PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Prof. Gilles Flyer Title: Self-Immolative Polymers: Chemical Designs and Applications Abstract: The development of degradable polymers is of significant interest across a wide range of fields from commodity plastics to medicine. Much progress has been made to date with conventional polyesters such as polylactide and […]
Prof. Vlcek Flyer Title: Excitation Dynamics Driving the Electronic Structure of Molecules and Solids Abstract: Capturing the dynamics of electronic excitations in realistic systems containing more than a few electrons is one of the outstanding theoretical challenges. Dynamical quantum correlations mediate interactions and couplings between multiple excited states in materials and represent an important driver […]
Flyer: Prof. Megan Fieser Flyer Meet the Speaker: 11 a.m., YH 3096 Title: Development of Catalytic Strategies for Advances in Polymer Sustainability Abstract: As we strive to support our busy and demanding lifestyles, our dependence on disposable plastics has led to a global environmental crisis. The high stability of plastics to an array of conditions […]
Seminar Sponsored by Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science Prof Wilkerson Hill Flyer Title: Orphaned Cyclopropanes Abstract: Cyclopropanes are strained carbocycles that have fascinated chemists for decades with many established methods for their construction. Unfortunately, many methods struggle to build cyclopropanes containing only alkyl functionality, which limits access to antiviral medicines (e.g., nirmatrelvir), pyrethroid insecticides […]
Flyer: Dickerson Lecture Flyer - Robert M. Stroud Title: “Caught in the Act! - Building the Wall!" Abstract: From the atomic structure of the first protein, Myoglobin in which Richard Dickerson played the key role(1), proteins were necessarily purified from large animals. Now complex machines can be 'tagged' and purified endogenously from cells growing under […]
Flyer: Prof. Mahdi Abu-Omar Flyer Meet the Speaker: 11 a.m., YH 3096 Title: Bifunctional catalysis for upcycling of polyethylene to alkylaromatics Abstract: The current scale of plastics production (nearing 400 million tons per year) and the accompanying waste disposal problems represent a largely untapped opportunity for chemical upcycling. Tandem catalytic conversion by platinum supported on […]