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2016
December
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Xiaoming Feng College of Chemistry Sichuan University |
Recent Progress in the Asymmetric Synthesis of Biologically Active Molecules Catalyzed by Chiral N,N’-Dioxide–Metal Complexes | December 5, 2016 (Monday) |
10:00 a.m. |
L5 Science Centre |
| Prof. Yu Zhao Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore |
Catalyst and Methodology Development towards Efficient Stereoselective Synthesis | December 12, 2016 (Monday) |
2:30 p.m. |
L3 Science Centre |
| Prof. Yu Zhao John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor Department of Chemistry University of Chicago U.S.A. |
Reversible DNA and RNA methylation in gene expression Stereoselective Synthesis | December 19, 2016 (Monday) |
2:30 p.m. |
L1 Science Centre |
| Prof. Yu Zhao John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor Department of Chemistry University of Chicago U.S.A. |
Chemical biology in genomic research and human disease studies | December 21, 2016 (Wednesday) |
9:30 a.m. |
Room G06 Y.C. Liang Hall |
November
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Yuk-Lam Yung Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences California Institute of Technology U.S.A. |
Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres | November 01, 2016 (Tuesday) |
4:30 p.m. |
Room 103 Y.C. Liang Hall |
| Prof. D. Michael P. Mingos FRS Oxford University |
The Chemical Bond - 100 years old, but still making an essential contribution | November 04, 2016 (Friday) |
4:30 p.m. |
L1 Science Centre |
October
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Robert Grubbs Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2005 Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology U.S.A. |
Design of Selective Metathesis Catalysis | October 6, 2016 (Thursday) |
12:30 p.m. |
LT1 Lee Shau Kee Building |
| Prof. Jiahai Zhou State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic Chemistry and Natural Products Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Structural enzymology in biocatalysis and biosynthesis | October 6, 2016 (Thursday) |
3:30 p.m. |
L2 Science Centre |
| Prof. Richard M.W. Wong Head, Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore |
Catalytic Activity and Stereoselectivity of Organocatalysts: Interplay of Non-covalent Interactions | October 14, 2016 (Friday) |
4:30 p.m. | L1 Science Centre |
| Dr. Dieter Klaus Lilge Former Head, Polymer Physics and Characterization (PP&C) Laboratory Lyondellbasell, Industriepark Höchst Germany |
Greener Catalytic and Synthetic Chemistry and Technology | October 21, 2016 (Friday) |
2:30 p.m. | L1 Science Centre |
| Prof. Guigen Li Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Institute of Chemistry & BioMedical Sciences, Nanjing University |
Polyethylene – a versatile Polymer - Characterisation and Applications | October 21, 2016 (Friday) |
4:30 p.m. | LT3 Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Frédéric Lamaty Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron CNRS-Universités de Montpellier, France |
Mechanochemistry and its applications: from organic and peptide synthesis to organometallics and catalysis | October 24, 2016 (Friday) |
4:30 p.m. | LT3 Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Michael M. Haley Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Oregon |
Indenofluorenes and Ring-Expanded Analogues: From Quinoidal Electron-Accepting Materials to Stable Organic Biradicals | October 31, 2016 (Monday) |
4:30 p.m. | LT3 Lady Shaw Building |
September
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Wai-Lung Ng Department of Chemistry University of Oxford,UK |
Chemical intervention in biological systems | September 9, 2016 (Friday) |
2:30 p.m. |
LT3 Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Rong-Jie Chein Institute of Chemistry Academia Sinica Taiwan |
Chiral Tetrahydrothiophene Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis | September 22, 2016 (Thursday) |
4:30 p.m. |
L2 Science Centre |
| Prof. Kohji Ohno Institute for Chemical Research Kyoto University Japan |
Polymer Brush-Afforded Fine Particles: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Biomedical Applications | September 27, 2016 (Tuesday) |
2:30 p.m. | LT3 Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Philip Wai Hong Chan School of Chemistry, Monash University, Australia Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK |
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Strategies for Complex Molecule Synthesis | September 27, 2016 (Tuesday) |
4:30 p.m. | Room 158 Science Centre |
August
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Yong Zeng Department of Chemistry The University of Kansas |
Bioanalytical Microfluidics: Applications towards Precision Disease Diagnosis |
August 4, 2016 (Thursday) |
11:00 a.m. |
LG23 Science Centre |
| Prof. Ling Jiang Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Spectroscopy and Dynamics of the Microhydrated Clusters | August 8, 2016 (Monday) |
2:30 p.m. |
L3 Science Centre |
| Prof. Yoshito Tobe Division of Frontier Materials Science Graduate School of Engineering Sciences Osaka University |
Non-Benzenoid Circulenes with Open-ShellCharacter | August 17, 2016 (Wednesday) |
11:30 a.m. | L5 Science Centre |
July
June
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Benjamin Chu Department of Chemistry Stony Brook University | Use of Nanofibers for Biomedical and Environmental Applications | June 3, 2016 (Friday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room LG23 Science Centre |
