Chemformation


The Weekly Newsletter of the MIT Chemistry Department

Volume 13, Number 5
Friday, January 31 1997

Next issue: February 7th. Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, February 4. 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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SEMINAR CALENDAR

Steven M. Reid
Schrock Group
"Rhenium (III) and Rhenium (V) Triamido-amine Complexes: Synthesis and Reactivity of Neutral and Cationic Species Including Unusual Phosphine Hydrides"
Wednesday, February 5, 1997
4:00 p.m. in 6-120
Refreshments @ 3:30 in Moore Room (6-321)
Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry

Professor Donna G. Blackmond
Max Planck Institüt für Kohlenforschung
"Kinetic Influences on Enantioselecitvity in Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenation"
Thursday, February 6, 1996
4:00 p.m. in 6-120
Seminar in Organic Chemistry

Procter and Gamble Symposium Celebrating Neurochemistry

Dennis A. Dougherty
California Institute of Technology
"High Precision Studies of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Using Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagenesis"

Roger Y. Tsien
University of California, San Diego
"Organic Chemical Approaches to Neuronal Signaling and Synaptic Plasticity"

Michael A. Marletta
University of Michigan
"Catalysis by Nitric Oxide Synthase"


Tuesday, February 11, 1997
1:00 p.m. in E51 Tang Center
Wong Auditorium

Andrew Miranker
University of Oxford
"Cooperativity and Early Events in Protein Folding"
Wednesday, February 12, 1997
4:00 p.m. in 2-105
Refreshments at 3:45 outside 6-120

Professor Joseph L. Templeton
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"b-site Reactivity Patterns of Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonds"
Wednesday, February 12, 1997
4:00 p.m. in 6-120
Harvard/MIT Inorganic Seminar series

Dont' forget Registration on Monday, 2/3 @ 9:00 a.m. -Norris Room

Graduate Research Symposium in Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry

Monday, February 3, 1997

2:00 PM, Room 6-120

Diego A. Hoic
Fu Lab
New Aspects of Borabenzene Chemistry

Melanie S. Bartow
Danheiser Lab
Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloadditions of Conjugated Ynones: A New Method for the Synthesis of Substituted Polycyclic Furans

Frederick A. Hicks
Buchwald Lab
Enantioselective Titanium-Catalyzed Cyclocarbonylation of Enynes to Cyclopentenones

* * * * * * * * Refreshments * * * * * * * *
Roman W. Fleck
Masamune Lab
Antibody Catalysis via Heterologous Immunization: Amide Hydrolysis with an External Nucleophile

Christine E. Garrett
Fu Lab
Transition-Metal Catalysts in Organic Synthesis

Xuedong Dai
Virgil Lab
Synthesis and Application of a Novel Phosphine Ligand

Corning Foundation Invites Graduate Students to Participate in Fellowship Program!

The Corning Foundation has invited the Department to participate in the Foundation's Science Fellowship Program. For the 1997-98 academic year, Corning is offering up to $25,000 in support of a pre-doctoral fellowship in chemistry.

Applications must include a one-page description of your research activities, academic record, a curriculum vitae, and a statement of support from your Ph.D. advisor, you must also be a U.S. citizen. The department Graduate Committee will review the applications and choose a candidate. Please submit all applications to Professor Dietmar Seyferth, Room 4-382A by February 15th, 1997.

Glass Blowing Services Available

Bob DiGiacomo will be coming in on Wednesdays or Thursdays to pick up any glass blowing work that you may have available. Please bring any work to room 6-031 or call Ed Udas or John Annese at 3-4505. Bob will do the work on a first-come basis.

Help Get Organized!

Call Ed Udas at 253-4505 or stop by room 6-026 if students, faculty or staff need help in organizing their MIT space.

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