Inorganic Divisional Seminars

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2008-2009 UCSD INORGANIC CHEMISTRY SEMINAR SPEAKER SCHEDULE (Tentative)
All seminars to be held in Pacific Hall, room 4500, at 11 am unless otherwise noted.

Current calendar is posted at: http://ical.me.com/msailor/Seminar%20Schedule

Past seminars:

Spring 2008 (Cohen)

Date	Speaker	Institution	e-mail	Host	Title
4/4	John Arnold	UC Berkeley	arnold@berkeley.edu	Cohen	Small Molecule Activation using Metal Complexes Supported by Multidentate Ligands
4/11	Spring ACS Meeting-no seminar
4/18			-		-
4/25	David Goodin	The Scripps Research Institute	dbg@scripps.edu	Cohen	Probing the substrate binding site of heme enzymes with molecular wires
5/2	Chris Switzer	UC Riverside	switzer@ucr.edu	Cohen	DNA Metallo Base-Pairs: Many Metal Ions Are Up to the Task
5/9	Harry Gray Note location in Pac Hall 3500	Caltech	-	Tezcan	Bioinorganic Photochemistry
5/16	Jeremy M. Smith	New Mexico State University	jesmith@nmsu.edu	Cohen	Single electron transformations of high valent iron imido and nitrido complexes
5/23	Xianhui Bu	California State University, Long Beach	xbu@csulb.edu	Cohen	Homochiral Metal-Organic Framework Materials
5/30	Jack Norton	Columbia	-	Figueroa	-
6/6	Mike Knapp	University of Massachusetts	-	Hendrickson	Nanoparticles as Proxies for Protein Redox Reactions
6/13	Didier Astruc Note location is NSB auditorium	University of Bordeaux, France	-	Joe O'Connor	Metallodendrimers and Gold Nanoparticles for Molecular Electronics, Sensing and Catalysis

Winter 2008 (Sailor)

Date	Speaker	Institution	e-mail	Host	Title
1/11	Shu-Lin Zhang	University of Peking	slzhang@pku.edu.cn	Sailor	"An 'abnormal' Raman feature and its origin in nano-semiconductors"
1/18	Chris Chang	UC Berkeley	chrischang@berkeley.edu	Sailor	"Chemical Approaches to Understanding Copper and Peroxide Biology in the Brain"
1/25	James Stevens	Dow Chemical Co.	JCStevens@dow.com	Kubiak	"Teaching Old Polyolefins New Tricks with Modern Catalysts"
1/28	Chuan He, Joint with Ochem (Note monday meeting!)	University of Chicago	chuanhe@uchicago.edu	Cohen/Burkhart	"Silver Oxidation Chemistry and Bacterial Regulation of Metals, Virulence, and Drug Resistance"
2/8	-	-	-	-	-
2/15	Zhibin Guan	UC Irvine	zguan@uci.edu	Cohen	-
2/22	Eugene Zubarev(?)	Rice University	EZ@rice.edu	Sailor	-
2/29	Grad student recruitment day--no seminar	-	-	-	-
3/7	Phil Castellano	Bowling Green State University	castell@bgsu.edu	Kubiak	"Molecular Inorganic Photonics"
3/10	Masahiro Yamashita (Note Monday meeting)	Tohoku University, Japany	-	Hendrickson	"Multi-Functional Quantum Molecular Magnets: Single-Chain Quantum Magnets and Single-Molecule Quantum Magnets with Photo-Induced Switching and Electrical Conductivity."
3/21	Grad student recruitment day--no seminar

Fall 2007 (Kubiak)

