Fall 2011/Spring 2012 - Inorganic Seminar Abstracts

Literature Seminars (Fall 2011)

"The mysterious central atom in the nitrogenase FeMo cofactor"
-- Kevin Hwang

"The Devil in the Details: The Influence of Trace Metal Contaminants in Modern Organometallic Catalysis" 
-- Joseph A. Macor

"Molecular Transition Metal-Lanthanide Compounds"
-- Peter Sempsrott

"From Low to High Spin: Iron Opens Up to High Activity"
-- Shiliang Tian

"Modeling the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II"
-- Olbelina A. Ulloa

Final Defenses (Fall 2011)

“Part I. Synthesis and Characterization of Calcium and Strontium Compounds of N,N-Dimethylaminodiboranate.  Part II. High Coordination Number Compounds of Thorium Borohydride”
-- Andrew Dunbar

“Auxiliary Proton-Influenced Metal-Mediated Reactions”
-- Christopher Letko

“Reductive Elimination of Alkylamines and Ethers: Reactions of Bisphosphine-Ligated Palladium(II) Complexes”
-- Seth Marquard

Final Defenses (Spring 2012)

“Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions of Ammonia, Carbon Monoxide, and Cyanide”
-- Jessica Klinkenberg

“MechanisticStudies on Iridium Catalyzed Allylic Substitution”
-- Sherzod Madrahimov

“Electrocatalytic Dioxygen Reduction with Copper Complexes”
-- Matthew Thorseth

“A Biosynthetic Approach to Understanding the Assembly of CuA Centers”
-- Tiffany Wilson