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 […]
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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 Cava Lecture: Jerrold Meinwald
Lectures When the Chemistry is Right: Violence, Sex, and Drugs in the World of Insects 4:00 PM, Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 1093 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Exploring the Chemistry of Biotic Interactions 12:45 PM, Thursday, October 29th, 2009 1093 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Musical Performance 12:00 PM, Friday October 30th, 2009 Moody Music Building Recital Hall Biography Jerrold Meinwald, Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Cornell University, was born in New York, NY in 1927. He was educated […]
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 […]
2009 Cava Lecture: Richard R. Schrock
Lectures How Basic Research in Chemistry Led to a Nobel Prize 5:00 PM, Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 107 Shelby Hall (General Interest Talk) Thousands of Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis: Variability, Longevity, and Asymmetry at the Metal 12:45 PM, Thursday, April 30th, 2009 151 Shelby Hall (Technical Talk) Biography Richard R. Schrock is the Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born on January 4, 1945, the third of three boys, in Berne, a […]
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 […]