The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Inorganic Seminar Abstracts 2010-2011
Fall 2010
Literature Seminars
"Copper Coordination Compounds as Highly Emissive Dopants in Organic LEDs" - Noel Chang
"Copper-Ethylene Interactions in Biology: Synthesis and Signaling" - James Lansing
"Photoelectrochemical Synthesis: Beyond Gratzel Cells" - Tom Mahle
"Single Molecule Magnets" - Justin Mallek
"Selective C-H Bond Activation of Substituted and Unsubstituted Linear Alkanes by a Rhodium Trispyrazolylborate Complex" - Brian Manor
Final Defenses
"Hydrogen Production from Model Complexes of the [FeFe]- and [NiFe]-Hydrogenase Active Sites"
Bryan Barton
"Studies of Robust, Hydrogren-Based Polyanion Aggregates"
James Goloboy
"[FeFe]-Hydrogenase Synthetic Models: Case Studies Incorporating Nitrosyl Ligands and Pendant Bases"
Matthew Olsen
"Oxidative Addition of Thioesters to Fe(0): Models for Hmd Hydrogenase"
Aaron Royer
"Smart MRI Contrast Agents and Label-free Fluorescent Sensors Based on Functional Nucleic Acids"
Weichen Xu
