Seminars
 
 
New and Upcoming Seminars
Course Type Information
28 Aug 08 Chiral Dienes. New Ligands for Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions
Past Seminars
Course Information Information
13 Aug 08 Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide in Catalysis
28 July 08 Part 4: (a) Synthesis and Catalysis of Pincer DinitroneComplexes of Palladium and Nickel(b) Unpresedentedeta-3 Binding Mode of Aryloxidesin Ruthenium, Iridium, and Rhodium Complexes
24 July 08 Part 3: Rhodium Complexes in Carbon-Halide Activation and C-C Reductive Elimination
23 July 08 Organic Synthesis and Methodology Inspired by Natural Products: Fragmentation Reactions
21 July 08 Part 2: (a) Synthesis, Structure, and Solution Dynamics of Palladium and Rhodium Complexes of QuinolineFunctionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbenes(b) Rhodium-Catalyzed Rare Head-to-Tail AlkyneDimerizationand Subsequent Gold-Catalyzed Hydroamination
16 July 08 Part 1: Iridium and Rhodium Complexes of Underexplored N-Heterocyclic Carbenesvia C-H Activation: Synthesis, Mechanism, Dynamics, and Catalysis
08 May 08 The Applications of Furans in Organic Synthesis
18 Apr 08 Assigning the Stereochemistry of Natural Products: Pitfalls and Progress
15 Apr 08 Heteroatom Bridged Calixaromatics,Our Adventures in Supramolecular Chemistry
27 Mar 08 Stereoselective Cycloadditions of Chiral Allenamides
26 Mar 08 New Strategies and New Struggles In Natural Product Syntheses
19 Mar 08 Can Kava or its Components be Developed as a Chemopreventive Agent?
07 Mar 08 Part I: Reactive Intermediates from DMDO-Oxidation of Ynamides.
Trapping of a Novel ChiralPush-Pull Carbene via Cyclopropanation
Part II: Structure Determination and Total Synthesis of Rasfonin
05 Mar 08 Metal Oxide 1-D Nanostructures for Solar Energy Conversion
20 Feb 08 Flatland Metalation. Aiming for New Synthetic Methodologies for Aromatics and Heteroaromatics
19 Feb 08 Synthetic Approaches to Glycoprotein Functions
18 Feb 08 Development of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Chiral Catalysts for Practical Enantioselective Reactions
18 Feb 08 Radicals, Selenium, Drugs and Vampires
12 Feb 08 Phospholes: A Versatile Synthetic Platform In Organophosphorus Chemistry
14 Dec 07 Part I: Total Synthesis of the Alstonia Bisindole Alkaloids Macralstonidine and Macralstonine
Part II: Highly Enantioselective α-Arylation with Aryl Triflates to Generate All-Carbon Quaternary Chiral Centers
06 Dec 07 Improvement of Olefin Metathesis Efficiency through Understanding Catalyst Stability
04 Dec 07 NaFeEDTA as a Food Fortificant: From Mechanism to Application
06 Nov 07 Transition metal alkynly complexes as luminescent materials
02 Nov 07 Characterization of Starch and Dietary Fibre in Cereal Grains
30 Oct 07 Structure-Function of Novel Anti-HIV and Anti-Obesity Agents
16 Oct 07 Funny Games With Light At Interfaces
05 Oct 07 Heteroleptic Silylene and Germanium Analogue of Vinylidene
26 Sep 07 Hydrogen-Bonding Catalysis with Cinchona Alkaloids
21 Sep 07 Computer Simulations and Drug Discovery
17 Aug 07 Strong C–H and C–C Bond Cleavage Reactions using Homogeneous Transition Metal Complexes
16 Aug 07 Tin-free radical carbon-carbon bond forming reactions
02 Aug 07 Cyclisation Based on a-Sulfinyl Carbanions as General Strategies to Highly Functionalised Cyclopentenones and 1-Azabicyclo[m.n.0]alkanes 
20 Jul 07 Design of OrganocatalystBased on Molecular Recognition Approach through Hydrogen Bonding as Strategic Interaction
12 Jul 07 Novel Reactions Mediated by Copper Hydride
11 Jul 07 Palladium-catalyzed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Forming Processes: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies
06 Jul 07 ChemistryUsing DNA as an Engineering Material: DNA Nanobarcodes, DNA Gels, and DNA Nanoparticles
05 Jul 07 Glycomimetics and their potential as drugs
03 Jul 07 Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and its Applications in Catalysis and Enzymology
15 Jun 07 (a) Cross-coupling reactions using unactivatedalkyl halides
(b) N-H bond activation of amines by pincer iridium complexes and asymmetric hydroaminationreactions
08 May 07 Ultrafast Protein Dynamics in Aqueous and Confined Environments
04 May 07 Strategic Planning for Total Synthesis of Natural Product 
30 Apr 07 Acetylene Cobalt Chemistry developed for Ciguatoxinsynthesis
24 Apr 07 Metal-Metal Bonding Formation Supported by 1,2-Dichalcogenolato Carboranes
11 Apr 07 Advances in Metal Catalysis: From Natural to Non-Natural Targets