| Prof. Lu Bai Department of Physics The Pennsylvania State University |
Identification and functional study of pioneer factors | June 3, 2016 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | L1 Science Centre |
| Prof. Dehua Pei Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The Ohio State University |
Drugging Undruggable Targets with Cyclic Peptides | June 6, 2016 (Monday) | 9:30 a.m.. | LT2 Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Shangfeng Yang Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Science and Technology of China |
Functionalization of Fullerenes toward Applications in Solar Cells | June 6, 2016 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room LG23 Science Centre |
| Prof. Dehua Pei Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The Ohio State University |
Combinatorial Chemistry: From Chemical Biology to Drug Discovery | June 6, 2016 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | L1 Science Centre |
| Prof. Kuiling Ding Director Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry The Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Cooperative Catalysis in Asymmetric Synthesis and CO2 Transformation | June 6, 2016 (Monday) | 4:30 p.m. | LT3 Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, Santa Barbara |
Plastic Solar Cells: Progress and Challenges | June 20, 2016 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 Science Centre |
| Prof. Xi Yao Department of Biomedical Sciences City University of Hong Kong |
Designing Multifunctional Polymer Gels for Antifouling Application | June 24, 2016 (Friday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 158 Science Centre |
| Prof. Jong-in Hahm Department of Chemistry Georgetown University |
Fundamental Study of Nanoscale Protein-Polymer Interactions and Potential Contributions to Solid-state Protein Nanoarrays | June 28, 2016 (Tuesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room G34 Lady Shaw Building |
May
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Hiroyuki Nakamura Institute of Innovative Research Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan |
Identification and Modification of Target Proteins using Small Molecules with Light | May 3, 2016 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L1 Science Centre |
| Prof. Hiroyuki Nakamura Institute of Innovative Research Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan |
Development of Boron delivery Nano Vehicles for Neutron Capture Therapy of Cancers | May 4, 2016 (Wednesday) | 9:30 a.m. | L3 Science Centre |
| Prof. Hung-Wing Li Department of Chemistry Hong Kong Baptist University |
Detection of Disease Biomarkers by Fluorescence Imaging | May 13, 2016 (Friday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 Science Centre |
| Prof. Dr. Detlef Bahnemann Institut fuer Technische Chemie University of Hannover Germany |
Green Photocatalytic Organic Synthesis: Cyclization & N-Alkylation of Nitroaromatic Compounds | May 18, 2016 (Wednesday) | 11:30 a.m. | L2 Science Centre |
| Prof. Masayuki Inoue Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences The University of Tokyo |
Radical-based Approach for Synthesis of Complex Natural Products | May 23, 2016 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m.. | L2 Science Centre |
| Prof. Guo-Xin Jin Department of Chemistry Fudan University |
Organometallic Macrocycles, Cages and Their Application | May 23, 2016 (Monday) | 3:30 p.m. | L2 Science Centre |
| Prof. Kazushi Mashima Department of Chemistry Osaka University |
C-H Activation and Functionalization by Y, Hf, and Ir Catalysts | May 31, 2016 (Tuesday) | 4:30 p.m. Revised |
L3 Science Centre Revised |
| Prof. David Crich Department of Chemistry Wayne State University |
Stereocontrolled glycosidic bond formation: A challenge and an inspiration for organic chemists | May 31, 2016 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L2 Science Centre |
April
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. REN Yi Department of Chemistry Rutgers University |
From Molecules to Functional Materials | April 6, 2016 (Wednesday) | 11:30 a.m. | LT3 Lady Shaw Building |
| Dr. Xi Ling Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Two-Dimensional Materials and Heterostructures: Synthesis and Spectroscopy | April 27, 2016 (Wednesday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3 Science Centre |
March
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Hsien-Yi Hsu Chemistry and Biochemistry Department University of Texas at Austin |
Photophysics & Photoelectrochemistry of Organic-inorganic Perovskites and Organometallic Polymers for Solar Energy Applications | March 1, 2016 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 Science Centre |
| Prof. Xianzheng Zhang Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers & Department of Chemistry Wuhan University |
Functional Peptides for Biomedical Applications | March 17, 2016 (Thursday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 139 Science Centre |
| Prof. Oren A. Scherman Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge |
Functional materials: Exploiting dynamic self-assembly at interfaces | March 29, 2016 (Tuesday) | 9:15 a.m. | Room 103 Y.C. Liang Hall |
February
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Keisuke Suzuki Department of Chemistry Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan |
Lessons from Total Synthesis of Natural Polyphenols | February 18, 2016 (Thursday) | 4:30 p.m. | L5 Science Centre |
| Prof. Keisuke Suzuki Department of Chemistry Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan |
Mini-History of Natural Product Synthesis | February 19, 2016 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 Science Centree |
January
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Chun-Yuen Wong Department of Biology and Chemistry City University of Hong Kong |
Uncommon Reactivities and Photophysics derived from or leading to Ruthenium Organometallic Complexes | January 8, 2016 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 Science Centre |
2015
December
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Yonggui Robin Chi Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Carbene Organocatalyst-Enabled New Activation Modes and Rapid Access to Functional Molecules | December 10, 2015 (Thursday) | 10:30 a.m. (Revised) |
LT2 Lady Shaw Building (Revised) |
| Prof. Takahiko Akiyama Department of Chemistry Gakushuin University Japan |
Recent Progress in the Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalysis | December 11, 2015 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 Science Centre |
| Mr. John W. F. To Department of Chemical Engineering Stanford University |
Design and synthesis of hierarchical porous carbon for CO2 capture and oxygen reduction and evolution catalysis | December 22, 2015 (Tuesday) | 11:00 a.m. | L3, Science Centre |
November
October
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Robert W. Hart CEO Optofluidies Inc. |
Advanced Surface Characterization of Particles | October 13, 2015 (Tuesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L2, Science Centre |
| Prof. Dietmar Kuck Department of Chemistry Bielefeld University Germany |
Joy and Fun with Non-naturals and Naturals: Synthesis of New Centropolyindanes and Analysis of Agarwood Constituents | October 14, 2015 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room C5, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Cameron Jones School of Chemistry Monash University, Australia |
Super Bulky Amides: New Ligands for The Stabilisation of Low-Valent Main Group Complexes | October 16, 2015 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Prof. In Woo Cheong School of Applied Chemical Engineering Kyungpook National University Korea |
Preparation of Janus Particles by Droplet Microfluidics | October 23, 2015 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Prof. Syuji Fujii Division of Applied Chemistry Faculty of Engineering Osaka Institute of Technology |
Pickering emulsion as a platform towards biodegradable microspheres | October 28, 2015 (Wednesday) | 9:30 a.m. | L4, Science Centre |
September
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Dr. Martin Jansen Max-Planck-Institute For Solid State Research Stuttgart Germany |
Rational Materials Discovery - from atomic energy landscapes to phase diagrams | September 14, 2015 (Monday) | 4:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
August
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Xiaowei Zhan Department of Materials Science and Engineering Peking University |
Conjugated Molecules and Polymers for Organic Electronics and Photonics | August 18, 2015 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
July
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Licheng Sun Department of Chemistry KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden |
Artificial Photosynthesis (Solar Fuels)--From Molecular Catalysts to Functional Devices | July 16, 2015 (Thursday) | 3:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Ken-Tsung Wong Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University |
Recent Developments of Small Moleculebased Organic Solar Cells | July 20, 2015 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Ying Liu Department of Chemical Engineering University of Illinois at Chicago |
Artificial Dense Granular to Control Internal Hemorrhage | July 23, 2015 (Thursday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3, Science Centre |
June
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Kazushi Mashima Department of Materials Engineering Science Graduate School of Engineering Science Osaka University |
C-H Activation and Functionalization by Y, Hf, and Ir Catalysts | June 11, 2015 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Shie-Ming Peng Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica |
From Homonuclear Metal String Complexes to Heteronuclear Metal String Complexes | June 11, 2015 (Thursday) | 4:00 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Dr. A. Maureen Rouhi Director, Editorial & Business Development C&EN Asia American Chemical Society |
Communicating Science to Your Peers & Beyond | June 16, 2015 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | LT3, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Kevin G. Lam School of Science and Technology Nazarbayev University |
From Organic Synthesis to medicinal Electrochemistry: Bridging the Fields | June 19, 2015 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Dr. Steve Ying-Lung Tse Department of Chemistry The University of Chicago |
Proton Solvation and Transport in Aqueous and Electrolytic Systems | June 23, 2015 (Tuesday) | 10:00 a.m. | L5, Science Centre |
May
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Michael T. Corbett Department of Applied Chemistry Nagoya University, Japan |
Complexity-Building Deracemization Methodologies for the Construction of Optically Active Glycolates | May 4, 2015 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Marcel Schlaf Department of Chemistry University of Guelph Canada |
How to design, make and test acid-, water- and high temperature-stable homogeneous catalysts for the hydrodeoxygenation of biomass derived sugars and sugar condensates to value-added alcohols, alkenes and alkanes | May 7, 2015 (Thursday) | 4:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Shengming Ma Fudan University and Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (CAS) |
Allene Synthesis：Second Generation Technology and Applications | May 8, 2015 (Friday) | 3:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Prof. Dr. Thomas J.J. Müller Institut für Organische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Germany |
Transition Metal Catalysis as an Entry to Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Heterocycles | May 15, 2015 (Friday) | 10:30 a.m. | L3, Science Centre |
April
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Kangning Ren Department of Chemistry Hong Kong Baptist University |
Creating New Realms/Capabilities with Polymeric Microstructures as Enabling Tools | April 13, 2015 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | LT2, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Luping Yu Department of Chemistry The University of Chicago U.S.A. |
Molecular Electronics-Design Functions Beyond Molecular Wires | April 22, 2015 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room LG23, Science Centre |
March
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Mark Lautens Department of Chemistry University of Toronto |
Improving Efficiency in Synthesis | March 12, 2015 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | LT4, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Chunming Cui State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry Nankai University |
BN conjugated compounds: synthesis and electronic structures | March 13, 2015 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Prof. Jun Okuda Institute of Inorganic Chemistry RWTH Aachen University Germany |
Molecular Alkyl and Hydrides of Electropositive Metals | March 16, 2015 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | Rm158, Science Centre |
| Prof. Jun Okuda Institute of Inorganic Chemistry RWTH Aachen University Germany |
Carbenes as New Ligands for Reactive Metals | March 17, 2015 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L4, Science Centre |
| Prof. Shiping Zhu Department of Chemical Engineering McMaster University Canada |
Polymer Reaction Engineering for Advanced Materials | March 20, 2015 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | L5, Science Centre |
February
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Haoli Zhang College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Lanzhou University |
Design of Organic Semiconductors for Logic Devices and Molecular Electronics | February 4, 2015 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Yanguang Wang Department of Chemistry Zhejiang University |
The Chemistry of Ketenimines: Synthesis and Functionalization of Heterocycles | February 6, 2015 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Prof. Minoru Isobe Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University Chair Professor, National Tsing Hua University Visiting Scholar, Chemistry Department, CUHK |
Novel Synthetic Strategies toward Prostaglandin and Solanoeclepin A | February 13, 2015 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
January
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Cheuk-Wai So Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Nanyang Technological University |
Chemistry of Low-Valent Group 14 Element Complexes | January 6, 2015 (Tuesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L4, Science Centre |
| Prof. Manfred Schmidt Institute für Physikalische Chemie Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Multifunctional Cylindrical Brushes for Application in Tumor Immune Therapy | January 12, 2015 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G36, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Eamor Woo Department of Chemical Engineering National Cheng Kung University Taiwan |
Novel Approaches on Crystal bending and Twisting Assembly in Polymer Spherulite Growth | January 16, 2015 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 715, Mong Man Wai Building |
| Prof. Xuan Mu School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College |
Microfluidic paper-based diagnostic device | January 20, 2015 (Tuesday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room G34, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Gang Zhao Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sceinces |
Design, Synthesis and Application of Organo-catalysts Based on Amino Acids | January 22, 2015 (Thursday) | 2:00 p.m. | L5, Room 158, Science Centre |
| Prof. Atsushi Takahara Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University |
Precise Design of Antifouling, Lubrication and Intelligent Adhesion Surfaces through Polyelectrolyte Brush Immobilization | January 22, 2015 (Thursday) | 4:30 p.m. | Room LG23, Science Centre |
| Prof. Atsushi Takahara Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University |
Design and Characterization of Novel Nanohybrids from Natural Inorganic Nanotubes | January 23, 2015 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Prof. Zhen Shen State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University |
Core-Modified Porphyrins Containing Novel Heterocyclic Moieties | January 30, 2015 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
2014
December
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Yue Zhao Department of Chemistry University of Sherbrooke Canada |
