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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)
Chemical and Electrochemical Energy Storage Facilitated by Lithium Imide
This event is open to final year undergraduate project students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic staff. Effective energy storage is one of...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor M. Kevin Brown
Abstract and Title TBC
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alison Hill
Unique data sets for robust and authentic online open book assessments
Online assessments where there is a clear 'correct' answer are susceptible to students working together, sharing (or even selling) answers. The...
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Energised Ukraine: Art in Precarious Times
Byre World event: free but please book
What is energy? Is it something that we remember only at moments when we think it might disappear completely? During this talk, hosted by Viktoriia Grivina,...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Larissa von Krbek
Stimuli responsiveness in molecules, cages, and dynamic libraries
Photoswitchable molecules can reversibly interconvert between two different isomers. With new applications for photoswitches constantly emerging, the necessity...
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Light from the East: Middle Eastern Art (Dr Fabio Caiani)
Free, but please book your tickets on the Byre Theatre website
This event is a multi-media celebration of Middle Eastern art in honour of Catherine Cobham (former Head of the Arabic and Persian Department). Renowned Syrian...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Kirsten Zeitler
Photoredox Catalytic Strategies for the Activation of Strong Bonds
Over the past decade, photocatalysis has become a powerful synthetic tool, offering novel reaction pathways that were previously inaccessible by other methods....
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson
Targeted small molecule fluorescent probes for the detection of mobile zinc
Zinc mis-regulation is associated with a wide range of disease states and there is an ongoing need to study the behaviour of 'mobile' or...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Daniel T. Gryko
1,4-Dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole and Dipyrrolonaphthyridinedione -- Novel Building Blocks for Optoelectronics
Recently we have discovered and optimized the first practical synthesis of non-fused pyrrole[3,2-b]pyrroles via domino reaction of aldehydes, primary amines,...
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School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko
Death and Life of Homogeneous Carbonyl Reduction Catalysts: Navigating the Maze of Deactivation Chemistry for Sustained Performance
Catalytic reduction of carbonyl moieties in ketones and esters is fundamental to the production of high-value fine chemicals. Although traditional precious...
