Fall 2005
Literature Seminars
"Recent Advances in Transition Metal Sensitizers for Lanthanide NIR Emission"
--Brian Bellott
"Pyrazolylborate Models of Zinc Enzymes"
--Andrew C. Dunbar
"N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbines: New and Versatile Ligands in Organometallic Chemistry"
--Brad Gorecki
"Renaissance of Imino Phosphorane and Phosphorimidate Chemistry"
--Zachariah Heiden
"Biotemplates for Nanoparticle Synthesis"
--Weichen Xu
Final Defenses
"Trispyrazolylborate and Tetramethylcyclopentadienyl Complexes of Osmium"
--Paul W. Dickinson
"Modulation of the Coordination Environment and Redox Properties of Engineered CuA and Ferrocene Centers in Azurin"
--Hee Jung Hwang
Spring 2006
Literature Seminars
"Recent Developments in the Synthesis of Cd Chalcogenide Nanoparticles"
--Clinton King
Final Defenses
"Diferrous Structural and Functional Models of the Iron-only Hydrogenases"
--Christine A. Boyke
"Exploring the Limits of Cavitation"
--Stephen Day Hopkins
"Preparation, Properties, and Catalytic Activity of Fluorous Phosphine Substituted Transition Metal Carbonyl Complexes"
--Thomas J. Malosh
"Colorimetric Sensor Array: Do I See What You Smell?"
--Jennifer B. Ponder