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Saturday, July 14, 2018

Seminar: Jason Dutton (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) - Tuesday, Jul. 17, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.

Seminar: Jason Dutton (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)

UWinChemBiochem Seminar Series - Winter 2018

Jason Dutton
Department of Chemistry & Physics
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Title: “Using Hypervalent Iodine to Unlock New Transition Metal and Main Group Chemistry”
Web: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/chemistry-and-physics/research/dutton

Tuesday, Jul. 17, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.
Room #109 Essex Hall

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Abstract: 
The use of hypervalent I(III) reagents for the oxidation of late transition metals is a topic of major interest. In particular the groups of Sanford and Ritter have used I(III) compounds such as PhICl2 and PhI(OAc)2 to access Pd(IV) complexes, which have been used mainly in stoichiometric and catalytic C-H activations. The Dutton group has been studying the use of dicationic I(III) complexes [PhI(pyridine)]2+ as  oxidants for late metals for chemistry involving Pd(IV), Pt(IV) and Au(III). Most significantly we have used this method to synthesize homoleptic Au(III) trications, which represent a new family of gold compounds. These Au(III) trications can be used to access unique reactivity between gold and water, as well as extremely rare examples of Au(III)-F complexes, generated using simple fluoride sources such as KF.

Seminar: Keiji Hirose (Osaka University) - Monday, July 16, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.

Seminar: Keiji Hirose (Osaka University)

UWinChemBiochem Seminar Series - Winter 2018

Name
Department of Materials Engineering Science
Osaka University
Title: “Elucidation of Molecular Design Guide for Rotaxane Type Molecular Machines under Consideration of Shuttling Dynamics”
Web: http://www.chem.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/supra/en/

Monday, July 16, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.
Room #109 Essex Hall

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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Chemistry research centre to build on strengths in organic materials

Chemistry research centre to build on strengths in organic materials
Three researchers will head up a new Functional Organic Materials Research Centre with grants totaling $700,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation(CFI), the Ontario Research Fund and contributions from industry partners.
The centre will allow chemistry and biochemistry professors Tricia Carmichael, John Trant, and Simon Rondeau-Gagné to expand on their current research into designing and synthesizing new organic materials to create wearable electronics, stretchable transistors, and highly specified drug delivery methods.
“This supports the infrastructure we already have in place, and provides new and essential instrumentation that will bolster our ability to do leading edge research,” says Dr. Trant.
Dr. Carmichael is a leader in stretchable electronic devices. This centre will give her new tools to characterize electrically functional materials and devices for stretchable and wearable electronics applications, and she says this new infrastructure will create a world-class interdisciplinary facility.
“The research we can now pursue will lead to new innovative materials for use in the rapidly growing wearable electronics market, ‘smart’ drug-delivery technologies and biomedical devices, as well as new self-healing materials,” says Carmichael.
Synthetic chemist Trant investigates triggerable drug delivery devices to help fight cancer and certain autoimmune diseases. He says this infrastructure is necessary to move forward on this research, which includes designing chemotherapy drug delivery methods that would target cancer cells and avoid healthy cells.
“I will get a custom-built peptide synthesizer — which is essentially a robot that makes peptides,” says Trant. “This made-to-order robot will be designed specifically to work with unnatural, high-value amino acids and allow ready recovery of them and will be the first of its type in the world.”
Dr. Rondeau-Gagne’s lab uses materials to build new types of transistors needed for innovative bio-electronics. He requires specialized tools to measure difficult-to-define polymers.
“We are designing the centre to be able to create new biomaterials and polymers to go from design, to preparation at large scale, and get to the final application in electronics,” says Rondeau-Gagné.
“The centre is the connection between all our capabilities and this is about delivering innovative, final applications with state-of-the-art materials. It is why we call it functional materials, because it won’t give us just the capabilities of working with our research program, but also to expand and really get that materials expertise.”
Dean of science Chris Houser says with recent strategic research hires, the University of Windsor has attained a critical mass of researchers focusing on organic materials, which makes it one of the strongest departments in Canada in this field. Together with this new research centre, they can start training the next generation of materials scientists.
“This builds momentum with research, but with Science UWindsor’s commitment to undergraduate training, we are also going to have undergrads working with this state-of-the-art equipment so that when they graduate, they will have worked with the absolute top line in equipment and materials science methods,” says Dr. Houser.
“This also makes us highly competitive, with researchers around the province, the country, and even from Michigan, wanting to come and use this equipment.”
The centre will be housed in the Faculty of Science’s new research facility and will be divided into two major biomaterials and bioelectronics platforms, and includes advanced instrumentation such as a custom-built peptide synthesizer, an ultra-high-temperature gel permeation chromatography system, and a cutting-edge transistor fabrication station.

Sara Elliott
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Seminar: Norbert Kučerka (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Dubna, Russia) - Friday, July. 6, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.

Seminar: Norbert Kučerka (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Dubna, Russia)

UWinChemBiochem Seminar Series - Spring/Summer 2018

Norbert Kučerka
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Dubna, Russia
Title: “Condensed Matter Research at Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics”
Web: http://www.norbbi.com/

Friday, July. 6, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.
Room #186 Essex Hall

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