Organic Chemistry

All colloquia will be held in the Dyson Perrins Lecture Theatre, Thursday at 2 pm, unless otherwise stated. All visitors are welcome.

Convenors: Dr. James Thomson and Dr. Paul Roberts

Week 1	17 January	Professor James Naismith, Director Research Complex at Harwell http://www.rc-harwell.ac.uk/home.html , https://www.strubi.ox.ac.uk/research/james-naismith "Manipulation of peptidase, a lazy (and incompetent) chemist speaks"
Week 2	24 January POSTPONED	Professor Chris Willis, University of Bristol https://willisresearchgroup.wordpress.com/ "Combining organic synthesis and synthetic biology to create bioactive compounds"
Week 3	31 January	Professor John Denu, University of Wisconsin-Madison https://denulab.discovery.wisc.edu/john-denu/ "Biochemical mechanisms of protein acetylation in metabolism, ageing and epigenetics"
Week 4	7 February	Professor Olivier Baudoin, University of Basel https://www.baudoin.chemie.unibas.ch/en/home/ "Palladium(0)-catalyzed C(sp3)-H functionalization"
Week 5	14 February	Professor Igor Alabugin, Florida State University https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~alabugin/ "Finding the right path: Baldwin “Rules for Ring Closure” and stereoelectronic control of cyclizations"
Week 6	21 February	Syngenta PDRA Symposium
Week 7	28 February	Professor Jonathan Burton, University of Oxford http://burton.chem.ox.ac.uk/ "Oxonium ions, rearrangements, and natural products"
Week 8	7 March	Dr Robert Phipps, University of Cambridge https://phippsgroup.wixsite.com/home "Harnessing non-covalent interactions to address selectivity challenges in catalysis"
Week 9	14 March	Professor Don Coltart, University of Houston http://www.uh.edu/nsm/chemistry/people/faculty/coltart/ "From enantioselective carbonyl α-functionalization to the stereocontrolled synthesis of chiral N- and O-heterocycles"
Week 10	21 March (tbc)	RSC Natural Product Chemistry Award Lecture (ICL Lecture Theatre) Professor Bradley Moore, Scripps http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/bsmoore/pages/moore-lab-research ‘title tba’