28 Mar 07 Densely Functionalised Pyroglutamates as as a novel Bioactive Scaffold
01 Mar 07 DiphosphineIsomerizationand Bond-Activation Sequences in the TriosmiumCluster Os3(CO)10(bpcd)
14 Feb 07 Development of New Methods in TetrahydropyranRing Synthesis: Application to EnantioselectiveSynthesis of Natural Products
01 Feb 07 Applications of Olefin Metathesis Catalysts: Fundamental Research to Commercial Products - Chair by Professor Loh Teck Peng
20 Dec 06 Asymmetric Organocatalytic Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions By Hydrogen-Bonding Activation
18 Dec 06 Recent Development in Free Radical Acylation
15 Dec 06 Miniaturized Chemistry and Biology Laboratory in a Microfluidic Chip
22 Nov 06 Aliphatic Polyketones from Palladium-Catalyzed Perfectly Alternating Copolymerization of Olefins and Carbon
13 Nov 06 Biomimetic Synthesis of Several Natural Products
10 Nov 06 Colourful Chemical Genetics
7 Nov 06 Development of New C–N and C–C Bond Forming Reactions
9 Oct 06 Fluorous Organotin Chemistry
26 Sep 06  Rhodium-Catalyzed Reactions of Acyl- and Vinylsilane Derivatives
18 Sep 06  Strategy and Focus to Achieve Targeted Deliverables: How Green Chemistry Considerations Can Be Applied To The Design, Creation and Use of New Molecules, Processes and Monitoring Technologies.
24 Aug 06 Large-Scale Atomistic Studies of Failure and Fracture: Mechanics of Chemically Complex Materials
18 Jul 06 Palladium in Organic Synthesis: Annulation, Migration, C-H Functionalizationand Total Synthesis of Telomestatin
16 Jun 06 Nanostructured Materials Enabled by Electrospinning
30 May 06 Intramolecular Cyclisation of Boc-Enamide Derivative using Radical and Acid Methodologies
16 May 06 A Study of Structural and Functional Models for the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II
4 May 06 Electron Transfer Processes in Single Molecules Based on PeryleneMonoimide
2 May 06 Synthetic Studies toward Ciguatoxinvia Acetylene BiscobaltComplexes Strategy
19 Apr 06 Three-Hindered Quadrant Phosphines as Ligands in Rh-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation: Mechanistic Revelations
18 Apr 06 Beta-strand mimic protease inhinitors for Cataract treatment
12 Apr 06 The Electrochemistry of Vitamin E
16 Mar 06  NanocompositeDendrimersfor Application in Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs):Research Activities in the Sellinger Group
14 Mar 06 Organo and ligandbridged dicobaloximes: Our recent findings 
25 Jan 06 The Application of Metal-AllylChemistry in Organic Synthesis
18 Jan 06 Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions between Iridium Hydrides and Alkynes
30 Nov 05 Chiral diamines in asymmetric reactions & Dissecting the mechanism of action of acridine-based compounds in models of prion replication
23 Nov 05 Atropisomers and their asymmetric synthesis: expanding the role of conformational control
17 Nov 05 Transition Metal Catalyzed C-H Bond Functionalization
10 Nov 05 Sfp Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase Catalyzed Chemical Biology – From Protein Labeling to Gene Profiling
02 Nov 05 Supramolecular Chemistry of Linear pi-Conjugated Systems
24 Oct 05 EDB Career Talk
23 Sep 05 Rational and combinatorial approaches to synthetic receptors for amino acids and peptides
20 Sep 05  N-Salicyl β-Amino Alcohols as a Potential Privileged Ligand for Catalytic symmetric Synthesis
14 Sep 05 Combinatorial Methods to Explore Protein Aggregation and Cell Adhesion: Alzheimer's Disease and Human Embryonic Stem Cells
08 Sep 05 CANCELLED (Due to unforseen circumstances) Part 3 - Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Bioactive Natural Products and Designed Molecules
06 Sep 05 Part 2 - Development of New Asymmetric Methods for the Synthesis of Chiral Pharmaceuticals
25 Aug 05 Asymmetric Synthesis of Functionalized P-Chiral Phosphines & Development of Gold Anti-Cancer Drugs
18 Aug 05 Part 1 - Green Chemistry: In Search of "Ideal" Green Processes for the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals
15 Aug 05 Chemoenyzmatic Methods for the Assembly of Biologically Active Natural Products 
04 Aug 05 Metal Catalysis, N-Heterocycles and Stereochemistry
03 Aug 05  BF3 Complexes in Organic Synthesis
05 July 05  Total and Parallel Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products and Analogues
20 Jun 05  Organic Free Radicals to Prepare Designed Polymers
26 Apr 05 Total Synthesis of Apoptolidin and Synthesis of the Proposed Azaspiracid-1 Structure