Departmental Seminars

All lectures are in King 4 at 1:30 pm unless indicated otherwise.

January 11, 2021 (Mon) 9:45-10:45 (Zoom) Christopher Sanford
ICIQ, Spain
Title: Strategies to Identify and Control Radicals in Complex Reaction Mechanisms
Host: Dr. Ping Li
January 12, 2021 (Tue) 1:55-2:55 (Zoom) Christian Malapit
University of Utah
Title: Discovery of New Coupling Reactions of Carboxylic Acids
Host: Dr. Ping Li
January 14, 2021 (Thu) 1:55-2:55 (Zoom) Elias Picazo
Harvard University
Title: Stereochemical Complexity in Total Synthesis and Reaction Development
Host: Dr. Ping Li
January 19, 2021 (Tue) 1:55-2:55 (Zoom) Ming-Hsiu Yang
Scripps Research Institute
Title: A Journey from Pd-Catalyzed Fluoroalkylation to Diprovocim-Type Immune Modulators
Host: Dr. Ping Li
January 21, 2021 (Thu) 1:55-2:55 (Zoom) Ryan Martinie
Princeton University
Title: Uncovering How Biology Harnesses the Power of Transition Metals: Metalloenzyme Reactivity and Mechanism
Host: Dr. Ping Li
March 1, 2021 (Mon)
2:05-3:05 (Zoom)
Jennifer Roizen
Duke University
Title: Alcohol and Amine Derivatives Guide Position-Selective C–H Functionalization Reactions
Host: Dr. Ping Li
March 11, 2021 (Zoom)
Adam Matzger
University of Michigan (Abstract of Seminar)
ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture
Title: Metal–Organic Frameworks: From Energy Storage to Drug Delivery
Host: Dr. Gadzikwa
April 1, 2021 (Zoom)
Leslie Aldrich
University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: Building biological performance diversity and chasing challenging targets for probe and drug discovery
Host: Dr. Rafferty
April 8, 2021 Robert Corn
University of California, Irvine
King Lecture
Postponed due to uncertainty with COVID-19
Host: Dr. Higgins
April 15, 2021
10:00am-11:00am (Zoom)

Arumugam Manthiram
University of Texas, Austin – Mechanical Engineering
PLU Lecture
Title: Sustainable Battery Technologies for Renewable Energy Utilization and Vehicle Electrification (Abstract of Seminar)
Host: PLU

April 29, 2021 (Zoom)
Paweł Dydio
University of Strasbourg
Title: Development of efficient chemical transformations with mechanistic understanding, design, and relay multicatalysis
Host: Dr. Gadzikwa