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:
"Using Unnatural Amino Acids and Nonnative Cofactors for Metalloprotein Design and Engineering"
Dewain K. Garner
"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
