Student Hosted Colloquium

Thursday, May 15th
Professor Erik J. Sorensen
"Rapid Formation of Molecular Complexity in Natural Product Synthesis"



5:00pm - 6:00pm
Braun Lecture Hall
S.G.Mudd Chemistry Building
Stanford University







This seminar is being sponsored by Abbott and is free and open to the public. There will be a special presentation from Dr. McDermott of Abbott at 4:15pm. All Stanford University Chemistry students are encouraged to attend this special event.

About the seminar:
The field of complex natural product synthesis has come far since the early 1900’s. However, the achievements in this field are rarely close approximations of the concept of the “ideal synthesis”. This lecture will discuss some historically significant chemical achievements in the context of the ideal synthesis and offer some recent results from our ongoing efforts to design and execute reactions that enable substantial increases in molecular complexity.

About Sorensen:
Erik J. Sorensen is the Arthur Allan Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. He received his Ph. D. degree in Chemistry in 1995 from the University of California, San Diego under the direction of Prof. K. C. Nicolaou. From 1995–1997, he was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Samuel Danishefsky at The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In 1997, he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and achieved the rank of Associate Professor in 2001. In 2003, he moved to Princeton University, where he is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry. For his achievements in chemical research and education, he received a Beckman Young Investigator Award, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Pfizer Global Research Award for Excellence in Organic Chemistry, the AstraZeneca Award for Excellence in Chemistry, the Lilly Grantee Award, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and A Focused Giving Award from Johnson & Johnson. In 2001, he was a Woodward Scholar at Harvard University. In 2007, he was the Givaudan/Karrer Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Zürich.

Questions
Please contact Patricia Dwyer at 650-723-4770.