Harvard/MIT Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

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Title: " The periodic table of ribonucleotide reductases " Abstract: All organisms depend on the action of a ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) to provide the substrates for DNA replication and repair. This central function offers potential for the...

Title: Developing Synthetic Tools for Inexpensive, Efficient Energy Production and Storage We are interested in developing electrochemical methods for the synthesis of materials with applications in energy storage. In particular, we are interested in how...

Title: "Hydride complexes of abundant metals in catalysis" Abstract: The chiral center of many pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals is installed by the addition of dihydrogen across the C=O or C=N bond of a prochiral ketone or imine catalyzed by a ruthenium...

Title: Smarter Chemistry: Green, Circular and Safe by Design Chris Slootweg was born in Haarlem (The Netherlands) in 1978 and received his undergraduate education from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2001, with research stays at the University of...

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Title: "Under Pressure: Materials Chemistry at Extreme Conditions" Abstract: The application of extreme environments (including variable pressure, temperature and irradiation) can induce dramatic changes in materials and give us a much broader field to...

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Title: Leveraging lability in MOFs: explorations in ligand exchange, interligand chemistry, and controlling compositional complexity This presentation will describe ligand exchange phenomena and associated opportunities in classes of metal-organic...

New Catalysis Enabled by a Metal-Imido Ligand Cooperativity Significant work has established the utility of low-coordinate iron imido complexes in two-electron nitrene group transfer reactions. We have found that strongly donating bis(carbene)borates...