Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group


2007-11-01 16:00: Synthesis and potential chiral catalytic application of nanoparticles from RAFT polymerised, optically active, amphiphilic diblock copolymers (Jared Skey, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory)

2007-11-01 16:30: Cucurbituril meets polymer: Be my guest! (Urs Rauwald, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory)

2007-11-15 16:00: Design and synthesis of new biocatalysts (Professor Ehud Keinan, Scripps Research Institute, California and The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Instiitute of Technology)

2007-11-22 16:00: Bio-inspired nanomaterials for sensing and regenerative medicine (Dr Molly M Stevens, Imperial College, London)

2007-11-26 14:15: Functionalized cucurbiturils and their applications (Professor Kimoon Kim, Center for Smart Supramolecules, Pohang University of Science & Technology)

2007-11-29 16:00: Coordination polymers, metallo-gels and discrete metallo-supramolecular assemblies with cyclotriveratrylene-based or flat tripodal ligands (Dr Michaele J Hardie, University of Leeds)

2007-12-06 16:00: Nanoimprint lithography for application in polymer electronics (Ximin He, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory)

2007-12-06 16:30: Supramolecular Polymers Bearing Self-Complementary Hydrogen Bonding End-Groups (Adam Celiz, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory)

2008-01-24 16:00: DNA Block Copolymers: Programmable Macromolecular Amphiphiles (Prof Dr Andreas Herrmann, University of Groningen - Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering)

2008-01-31 16:00: Moving microdroplets: Techniques for manipulating picolitre droplets in microchannels (Dr Graeme Whyte, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory)

2008-02-07 16:00: Design of New Generations of "Smart" Materials using Controlled Radical Polymerizations Techniques (Dr Jean-Francois Lutz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research)

2008-02-14 16:00: Functional Amphiphilic Block Copolymers prepared via Ring Opening metathesis Polymerization (Dr Kurt Stubenrauch, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory)

2008-02-21 16:00: Casting Nanostructures for NanoPhotonics (Prof Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge - NanoPhotonics Centre)

2008-02-28 16:00: Oligomerization-deoligomerization synthetic strategy and cucurbituril (Dr Li Liu, University of Cambridge - Melville Laboratory)

2008-03-06 16:00: Biomimetic self-assembly of block copolymers: polypeptide-based vesicle as synthetic model of viral capsid (Prof Sebastien Lecommandoux)

2008-04-24 16:00: Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics (Dr Michele Vendruscolo (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry))

2008-05-01 16:00: Surface modification of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) via self-organization of vinyl-terminated small molecules (Ms Maaike van Poll (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory))

2008-05-08 16:00: The Chemistry, Structure and Function of the DNA Quadruple Helix (Prof Shankar Balasubramanian (University of Cambridge – Department of Chemistry))

2008-05-16 16:00: Dynamic Self-Assembly of Macromolecules and Small Molecules (Professor Sam Stupp, The Stupp Laboratory at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois)

2008-05-29 16:00: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes:  New Applications in Materials Chemistry (Dr Chris Bielawski (University of Texas, Austin, Texas))

2008-06-05 16:00: Probing the internal structure of polymer brushes (Mr Ron Oren (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory))

2008-06-12 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Mr Luis Fidalgo (University of Cambridge – Melville Laboratory))

2008-10-16 16:00: Nanoimprinting Functional Polymers (Miss Jo Slota (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis))

2008-10-16 16:00: Catalytic Interfaces for Organic Synthesis in Microdroplets (Miss Ashleigh Theberge (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis))

2008-10-17 17:00: Modern Medicinal Chemistry in the Hit to Lead Arena (Dr Dafydd Owen (Pfizer Global Research & Development, Sandwich, UK))

2008-10-20 14:00: New Bond Activations at Transition Metal Centers: Fundamental Studies and Applications to Catalysis (T. Don Tilley (University of California at Berkeley))

2008-10-23 16:00: Hierarchical self-assembly in aqueous media (Mr John Lee (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis))

2008-10-23 16:00: Droplet-interface Bilayers Formation in Microfluidic Devices (Mr Yunpeng Bai (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis))

2008-10-30 14:00: Selective Molecular Transformations Using Organic Superbases (Professor Yoshinori Kondo (Tohoku University))

2008-10-30 16:00: Effects of surface chemistry on epidermal stem cell differentiation (Miss Britta Trappmann (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis))

2008-10-30 16:00: Stimuli-Responsive Materials - Aqueous Phase Cucurbituril Assemblies (Mr Jameel Zayed (University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis))

2008-11-03 17:00: Search for New Antibacterials Using Diversity-Oriented Synthesis (Dr David Spring (University of Cambridge))

2008-11-06 14:00: CPGS Talks (CPGS Talks)

2008-11-06 16:00: Making semiconducting polymers  - the long and the short of it (Professor Michael Turner (University of Manchester))

2008-11-10 17:00: Progress Toward a Synthesis of Phomactin A (Professor Richard Hsung (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA))

2008-11-17 17:00: Epoxide-Opening Cascades (Professor Tim Jamison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA))

2008-11-20 14:00: Controlled redox and activation reactions in organometallic f-block complexes (Dr Polly Arnold (University of Edinburgh))

2008-11-24 17:00: Biomimetic Organocatalysis: From Concepts to Applications (Professor Magnus Rueping (University of Frankfurt, Germany))

2008-12-04 16:00: Nano-sized architectures: folding, metal coordination and assembly (Dr Ivan Huc (Bordeaux University))

2008-12-08 17:00: Designing screens and screening designs: from catalytic antibodies to peptide dendrimer enzyme models (Jean-Louis Reymond (University of Berne))

2008-12-11 14:00: Technomimetic Nanomachines: A wheelbarrow and a molecular motor (Gwenael Rapenne (University of Toulouse))

2008-12-15 17:00: Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes (Dr David Ager (DSM, Raleigh-Durham, USA))

2009-01-22 14:00: Single-Molecule Magnets and Magnetic Refrigerants (Professor Euan Brechin (University of Edinburgh))

2009-03-26 14:00: From Polyoxometalate-based building blocks to Functional Nanoclusters, Frameworks and Self-Fabricating Materials (Professor Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow)

2009-04-02 14:00: Uranium Sandwiches: Activating Small Molecules with Uranium Petalene and Cyclooctatetraene Complexes (Dr Geoff Cloke, University of Sussex)

2009-04-03 16:00: Amino Acid Promoted Ullman Reactions and their Applications in Organic Synthesis (Professor Dawei Ma, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry)

