Organic Division
Seminar Series
Winter 2014
Jan 29
Laura Anderson, UIC (host: Stockdill)
Title: “Synthetic Versatility of N-O Bond Rearrangements”
Feb 12
No Seminar
Feb 19
Graduate student long talk: Thilani Anthony
Title: “Recent advances in the total synthesis of Nakadomarin A”
Feb 24
(Frontiers)
Mar 5
Mar 11**
Peter Stang, Univ. Utah (host: Stockdill/Hashemi)
Title: “Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via
Coordination”
Roman Manetsch from the University of South Florida (host: Crich)
Title: “Mass Spectrometry-Guided Approaches for Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry”
David Virieux from Univ. Montpellier, France (host: Crich)
Title: “Organophosphorus compounds in medicinal chemistry building blocks and
active molecules”
Mar 12
No Seminar (Spring Break)
Mar 19
Graduate student short talk: Girish Chandra Sati
Title: "Multicomponent Anion Relay Chemistry"
Graduate student short talks: Alberto Lopez and Ahmed Negmeldin
Titles: “Rhodium catalyzed C-H amination” and “Recent Advances in 1,4-Diols
Synthesis”
Mar 26
Apr 2
Apr 4**
Apr 9
April 14
(Frontiers)*
Graduate student short talks: Amr Sonousi and Peng Wen
Titles: “Direct β-Arylation of Ketones” and “Visible Light-Promoted Metal-Free Benzylic
Mono- and Difluorination”
Alex Dieters, Univ. Pittsburgh (host: Kodanko)
Title: “Synthetic Chemical Tools for the Regulation of Cellular Processes”
Seminar canceled. No seminar
Larry Overman, UCI (host: Stockdill/Kodanko)
Title: “Rearranged Spongian Diterpenes: Linking Chiral Rings at Stereocenters”
April 16
Graduate student short talks: Harsha Amarasekara and Philip Adero
Title: “Stereoinversion of Tertiary Alcohols to Tertiary-Alkyl Isonitriles and Amines” and
“One-Pot Synthesis of 3-Azido and 3-Aminopiperidines by Intramolecular Cyclization
of Unsaturated Amines”
April 23
Graduate student short talks: Thilini Kondasinghe and Hasina Saraha
Titles: "Access to 1,4-Dicarbonyl Compounds through formal Diaza-Ene reaction"
and “Alder-Ene reaction and Aromatic Alder-Ene reaction”