Chemformation


The Weekly Newsletter of the MIT Chemistry Department

Volume 15, Number 3

Friday, January 22, 1999


Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. Please convey items of interest (or mailing list changes) to Linda Earle, Room 18-390, 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

 
Tuesday, January 26,1999
Wednesday, January 27, 1999
4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120
The Karl Pfister Lecture Series
in Organic Chemistry
Reception in Norris Room on Tuesday
Refreshments @ 3:30 on Wednesday
Professor Maurice Brookhart
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Pd(II) and Ni(II) Catalyzed Olefin Polymerizations
and Copolymerizations: Mechanistic and Synthetic Studies"
And
"New Fe(II) and Co(II) Catalysts for Olefin
Polymerizations and Oligomerizations"
Wednesday, February 3, 1999
4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120
Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry
Refreshments @ 3:45 p.m.
Katherine Franz
Lippard Group
"The Disporportionation of Nitric Oxide by
MnII and FeII Tropocoronand Complexes"
Thursday, February 4, 1999
4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120
Seminar in Biological Chemistry
Refreshments @ 3:45 p.m.
Dr. Michael Gilson
National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Direct Calculation of Free Energies:
Method and Application"
Wednesday, February 10, 1999
4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120
Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry
Refreshments @ 3:45 p.m.
Professor Malcolm H. Chisholm
Indiana University
"The Chop-Chop Reaction (a la Schrock
and Cummins): Further Studies Aimed at Elucidating Mechanisms"
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120
Harvard/MIT Inorganic
Seminars @ MIT
Professor Karen I. Goldberg
University of Washington
"Reductive Elimination and Oxidative Addition
Reactions Involving C-C, C-H and C0X Bonds at Pt (IV)/Pt(II)"


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.


Glass Blowing Services

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, first-served basis


Faculty Positions

Please note, unless otherwise specified, most faculty positions require a resume, short description of research plans and to arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent directly to the specific university or college

University of Northern Colorado, Searching for candidates for tenure-track position in the fall of 1999. Preferance will be given to those with expertise in a chemistry subdiscipline (analytical or inorganic) and in chemistry education. Please contact Dr. Marcus Meilahn, Chair, Search Committee, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639. 970-351-1281 and email at  mkmeila@bentley.unco.edu

 University of Montanta: Missoula, MT: Seeking candidates for bioinorganic chemistry for August of 1999. Please review their website at: http://www.umt.edu/chemistry for more information.

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