2009-04-15 17:00: Asymmetric Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles using Sulfinimines (Professor Franklin Davis, Temple University, Philadelphia USA)

2009-04-20 13:00: SCI Graduate Symposium (SCI Graduate Symposium speakers to be confirmed)

2009-04-21 14:00: New Anion Receptors and Transporters (Professor Phil Gale, University of Southampton)

2009-04-23 15:00: Construction Principles in the Development of New Molecular Catalysts (Dr Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg)

2009-04-27 17:00: Sugars and Enzymes (Professor Ben Davis, University of Oxford)

2009-04-28 16:15: Sustainability Through the Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis (Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge)

2009-04-30 14:00: Rapid and efficient production and oxidation of hydrogen by air-sensitive metalloenzymes: electrochemistry, mechanisms and implications for life and energy (Professor Fraser Armstrong, University of Oxford)

2009-04-30 16:00: Investigation of multivalent glycan interactions on functional surfaces (Dr Carlo Fasting, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin)

2009-05-07 14:00: Model Chemistry, theoretical calculations and recent advances in understanding the chemistry of nitrogenase (Professor Dimitri Coucouvanis, University of Michigan)

2009-05-07 16:00: Boronic acid based materials for carbohydrate detection (Dr Tony James, University of Bath)

2009-05-11 11:00: Organometallic f-Element Chemistry and the Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions (Professor William J Evans, University of California Irvine, USA)

2009-05-11 17:00: Merck Lectureship Talk 1 - Seeing the Light With Polymers (Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia)

2009-05-13 17:00: Merck Lectureship Talk 2 - Pericyclic Reactions in the Synthesis of Medium Ring Ether and Piperidine Alkaloids of Biological Importance (Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia)

2009-05-14 16:00: Assembling and breaking: competitive interactions between polymer, drug and cyclodextrin (Dr Cecile Dreiss, Pharmaceutical Science Division, King's College London)

2009-05-15 17:00: Merck Lectureship Talk 3 - Probing Intracellular Signalling Processes with Phosphatidyl Inositol Polyphosphates . (Professor Andrew Holmes, Bio21 Institute & CSIRO Mol & Health Tech, University of Melbourne, Australia)

2009-05-21 16:00: Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage – Better (polymeric) materials for Better biology (Professor Dennis Discher, Biophysical Eng. & Nanobiopolymers Lab, University of Pennsylvania)

2009-05-28 16:00: Molecular tectonics: from building blocks to crystals (Professor M.W. Hosseini, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Universite de Strasbourg)

2009-06-01 17:00: Synthesis of Bridged Natural Products (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-06-04 16:00: Electrochemical formation of responsive hydrogel films for bioanalytics (Dr. Johanna Bünsow, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge)

2009-06-05 14:00: Self-Assembled Soft Materials and the In Situ Synthesis of Nanoparticles (Dr George John, The City College of New York, CUNY)

2009-06-22 17:00: "Mechanisms, Structures and Chemical Informatics" (Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge)

2009-07-03 17:00: Chiral Proton Catalysis: The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Alkaloid Synthesis (Professor Jeff Johnston, Vanderbilt University)

2009-07-22 11:00: Synthetic Peptides for DNA and Protein recognition (Professor Jose-Luis Mascarenas, University of Santiago de Compostela)

2009-08-03 17:00: Recent advances in the area of asymmetric hydrogenation (Professor Xumu Zhang, Rutgers University, USA)

2009-08-04 15:00: Characterisation of Adhesion Phenomena  & contact of surfaces by  Soft Colloidal Probe – AFM (Johann Erath, University of Bayreuth, Germany)

2009-08-13 17:00: Opportunities and Lessons in Chemistry and Biology Stemming from an Investment in Total Synthesis (Professor Andrew Phillips, University of Colorado)

2009-08-26 14:00: Molecular Understanding, Design and Development of Zwitterionic-based Biomaterials (Prof Shaoyi Jiang, Boeing-Roundhill Professor of Chemical Engineering &  Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle)

2009-09-10 16:00: Chirality in supramolecular polymers (Maarten Smulders, University of Technology, Eindhoven)

2009-09-24 17:00: Atom Economic Transformations Catalysed by Low-Valent Cobalt Complexes (Professor Gerhard Hilt (Marburg University))

2009-10-01 14:00: Halogen Bonding and Metal Ion Coordination in Supramolecular Complexes (Professor Kari Rissanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

2009-10-08 16:00: New Motifs Blocks for Molecular Recognition: From DNA Bases and Protein-Surfaces to a-Helices and b-Sheets ( Dr Andrew J Wilson (University of Leeds))

2009-10-15 14:00: The Many Faces of Heme in Biology (Professor Emma Raven, University of Leicester)

2009-10-15 16:00: Turning Cavitands into Materials (Professor Enrico Dalcanale, University of Parma)

2009-10-19 17:00: Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff - Route Selection using Kepner-Tregoe Decision Analysis (Dr Jeremy Parker from Astra Zeneca)

2009-10-22 16:00: Synthesis and Isolation of cucurbit[n]uril: a supramolecular host (Mr Dezhi Jiao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2009-10-22 16:30: Synthesis of Chiral Bidentate Phosphorous Ligands in the Form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIP) (Miss Mei-Hsuan Tsai, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2009-10-26 13:00: Graduate Symposium plus Successful Drug Discovery and Development at Pfizer: Thanks to Organic Synthesis (Dr Dafydd Owen from Pfizer)

2009-10-29 14:00: Probing the structure of organic-inorganic biocomposites (Dr Melinda Duer, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-29 16:00: Determination of binding constants for cucurbit[8]uril complexes: differences in aqueous versus gas-phase binding (Mr Frank Biedermann, University of Cambridge, Meville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2009-10-29 16:30: Colloids, surfaces and reversible supramolecular interactions: Towards light-driven motion (Mr Feng Tian, University of Cambridge, Mellville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2009-11-02 17:00: Design of chiral ligands for asymmetric copper-catalyzed reactions (Professor Alex Alexakis, University of Geneva)

2009-11-05 16:00: Functional Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly ( Prof Kay Severin  (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne))

2009-11-09 17:00: Adventures in conjugate addition chemistry: from alkene hydroacylation to protein bioconjugation (Professor Steve Caddick, UCL)

2009-11-12 14:00: Metal-organic frameworks for chemistry and medicine - Can we design them? (Professor Russell Morris, University of St Andrews)

