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2017 Arduengo Lecture: T. Don Tilley

March 5, 2017

Lectures Chemical Transformations with Unusual Metal Complexes of Low-Valent and Hypercoordinate Silicon Ligands 12:45 PM, Thursday, April 13th, 2017 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Lecture) The Role of Highly Oxidized Metal Species in Water Splitting and Solar Fuels Production 4:00 PM, Friday April 14th, 2017 1004 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Biography T. DON TILLEY is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Don was born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1954. After receiving his B.S. degree in chemistry from […]

2016 Cava Lecture: Amos Smith

August 5, 2016

Lectures Synthetic, Bioorganic and Medicinal Research in the Smith Group 4:00 PM, Thursday, October 13th, 2016 1000 North Lawn (Technical Talk) Publication of Research in the Future: A Personal Perspective 4:00 PM, Friday, October 14th, 2016 1004 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Biography Amos B. Smith, III received his early education in Lewisburg, PA. In 1966 he was awarded Bucknell University’s first combined four-year B.S.-M.S. degree in Chemistry. After a year in medical school (University of Pennsylvania), he earned his Ph.D. degree (1972) […]

2016 Arduengo Lecture: Douglas Stephan

March 5, 2016

Lectures FLP Chemistry: New Avenues in Synthesis and Catalysis 12:45 PM, Thursday, April 14, 2016 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Lecture) Catalysis: Chemistry Changing Your Life and Mine! 3:30 PM, Friday, April 15, 2016 1093 Shelby Hall (General Interest Lecture) Reception to follow in the Shelby Rotunda Biography Douglas W. Stephan is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Doug was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1953, and he obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry from McMaster University in 1976. Later that […]

2014 Arduengo Lecture: Hans J. Reich

March 5, 2014

Lectures Structure and Reactivity of Organolithium Reagents Thursday, April 24th, 2014 12:45 PM Room 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Lecture) Organic Chemistry of Selenium in My Life and Yours Friday, April 25th, 2014 3:30 PM, Room 1004 Shelby Hall Reception to follow in Shelby Rotunda (General Audience Lecture) Biography HANS J. REICH is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). Hans was born in Gdansk, Poland in May 1943. He and his family emigrated to Canada in 1950, and Hans obtained his […]

2013 Arduengo Lecture: Robert Grubbs

March 5, 2013

Lectures Design and Applications of Selective Metathesis Catalysts Thursday, April 18th, 2013 12:45 PM Room 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Lecture) Bugs, Windmills, and Victoria’s Secret: Fundamental Science to Commercial Products Friday, April 19th, 2013 3:30 PM, Room 1004 Shelby Hall (General Audience Lecture) Professor Grubbs’ visit was cosponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences Leadership Board Nobel Lectureship. Biography Professor Robert H. Grubbs is Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Born in […]

2013 Cava Lecture: Fraser Stoddart

January 5, 2013

Lectures Structure and Mechanism in Radical Mechanostereochemistry 12:45 PM, Thursday, February 14th, 2013 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Mingling Art and Science 2:00 PM, Friday, February 15th, 2013 1093 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Biography The academic career of Fraser Stoddart, who was born in the capital of Scotland on Victoria Day (24 May) in 1942, can be traced through thick and thin from the Athens of the North to the Windy City beside Lake Michigan, with interludes on the […]

2012 Arduengo Lecture: Robert Moss

January 5, 2012

Lectures Classic Carbenes and Carbene Complexes Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 12:45 PM Room 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Lecture) A Chemist’s Avocation: A Celebration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Friday, March 23rd, 2012 3:30 PM Room 1093 Shelby Hall (General Audience Lecture) Biography Professor Robert A. Moss is Research Professor and Louis P. Hammett Professor Emeritus at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ. Robert was born in Brooklyn, NY in May 1940. He obtained his […]

2011 Cava Lecture: Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou

August 5, 2011

Lectures Molecules That Changed the World 4:00 PM, Monday, September 19th, 2011 1004 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Maitotoxin: An Inspiration for Synthesis 12:45 PM, Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Biography Kyriacos Costa (KC) Nicolaou was born on July 5, 1946 in Cyprus, where he grew up and went to school until the age of 18. In 1964, he emigrated from Cyprus to England, where he spent two years learning English and preparing to enter the […]

2011 Arduengo Lecture: Konrad Seppelt

January 5, 2011

Lectures A Chemist’s Way of Thinking Monday, February 21, 2011 4:00 p.m. Room 1004 Shelby Hall (General Audience Lecture) Generation of (Radical) Cations by Means of Extreme Oxidants Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:45 p.m. Room 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Lecture) Biography Professor Doctor Konrad Seppelt, Professor of Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin, was born in Leipzig, Germany in September 1944. Konrad studied at the Universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg and received his Diplom from the latter in 1968. […]

2010 Arduengo Lecture: Guy Bertrand

February 5, 2010

Lectures Novel Stable Non-Arduengo Carbenes and Related Species 12:30 PM, March 25, 2010, 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Bending the Rules 3:00 PM, March 26th, 1093 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Biography Professor Guy Bertrand was born in Limoges (France) in 1952. He currently holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Riverside. Guy graduated from the University of Montpellier in 1975. That same year, he obtained a tenured position at University Paul Sabatier […]

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