Chemistry Seminar Series, Spring 2012

All seminars will be held on THURSDAYS at 4:00 in Hill Hall, room 107, on the Rutgers-Newark Campus, unless noted otherwise. A coffee social will precede each seminar at about 3:30 in the reading room on the third floor of Olson Hall (room 338).

JAN 26 Martin Onami (University of Western Cape, South Africa) Organometallic Scaffolds: The hemilabile P-N Complexes and Their Application in Homogeneous Catalysis and as Anti-tumor Agents
FEB 02 Neil Ayres (University of Cincinnati) Polymers Incorporating N-alkyl Urea Peptoids: Self-assembled Aggregates, Step-growth Polymers and Polymer Conjugates
FEB 16 John Sowa (Seton Hall University) The 2010 BP Oil Spill
FEB 23 Flavio Maran (University of Padova, Italy) Super Efficient Electron Transfer Through 3-10 Helical Peptides
MAR 22 James Stambuli (Ohio State University) C-H Activation Reactions Promoted by Iridium and Palladium
MAR 29 Paul Champion (Northeastern University) Coherence Spectroscopy of Low-Frequency Protein Vibrations and Electron Proton Transfer Dynamics
APR 06 (Fri, 11:30) Stefan Bernhardt (Carnegie Mellon University) Light Driven Generation of Hydrogen from Water. Thermodynamics, Tactics, and Recent Results
APR 12 John Blanchard (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) to be announced
APR 26 Alexander Greer (City University of NY, Brooklyn) to be announced