Prof. Tobin Marks, Northwestern University Technical Seminar: “Surface Science Meets Homogeneous Catalysis” 12:45 PM, April 12, 2018, in 1093 Shelby Hall General Audience Seminar: “Soft Matter and Hybrid Solar Cell Interfacial Science” 4:00 PM, April 13th, 2018 in 1093 Shelby Hall. A reception will follow in the Shelby Rotunda. Tobin J. Marks is the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Applied Physics, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. Tobin […]
Category: Arduengo Lecture
2017 Arduengo Lecture: T. Don Tilley
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 Arduengo Lecture: Douglas Stephan
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
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
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 […]
2012 Arduengo Lecture: Robert Moss
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 Arduengo Lecture: Konrad Seppelt
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
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 […]
2009 Arduengo Lecture: Holger Braunschweig
Lectures Borylene Complexes as Reagents in Organic and Organometallic Synthesis 12:30 PM, Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 151 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Boron: Applications in Chemistry and Beyond 3:00 PM, Friday, April 3rd, 2009 151 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Biography Professor Dr. Holger Braunschweig, C4 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg, was born in Aachen, Germany’s westernmost city, in 1961. Holger was raised and educated in Aachen before he engaged in two years of compulsory military service […]
2008 Arduengo Lecture: Peter J. Stang
Lectures Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination 12:30 PM, Thursday, March 6th, 2008 151 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Chemical Publishing in the 21st Century: Perspectives of a JACS Editor 3:00 PM, Friday, March 7th, 2008 107 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Biography Professor Peter Stang, University of Utah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, was born in Nurnberg, Germany in 1941 but spent much of his childhood in Hungary. At the age of 15, Peter moved to the US with his family […]