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Events

Upcoming Seminars - Fridays, Rm 1403 North Bldg. Refreshments served at 3pm. Seminars begin 3:15pm.

Apr 18 : Prof. Victor Lin (Iowa State) "Mesoporous Nanoparticles for Biotechnological and Biofuel Applications" (Sponsor: SCORE)

Apr 25: No Seminar (Spring Recess)

May 2: Prof. Erik Sorensen (Princeton) "Rapid Formation of Molecular Complexity in Natural Product Synthesis"

May 9 : Prof. Steve Scheiner (Utah State) "Competitive Strengths of NH--O and CH--O Hydrogen Bonds: Effects on Protein Structure" (Sponsor: MARC)

Full Schedule for Spring 2008

Chemistry Headlines

The Chemistry Department will have a 70th Birthday/Retirement Symposium for Prof. Klaus Grohmann on Friday May 30, 2008. More information..

Nurxat Nuraje in the Prof. Matsui's group received the prestigious 2008 Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award. He became one of 21 awardees in the nation by his innovative studies of semiconductor material syntheses with ring-shaped peptides. Finalists were invited to compete medals in the MRS National Meeting (San Francisco) where Nurxat won the Silver medal (March 2008)

Hot Off the Press

Electrostatic Self-Organization of Robust Porphyrin-Polyoxometalate Films (Drain, Langmuir, Apr, 2008)

The 3' processing factor CstF functions in the DNA repair response (Kleiman, Nuc. Acid Res., Apr, 2008)

Polyols as Scaffolds in the Development of Ion-Selective Polymer-Supported Reagents: The Effect of Auxiliary Groups on the ...(Alexandratos, Inorg. Chem, Apr, 2008)

An iodoetherification-dehydroiodination strategy for the synthesis of complex spiroketals from dihydroxyalkene precursors. (Mootoo, Org. Biomol. Chem., Feb 2008)

The kernel energy method of quantum mechanical approximation carried to fourth-order terms (Massa, PNAS, Feb 2008)

Potyvirus Genome-linked Protein, VPg, Directly Affects Wheat Germ in Vitro Translation (Goss. JBC, Jan 2008)

Amide I Vibrational Frequencies of alpha-Helical Peptides Based upon ONIOM and Density Functional Theory (DFT) Studies (Dannenberg, J. Phys. Chem. B., Jan, 2008)

Comparison of Electrical Properties of Viruses Studied by AC Capacitance Scanning Probe Microscopy (Matsui, JACS, Jan 2008)

31P Magic Angle Spinning NMR Spectroscopy of Paramagnetic Rare-Earth-Substituted Keggin and Wells-Dawson Solids (Francesconi, JACS., Jan 2008)

A polyacetylene compound from herbal medicine regulates genes associated with thrombosis in endothelial cells
(Kawamura, BMCL, Dec, 2007)

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