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Seminar

2013

2013.12.16

Speaker: Prof. Suzanne A. Blum
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, USA
Title: "Microscopy for Synthetic Chemists and Dual-Metal Catalysis with Gold"

2013.12.09

Speaker: Prof. Itaru Hamachi
Affiliation: Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University
Title: "天然タンパク質を標的とした生細胞有機化学の展開"

2013.11.27

Speaker: Prof. Toshihiko Yokoyama
Affiliation: Institute for Molecular Science
Title: "Novel Spectroscopic Methodology for Materials Science"

2013.11.11

Speaker: Prof. Sung Ho Kang
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
Title: "Total Synthesis of Arenaric Acid"

2013.10.28

Speaker: Asst. Prof. Dr. Pornpan Pungpo
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Ubonratchathani University Ubonratchathani, Thailand
Title: "Computer aided drug design of anti-tubercular agents and anti-cancer agents"

2013.10.24

Speaker: Prof. Bruce C. Gates
Affiliation: University of California, Davis
Title: "Molecular Catalysts on Surfaces: Synthesis, Characterization, and Design"

2013.10.22

Speaker: Prof. Yen-Ju Cheng
Affiliation: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Title: "Molecular engineering of new organic materials for solar cell applications"

2013.10.22

Speaker: Prof. Jiun-Tai Chen
Affiliation: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Title: "Wetting and Instability Studies of Polymer Nanomaterials in Porous Anodic Aluminum Oxide Templates"

2013.10.21

Speaker: Prof. Mark J. MacLachlan
Affiliation: University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: "Supramolecular Origami: Transforming Paper into Twisted Structures"

2013.10.16

Speaker: Prof. Martin Albrecht
Affiliation: School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, University College Dublin, Ireland
Title: "Variation on a theme: less classical N-heterocyclic carbenes and their (catalytic) impact"

2013.10.15

Speaker: Dr. Alex Domingo
Affiliation: University of Strasbourg
Title: "Approaching multifunctionallity through computational simulations of magnetic and photo-sensiblemolecular materials"

2013.10.08

Speaker: Prof. E. Peter Kündig
Affiliation: Professor, University of Geneva
Title: "New chiral NHC ligands for the catalytic asymmetric arylation of amides and the enantioselective C(sp3)- H activation"

2013.10.02

Speaker: Dr. Matthew A. Addicoat
Affiliation: School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Title: "A computational toolkit for mass-screening metal-organic frameworks"

2013.10.02

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wünsch
Affiliation: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Title: "Synthesis and Pharmacological Evaluation of Novel Sigma Receptor Ligands"

2013.9.30

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hilt
Affiliation: Fachbereich Chemie Philipps-Universität Marburg Germany
Title: "Modern Aspects in Cobalt-Catalysed Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation Reactions"

2013.09.25

Speaker: Dr. Eric Francotte
Affiliation: Executive Director, NOVARTIS
Title: "Enantioselective Chromatography: An Essential Tool for Chiral Drug Discovery and Development"

2013.09.24

Speaker: Dr. Vadim A. Soloshonok
Affiliation: Ikerbasque Research Professor, University of Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
Title: "Self-Disproportionation of Enantiomers: Theory and Practical Applications for Unconventional Preparation of Enantiomerically Pure Compounds"

2013.09.11

Speaker: Dr. Jamal Musaev
Affiliation: Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
Title: "Knowledge-based Catalyst Design: Transition Metal Catalyzed Water Oxidation and Stereoselective C-H Bond Functionalization"

2013.09.09

Speaker: Prof. Eckart Rühl
Affiliation: Physikalische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Title: "Photoexcitation, Photoionization, and Relaxation of Clusters and Nanoparticles"

2013.09.04

Speaker: Dr. Andrew E. H. Wheatley
Affiliation: University Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, The University of Cambridge
Title: "New ideas in directed metallation – Teaching old dogs new tricks"

2013.09.03

Speaker: Dr. Jan M. Knaup
Affiliation: Bremen Center of Computational Materials Science (BCCMS) Universität Bremen, Germany
Title: "Advanced Modeling of Functional Nanoionics in Oxides"

2013.08.29

Speaker: Prof. Josep M. Poblet
Affiliation: Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Tarragona, Spain
Title: "Electronic Structure of Polyoxometalates: From the Nucleation of Small Polyoxotungstates to the Properties of Large Anions"

2013.08.02

Speaker: Dr. Gong Chen
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Title: "New Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization Strategies for Organic Synthesis"

