BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ZContent.net//ZapCalLib 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Closo-Boranes: Unique Structural Elements For Functional Materials LOCATION:Chemistry A101 TZID:America/Denver DTSTART:20241011T160000 UID:2026-04-22-07-10-18@natsci.colostate.edu DTSTAMP:20260422T071018 Description:About the Seminar:\n\nCloso-Boranes are inorganic 3-D sigma aro matic compounds with steric and electronic properties attractive for desig ning multifunctional materials. Earlier work demonstrated that 10- and 12- vertex p-carboranes are suitable building blocks for liquid crystals. Anio nic closo-carbaborates have been used to design highly polar materials for LCD applications and ionic self-organizing electrolytes for battery appli cations. The high-lying HOMO of the decaborate dianion [closo-B10H10]2- ha s been exploited in the design of materials exhibiting photo-induced intra - and inter-molecular charge transfer processes. The synthesis of these ne w materials has required the development of new functionalization methods. For example\, phenyliodination activates B-H bonds towards highly regiose lective nucleophilic substitution.\n\n \;\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nPio tr Kaszynski is a Professor of Chemistry at the Centre of Molecular and Ma cromolecular Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Łód ź in Poland. He received his M.Sc. degree from Warsaw Polytechnic in Pola nd in 1985\, Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry in 1991 (University of Texa s at Austin)\, and habilitation in 2007 (University of Łódź). He spent two years at Caltech as a postdoctoral fellow working in the area of organ ic magnetic materials\, before joining Vanderbilt University in Nashville\ , TN\, USA in 1993. In 2015 he moved the bulk of his research program to P olish Academy of Sciences\, while maintaining ties with Middle Tennessee S tate University in USA. His research involves boron clusters and stable ra dicals and is focused on the design\, synthesis and characterization of or ganic materials for electrooptical\, molecular electronics\, photovoltaic and spintronic applications and for studying of molecular magnetism in sol id-state and liquid crystalline media. He has published over 200 original papers\, and several book chapters and reviews. 4:00 pm END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR