Fall 1999
Literature Seminars
Structure and Function of Metallocalix[4]arenes: Past, Present and Future
Amanda Lawrence
Progress Towards More Effective Gold-Based Pharmaceuticals
Kelli M. Harl
Copper Chaperones: A Bioinorganic Approach to Understanding Copper Trafficking
Peter J. Bruesehoff
Colossal Magnetoresistance in Manganite Perovskites
Gregory R. Potratz
The Relationship Between Structure and Thermoelectric Properties Of Skutterudites
Glenn Westwood
Inorganic Chemistry on Jupiter and Its Satellites
Craig M. Teague
Metallasilsesquioxanes as Models For Heterogeneous Catalysts
James Oxley
Iron VI
Mary Anne Armstrong
Catalysts for Alcohol Oxidation Inspired by Galactose Oxidase
Joshua D. Lawrence
Lanthanocene Complexes as Unique and Selective Catalysts
Christopher M. Lutz
Nitric Oxide: A Biological Messenger
Caroline M. Pavot
Structure and Reaction Mechanism of Ribonucleotide Reductase
Jiangyun Wang
N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands as Alternatives To Phosphine Ligands In Homogeneous Catalysis
Thomas J. Malosh
Structure and Reactivity of Silica-Bound Transition Metal Akylidenes and Hydrides
Paul W. Dickinson
Spring 2000
Literature Seminars
Multi-Bubble Sonoluminescence: How a Bubble Converts Sound into Light and Creates Spots as Hot as the Sun
William B. McNamara III
Precursors to Ultrathin Films of ZrO2 Design on a Molecular Level
Margaret Mary Pafford
Metalloprotein Design
Jeffrey A. Sigman
In Vitro Selection of Highly Efficient DNA Enzymes as RNA Nucleases and Metal Biosensors
Jing Li
Peptide Complexes of Metalloporphyrins
Michael M. Rosenblatt
Disulfide Cross-linking in Protein Microspheres
Gregory W. Szewczyk
Binuclear Transistion Metal Derivatives of 1,2-Bis(indenyl)ethane
Ramin Khayatpoor
Chemistry of Carbon Sulfides
Jonathan Breitzer
Synthesis and Reactivity of Polysulfido Metal Complexes
Robert J. Pafford IV
An Organometallic Approach to Iron Triazacyclononane Coordination Complexes
Andrew C. Moreland
New Chemistry of Transition Metal Alkyls and Hydrides: Bonding and Reactivity
Jesse M. Jefferis
Receptor-Targeted Imaging Agents that Utilize Cyclopentadienyl Tricarbonyl Rhenium and Technetium Complexes
Richard R. Cesati III
Production and Surface Modification of Protein Microspheres
Gregory S. Kufner
Soft Lithographic Patterning on Silicon
Krista Renee Finnie
The Protein Redesign Approach to Modeling of Manganese Peroxidase
Alan Gengenbach