Previous Blomquist Lectures
Spring 2008
David Evans, Harvard University
- March 26: Some Personal Thoughts on Developments in the Field of Organic Synthesis
- March 27: Asymmetric Synthesis with Chiral Metal Complexes
Fall 2006
Albert Heck, Utrecht University
- November 2: Chemical Proteomics; Fishing in Deep Waters;
- November 3: Macromolecular Mass Spectrometry; Protein Machineries on the Fly
Spring 2005
Dale Boger, The Scripps Research Institute
- April 25: Chemistry at the Chemistry-Biology Interface;
- April 26: Vancomycin and Ramoplanin: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies
Fall 2003
Eiichi Nakamura, University of Tokyo
- November 3: Organic Synthesis: The Gateway to Nanoscience;
- November 4: Reaction Pathways of Organometallic Reactions - Theory Meets Experiments
Spring 2003
Karl Anker Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
- March 10: A Failed Reaction Leading to New Catalytic Organic
- March 11: Transformations; Catalytic Asymmetric Cycloaddition
Fall 2001
Guy Ourisson, University of Strasbourg
- November 12: Elements of Molecular Taphonomy, or the Discovery of Undiscovered Natural Products
- November 13: The Membrane Hypothesis of the Origin of Life
Spring 2000
Dennis Dougherty, California Institute of Technology
- May 9: Physical Organic Chemistry on the Brain I. A Cation-p Interaction at the Nicotine Receptor
- May 10: Physical Organic Chemistry on the Brain II. Chemical Probes of Neuroreceptor Function
Spring 1999
Jack Dunitz, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich
- April 15: Attractions and Repulsions in Molecular Crystals
- April 16: Polymorphism: The Same and Yet Different
Spring 1998
Samuel J. Danishefsky, Columbia University
- April 27: On the Chemistry-Biology Interface: From Glycals to Clinically Evaluatable Carbohydrate-Based Antitumor Vaccines
- April 28: From Fantasy to Reality: A Travel log in the Fascinating World of Total Synthesis
Fall 1996
Victor Hruby, University of Arizona
- October 21: Conformational and Topographical Considerations in de novo Design of Bioactive Peptides and Peptidomimetics
- October 22: Combinatorial Chemistry: A Critical Examination
Spring 1996
John D. Baldeschwieler, California Institute of Technology
- April 17: New Approaches to Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy
- April 18: Visualizing the World of Atoms and Molecules with Scanning Probe Microscopy
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