UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Seminar Programme 2012
*Seminars will take place in the CSCB Seminar Room unless otherwise indicated
*Pre-seminar coffee and tea will be served 15 minutes before the seminar in the CSCB Foyer
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DATE AND TIME |
SPEAKER, INSTITUTE, TITLE
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Wed 9th Sept 2012, 4 pm |
Professor Sally Brooker, University of Otago, New Zealand Towards Multi-functional Spin Crossover Complexes |
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Wed 3rd Oct 2012, 4 pm |
Dr Ann Marie O’Donoghue, Durham University, England Mechanistic Studies of Nucleophilic Organocatalysis |
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Thurs 4th Oct 2012, 4 pm |
Professor Barbara Milani, University Trieste, Italy Towards sustainable cataysts for tailor-made polymer |
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Tues 9th Oct 2012, 4 pm |
Professor Paul Stevenson, Queen’s University, Belfast, NI. Synthesis of Amphibian Alkaloids |
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Fri 12th Oct 2012, 2 pm |
Professor Maria José Calhorda, University of Lisbon, Portugal Catalysts in oxidation and reduction reactions |
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Mon 15th Oct 2012, 3 pm |
Dr Adrian Dobbs, Queen Mary, University of London. England Recent Applications of Lewis acids and Organosilicon Chemistry |
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Mon 15th Oct 2012, 4 pm |
Professor Stefan Bernhard, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Solar fuels: Thermodynamics, tactics, and recent results |
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Thurs 1st Nov 2012, 4 pm |
Professor Richard Saykally, University of California, Berkeley, USA (RSC Faraday Medallist) On the Mechanism for Selective Adsorption of Ions to the Water Surface and its Effects on Evaporation Rates |
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Fri 2nd Nov 2012, 2 pm |
Professor Enzo Alessio, University of Trieste, Italy What I learned from 25 years of 'promising' ruthenium anticancer compounds |
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Wed 7th Nov 2012, 4 pm |
Dr John Holbrey, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Shining the light on biomass dissolution in ionic liquids - insights into solution structure from liquid phase neutron diffraction |
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Thurs 8th Nov2012, 2-6 pm |
Royal Society of Chemistry All-Ireland Meeting North-South Lectures Professor Donal O'Shea, UCD. Professor Karl Hale, QUB. C006 Health Sciences |
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Friday 9th Nov 2012, 4 pm |
Professor Ian Fairlamb, University of York, England Unravelling the mechanistic complexity in Pd-catalysed cross-couplings |
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Wed 14th Nov 2012, 4 pm |
Professor Mike North, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England Sustainable Catalysis |
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Wed 21st Nov 2012, 4 pm |
Dr Alan O'Riordan, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland Title TBA |
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Fri 30th Nov 2012, 2 pm |
Professor Ian Manners, University of Bristol, England Catalytic and Self-Assembly Routes to Soft Materials Based on Main Group Elements or Metals |
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Fri 7th Dec 2012, 2 pm |
Dr Elaine O'Reilly, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, England Expanding the Toolbox of Biocatalysts through Enzyme Engineering |