Control of Stimult-Responsive Polymers by New Methods | December 1, 2014 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G35, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Petr Štěpánek Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry The Czech Academy of Sciences |
Interaction of polymer nanoparticles with biological media | December 5, 2014 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Prof. Michinori Suginome Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Kyoto University |
New Functions of Chirality-Switchable Macromolecules | December 12, 2014 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Dr. Yaowen Wu Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society Germany |
Protein labeling | December 18, 2014 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Dr. Yaowen Wu Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society Germany |
Elucidation of membrane trafficking using novel chemical probes | December 19, 2014 (Friday) | 10:00 a.m. | L5, Science Centre |
| Dr. Xiulan Xie NMR-Abteilung Fachbereich Chemie Philipps-Universitat Marburg Germany |
NMR Structure Determination of Lasso Peptides | December 19, 2014 (Friday) | 11:15 a.m. | L5, Science Centre |
November
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. David Christopher Braddock Department of Chemistry Imperial College London U.K. |
Studies on Halogenated Marine Natural Products as Inspired by their Probable Biogeneses | November 3, 2014 (Monday) | 4:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Dietmar Kuck Department of Chemistry Bielefeld University Germany |
Ongoing and New Excitement on Tribenzotriquinacene and Centrohexaindane Chemistry | November 6, 2014 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room C2, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Peter J. Sadler Department of Chemistry University of Warwick, U.K. |
The Elements of Life and Medicines | November 10, 2014 (Monday) | 4:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Professor Jaehong Kim School of Engineering & Applied Science Yale University U.S.A. |
Engineering Light: Wavelength Conversion Materials for Environmental Applications | November 12, 2014 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | LG23, Science Centre |
| Prof. Chien-Hong Cheng Department of Chemistry National Tsing Hua University |
Host and dopant materials for electroluminescent devices | November 13, 2014 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | L5, Science Centre |
| Prof. Mark Howarth Department of Biochemistry University of Oxford U.K. |
Flesh-eating bacteria, spontaneous amide bond formation, and polymers to fish for cancer cells | November 14, 2014 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Prof. Karel Dušek Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
Swelling and swelling transitions of polymer networks – effect of external and internal constraints | November 17, 2014 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | L4, Science Centre |
| Prof. Miroslava Dušková-Smrčková Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
Rheology and Swelling of Double-Network Hydrogels. Target to Application. |
November 17, 2014 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G34, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Akihiro Orita Department of Applied Chemistry Okayama University of Science Japan |
Syntheses of Functional Acetylenes: Double Elimination Protocol and Ph2P(O) Protection | November 28, 2014 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. | Room 158, Science Centre |
| Prof. Toyonobu Usuki Department of Materials and Life Sciences Faculty of Science and Technology Sophia University Japan |
Natural Products Research: Organic Synthesis and Ionic Liquids | November 28, 2014 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
October
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Lei Shen School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology P.R. China |
The Study of Molecular Weak Interaction between Protein and Surface | October 6, 2014 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G34, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. Knud J. Jesen Department of Chemistry University of Copenhagen Denmark |
Ligands to control the nano-scale properties of biopharmaceutical peptides and proteins | October 8, 2014 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room G06, Y.C. Liang Hall |
| (1) Dr. Akdas-Kilig Huriye (2) Dr. Jean-Luc Fillaut Institut des Science Chimiques de Rennes Universite de Rennes I France |
(1) New multifunctional ruthenium complexes for 3D optical data storage (2) Engineering of Cyclometallated Platinum acetylides for Chemosensing |
October 14, 2014 (Tuesday) | 3:30 p.m. | Room C1, Lady Shaw Building |
| Prof. T. V. (Babu) RajanBabu Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The Ohio State University U.S.A. |
New Asymmetric Catalytic Methods in Natural Product Synthesis | October 17, 2014 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
September
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Atsushi Nishida Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Chiba University Japan |
Total synthesis of poly cyclic alkaloids | September 24, 2014 (Wednesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L5, Science Centre |
August
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Elizabeth New School of Chemistry Faculty of Science The University of Sydney |
Molecular imaging tools for intracellular redox state and biological metal ions | August 22, 2014 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | L2, Science Centre |
July
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Tuck Seng Wong Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Sheffield U.K. |
Directed evolution: A power algorithm for advancing synthetic biology | July 2, 2014 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Simon Aldridge Department of Chemistry University of Oxford U.K. |
Radicals, E-H Bond Activation and Nanoparticles: Tuning Main Group Elements to Behave as Transition Metals | July 18, 2014 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. HU Wenping Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Organic Semiconductors for Field-Effect Transistors | July 22, 2014 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. John S. Tse Department of Physics and Engineering Physics University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada |
Crystal Engineering of single molecule magnet, conductor and superconductor from neutral radicals | July 28, 2014 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | L5, Science Centre |
June
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Yanxing Jia State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Peking University Health Science Center |
Total Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids and Development of Synthetic Methodology | June 3, 2014 (Tuesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Xu Pengfei State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry College of Chemistry & Chemistry Engineering Lanzhou University |
The Design and Development of Orgaocatalytic Asymmetric Cascade Reactions (Delivered in Putonghua) |
June 6, 2014 (Friday) | 10:30 a.m. | L5, Science Centre |
May
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Xumu Zhang College of Chemistry, Wuhan University Department of Chemistry & Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
Recent advances in selective hydrogenation and hydroformylation | May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 Science Centre |
| (1) Prof. Ying-Hong Lu (2) Prof. Min Zhou Department of Chemistry College of Chemical Engineering Nanjing University of Science and Technology |
(1) Synthetic biology in the Plastid (2) Mass Spectrometry of Membrane Complexes – Effects of Lipids and Nucleotide Bindings |
May 22, 2014 (Thursday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Yoshito Tobe Department of Materials Engineering Science Osaka University |
Dehydro[12]annulene-Based Building Blocks in Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly on Surfaces via van der Waals Interactions | May 23, 2014 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3, Science Centre |
| Prof. Shaoming Huang College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering Wenzhou University P.R. China |
Nanostructured Carbon Materials | May 30, 2014 (Friday) | 2:30 p.m. | L1, Science Centre |
| Prof. Chu-Young Kim National University of Singapore |
How Nature Synthesizes Echinomycin and Lasalocid | April 29, 2014 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 Science Centre |
April
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Vincent Stuart James Craig Department of Applied Mathematics Australian National University |
Surface Forces measurements between Titania surfaces – problems for DLVO theory | April 4, 2014 (Friday) | 2:00 p.m. | Room G03 Y.C. Liang Hall |
| Prof. Chu-Young Kim National University of Singapore |
How Nature Synthesizes Echinomycin and Lasalocid | April 29, 2014 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | L3 Science Centre |
March
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Takehiko Yamato Department of Advanced Technology Fusion Graduate School of Science and Engineering Saga University, Japan |
Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Pyrene-Based Blue Light-Emitting Monomers | March 18, 2014 (Tuesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L2 Science Centre |
| Prof. Masahiro Miura Department of Applied Chemistry Faculty of Engineering Osaka University, Japan |
Development of Transition Metal Mediated Direct Aromatic Coupling Reactions | March 21, 2014 (Friday) | 4:30 p.m. | L1 Science Centre |
February
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Doo Sung Lee Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Sungkyunkwan University Korea |
Injectable Block Copolymer Hydrogels | February 17, 2014 (Monday) | 10:30 a.m. | Room 705 Mong Man Wai Building |
| Prof. Alan Goldman Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey U.S.A. |
Catalytic Alkane Conversion with Pincer- Iridium Complexes. A Mechanistic approach |
February 24, 2014 (Monday) | 2:30 p.m. | L2 Science Centre |
| Prof. Alan Goldman Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey U.S.A. |
Breaking and Making C-O and C-H bonds with Pincer-Iridium Complexes |
February 25 , 2014 (Tuesday) | 2:30 p.m. | LT5 Lady Shaw Building |
January
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Jishan Wu Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore & Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR |
Open-shell Polycyclic Hydrocarbons | January 9, 2014 (Thursday) | 4:00 p.m. | LG23 Science Centre |
| Prof. Masahiro Murakami Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Kyoto University |
Stereospecific Transfer of Central Chirality to Planar Chirality in Ring Expansion from Orthocyclophanes to Metacyclophanes | January 14, 2014 (Tuesday) | 4:30 p.m. | L2 Science Centre |
| Prof. William R. Roush The Scripps Research Institute Jupiter, Florida U.S.A. |
Synthesis of Chiral Allylboron and Enolborane Reagents via Allene and Acrylamide Hydroboration Reactions and Applications to the Synthesis of Natural Products | January 29, 2014 (Wednesday) | 2:30 p.m. | Room 703 Mong Man Wai Building |