2013.07.31

Speaker: Dr. Pierre H. Dixneuf
Affiliation: University of Rennes 1
Title: "Cross-coupling reactions from C-H bonds with Ruthenium(II)-carboxylate catalysts"

2013.07.31

Speaker: Prof. Christophe Coperet
Affiliation: ETH Zurich
Title: "Controlled Functionalization of Surface Towards Single-site Catalysts"

2013.07.24

Speaker: Dr. Alister J. Page
Affiliation: Discipline of Chemistry, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan
Title: "Simulating Ionic Liquid Nanostructure with Quantum Chemistry"

2013.07.19

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Yasutaka Kitagawa
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
Title: "Application of a spin-projected broken-symmetry (BS) DFT to polynuclear metal complexes ~ Electronic structure, molecular structure and physical properties ~"

2013.07.04

Speaker: Prof. Stephen F. Lincoln
Affiliation: University of Adelaide, Australia
Title: "Cyclodextrin Supramolecular Chemistry"

2013.07.03

Speaker: Prof. Alexander S. Fedorov
Affiliation: L. Kirensky Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Science & Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Title: "Kinetic stability vs thermodynamics of nanostructures - investigation of relative stability of fullerenes and SWCNTs"

2013.06.19

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Robert K. Szilagyi
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Montana State University Bozeman, MT USA
Title: "Spectroscopic Calibration of Electronic Structure Theory: Basis Sets, Exchange and Correlation Functionals, Ground and Excited States"

2013.06.14

Speaker: Dr. Toshio Miyamachi
Affiliation: Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo
Title: "A spin crossover-based multifunctional molecular memory"

2013.06.06

Speaker: Dr. Jiahao Chen
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Title: "Disorder and excitonic structure in organic semiconductors"

2013.06.05

Speaker: Prof. Guosheng Liu
Affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China
Title: "Transition Metal-Catalyzed Direct Fluorination of Organic Compounds"

2013.05.29

Speaker: Prof. Frédéric Labat (CNRS, Paris),
Prof. Diane Bousquet (CNRS, Paris),
Dr. Ilaria Ciofini (CNRS, Paris),
Dr. Tim Kowalzcyk (Nagoya University),
Assistant Prof. Daisuke Yokogawa (Nagoya University)
Title: "Mini Workshop - Theory of Electronic Excitaions in Large Molecules"

2103.05.28

Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Weigand
Affiliation: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Title: "From Prebiotic to Bio-Inspired Hydrogen Production"

2013.05.13

Speaker: Prof. Olivier Baudoin
Affiliation: University of Lyon 1 and CPE Lyon
Title: "Palladium(0)-catalyzed intramolecular C(sp³)-H bond functionalization"

2013.04.24

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marek Wojcik
Affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Spectroscopy, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Title: "Spectroscopy of hydrogen bond - theoretical modeling of spectra and proton tunneling"

2013.04.22

Speaker: Prof. Matthew J. Gaunt
Affiliation: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Title: "Novel chemical reactivity using high oxidation state transition metal catalysis"

2013.04.09

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marcus Elstner
Affiliation: Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Title: "Multi-Scale Methods for the Investigation of Biological Structures and Processes"

2013.03.20

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Henryk A. Witek
Affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Title: "Mathematical Chemistry: From ZZ Polynomials to the Electron Correlation Problem"

2013.03.08

Speaker: Dr. Vladimír Sychrovský
Affiliation: Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Title: "Metal-mediated Nucleic Acids Base Pairs: Characterization with Theoretical Methods"

2013.02.26

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Predrag S. Krstić
Affiliation: Joint Institute for Computational Sciences & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
Title: "DNA Control and Sequencing with Nanopore"

2013.02.22

Speaker: Prof. Tadashi Sugawara
Affiliation: Nagoya University Research Center for Materials Science / Kanagawa University
Title: "分子システムとしてみた人工細胞"

2013.02.08

Speaker: Prof. Yuko Okamoto
Affiliation: Nagoya University
Title: "Towards Drug Design by Generalized-Ensemble Simulations"

2013.02.08

Speaker: Prof. Takayoshi Suzuki
Affiliation: Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Title: "Small-Molecule Modulators of Disease-Related Epigenetic Mechanisms"

2013.01.17

Speaker: Dr. Nawee Kungwan
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Title: "The effect of Hydrogen Bonding on the Excited-State Proton Transfer in 7-azaindol-(H₂O)_3-5 Cluster: Theoretical Study"

2013.01.17

Speaker: Dr. Emmanuel Lacôte
Affiliation: University of Lyon, France
Title: "NHC-Borane complexes: from stabilized reactive intermediates to polymer synthesis"