Chemformation

The Weekly Newsletter of the MIT Chemistry Department

Volume 12, Number 4
Friday, January 26, 1996

Next Issue: Friday, February 2, 1996. Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, January 30. Please convey items of interest (or mailing list changes) to Linda Earle, Room 18-393, Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, 617/253-4080; 617/258-7500 (fax) or e-mail to lkn@mit.edu. Back issues of Chemformation can be accessed via the Chemistry Department Website.

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SEMINAR CALENDAR

Professor Jonathan Ellman: University of California at Berkeley; "Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Small Molecule Libraries"; Thursday, February 1, 1996; 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120; Refreshments @ 3:30 Norris Room
Dr. Donald M. Kurtz, Jr.: University of Georgia, Athens, GA; "Structure and Functions of Bacterial Non-heme Iron Proteins"; Wednesday, February 7, 1996; 5:00 p.m. MB-23 at Harvard; Harvard/MIT Inorganic Seminar Series; Refreshments @ 4:30 PM in MB-9
Francis De Rege: MIT; "The Synthesis, Structure and Uses of Zirconium Main Group Heterobimetallic Compounds"; Wednesday, February 14, 1996; 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120; Refreshments @ 3:30 Moore Room
Professor Gary A. Molander: University of Colorado at Boulder; "Organometallics as Tools in Selective Organic Synthesis"; Thursday, February 15, 1996; 4:00 p.m. Room 6-120; Refreshments @ 3:30 Norris Room

Spring Term Registration!!

Reminder to graduate students: registration is February 5th in the Norris Room beginning at 9:00 a.m. Professor Seyferth reminds all first year graduate students that they must have their research supervisor sign their registration form before he will approve it. Furthermore, all advanced graduate students who are registering for any subject other than thesis and seminar also must have their registration forms signed by their thesis supervisor before seeing Professor Seyferth.

Graduate Research Symposium in Organic And Bioorganic Chemistry

Tuesday, January 30, 1996, 2:30 PM, Room 66-110

Andy Peat: Buchwald Lab; Novel Syntheses of Tetrahydropyrroloquinolines: Applications to Alkaloid Synthesis
David Hays: Fu Lab; New Reactions of Tributyltin Hydride
Robert Grotzfeld: Rebek Lab; Self-Assembling Host Systems for Small Molecule Guests
Brenda Palucki: Danheiser Lab; Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles via Intramolecular Cycloadditions of Conjugated Enynes
Linda Szabo Shimizu: Kemp Lab; Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Templates for Peptide Synthesis
Dan Allen: Virgil Lab; Studies Toward the Synthesis of Lactiflorin and Paeoniflorin

Positions

IBIS, Wellesley, MA: Management Consulting firm specializes in advising clients on business development and technology strategy issues concerning materials and manufacturing. The firm works extensively in the automotive, aerospace, electronics and general materials and process industries. Education must be in engineering chemical or other.
ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation, Waltham, MA: A firm developing products to treat immune system disorders has openings several positions including: a quality control analyst, validation engineer and formulation development and drug delivery assistants.
Sigma, Chemical Company, St. Louis, MO; Opportunities exist for entry level scientists at the B.S. and M.S. level in 1996 for positions of Organic Synthetic Chemists in Production and for Analytical Chemists in Quality Control as well as Biochemists for protein purification.

Postdoctoral Positions

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA: Environmental Chemical Physics: Recreating complex interfaces: The EMSL laboratory provides basic research related to environmental cleanup and protection. Learn more from their internet web site http://www.pnl.gov.2080/. There is also another postdoctoral position in the scanning tunneling microscopy of oxide and metal interfaces. Looking for outstanding candidates to conduct studies in a UHV low temperature system. Program is aimed at understanding chemical processes at environmental interfaces.

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