2009-11-12 16:00: Heterojunction Control of Organic & Hybrid Photovoltaic Semiconductor Devices (Miss Einat Elmalem, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2009-11-12 16:30: Microdroplets in Microfluidics: Towards Emulsion Crystals (Mr Wolfgang-Andreas Bauer, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2009-11-16 17:00: Metallonitrene/Alkyne Metathesis and Beyond:  Transition Metal Catalyzed Oxidative Amination for Organic Synthesis (Professor Simon Blakey, Emory University, USA)

2009-11-19 14:00: The physical and chemical state of nanoparticulate catalysts during carbon nanotube and silicon nanowire CVD (Dr Stephan Hoffman, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Engineering)

2009-11-19 16:00: Polymeric building blocks for supramolecular complexation with cucurbit[8]uril (Mr Eric Appel, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2009-11-19 16:30: Binding Studies on CB[6] with a Series of 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium Ionic Liquids (Miss Nan Zhao, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2009-11-23 17:00: New Genetic Codes (Dr Jason Chin, University of Cambridge, MRC-LMB)

2009-11-30 17:00: New Strategies for the Synthesis of Glycopeptides and Glycoproteins (Dr Richard Payne, University of Sydney)

2009-12-03 16:00: Chemistry of Acenes - toward a Possible Poly(acene) (Dr Douglas Neckers)

2009-12-10 14:00: Designer Crystals: Bio-Inspired Approaches to Controlling Crystallisation (Professor Fiona Meldrum, University of Leeds)

2010-01-07 13:00: BP Day (3rd Year PhD students)

2010-01-13 17:00: New Catalysis Concepts (Professor David W. C. MacMillan,  Princeton University, USA)

2010-01-21 17:00: Colourful chemistry with zwitterionic-type pi-ligands and their metal complexes (Professor Pierre Braunstein, University of Strasbourg)

2010-01-25 17:00: Development of New Methods for Catalytic C–H Functionalization: Critical Interplay between Catalyst Design and Mechanistic Analysis (Professor Melanie Sanford, University of Mighigan, USA)

2010-01-28 16:00: Cyclodextrin Nanomachines at Work (Dr Roger Coulston (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2010-02-04 16:00: Semiconductor Block Copolymers for Organic Electronic Devices (Dr Michael Sommer (Melville Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2010-02-18 14:00: Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting: How to Construct and Characterize Complex Architectures (Professor Christoph Schalley, Institut fur Chemie & Biochemie der Freien Universitat Berlin)

2010-02-18 16:00: Dynamics and Structure of Short Biopolymers Probed by Fluorescence (Professor Werner Nau (Jacobs University, Bremen))

2010-02-22 17:00: Sequencing genomes and sequences in the genome: from chemistry to medicine (Professor Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-25 14:00: Strong CH Hydrogen Bonds: The Newest Player in the field of Anion Receptors (Professor Amar Flood, University of Indiana)

2010-03-01 17:00: Chiral Carbenoids for Asymmetric Synthesis (Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol)

2010-03-04 14:00: Framework Materials: Fascinating Properties (Professor John Evans, University of Durham)

2010-03-04 16:00: Colloidal forces – Tackling mechanics and interactions of complex particles using AFM/optics combination (Prof Andreas Fery, University of Bayreuth Department of Physical Chemistry)

2010-03-08 17:00: Extended ß-Triketone Derivatives: Versatile Building Blocks for Metallosupramolecular Chemistry and Crystal Engineering (Professor Leonard Lindoy)

2010-03-11 12:00: BP Day (3rd Year PhD students)

2010-03-11 16:00: Complex architecures of conjugated polymers via Suzuki and Kumada chain-growth polycondensations (Dr Anton Kiriy (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.))

2010-03-18 16:00: What will a nanobot look like? (Professor Tony Ryan)

2010-03-25 17:00: Structural biology of small RNA-mediated gene regulation and methylation-mark mediated epigenetic regulation (Dr, Dinshaw J. Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York)

2010-04-19 17:00: CANCELLED DUE TO AIR TRAVEL PROBLEMS (Emily Parker)

2010-04-21 11:00: Tailoring multivalent interactions in the design of biomaterials (Professor Kristi Kiick (Materials Science & Engineering, University of Delaware))

2010-04-22 14:00: EPR spectroscopy of transition metal clusters and clusters-of-clusters (Professor Eric McInnes, University of Manchester)

2010-04-23 11:00: Joe Spencer Memorial Lectures (11.00  Prof Peter Leadley (Cambridge), 11.45 Dr Joseph Wright (UEA), 12.15 Dr Dieter Spiteller (MPI Jena), 1.45 Prof Timor Baasov (Technion, Isreal), 2.30 Dr Andrew Truman (Cambridge), 3.00 Prof David O'Hagan (St Andrews), 4.15 Prof Jin-Quan Yu (Scripps))

2010-04-30 16:00: Nanosized Clusters with Main Group elements as Ligands (Professor Dieter Fenske)

2010-04-30 17:00: Shedding Light on the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreens (Dr Emily Balskus, Harvard Medical School)

2010-05-10 17:00: Multicomponent approaches to organic synthesis and chemical biology (Jared Shaw)

2010-05-10 17:00: CANCELLED (Juan Granja)

2010-05-11 16:15: Recharging the Planet: New Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells (Professor Clare Grey)

2010-05-13 16:00: Materials Chemistry and Climate Change (Professor Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews)

2010-05-19 15:00: Designing metal containing anticancer drugs in the absence of a well defined target (Professor Paul Dyson, EPFL)

2010-05-20 16:00: CANCELLED - Synthesis of Polymeric Probes to Control Cell Recognition and Signaling (Prof Laura L Kiessling, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2010-05-24 17:00: Exploring the evolutionary relationships and the reaction chemistry in a family of crucial biosynthetic aldolases ( Professor Emily J Parker, University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

2010-05-26 15:30: Smart and Flexible: Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes on elastic substrates (Mr Tim Kelby, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-26 16:00: The synthetic aspects of polyelectrolyte brushes (Miss Nan Cheng, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-26 16:30: Tuning hierarchical structures with multiple hydrogen bonding interactions (Mr Adam Celiz, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-26 17:00: Chiral Azopolymers and Azobenzene-Containing Linear-Dendritic Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Optical Properties (Dr Jesus del Barrio, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge)

2010-06-10 15:00: Lewis acid-base pairs and host-guest interactions: towards dynamic functional materials (Mr Nicolas Nouvel, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge)

2010-07-01 16:00: Macromolecular Self-Assembly through Cucurbit[8]uril Ternary Complexes (Mr Urs Rauwald, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, University of Cambridge)

2010-09-07 12:00: Organic Host Materials for Highly Efficient Phosphorescent  Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (Prof Chuluo Yang, Wuhan University, China)

2010-09-10 14:00: Developing Catalytic Reactions One Step at a Time (Professor Jennifer Love, University of British Columbia, Canada)

2010-09-22 14:00: Structure-property relationships of molecular crystals (Professor Len Barbour, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

2010-10-01 16:15: Small Molecules and Light as Tools for the Regulation of Biological Processes (Professor Alex Dieter North Carolina State University)

2010-10-07 14:00: New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis (Professor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam)

2010-10-07 14:00: New Supramolecular Strategies in Transition Metal Catalysis (Professor Joost Reek, Van t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Amsterdam.)