Date	Speaker	Institution	e-mail	Host	Title
9/28	-	-	-	-	-
10/5	Marcetta Darensbourg	Texas A&M	m-darensbourg@tamu.edu	Kubiak	"The Acetyl coA Synthase Paradigm for Nickel-dithiolates as Ligands in Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis"
10/12	Guy Bertrand	UC Riverside	guy.bertrand@ucr.edu	Kubiak	"Stable Carbenes Can Help Transition Metals and Even Do their Job"
10/19	Gerald Meyer	Johns Hopkins University	meyer@jhu.edu	Kubiak	"Charge Transfer in Efficient Molecular Solar Cells"
10/26	Joe Templeton-joint with o-chem	UNC Chapel Hill	joetemp@unc.edu	Kubiak	"Platinum Reagents for C-H Activation"
11/2	Rick Kemp	UNM and Sandia NL	-	Kubiak	"Divalent Main Group Metal Amides and their Reactions with Small Molecules"
11/9	Julie Kovacs	University of Washington	kovacs@gibbs.chem.washington.edu	Kubiak	"Understanding How the Thiolate Sulfur Contributes to the Function of the Non-Heme Iron Enzyme Superoxide Reductase (SOR)."
11/16	Andrew Maverick	Louisiana State University	maverick@lsu.edu	Kubiak	"Inorganic-Organic Molecules and Solids with Nanometer-Size Pores"
11/30	Greg Hillhouse	University of Chicago	g-hillhouse@uchicago.edu	Kubiak	"The Unusual Chemistry of Two- and Three-Coordinate Nickel"
12/7	-	-	-	-	-

Spring 2007 (Sailor)

Date	Speaker	Institution	e-mail	Host	Title
4/6	Sergei Ibragimov	UCSD	sibragim@ucsd.edu	Sailor	Study of Formation of Metal-Metal Bond in Dimetal Compounds and Supramolecular Species Based on These Units.
4/13	Omar Yaghi	UCLA	abeaton@chem.ucla.edu	Cohen	"Reticular Chemistry and Clean Energy Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks"
4/20	Mary Neu	Los Alamos Natl Lab	mneu@lanl.gov	Cohen	“Actinide Chemistry in the Nuclear Energy Cycle: Separations Related to Fuels and Environmental Transformations of Plutonium”
4/27	Hilary Godwin	UCLA	hgodwin@ucla.edu	Cohen	"Myths, Misconceptions, and the Molecular Mechanism of Lead Poisoning"
5/4	Ivan Dmochowski	University of Pennsylvania	ivandmo@sas.upenn.edu	Tezcan	“Chemical tools for biomolecular imaging”
5/11	Lisa M. Berreau	Utah State	berreau@cc.usu.edu	Cohen	"Modeling Acireductone Dioxygenases"
5/18	Katrina Miranda	University of Arizona	kmiranda@email.arizona.edu	Cohen	“Design of new nitroxyl (HNO) donors with analytical and pharmacological utility”
5/25	Andrea Rossi	Institute of the Galileo Ferarris	amrossi@umd.edu	Sailor	"Porous semiconductors for sensing applications"
6/1	Jon Sessler (Note joint seminar with o-chem)	UT Austin	sessler@mail.utexas.edu	Cohen	"Oligopyrrole Macrocycles: Synthetic Receptors for Cations, Anions, and Neutral Substrates"
6/8	Frank Osterloh	UC Davis	osterloh@chem.ucdavis.edu	Sailor	"Inorganic Nanostructures for Solar Hydrogen Generation and Chemical Sensing Applications"

Winter 2007 (Cohen)

Date	Speaker	Institution	e-mail	Host	Title
1/9	Jiaxing Huang (Asst Prof Interview)	UC Berkeley	jxhuang@berkeley.edu	Sailor
1/12	Dmitri Talapin (Asst Prof Interview)	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories	DVTalapin@lbl.gov	Sailor	""
1/15	Nanfeng Zheng (Asst Prof Interview)	UCSB	nzheng@chem.ucsb.edu	Kubiak
1/19	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	""
1/26	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	“”
2/2	Chris Chidsey	Stanford	chidsey@stanford.edu	Cohen	""
2/9	Lawerence Beauvais	SDSU	beauvais@sciences.sdsu.edu	Cohen	“Mechanistic Studies of Metal Active Sites in Proteins and Solid State Materials”
2/16	TBA	-	-	-	""
2/23	Julie Kovacs	University of Washington	kovacs@chem.washington.edu	Cohen	“Understanding How the Thiolate Sulfur Contributes to the Function of the Non-Heme Iron Enzyme Superoxide Reductase (SOR)”
3/2	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	""
3/9	Kyoung-Shin Choi	Purdue	kchoi1@purdue.edu	Cohen	“Electrochemical Synthesis of Inorganic Electrodes with Controlled Micro- and Nano-Structures”
3/16	Grad Recruitment day-no seminar

