About the Seminar:  Are you curious about what it is like to have a career at a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI)? Are you curious about the balance of teaching and research PUs? Do you wonder what a week in the life of a faculty member at a PUI is like? Do you want to know […]

Abstract: As an emerging motif since the late 90s, borylenes have been a central, yet elusive, point of interest. Free borylenes have been spectroscopically characterized since the 1970s, however, have only recently been isolated as mono and bis(Lewis base)stabilized borylenes. These species possess a +1 oxidation state and differ from classical boron derivatives wherein the […]

Abstract: Compounds containing sulfinamide and sulfinamidine (i.e. sulfinamid(in)e) motifs are burgeoning within drug discovery due to their unique biological properties. These motifs are also useful synthons toward accessing valuable sulfur(VI) derivatives such as sulfonamides, sulfonimidamides, and sulfondiimidamides. The most practiced routes to sulfinamid(in)es engage sulfinylamine and sulfurdiimide reagents with prefunctionalized starting materials such as organometallic […]

Six-membered aromatic rings are ubiquitous in natural products, drugs, and agrochemicals. Classical approaches to functionalize arenes involve electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) and nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) reactions to install a single substituent directly on the carbon framework. However, pre-installed functional groups and electron-withdrawing substituents are required for successful functionalization with nucleophiles. In addition, EAS reactions […]

About the Seminar: The energy band structure (dispersion relation between energy and wavenumber) is fundamental information essential for elucidating the charge transport properties of semiconductors. We have developed a new technique, angle-resolved low-energy inverse photoelectron spectroscopy [1], and succeeded in measuring the conduction band structure of organic semiconductors for the first time [2]. Based on […]

About the Seminar: The difluoromethyl functional group (–CF2H) is important in various pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. This is due to its many advantages, such as behaving as a bioisostere of alcohols, amines, and thiols and lipophilic hydrogen donors through hydrogen bonding. The most common method to add difluoromethyl groups onto an arene is by transition metal […]

About the Seminar: With the ever-growing global plastics crisis causing consistent damage to environmental and human health, creating new and better biodegradable plastics is of the utmost importance. Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (P3HB), a biologically produced aliphatic polyester with an absolute stereoconfiguration of (R), is a great biodegradable candidate to replace commodity plastics having high strength and thermal […]

About the Seminar:  Alkenes are ubiquitous building blocks in synthetic chemistry that are leveraged in difunctionalization strategies to append multiple groups in one step. However, methods to achieve this typically require specialized reagents, directing groups, and/or transition-metal catalysts for reactivity and reliable selectivity. Recent work has shown 1,3-alkene difunctionalization via charge relocation. Key to this […]

Schedule: 3-3:20 #1 Drew Walters Redox Analysis of Vanadium(V) Schiff Base Catecholates   3:20-3:40 #2 Anna Galaeva Synthesis and Characterization of  [VO(dtbHSHED)catecholate]-complexes as a potential anticancer agent   3:40-4:00 #3 Allen Atkinson Exploration of Nickel Foam Based Lithium-Ion batteries   Break 4:00-4:15   4:15-4:35 #4 Ellie Nelson Synthesis and Characterization for Highly Active Schiff-Base Catecholate […]