2010-10-14 16:00: Monolithic Polymers: Innovations in Stationary Phase Technology for Separation Science (Dr Zarah Walsh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2010-10-21 16:00: Deformation of droplet/double emulsion in microfludics (Mr Shaohua Ma, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2010-10-21 16:30: Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour (Dr Chunming Wang, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2010-10-28 16:00: Towards the syntheses of chiral bidentate ligands in the form of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (Miss Anna Andreou, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2010-10-28 16:30: The Use of Cucurbit[8]uril for Gold Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in Water (Mr Sam Jones, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2010-11-01 13:00: Pfizer Graduate Symposium and talk (Dr Daffydd Owen, Pfizer Global Research & Development,)

2010-11-08 14:00: No Strain, No Gain?: Lessons in Catalysis (Professor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto)

2010-11-11 14:00: Novel Types of Organic Electronic Materials: Polyselenophenes and Oligofurans (Professor Michael Bendikov, Weizman Institute, Israel)

2010-11-11 16:00: Systems chemistry – Teaching simple molecules to do complex things (Prof Douglas Philp, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews)

2010-11-15 17:00: The Discovery of Orally Bioavailable CGRP Receptor Antagonists: From Concept to Clinical Efficacy (Dr Ian Bell, Merck, USA)

2010-11-18 10:00: Inorganic 2nd Yr PhD Student Talks (University of Cambridge)

2010-11-18 15:00: Exploring Ras Super-family Proteins : A Chemical Biology Approach (Dr Debapratim Das, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2010-11-25 16:00: POSTPONED TO LENT TERM (Dr Xian Jun Loh, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2010-11-25 16:30: POSTPONED TO LENT TERM (Dr Karolina Wahlstrom, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2010-11-29 14:00: Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award Lecture 2010 (Professor Raymond Wong, RSC award lecture)

2010-11-29 14:00: Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices (Professor Raymond Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University)

2010-12-01 17:00: CANCELLED (Professor Mike Krische, University of Texas)

2010-12-02 16:00: Catalytic Capsids: reactions in confinement (Prof. Dr. Jeroen J.L.M. Cornelissen, Laboratory for Biomolecular Nanotechnology, University of Twente)

2011-01-27 14:00: Studies of Ion Mobility in Materials for Alternative Energy Applications Using Solid-State NMR (Professor Gillian Goward, McMaster University, Canada)

2011-02-03 14:00: Stable Silicon Clusters with Partial Substitution – Exploring the SI6R6 Potential Energy Surface Experimentally (Dr David Scheschkewitz, Imperial College London)

2011-02-10 16:00: Stimuli-responsive biodegradable poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate]-based copolymers for drug delivery and tissue engineering (Dr Xian Jun Loh, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2011-02-15 15:30: Probing nanostructures and optoelectronic properties of plastic solar cells by scanning probe microscopy (Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA)

2011-02-17 14:00: Form Matters: Catalysis with "Butterflies" (Professor Hansjorg Grutzmacher, ETH Zurich)

2011-02-24 13:30: BP Day (3rd Year PhD students)

2011-02-24 16:00: Engineering microenvironments to control cell fate and behaviour (Dr Chunming Wang, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2011-03-03 14:00: Influencing Folding and Structure of Large RNAs by Metal Ions: Moving from Bulk to the Single Molecule Level (Professor Roland Sigel, University of Zurich)

2011-03-03 16:00: Supramolecular Polymers with Hydrogen Bonding: From Morphology to Structural Control and Use (Professor Wolfgang Binder (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg))

2011-03-10 14:00: Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks (Professor Jeffrey R Long, Berkeley, USA)

2011-03-10 16:00: Development and characterization of protecting groups that enhance the solubility of synthetic peptides (Dr Karolina Wahlström, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)

2011-03-14 15:30: Modelling synthesis and catalytic applications of doped AlPOs (Dr Furio Cora, University College London)

2011-03-25 16:00: Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The Magic of Molecular Machines (Professor David Leigh, University of Edinburgh)

2011-04-04 16:00: Diels Alder Polymers with Unusual Properties: Re‐Mending and Shape Memory (Prof Fred Wudl, UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry)

2011-04-28 14:00: Noncovalent Nanostructures in Aqueous Medium: Robust yet Adaptive (Dr Boris Rybtchinski, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel)

2011-05-05 14:00: A transition metal chemist's view of C-H and C-F bond activation (Professor Robin Perutz FRS, University of York)

2011-05-09 14:00: RSC Organic Symposium at the University of Cambridge (Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn University of Bristol  - Dr Matthew Clarke University of St Andrews - Professor Dieter Enders RWTH-Aachen)

2011-05-11 15:30: Stimuli-responsive macromolecules: polymer-protein bioconjugates and sugar-responsive micelles (Prof. Brent S. Sumerlin, Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas)

2011-05-13 16:00: Design of New Catalytic Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry (Professor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel)

2011-05-16 14:00: Molecular Nanostructures and Sensors by Self-Assembly (Professor Kay Severin, EPFL, Switzerland)

2011-05-19 14:00: Anion Supramolecular Chemistry: Sensing and Materials (Professor Jonathan Steed, Durham University)

2011-06-02 14:00: Molecules and nanostructures for solar energy conversion (Professor James Durrant, Imperial College London)

2011-06-02 16:00: Responsive polymer-stabilised droplets and the 3D structuring of liquids (Dr Jonathan Weaver, Imperial College London)

2011-06-09 14:00: Soft and hard nanomaterials made by self-assmebly (Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cambridge)

2011-06-23 14:00: Identification of Active Species and Reaction Pathways in Molecular Catalysis: Recent Case Histories (Professor Lutz Gade, University of Heidelberg)

2011-07-07 15:30: Molecular Simulations in Structure-Based Drug Design (Dr Julien Michel, Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh)

2011-07-08 14:00: Networking the Self-assembled Cages (Professor Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo)

2011-07-11 14:00: Spin crossover complexes and macrocyclic single-molecule magnets (Professor Sally Brooker, University of Otago)

