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SUMMARY:Uncovering Cooperative Pathways in Asymmetric Catalysis - Prof. Er
 ic Jacobsen - Harvard University 
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CONTACT:James Massey
DESCRIPTION: In the course of my group’s efforts to discover new asymmet
 ric catalytic reactions\, we have had occasion to perform deep mechanistic
  analyses of the catalysts we have discovered. In this lecture\, I will re
 late different stories where seemingly minor “misbehaviors” in our exp
 erimental data were examined closely and found to lead to unexpected insig
 hts into the catalytic mechanisms and ultimately led us to improved or com
 pletely new catalytic systems. The common feature of each of these systems
  was ultimately found to be the operation of unanticipated cooperative mec
 hanisms. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of our recent efforts
  to identify cooperative pathways through both hypothesis-driven and mecha
 nistically agnostic approaches.
LOCATION:Dept. of Chemistry\, Wolfson Lecture Theatre
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