Chemformation

The Weekly Newsletter of the MIT Chemistry Department

Volume 13, Number 1
Friday, January 3, 1997

Next issue: January 10, 1997. Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, January 7th. 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 email to lkn@mit.edu Back issues of Chemformation can be accessed via the Chemistry Department Website.

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Special Issue!!
Two Important Announcements !

The 2nd Annual MIT/Siemens Symposium on Crystallographic Chemical Analysis will be held on Tuesday, January 7th, 1997!!

Please plan to join us for the second MIT/Siemens Symposium on Crystallographic Chemical Analysis on Tuesday. The program will be held in Building #66 Room 110, and the poster session and reception in the Norris Room (18-490) and features the Chemistry Department's own Professor Richard Schrock as well as experts from Siemens. There will be ample time for questions and answers.

A complete schedule is on the back page, Registering in advance to Dr. William Davis at 253-1884, e-mail root@cheirix3.lms.mit.edu or to Linda Earle at 3-4080, e-mail lkn@mit.edu assures you of a complimentary ticket to the reception at the completion of the program. See you on the 7th!

Chemical Hygiene Lecture

Wednesday, January 8, 1997 in Room 4-163, 1:00 P.M.

The annual Chemical Hygiene Lecture will be presented on Wednesday, January 8. Attendance is mandatory for all first-year graduate students (with the exception of those students whose research will not involve any laboratory work). Reminder: no one is permitted to conduct laboratory work until they have attended the lecture and submitted a complete Chemical Hygiene Clearance Form (signed by you and your advisor) to Marc B. Jones in Chemistry Headquarters.

The Second Annual MIT/Siemens Symposium on Crystallographic Chemical Analysis
Tuesday, January 7, 1997

Meeting located at MIT, Building 66, Room 110 except where noted

8:30 a.m.

Coffee and Continental Breakfast

8:55 a.m.

Welcome: Professor Stephen J. Lippard

9:00 - 9:45 a.m.

Opening Remarks: Technical Session

Dr. Charles Campana - Siemens

9:45 - 10:30 a.m.

Dr. Robert Sparks, Siemens:

"XSHELL: Introduction of X-Ray Crystallography into Undergraduate Laboratories"

10:30 -12:00 p.m.

Poster Session in the Norris Room (18-490)

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch on your own

1:30 - 2:15 p.m.

Larry Dahl, University of Wisconsin at Madison:

"New Frontiers in High-Nuclearity Transition Metal Cluster Chemistry: Problems and Solutions"

2:30 - 3:15 p.m.

Professor David Evans, Harvard University:

"Enantioselective C-C Bond-Forming processes with Chiral Metal Complexes"

3:30 - 4:15 p.m.

Professor Richard R. Schrock, Department of Chemistry at MIT:

"New Multiamido Ligands for Early Transition Metal Chemistry"

5:00 p.m.

Reception/buffet dinner in the Norris Room 18-490

Register in advance to Dr. William Davis at (617) 253-1884 or e-mail root@cheirix3.lms.mit.edu or call Linda Earle at (617) 253-4080 e-mail lkn@mit.edu Those registering in advance receive a free ticket to the reception which may be picked up at the morning or afternoon session.

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