Abstract: Nature has evolved highly sophisticated machinery for organic synthesis, many of which resemble molecular assembly-line processes. So far chemists have been able to apply this type of approach in the synthesis of peptides and oligonucleotides but in these reactions, simple amide (C‒N) or phosphate (P‒O) bonds are created. It is much more difficult to […]
Exploration of Chemical Functionality of Self-Assembled Carborane Derivatives
The Center for Integrated Catalysis is hosting a new seminar series called the "Careers in Green Chemistry." With these webinars, we aim to bring speakers from a wide variety of careers, linked through green chemistry, to come talk about their current job as well as the career path that led them to that position. We are pleased […]
Chanfreau Group "Substrate specificity of the Yeast TRAMP complex”
“Aerosol particles out in the world: Wildfire smoke, traffic hotspots, SARS CoV-19, & Cloud droplet chemistry.”
Abstract: As more attention is focused on biomaterials for medical applications, synthetic polypeptides offer a useful approach towards designing novel biomimetic materials. Polypeptides are inherently biodegradable and biocompatible, and offer wide-ranging properties seen in living systems. The peptide backbone is enzymatically degradable while their side chain functionality can be modified to create an array of […]
Ruxi Dai “Redox switchable catalysts for the preparation of biodegradable copolymers with novel properties” Amy Lai “Predicting redox-switchable reactivity for the ring opening polymerization of lactones and epoxides”
Enabling High Capacity Anodes and Cathodes for Li-Ion Batteries
Abstract: The Kalow lab interrogates and exploits the relationship between molecular reactivity and macroscopic properties to discover polymeric materials relevant to human health and sustainability. We approach “reactivity-property” relationships bidirectionally: in reactivity-directed materials discovery, we use synthesis and physical organic chemistry to tune reactions occurring within polymer networks. In polymer networks composed of reversible covalent […]
Torres Group "Functional characterization of the mammalian family of Katanin microtubule-severing enzymes"
"Harnessing nano-scale functionality for next-generation biomedical and bio-inspired technologies"
Abstract: Small molecules offer a unique opportunity to target structural and regulatory elements in therapeutically relevant RNAs, but understanding functional selectivity has been a recurrent challenge in small molecule:RNA recognition. In particular, RNAs tend to be more dynamic and offer less chemical functionality than proteins, and biologically active ligands must compete with the highly abundant […]
