Past Events & Seminars
Dowd Lecture Seminar Series
View »In the face of increasing molecular complexity, shrinking timelines, and a goal to have robust and sustainable processes at the time of filing, process chemistry groups must continue to innovate... View »
In drug discovery and development, it is often realized that classic reactions requiring harsh conditions are not suitable for the functionalization and diversification of complex, drug-like... View »
Analytical Seminar
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View »Efficient syntheses of complex small molecules, such as bioactive natural products, often involve detailed retrosynthetic planning and experimental evaluation of speculative approaches. The... View »
Our laboratory has developed a new approach to the stereoselective functionalization of unsaturated hydrocarbons. Traditional approaches have relied on metal-catalyzed C-H bond activation. We have... View »
Two topics will be covered in the general area of tunneling microscopy: looking at surface dynamics of glasses on a millisecond to hour scale, and excited state dynamics of nanomaterials on the... View »
Protein and RNA folding and binding reactions are generally quite fast and involve small free energy differences. That speed has proven useful when comparing computer simulations of protein and... View »
Saturated oxygen and nitrogen heterocycles, e.g. pyrrolidines, morpholines and tetrahydrofurans, are prevalent in bioactive small molecules. The development of enantioselective cyclizations of... View »
Professor Hema Karunadasa works with colleagues in materials science, earth science, and applied physics to drive the discovery of new materials with applications in clean energy. Her group... View »
Development of methods to prepare various organic compounds of synthetic, biological, and medicinal significance in a cost-effective, efficient, reliable and selective manner is vital to advances... View »