Ashfeld University of Notre Dame	Professor Maleczka	Harnessing Masked Electrophilicity: Alternative Strategies for Selective Carbonyl Functionalization
April 20	Professor Weiming Li MSU	Professor Maleczka	Cheap Perfumes, Instant Chemistry and Short Flings in An Ancestral Animal
April 27	TBA

(Student seminars will be uploaded within a week after their seminar, clicking on the title will down load that student's presentation as a pdf file)

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2010–2011 Organic Seminar Schedule & CEM 958 Instructions & Templates

Professor Robert E. Maleczka, Jr. phone: 355-9715 x124 email: maleczka@msu.edu office hours: by appointment (540 Chemistry)

Professor Robert E. Maleczka, Jr.
phone: 355-9715 x124
email: maleczka@msu.edu
office hours: by appointment (540 Chemistry)