2011-09-22 17:00: Reaction Design and Catalysis with Aromatic Ions (Professor Tristan Lambert, Columbia University, USA)

2011-10-17 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Erick Carreira, ETH- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland)

2011-10-20 16:00: Dynamic heteroogenized metal nanoparticles by CB[n] assembly in water: from synthesis to application (Ms Enass Abo-Hamed (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-03 16:00: Studies towards engineered wood and designed cell wall polymer interactions (Ms Emma-Rose Coad (University Of Cambridge))

2011-11-03 17:00: [2+2]-Photocycloaddition reactions: New selectivity patterns and synthetic applications (Professor Thorsten Bach, Technical University of Munich, Germany)

2011-11-10 16:00: Melville Lecturer 2011 - Development of New Routes to Benign Polymeric Materials (Prof Geoffrey Coates, Cornell University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology)

2011-11-22 16:50: 'The Chemistry of Genome Maintenance' (Prof. Dr Thomas Carell - Chemical Science Lecturer)

2011-11-28 14:30: New Methods of Bioanalysis using Functionalised Nanoparticles and SERS (Professor Duncan Graham (University of Strathclyde ) http://www.chem.strath.ac.uk/people/academic/duncan_graham)

2011-12-01 16:00: Light-Responsive Polymers and Composites for Biomedical Applications (Professor Jason A Burdick, (Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania) http://www.seas.upenn.edu/directory/profile.php?ID=13)

2011-12-08 00:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology)

2012-01-09 17:00: Mechanisms matter: understanding and optimizing drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis (Dr Clifton E. Barry III, Tuberculosis Research Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD)

2012-01-18 17:00: Small Molecule Control of Intracellular Protein Levels (Prof. Craig M. Crews, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, Dept. of Pharmacology & Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University)

2012-01-26 16:00: Origins of life chemistry - reconciling the iron-sulfur and the RNA worlds (Dr John Sutherland, Cambridge)

2012-01-27 14:00: Exploiting Cryptic Biosynthetic Pathways in Microorganisms (Prof. Dr. Christian Hertweck, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, HKI, Jena, Germany)

2012-02-02 16:00: What could materials chemistry do for anti-inflammatory therapies. Oxidation-sensitive polymers and other examples. (Prof Nicola Tirelli, FRSC, School of Biomedicine and School of Materials, University of Manchester)

2012-02-16 15:00: New Materials for Phosphorescent OLEDs and Polymer Photovoltaics (Dr Youtian Tao, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Univeristy of Cambridge)

2012-02-21 15:45: "Self-assembly and cryo-TEM in the study of bioinspired hybrid  materials" (Dr Nico A.J.M. Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2012-02-21 16:45: "Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis" (Prof. Ben Feringa, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen)

2012-02-22 12:30: The early stages of biomimetic calcium phosphate formation: amorphous phases and pre-nucleation complexes (Dr Nico A.J.M.Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2012-03-01 16:00: Designing Functional Molecular Nanostructures (Professor Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University of Berlin))

2012-03-02 15:00: Development of New Synthetic Methods and Fundamental Studies of Conjugated Polymers (Prof Christopher W Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin)

2012-03-05 17:00: "Natural Products, Synthetic Catalyst and Unnatural Products" (Professor Scott Miller, Yale University)

2012-03-12 17:00: 'Chemistry of Oxygen Sensing in Animals' (Prof. Christopher Schofield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford)

2012-03-29 17:00: "Aromatic Ions as a Design Element in Catalysis" (Professor Tristan Lambert, Columbia University, USA)

2012-04-02 17:00: "New catalytic reactions designed for the efficient synthesis of natural products" (Professor Tim Donohue, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford)

2012-04-24 15:30: Utilizing Supramolecular Chemistry in Polymeric Systems: A Route to Dynamic, Adaptive Materials (Prof Stuart J Rowan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)

2012-05-14 17:00: "Conformational Telecommunication: From Atropisomers towards Artificial Receptors" (Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Manchester)

2012-05-17 16:30: Tailored Polymers for Controlling Cell Signaling (Prof Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2012-05-31 16:00: Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates (Prof Heather D Maynard, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California)

2012-06-06 17:00: "Molecular Behaviour in Small Spaces" (Professor Julius Rebek, Jr., Ph.D - Director, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology)

2012-07-16 16:00: Hybrid Inclusion Complex (HIC) and its Key Role in Constructing New Polymeric Materials (Prof Ming Jiang, Fudan University, Shanghai)

2012-11-26 16:00: "Formation of C-C Bonds via Catalytic Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation" (Professor Mike Krisches - University of Texas at Austin)

2013-01-14 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Geoff Moore)

2013-03-07 14:30: "Evolution of Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC) Leading to Siloxane-Based Transfer Agents for Palladuim Cross-Coupling Reactions" (Professor Amos B Smith - University of Pennsylvania)

2013-07-26 16:00: "Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origin of Homochirality" (Professor Kenso Soai, Department of Applied Chemistry Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science)

2013-08-12 14:00: "Porous Organic Cages - A Serious Alternative to Extended Framework Materials" (Professor Michael Mastalerz, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg)

2013-10-17 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Guido Clever, Inorg Chemistry Department, Gottingen University, Germany)

2013-10-21 16:00: "From Conventional Ligands to Engineered Enzymes: Rh(III) Catalysis for C-H Activitation" (Professor Tom Rovis - Colorado State University)

2013-11-01 14:00: Pfizer Neusentis Graduate and Young Academics Symposium (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-11-22 14:00: "Catalyst-Enabling Chemistry toward Transformative Molecules" (Synthesis and Catalysis Symposium - Professor Kenichiro - Nagoya University, Japan and Professor Tim Jamison - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

2014-04-03 16:00: From Molecules to Microelectrode Arrays: Using Electrochemistry to Solve Problems of Structure and Location (Professor Kevin Moeller, University of Washington, St Louis, USA)

2014-04-04 10:30: Asymmetric Organocatalysis – Challenges and Innovations (Prof Paolo Melchiorre, ICIQ    Prof Alan Armstrong, Imperial College London    Prof Nicholas Tomkinson, University of Strathclyde    Dr Paul Alsters, DSM Pharma Products    Prof Karl Anker Jørgensen, Aarhus University)

2014-04-10 16:00: Catalytic Atom Transfer and Bond Activation Methods Based on P(III)↔P(V) Cycling (Professor Alex Radosevich, Penn State University, USA)

2014-04-29 11:00: "Rearrangement Reactions and Their Applications in Natural Product Synthesis"  (Professor Yongqiang Tu, Lanzhou University )