Fall 2006 (Tezcan)

Date	Speaker	Institution	e-mail	Host	Title
9/22	-none-	-	-		""
9/29	Dr. Lutz Gade	University of Heidelberg	lutz.gade@uni-hd.de	Kubiak	"Modular Strategies in Oxazoline Ligand Design: Applications in Homogeneous Catalysis"
10/6	Tim Warren	Georgetown	thw@georgetown.edu	Tezcan	“Later First Row Oxo, Nitrene, and Carbene Complexes: Insights into Group Transfer Catalysis”
10/13	Alison Butler	UCSB	butler@chem.ucsb.edu	Tezcan	"Molecular Mechanisms of Iron Acquisition by Marine Bacteria: New Photoreactive and Amphiphilic Siderophores"
10/20	Oleg Ozerov	Brandeis	ozerov@brandeis.edu	Cohen	“”
10/27	David L. Tierney	University of New Mexico	dtierney@unm.edu	Cohen	"Cobalt as Spectroscopic Probe of Zinc Biochemistry: Models to Maquettes to Metalloproteins"
11/3	Michael Green	Penn State	mtg10@psu.edu	Tezcan	“Understanding C-H bond activation in heme proteins”
11/10	Veterans' Day Holiday	-	-	-	"-"
11/17	Stephane Petoud	Pitt	stephane.petoud@gmail.com	Tezcan	“Luminescent Reporters and Sensors for Bio-Analytical Applications Based on Lanthanide Compounds”
11/20	Theodore Betley (Asst Prof Interview)	MIT	betley@MIT.EDU	Sailor	"-"
11/24	Thanksgiving Holiday	-	-	-	"-"
12/1	Karen Goldberg	University of Washington	goldberg@chem.washington.edu	Tezcan	“Mechanistic Studies of Organometallic Reactions Related to Selective Hydrocarbon Oxidation”
12/8	Leone Spiccia	Monash University, Australia	Leone.Spiccia@sci.monash.edu.au	Tor/Cohen	-
12/11	Josh Figueroa (Asst Prof Interview)	Columbia	jf2293@columbia.edu	Sailor	"-"

Spring 2006 (Sailor)

Date	Speaker	Institution	e-mail	Host	Title
4/7	Antonio Dipasquale	UCSD	adipasqu@chem.ucsd.edu	Rheingold	“Peroxide complexes of non-redox active metal centers: Model complexes for alternative mechanisms in Cytochrome P450 oxidations?”
4/14	Cliff Kubiak				“Excited states resolved on the infrared timescale”
4/21	TBA				“”
4/28	Marc Johnson	Michigan	mjaj@umich.edu	Kubiak	“Tuning the Reactivity of Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds: Reactive Nitrides and Stable Carbides.”
5/5	BYE				“-”
5/12	Phil Power	UC Davis	pppower@ucdavis.edu	Sailor	“Reactivity of Heavier Element Tetrylynes---New Bonding Isomers”
5/19	Daniel Nocera	MIT	nocera@mit.edu	Ben Lear	“”
5/26	Bruce Hinds	Kentucky	bjhinds@engr.uky.edu		“Functional Nanomaterials: nm-Scale Shadow Lithography, Molecular Electrodes, and Carbon Nanotube Based Membranes”
6/2	Seth Cohen	UCSD		Kubiak	“Molecular Construction: Dipyrrinato Metalloligands for MOF Assembly”
6/9	Hong-Chang Liang	SDSU	hcliang@sciences.sdsu.edu	Cohen	“Water-Soluble Pyridyl-Amine Ligands and Corresponding Metal Complexes”

Winter 2006

Date	Speaker	Institution	e-mail	Host	Title
1/6	Frieder Jaekle	Rutgers	fjaekle@rutgers.edu	Rheingold	"Multifunctional organoboranes: Lewis acid chemistry and beyond”
1/13	Malcolm Chisholm	Ohio State	chisholm@chemistry.ohio-state.edu	Ben Lear	“”
1/20	Alan Balch	UC Davis	albalch@ucdavis.edu	Cohen	“Inorganic Fullerene Chemistry, Fullerenes with Metals Everywhere"
1/27	Tobin Marks	Northwestern	t-marks@northwestern.edu	Trogler	“”
2/3	Catalina Achim	Carnegie Mellon	Ca2j@andrew.cmu.edu	Sailor	“Transition Metal Ions at Work in Nucleic Acids and Clusters”
2/10	Paul Chirik	Cornell	pc92@cornell.edu	Cohen	“Catalytic Bond Forming Reactions with Iron”
2/17	Richard Jordan	U Chicago	rfjordan@uchicago.edu	Rheingold	“”
2/24	Daniel Blackwood	National University of Singapore	msedjb@nus.edu.sg	Sailor	“Porous Silicon Micro-Patterning by Combining Proton Beam Writing and Electrochemical Etching”
3/3	Ged Parkin	Columbia	parkin@chem.columbia.edu	Cohen	“Kinetic and Equilibrium Isotope Effects Pertaining to the Interaction of C-H and H-H Bonds with Transition Metal Centers. When is a Bond not a Bond?”
3/10	TBA				“”
3/13 Monday	Stephen Miller	Texas A&M	samiller@mail.chem.tamu.edu	Cohen: seminar joint with o-chem	“Sterically Expanded Transition Metal Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization”
3/17	Ana de Bettencourt-Dias	Syracuse	debetten@syr.edu	Meyer	“Lanthanide complexes and related compounds for luminescence applications”

Fall 2005

Date	Speaker	Institution	e-mail	Host	Title
9/23	TBA
9/30	Akif Tezcan	UCSD	tezcan@chem.ucsd.edu	Trogler	"Crystallographic Insights Into Nitrogenase Function: A Molecular Machine with Many Tricks"
10/5 (WEDS)	Karsten Meyer (Colloquium)	UCSD	kmeyer@ucsd.edu	Sailor	"Coordination Chemistry with the Heaviest Element, Uranium: A Story of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde"
10/7	no seminar (Meyer colloq. weds)
10/14	TBA
10/21	Jim Boncella	LANL	boncella@lanl.gov	Meyer	"Synthesis and Reactivity of Bis(alkylimido)U(VI) Diiodide: An Imido Analog of the Uranyl Ion."
10/28	Jay Stork	UCSD		Cohen	"Explorations into the Supramolecular Chemistry of Pseudo-closed Shell Metal-Metal Interactions"
11/4	John Bercaw	Caltech	bercaw@caltech.edu	Kubiak	"Towards a Homogeneous Catalyst for Selective Oxidation of Alkanes Using Dioxygen"
11/18	Mike Sailor	UCSD		Esener	Joint Chemistry-Photonics seminar: "SMART DUST: Nanostructured microparticles based on silicon for controlled delivery of nanogram payloads" This seminar will be joint with the ECE department, (hosted by Sadik Esener) and will be given at a different location (EBU1, Room 4307)
12/2	Peter Xhang	Tennessee	pzhang@utk.edu	Cohen	"Bio-Inspired Carbene and Nitrene Transfer Reactions by Metalloporphyrins."
12/9	James McGarrah	Northwestern	j-mcgarrah@northwestern.edu	Trogler	“Time Resolving Photo-induced Dipole Moment Changes Using Transient DC Photoconductivity”