Organic Seminars

1200 CDUP Monday at 2:00 p.m. [unless otherwise noted]. More speakers to be announced soon!
DATE
                                                          PRESENTER/TOPIC
 
August 25Deshkanwar Brar (Tunge Group, pre-Dissertation Talk)
"Transformations Facilitated via Intermolecular Halogen Transposition using gem-Bromonitroalkanes"
September 1No Seminar - Labor Day (Campus Closed)
September 8Anna Marstall (Hanson Group)
Literature Problem Set: The Total Synthesis of (–)-Scabrolide A
September 15TBA
September 22Prof. Helena Malinakova — Bond Disconnection
September 29Alexis Redwine and Team Teator  
Problem Set: Utility of the Oxy-Favorskii Rearrangement in Total Synthesis”
October 6Mauricio Garcia/ Prof. Zarko Boskovic (Medicinal Chemistry)
Literature Problem Set: Psathyrin synthesis: Total Synthesis of (−)-Psathyrin A Enabled by Radical Cyclization.  Weizhao Zhao, Reem Al-Ahmad, and Mingji Dai* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, ASAP.
October 13No Seminar - Fall Break                
October 20Kezia Jacobs (Teator Group, short talk)
 
October 27Keith Huang (Teator Group, short talk)
 
November 3Dinesha Madhuwanthi (Teator Group, short talk)
 
November 10Prof. Zarko Boskovic (Medicinal Chemistry)
 Photochemical Synthesis of Complex Organic Molecules
            Discussion: Backwards thinking - The difficulties with retrosynthesis of organic molecules
November 17 
November 24Prof. Kendrick Smith (Chemistry)  —  Enzyme Mechanisms 
December 1Peace Adelowokan (Teator Group, short talk)