2014-04-30 15:00: Organic Photoredox Catalysis: Methods and Mechanistic Insight (Professor David Nicewicz, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill)

2014-05-02 14:00: Drug Discovery Today – Inventing new medicines through a complex interplay of diverse scientific disciplines with medicinal chemistry at the core (Dr Roger Norcross, Hoffmann-La-Roche, Basel)

2014-10-31 14:00: Synthetic RIG Graduate Symposium (Dr Gonçalo Bernardes, Philip Murray, Terence Kwan, Dean Holt, Alex Stross)

2014-11-05 16:00: Chemistry at Mesoscopic Regime Connecting the Molecular and the Real World (Professor Eiichi Nakamura, The University of Tokyo)

2014-11-10 16:00: Alkaloid biosynthesis and engineering (Professor Sarah O'Connor, John Innes Centre)

2014-12-04 16:00: Achieving new reactivity and selectivity using transition metal catalysis (Professor Michael Willis, University of Oxford)

2015-01-28 16:00: Metal-Organic Nontrivial Molecules: From Structure to Application (Professor Ali Trabolsi )

2015-02-09 16:00: "Ni-catalyzed Functionalization of Carbon Dioxide and C-O Bonds" (Professor Rubén Martín Romo)

2015-03-05 16:00: Cross Coupling 2.0 (Professor Jeffrey Bode)

2015-03-13 09:00: ‘Pfizer Chemical and Biological Synthesis and Catalysis Symposium 2015’ (students from both the Biological and Synthetic RIGS will be interested in this Symposium) (Professor Edward Tate)

2015-03-17 16:00: Synthetic Methodology Emerging from Activation of Si-H and B-H Bonds (Professor Martin Oestreich)

2015-03-24 16:00: Anticancer Discovery from Simple and Complex Compounds (Professor Paul Hergenrother )

2015-03-26 16:00: "A Common Platform to Enable Nanoscale Synthesis" (Dr Timothy Cernak, Merck)

2015-04-17 16:00: “Cu-Catalysed Reactions: Asymmetric Catalysis, Carbohydrate Derivatisations, and C-H Functionalization” (Professor Motomu Kanai, The University of Tokyo)

2015-04-21 16:00: Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: New Avenues in Synthesis and Metal-free Catalysis (Professor Doug Stephan)

2015-05-06 14:30: "Discovery of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Prolyl Hydroxylase 1-3 (HIF-PHD1-3) Inhibitor for the Treatment of Anemia" (Dr Petr Vachal, Merck)

2015-05-19 16:00: Harnessing the Power of Non-Covalent Interactions for Organocatalysis (Professor Steven Wheeler, Texas A&M University)

2015-05-29 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Robert Britton, Simon Fraser University, Canada)

2015-06-24 16:00: Silicon Tether Motif in C-H Functionalization Reactions (Professor Vladimir Gevorgyan)

2015-09-16 16:00: Development of Novel C-H Bond Transformations and Its Application to the Synthesis of Organic Functional Molecules (Professor Yoichiro Kuninobu, The University of Tokyo)

2015-10-15 14:15: Synthesis RIG Graduate Symposium (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-11-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Michael Willis, University of Oxford)

2015-11-12 16:00: Adventures in Organometallic Catalysis - Computation and Experiment (Professor Franziska Schoenebeck, RWTH Aachen University)

2015-11-19 16:00: Mechanistically Playful Metals (Professor Cristina Nevado, University of Zurich)

2016-01-28 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor John Sutherland, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2016-02-25 16:00: Computing Cycloisomerizations - Understanding Unusual Regioselectivities and Designs for Optimal Stereoselectivities (Professor Robert Paton, University of Oxford)

2016-02-26 16:00: Collaborative Approach for C-H Functionalization (Professor Huw Davies, Emory)

2016-03-16 12:00: Pfizer Chemical and Biological Synthesis and Catalysis Symposium (Professor Edward Anderson)

2016-03-21 10:00: The EvoDevo and Physics of Skin Appendages and Skin Colours in Vertebrates (Prof. Michel C. Milinkovitch, Laboratory of Artificial & Natural Evolution (LANE), Dept of Genetics & Evolution, University of Geneva and SIB (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics). )

2016-05-03 16:00: “NATURAL PRODUCT-BASED ENGINEERING POLYMERS:  A SPECIAL EMPHASIS TOWARD (DEGRADABLE) MATERIALS FOR ORTHOPEDIC, DRUG DELIVERY AND OTHER APPLICATIONS” (Karen L. Wooley, W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University)

2016-05-05 16:00: “TRANSLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL CHEMISTRY TO FUNCTIONAL NANOSCOPIC MACROMOLECULES DESIGNED FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS”  (Karen L. Wooley, W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University)

2016-07-06 15:15: Exploration of Cooperative Asymmetric Catalysts Toward Efficient Synthesis of Therapeutics (Dr Naoya Kumagai, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo)

2016-07-06 16:00: Aerobic Oxidation Reactions for Organic Chemical Synthesis (Professor Shannon S. Stahl, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

2016-07-12 16:00: Stereocontrolled Cyclizations for Complex Molecule Synthesis (Professor Alison J. Frontier, University of Rochester, USA)

2016-10-10 16:00: Studies on Enzymatic Catalysis of Polar Reactions: Proton Transfer, Hydride Transfer and Decarboxylation (Professor John P. Richard, University at Buffalo)

2016-10-27 16:00: From radical cascades to metal-free C-H couplings: New methods for target synthesis (Professor David Procter, University of Manchester)

2016-11-10 16:00: Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar (Dr Michael Taylor, Dr. Matthew Langton, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-22 16:00: Synthetic ligands for the interception of bacterial communication – New languages, new outcomes (Professor Helen Blackwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

2016-11-24 16:00: Unorthodox Interactions at Work (Professor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva)

2017-01-23 16:00: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis (Professor Robert Knowles, Princeton University)

2017-02-23 16:00: Counter-ions and Cascades (Professor Martin Smith, University of Oxford)

2017-03-09 16:00: Late-Stage Fluorination for PET Imaging (Professor Tobias Ritter, Max Planck Institute)

2017-07-10 16:00: Applications of the (4+3) cycloaddition of Epoxy Enolsilanes to the synthesis of cortistatin A and himandrine (Professor Pauline Chiu, Hong Kong University)

2017-10-10 16:00: Deciphering the human microbiota with chemistry (Professor Emily Balskus, Harvard University)

2017-10-30 16:00: Throwing light on organocatalysis: new opportunities in enantioselective synthesis (Professor Paolo Melchiorre, ICIQ)

