University of Alabama, Chemistry Department Seminars

Jan. 17
Jan. 24	George O'Doherty Univ. of Minnesota	The Enantioselective Synthesis of Antimicrobial Natural Products via Regio-, Diastereo-, and Enantioselective Polyene Oxidations	Shaughnessy
Jan. 31
Feb. 6 Wednesday	Xuefei Huang Columbia Univ.	I. Zinc Porphyrin Tweezer in Host-Guest Complexation: Absolute Configurational Assignments of Amines, and Alcohols by Circular Dichroism II. Chemical and Enzymatic Synthesis of Carbohydrates	Woski
Feb. 14
Feb. 21	Michio Kurosu Florida State University	Development of Practical Asymmetric Reactions using group IVB Transition Metals: Practical Synthesis of Apoptosis Inducing Natural Products	Blackstock
Feb. 25 Monday	Isiah Warner Louisiana State Univ.	Mixing Chromatography and Spectrscopy to Achieve Chiral Recognition with Molecular Micelles	Rogers
Feb. 28	Philippe Maurin Univ. of Alabama	Total Synthesis of 2, 3, 11, 13 and 17 Substituted Gonatrienes	Cha
Mar. 7	Heinz Oberhammer Univ. Tuebingen	Gas Phase Structures: Experiment and Theory	Thrasher
Mar. 14	Thomas P. Bannenberg Univ. Alabama, Humboldt Fellow	Organometallic Chemistry with Cycloheptatrienyl Ligands	Arduengo
Mar. 21	Emad Aqad Univ. of Alabama	Tetrathiafulvalene-Thioindigo Annelated DonorˆAcceptor Systems with Intramolecular Charge Transfer	Cava
Mar. 28	Spring Break
Apr. 4 11:00 Bevill 101	Steve Creager Clemson Univ.	New Perfluorinated Electrolytes for Advanced Batteries and Fuel Cells	joint with CHE Ritchie/Thrasher
Apr. 10	Andreas Kornath Universitaet Dortmund	How Naked is the 'Naked' Fluoride?	Thrasher
Apr. 11	John M. White Univ. Texas - Austin	Self-Assembly Assisted by Poly[(aminopropyl)siloxane] Films: Nanoribbons and Micron Diameter Tubes	Szulczewski
Apr. 18	Robert Levis Wayne State Univ.	Controlling Chemistry with Tailored Strong Field Laser Pulses	Szulczewski
Apr. 25	T. Brent Gunnoe North Carolina State Univ.	Ruthenium(II) Amido and Ruthenium(IV) Imido Complexes: Nitrene Transfer and Imine Metathesis	Rogers
May 2	T. V. RajanBabu Ohio State Univ.	Practical Asymmetric Synthesis: New Protocols, Ligands and Other Control Elements	Arduengo
May 25 Saturday	Saxon Symposium	Matthias Tamm, David Dixon, Neil Burford, W.-W. du Mont	Chemistry Dept.