The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Inorganic Seminar Abstracts, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Literature Seminars
"The Copolymerization of CO2 and Epoxides by Salen-Derived Complexes: A Mechanistic Investigation"
Bryan Barton
"Chemistry of the Transactinide Elements"
Scott Daly
"'Impossible' Divalent Lanthanide Complexes"
Tiffany Diane Hopper
"The Combination of Transition Metal Ions and Hydrogen-bonding Interactions in Bioorganic Chemistry"
Lanyu Lei
"Carbon Monoxide: Silent Killer or Therapeutic Ligand?"
Christopher Letko
"Utilization of Chiral-at-Metal Complexes for Asymetric Catalysis"
Seth Marquard
"Recent Efforts to Elucidate the Mechanism of Xanthine Oxidoreductase"
Matthew Olsen
"Unraveling the Mechanism of Water Oxidation by Ruthenium-Oxo Complexes"
Casseday Richers
"Organoruthenium Anticancer Agents: Scope and Reactivity"
Mark Ringenberg
"Improving OLEDs by Doping With Phosphorescent Organometallic Complexes"
Matthew Thorseth
Spring 2008
Final Defenses:
"Mechanoluminescence and Sonoluminescence from Acoustic Cavitation"
Nathan Eddingsaas
"Synthesis and Coordination Complexes of Bis-Pocket Siloxyporphyrins"
Ming Fang
"Using Unnatural Amino Acids and Nonnative Cofactors for Metalloprotein Design and Engineering"
Dewain K. Garner
"Steric and Electronic Effects Induced by Ancillary Ligand Substitutions on Cyclopentadienyl Osmium Complexes"
Richard L. Jew
"Structural and Spectroscopic Models of the [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Enzyme"
Aaron Justice
"Experimental Evidence for a Link Among Cupredoxins: Red, Blue and Purple Copper Transformations in Nitrous Oxide Reductase"
Masha G. Savelieff