2017-11-16 16:00: Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar (Dr Katrine Qvortrup & Dr Claudio Bomio)

2017-11-27 16:00: Assembly Line Synthesis (Professor Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol)

2018-01-18 16:00: Catalytic Chirality Generation: New Strategies for Organic Synthesis (Professor John Bower, University of Bristol)

2018-02-08 15:00: Electron Catalysis (Prof Armido Studer, Organisch-Chemisches Institut, WWU Münster)

2018-03-08 16:00: Aromatic foldamers: mastering molecular shape (Professor Ivan Huc, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)

2018-03-23 16:00: Cycloadditions via TMM-Pd Intermediates: New Strategies for Asymmetric Induction and Total Synthesis (Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University)

2018-04-16 16:00: "Artificial Metalloenzymes: Challenges and Opportunities" (Professor Thomas Ward, University of Basel)

2018-07-19 16:00: Asymmetric Radical Transformations (Arts) via a Copper-catalyzed Radical Relay (Professor Guosheng Liu, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China)

2018-10-10 16:00: Leveraging Dispersion and Electrophilicity in Catalysts for Challenging Coupling Reactions (Professor Brad Carrow, Princeton University.)

2018-10-25 16:00: Chemistry Postdoc Seminar  (Dr Kristaps Ermanis (Goodman group) and Dr. Darren Willcox (Gaunt group))

2018-11-07 16:00: New Avenues in Synthesis Enabled by Organic Photoredox Catalysis (Professor David Nicewicz, UNC Chapel Hill )

2018-11-13 15:00: 2018 Merck Lectureship (Professor Sarah Reisman, Caltech and Dr. Caroline McGregor, Merck)

2018-12-03 16:00: New arylation strategies in synthesis’ (Professor Michael Greaney, University of Manchester)

2018-12-19 14:00: Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light (Professor Kirstin Zeitler)

2019-02-21 16:00: Making the tiniest machines (Professor David Leigh, University of Manchester)

2019-02-28 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Samir Zard, Ecole Polytechnique, France)

2019-03-04 16:00: On discovery in catalysis (Professor Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster)

2019-03-14 16:00: Stereoelectronic control of cyclizations, fragmentations, and unusual molecules (Professor Igor Alabugin, Florida State University)

2019-05-20 16:00: 'shuttle catalysis - a conceptual blueprint for reversible functional group transfer' (Professor Bill Morandi, ETH Zurich)

2019-06-10 16:00: NEW drugs from OLD pathways - Teaching Nature New Tricks (Professor Tom Simpson, University of Bristol)

2019-07-08 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor John Montgomery, University of Michigan)

2019-07-12 16:00: Accelerated Synthesis of Modified Proteins via Novel Ligation Technologies (Professor Richard Payne, University of Sydney)

2019-07-26 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Todd Hyster, Princeton University)

2019-10-21 15:00: "Moving away from equilibrium: from molecular interactions to transmembrane nano devices" (Prof. Scott Cockroft, University of Edinburgh)

2019-11-04 16:00: Enantioselective Lewis Base Catalysis using Isothioureas (Professor Andrew Smith, University of St Andrews)

2019-11-18 16:00: Making bonds by breaking bonds: An unconventional approach to making molecules (Professor Jun Yamaguchi, Waseda University)

2019-11-27 15:00: Photoenzymatic Catalysis - Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions (Professor Todd Hyster, Princeton University)

2019-11-27 16:00: "Chirality and Light: Enantioselective Catalysis of Photochemical Reactions" (Professor Thorsten Bach, TU Munich)

2019-12-05 16:00: Custom-tailored Self-Assembled Nanotubes through Hierarchical Coupling of Cooperative Interactions (Professor David Gonzàlez- Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

2020-01-20 16:00: Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds (Dr Martin Eastgate, Bristol- Myers Squibb)

2020-02-10 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Daniele Leonori, University of Manchester)

2020-02-20 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor John Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley)

2020-02-25 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Matthew Powner, University College London)

2020-03-02 16:00: Photoinduced Assembly of C–N and C–C Bonds (Daniele Leonori)

2020-10-26 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof M Kevin Brown, INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON)

2021-10-27 16:00: Synthetic Lectins – The Host-Guest Chemistry of Carbohydrates in Water (Professor Anthony P Davis, University of Bristol)

2021-11-03 16:00: The power of chemoselectivty: Next generation bioconjugates for extra- and intracellular targeting (Prof. Christian Hackenberger, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

2021-11-10 16:00: Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar (Dr Avene Colgan and Dr. Stephen Walsh, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry)

2021-11-24 16:00: New Broad Scope Catalytic Strategies for Amine and Complex Natural Product Synthesis (Professor Darren Dixon, University of Oxford)

2022-04-06 16:00: Chemical Biology Comes of Age: Targeted Protein Degradation as a New Therapeutic Modality (Professor Craig Crews, Yale University)

2022-09-08 16:00: Catalysis: Gold, Silver, Pd, Light, Dark (Dr. Ai-Lan Lee, Heriot-Watt University)

2022-09-15 16:00: Harnessing Radicals and Carbenes To Enable Unconventional Reactivity (Prof. David Nagib, The Ohio State University)

2022-10-24 16:00: Recent Advances in Asymmetric Catalysis and Medicinal Chemistry (Professor Pat Guiry, University College Dublin)

2022-11-01 15:00: Prof Huw Davies talk 1st November 2022 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-11-07 09:00: Merck Lecture day 7th November 2022 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-01-31 15:30: Jeremy Wulff: Universal Polymer Crosslinkers: Synthesis, Structure–Function Relationships, and Applications in Materials Science (Jeremy Wulff )

2023-02-02 16:00: Electrophilic Amination Strategies for N-Heterocycle Synthesis (Prof. John Bower, University of Liverpool)

2023-02-03 16:00: Synthetic control of peptide and protein architectures (Professor Yu Heng Lau, The University of Sydney)

2023-02-27 16:00: Discovery of cyclotides and their applications in peptide-based drug design (Professor David Craik (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland))

2023-03-16 15:00: "Selective Functionalization of Pyridines, Diazines and Pharmaceuticals via Unconventional Intermediates" and "Synthesis in Drug Discovery"  (Prof. Andy McNally, Colorado State University and Dr. Ben Rahemtulla, Pharmaron)

2023-03-22 15:00: Prof Daniele Leonori talk (Title TBC) (Prof Daniele Leonori Institute of Organic Chemistry RWTH Aachen University)

2023-03-29 14:30: AI/ML in Chemical Development  (Marwin Segler(Microsoft Researcher))

