| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| January 18 |
No seminar (Martin Luther King Holiday) |
| January 25 |
Due to a bad weather the previous day, the talk by Donal
Gaines was postponed |
| February 1 |
James Kaduk
Amoco |
"Doing a Lot with a Little: Solving Crystal Structures Ab Initio Using
X-Ray Powder Diffraction Data" |
| February 8 |
TBA |
| February 15 |
Donald Gaines
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
"Heteroatom Insertion into Boron Hydride Cluster Systems" |
| February 22 |
TBA |
| March 1 |
Santiago Alvarez
University of Barcelona |
"Ligand Orientation Effects in Transition Metal Complexes" |
| March 8 |
Spring Break — No Seminar |
| March 15 |
Russell Grimes
University of Virginia |
"Metallacarborane Sandwich Complexes in Metallopolymer Construction and in
Polymerization Catalysis" |
| March 22 |
Dor Ben-Amotz
Purdue University |
"Principles and Application of Molecular Thermometers, Barometers, and
Viscometers" |
| March 29 |
TBA |
| April 5 |
Harry Morrison
Purdue University |
"Steroids as Photonic Wires" |
| April 12 |
V. Ramamurthy
Tulane University |
"Proton, Electron, Energy, Spin, and Chiral Transfer within Zeolites" |
| April 19 |
William Lipscomb*
Harvard University |
"Fructose-1,6-biphosphatase and Type II Diabetes" (4 p.m.)
"Linus Pauling and His Influence on Chemistry" (8 p.m.) |
| April 26 |
Scott Denmark
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Cancelled. Possibly rescheduled during the 1999-2000 year.
"Recent Advances in Asymmetric Catalysis" |