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University of Minnesota

Chemistry Department Seminars
2007-2008

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William Tolman, UMN
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Website                 Host: V. Pierre
 9:45 am, Smith 331

Dioxygen Activation by Monocopper Complexes

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John Carlis
Analytical Seminar Series
Website
4:15 pm, Smith 331
Writing and Coaching the One-Draft Thesis


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Lynn Russell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
Website               Host: J. Roberts
9:45 am, Smith 331
Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere (and Their Many Mixtures)

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Christopher J. Chang, UC Berkeley
Website               Host: L. Que
9:45 am, Smith 331
Chemical Approaches to Understanding Copper and Peroxide Biology in the Brain


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C. Grant Willson, U Texas, Austin
IPRIME Microstructured Polymers Seminar Series
Website             Host:  M. Hillmyer
8:30-9:30 am, 331 Smith

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R. Lee Penn, UMN
Website               Host: J. Roberts
9:45 am, Smith 331


October 2007 1 
Roderick MacKinnon
Honeywell Nobel Laureate Lecture Series
Public Lecture: Electricity in Biology
4 pm, McNamara Alumni Center Atrium

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Roderick MacKinnon
Honeywell Nobel Laureate Lecture Series
Host: Jeff Roberts
Colloquium: The Principles of Ion Selectivity in Potassium Channels
9:45 am, Smith 331

 

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Silvio Aime, University of Turin, Italy
Website                 Host: V. Pierre
Lanthanide-Based Probes for MR-Molecular Imaging Investigations
3:30 pm, Smith 331
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Fred LaPlant, 3M Corporate Research Analytical Laboratory
Analytical Seminar Series
4:15 pm, Smith 331
Spectroscopic Tools for Process Analysis of Pharmaceutical Products  		 9 

 

 

 

 

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Richard M. Crooks, U Texas, Austin
Website           Host: C. Haynes
9:45 am, Smith 331
Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrocatalytic Applications of Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nanoparticles		 12 

 

 

 

 
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M.G. Finn, Scripps Research Institute
Website
9:45 am, Smith 331

 

 

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Huw M. L. Davies, U Buffalo
Larkin Professor of Organic Chemistry
Website              Host: T. Hoye
9:45 am, Smith 331
C-H Activation: Applications in Organic Synthesis		 19 


 

 

 
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David A. Dunmire, 3M Corporate Research Analytical Laboratory
Analytical Seminar Series
4:15 pm, Smith 331
   CANCELLED
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Theresa Reineke, U Cincinnati
IPRIME  Microstructured Polymers Seminar Series
Website             Host:  M. Hillmyer
9:45 am, 331 Smith
PGAAs: Versatile and Degradable Glycopolymers for Nucleic Acid Delivery and Diagnostic Imaging		 24 

 

 

 

 

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Benjamin J. Schwartz, UCLA
Moscowitz Lecture Series
Website                  Host: D. Blank
9:45 am, Smith 331
“Holey THF: How Do Counterions and Holes Control Electron Transfer between Atoms in Liquids?”		 26 

 

 

 

 
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Robert T. Kennedy, U Michigan
Hobart H. Willard Collegiate Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Pharmacology
Abbott Analytical Lecture, Analytical Seminar Series
Website         Host: M. Bowser
4:15 pm, Smith 331
Fundamentals of Microfluidics for Biochemical Analysis - A Tutorial
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Robert T. Kennedy, U Michigan
Hobart H. Willard Collegiate Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Pharmacology
Abbott Analytical Lecture, Analytical Seminar Series
  9:45 am, Smith 331
High-Throughput Separations and Chemical Analysis
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John E. Anthony, U Kentucky
Gill Professor of Chemistry
Website              Host: C. Douglas
9:45 am, Smith 331
Small Molecule Design for Organic Electronics
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2007 		5 

 

 

 

 

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Elena V. Rybak-Akimova, Tufts
Website
9:45 am, Smith 331
Oxygen and Peroxide Activation at Non-Heme Iron: Mechanistic Insights and Useful Reactions

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Gregory C. Fu, MIT
Gassman Lecture Series  
Website           Host: A. Harned
4:15 pm, Smith 100
Asymmetric Catalysis with "Planar-Chiral Heterocycles": Nucleophilic Catalysis

 
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Gregory C. Fu, MIT
Gassman Lecture Series  
Website           Host: A. Harned
9:45 am, Smith 331
Asymmetric Catalysis with "Planar-Chiral Heterocycles": Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactions
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Gregory C. Fu, MIT
Gassman Lecture Series  
Website           Host: A. Harned
9:45 am, Smith 331
Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions
  
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Dwight Stoll
Analytical Seminar Series

4:15 pm, Smith 331
Methods and Materials for Flexible, Ultra-Selective Analysis of Biological
Materials

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Ned B. Bowden, U Iowa
IPRIME Microstructured Polymers Seminar Series
Website             Host:  M. Hillmyer
9:45 am, 331 Smith

 

 
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Abbott Process R&D Symposium
1:00   Adrian Anderson
Introduction
1:15   Steve Wittenberger
Process Chemistry: Synthetic Route Development: Discovery to Enabling to Practical
2:15   Yanqun Zhao
Process Analytical Chemistry: Applications of LC/MS and SFC in Process Analytical R&D
3:30   Shailendra Bordawekar
Process Engineering: Role of Chemical Engineers in API Process Development

1:00 p.m., Walker Library Digital Technology Center, Room 402
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Helen E. Blackwell, UW, Madison
Website        Host: M. Distefano
9:45 am, Smith 331
Synthetic Ligands that Disrupt Bacterial Quorum Sensing Pathways and Outcomes

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2007 		3 

 

 

 

 
4    FACULTY CANDIDATE
E. James Petersson, Yale
Host: B. Tolman  
9:45 am, Smith 331

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Jamie D. Walls, Harvard
Host: D. Blank
9:45 am, Smith 331		 7 
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Bryan Fonslow
Analytical Seminar Series

4:15 pm, Smith 331
Proteomic Analysis of /C. Elegans /Insulin Signaling

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Danica Galonic’-Fujimori,
Harvard Medical School
Host: K. McNeill
9:45 am, Smith 331 		 12

 

 

 

 

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William R. Dichtel, UCLA
Host: X. Zhu
9:45 am, Smith 331		 14

 

 

 

 
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Erin E. Carlson, Scripps Host: D. Distefano
9:45 am, Smith 331  

 

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Stephen Maldonado, CIT
Host: P. Buhlmann
9:45 am, Smith 331  

 

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Scott Thorgaard
Analytical Seminar Series

4:15 pm, Smith 331

15  FACULTY CANDIDATE
Michael McAlpine, Caltech
Host:  Lee Penn
9:45 am, 402 Walter (ROOM CHANGE)`
Integrated Nanowire Electronics and Sensors on Flexible Plastic Substrates

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Kristi Kiick, U Delaware
Website           Host:  T. Lodge
9:45 am, Smith 331


      CANCELLED

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Barry Thompson, UC Berkeley
Host: Marc Hillmyer
9:45 am, Smith 331
Design of Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cells

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Martin Zanni, UW Madison
Website            Host: A. Massari
 9:45 am, Smith 331
Using Automated 2D IR Spectroscopy to Follow the Folding Kinetics of Amyloid Fiber Formation 		25 
Eric Castro
Analytical Seminar Series

4:15 pm, Smith 331

 
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Joseph M. DeSimone
UNC, Chapel Hill
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Website
4:15 pm, Smith 331
Engineered Drug Therapies Enabled by Fabrication Processes from the Electronics Industry

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Heather Maynard, UCLA
IPRIME Microstructured Polymers Seminar Series
Website            Host:  M. Hillmyer
9:45 am, 331 Smith
Synthesis of Protein-Polymer Hybrid MAterials for Nanotechnology



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Coleen Pugh, U Akron
Website                Host: T. Lodge
9:45 am, Smith 331
Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polyacrylates by an Inimer Approach
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March 2008		 4  FACULTY CANDIDATE
Connie Lu, Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry
Host: Wayne Gladfelter
ROOM CHANGE!
9:45 am, Walter 402
From Reactivity to Electronic Structure and Back 		5
Nicola Pohl, Iowa State U
Website         Host: T. Hoye
9:45 am, Smith 331
Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesis and Vaccines   
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Phil Reid, U Washington
Website                 Host: D. Blank
9:45 am, Smith 331 
Dispersive Kinetics from Single Molecules Oriented in Single Crystals of Potassium Acid Phthalate		 8 
Jeff Buth
Analytical Seminar Series 
4:15 pm, Smith 331
Adsorption of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) and Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solution on Carbon Nanotubes
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Yu Zhang
Analytical Seminar Series 

4:15 pm, Smith 331

 

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Timothy H. Warren, Georgetown U
Website              Host: B. Tolman
9:45 am, Smith 331 
Discrete Late Metal Nitrenes in Catalytic C-H Amination

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Chunze Lai
Analytical Seminar Series 

4:15 pm, Smith 331
Application of Ion-Selective Electrodes in Measurement of Protein-Carbohydrate Interaction

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Nancy Allbritton, UNC
Website              Host: E. Arriaga
9:45 am, Smith 331 
Microanalytical Tools to Investigate Cellular Signaling 		29 


 

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Stephen C. Jacobson, Indiana U
Website          Host: E. Arriaga
9:45 am, Smith 331
Integrated Micro- and Nanofluidic Devices for Separations and Analysis		 22 


 
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Rongxiao Sa
Analytical Seminar Series 

4:15 pm, Smith 331
Quantification of Disulfide Proteome during Biological Aging

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Jimmy Mays, U Tennessee
IPRIME Microstructured Polymers Seminar Series
Website             Host: M. Hillmyer
9:45 am, 331 Smith
     CANCELLED
Synthesis, Morphology, and Properties of Branched Block Copolymers

 

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Milan Mrksich, U Chicago, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Etter Lecture Series
Website              Host: E. Arriaga
9:45 am, Smith 331
Label-Free Methods for Analyzing and Screening Biochemical Activities with BioChips


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Seth N. Brown, U Notre Dame
Website          Host:  B. Tolman
9:45 am, Smith 331
Effects of Electronic Symmetry and Dissymmetry on Metal-Mediated Reactions



 
 

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March 2008

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Joel M. Harris, U Utah


Kolthoff Lecture Series  
Website            Host: D. Blank

4:25 pm, Smith 100
Raman Spectroscopy of Liquid/Solid Interfaces and Dispersed Particles

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Joel M. Harris, U Utah


Kolthoff Lecture Series  
Website            Host: D. Blank

9:45 am, Smith 331
Analysis of Interfacial Reaction Kinetics at the Single-Molecule Level

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 Joel M. Harris, U Utah


Kolthoff Lecture Series  
Website            Host: D. Blank

TIME CORRECTION!!!
4:00 pm, Smith 331
Multidimensional Spectroscopic Measurements for Unraveling Interfacial Chemistry

   
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Sir Richard Friend, U Cambridge
Cavendish Professor of Physics


Kolthoff Lecture Series 
Website           Host: M. Hillmyer


4:15 pm, Smith 100
Plastic Electronics: New Science and New Technologies

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Sir Richard Friend, U Cambridge
Cavendish Professor of Physics


Kolthoff Lecture Series 
Website           Host: M. Hillmyer


4:15 pm, 402 Walter Library
New Companies from an Ancient University: Tales from the Old World

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Sir Richard Friend, U Cambridge
Cavendish Professor of Physics


Kolthoff Lecture Series 
Website           Host: M. Hillmyer


9:45 am, Smith 331
Electronic Excitations at Molecular Semiconductor Heterojunctions

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April 2008		 31
Laura Gagliardi, U Geneva
Website        Host: D. Truhlar
9:45 am, Walter 402
Multiconfigurational Quantum Chemistry for Transition Metals and Actinides
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David Nesbitt, U Colorado, Boulder
Crawford Lecture Series
Website
9:45 am, Smith 331
Searching for Simplicity: From Gas-Liquid Scattering to Single Molecule RNA Folding 		2   3
David Ginger, U Washington
Website           Host:  A. Taton
9:45 am, Smith 331
Probing Polymer Photovoltaics

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Yaohua Wang
Analytical Seminar Series
4:15 pm, Smith 331
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John F. Hartwig,
U of Illiinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth L. Rinehart Professor of Chemistry

Gassman Lecture Series

Website           Host: C. Douglas
4:15 pm, Smith 100
Selective C-H Bond Functionalization  

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John F. Hartwig,
U of Illiinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth L. Rinehart Professor of Chemistry

Gassman Lecture Series

Website           Host: C. Douglas
9:45 am, Smith 331
Metal-Catalyzed Aliphatic Amination

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John F. Hartwig,
U of Illiinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth L. Rinehart Professor of Chemistry

Gassman Lecture Series

Website           Host: C. Douglas
4:15 pm, Smith 331
Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling Processes

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Joe Katzenmeyer
Analytical Seminar Series 

4:15 pm, Smith 331

 

 

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Gregory Voth, U Utah
Website             Host:  J. Gao
CANCELLED
9:45 am, Smith 331  
The Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: A Systematic Approach

 

 

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Xin Xu
Analytical Seminar Series 

4:15 pm, Smith 331

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Nien-Hui Ge, UC Irvine Website       Host:  A. Massari

9:45 am, Smith 331
Beyond One Dimension: Ultrafast 2D IR as a Structural Probe of Peptides
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Victoria J. DeRose, U Oregon
Website           Host:  V. Pierre
9:45 am, Smith 331 
Metals, Folding, and Catalysis in RNA

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Richard A. J. O'Hair, U Melbourne
Website            Host: S. Kass

10:00 am, Smith 117-119
Using Electrospray in Conjunction with Collision Induced Dissociation to Unmask and Study the Gas Phase Chemistry of Reactive Metallic Species		 20 21
Angela K. Wilson, U of North Texas
Website         Host: J. Roberts

9:45 am, Smith 331
Quantitative Modeling Across the Periodic Table		 22 23