2023-03-31 14:00: New developments in electrosynthesis and redox catalysis (Prof. Song Lin, Cornell University)

2023-05-17 15:00: Bioinspired Nucleophilic Fluorination with Alkali Metal Fluoride and Beyond  (Prof. Veronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford)

2023-10-09 14:30: MSD lecture: Abi Doyle  (Abi Doyle - UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry + Dr Ian Bell, MSD )

2023-10-30 14:30: Informatics-based approaches to natural products discovery in an age of reisolation (Professor Roger Linington, Simon Fraser University)

2023-12-15 11:00: "Protein mimicry and recognition with foldamers” (Professor Ivan Huc)

2024-01-19 16:00: Inverting Amine Reactivity (Dr. Alex Cresswell, University of Bath)

2024-01-22 16:00: The Discovery of PAXLOVID - Royal Society of Chemistry BMCS Lecture 2024 (Dr Dafydd Owen - Pfizer)

2024-02-28 16:00: Taming the reactivity of small ring hydrocarbons - Prof Edward Anderson (Edward Anderson - Oxford University)

2024-02-29 16:00: Discovery and scale-up of a novel herbicide by Paul Burton from Syngenta (Syngenta)

2024-03-20 10:30: Fourth SynTech Annual Symposium - Student talks  (Variety of speakers from the SynTech CDT programme.)

2024-03-20 14:40: Building Enzymes with New Function - Professor Anthony Green (Professor Anthony Green - University of Manchester)

2024-04-25 16:00: Talk by Dr Liam Ball (Nottingham University) (Dr Liam Ball Nottingham University)

2024-05-13 16:00: C-H functionalisation using, and not using, iron catalysis (Professor Stephen Thomas, University of Edinburgh)

2024-05-21 16:00: Building Bonds with Boron (Prof. M. Kevin Brown, Indiana University)

2024-06-06 16:00: Cobalt-Catalysed Selective Hydroboration and Multi-Borylation of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons (Prof. Shaozhong Ge, National University of Singapore)

2024-06-07 14:00: Synthetic Strategies toward Fluorosulfurylation of Organic Molecules and Lewis- Acid Catalyzed Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx) (Professor Nicholas Ball - Pomona College)

2024-06-13 16:00: From sulfonium salts to samarium catalysis: new radical chemistry for synthesis (Prof. David John Procter (Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester )

2024-10-08 14:00: MSD Lecture title TBC  (Tom Rovis)

2024-10-09 14:00: MSD Lecture title TBC  (Tom Rovis)

2024-10-23 14:00: TBC Synthesis RIG Seminar (Prof. Jamie Baker, UCL)

2024-10-29 14:00: C-C Bond Nitrogenation (Ning Jiao)

2024-11-18 16:00: MK-7602: A Promising Breakthrough in Antimalarial Invention from an Efficient Academia/Industry Collaboration (Dr Manuel Ruiz, Merck)

2024-11-20 14:00: Dynamic Stereochemistry: Controlling and Exploiting Molecular Directionality (Prof. Jonathan Clayden, University of Bristol )

2024-11-28 14:00: Giving Chemistry Direction (Professor David Leigh, University of Manchester)

2025-01-13 14:00: The quest for selectivity in catalytic C(sp3)-H amination reactions using nitrenes (Prof. Philippe Dauban, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette)

2025-01-17 11:00: Temporal Control of Dissipative Systems Driven by Activated Carboxylic Acids (Stefano Di Stefano)

2025-02-21 14:00: New Strategies for the Rapid Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogues and the Total Synthesis of the Antimitotic Natural Product Eleutherobin (Professor Rob Britton (SFU))

2025-04-10 14:00: From Batch to Flow:  Advancing Synthetic Organic Chemistry through Technological Innovation (Professor Timothy Noël (University of Amsterdam, Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences))

2025-05-07 14:00: Synthesis RIG Postdoc Seminar - Dr Antti Lahdenpera and Dr Sona Krajcovicova  (Dr Antti Lahdenpera and Dr Sona Krajcovicova)

2025-05-15 14:00: Creation of Chemical Complexity via  Controlled Functionalization of Organoboron Compounds (Prof Hong Geun Lee (Seoul National University))

2025-05-16 14:00: Title TBC - Prof. Anat Milo (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

2025-05-23 14:00: Joint ChemBio and Synthesis RIG Seminar - Chemical Biology Tools for Measuring Drug Delivery (Joshua Kritzer (Tufts University))

2025-07-04 11:00: Metal-Catalyzed Cycloisomerizations of Enyne and Allene in Polycyclic Natural Product Synthesis (Professor Xiao-Shui Peng (Chinese University of Hongkong))

2025-07-09 14:00: Symmetry Breaking Routes to Natural and Unnatural Ladderanes (Prof. Santanu Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

2025-10-20 14:00: From speciation studies in manganese catalysis to catalytic oscillations  (Prof. Syuzanna Harutyunyan, University of Groningen.)

2025-10-29 14:00: title tbc (Prof. Dr. Ryan Gilmour, University of Münster,)

2025-11-05 16:00: Crafting chemical space with sulfur functional groups (Prof. Michael Willis, University of Oxford)

2025-11-13 14:00: Molecular Wires and Nanorings (Prof. Harry Anderson, University of Oxford)

2025-12-04 10:30: Discovery of MK-8527 (Izzat Raheem - Merck)

2025-12-04 11:30: Privileged Chiral Catalysts: Selectivity and Generality in Enantioselective Catalysis (Prof. Eric Jacobsen - Harvard University)

2025-12-08 15:00: Uncovering Cooperative Pathways in Asymmetric Catalysis (Prof. Eric Jacobsen - Harvard University )

2026-01-28 14:00: An academic journey from the genetic code reprogramming to therapeutic innovation (Prof Hiroaki Suga (University of Tokyo))

2026-01-29 14:00: Decoding Mechanisms for Reactivity Discover & Design (Prof Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) )

2026-02-05 14:00: Mechanistic understanding-led transition metal catalyzed C-H functionalization (Professor Igor Larrosa (Department of Chemistry | University of Manchester) )

2026-04-21 10:00: RSC Organic Chemistry Community South & East Regional Meeting 2026 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-07-08 14:00: Harnessing Radical Reactivity for Molecular Innovation (Professor Huan-Ming Huang, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University)

2026-07-13 14:00: tbc (Prof. Choon Hong Tan, National University of Singapore)

 : Colloids, surfaces and reversible suprmolecular interactions: Towards light-driven motion (Mr Feng Tian, University of Cambridge, Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis)