The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Inorganic Chemistry Abstracts, Fall 2002 - Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Literature Seminars
"Excursions Beyond the Zintl Border: Anionic Clusters of the Heavier Group 13 Metals"
Philip C. Allen
"Tyroninase: Recent Studies of Structure and Mechanism"
Christine Dickerson
"New Insights into Dinitrogen Activation and Fixation"
Ming Fang
"Fluorous Biphasic Catalysis"
David J. Flannigan
"Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis to Functionalization"
Kathryn Guy
"Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Alkanes Using Pincer Ligand Complexes"
Steve Smith
"Transfer Hydrogenation: Emergence of the Metal-Ligand Bifunctional Mechanism"
Cameron W. Spahn
Final Defense Seminars
"The Synthesis and MALDI-MS Characterization of New Ruthenium Sulfide Clusters"
Amanda L. Eckermann
"Small Molecule Analogues of the Fe-only Hydrogenase Active Site"
Joshua D. Lawrence
"Tetrathiometallates in Synthesis and Catalysis"
Daniel Eugene Schwarz
Spring 2003
Final Defense Seminars
"Designing Novel Blue Copper and Purple CuA Centers Into Azurin with Natural and Unnatural Amino Acids"
Steven Berry
"Environmental Applications of Ultrasound"
James Dean Oxley
"Characterization of a Keggin Polyoxometalate on Metal and Semiconductor Surfaces"
Craig Matthew Teague
"De Novo Heme Protein Design"
Jiangyun Wang
