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X-WR-CALNAME:Chemistry Hutchison Memorial Lectureship: “From Small Molecu
 le Activation to Interstellar Molecule Generation”
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DESCRIPTION:Christopher Cummins\, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry 
 at MIT\, presents “From Small Molecule Activation to Interstellar Molecu
 le Generation”\n\nBio: Christopher “Kit” Cummins benefited from form
 ative undergraduate research experiences carried out sequentially in the l
 aboratories of Professors Susan E. Kegley\, James P. Collman\, and Peter T
 . Wolczanski\, respectively of Middlebury College\, Stanford University an
 d Cornell University. He graduated from the latter institution with an A.B
 . degree in 1989. Following this he undertook inorganic chemistry graduate
  studies under the direction of Professor Richard R. Schrock at the Massac
 husetts Institute of Technology\, from which he obtained his Ph.D. degree 
 in 1993 with a thesis entitled “Synthetic Investigations Featuring Amido
 metallic Complexes”. Also in 1993 Kit joined the chemistry faculty at MI
 T as an Assistant Professor\; in 1996 he was promoted to the rank of Profe
 ssor\, and in 2015 he was named the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry.\
 n\nResearch themes in the Cummins group showcase exploratory synthesis and
  reactivity studies. General areas of interest include transition-metal co
 ordination chemistry\, organometallic chemistry\, small molecule activatio
 n\, metal-ligand multiple bonds\, and group transfer reactions. We are dev
 eloping anthracene-based molecular precursors to novel reactive intermedia
 tes and potential interstellar molecules. Such anthracene-based precursors
  are also of interest as group transfer reagents. We are elaborating reage
 nts and methods for the selective chemical oligophosphorylation of biomole
 cules. Reactions of relevance to phosphorus sustainability are under devel
 opment with the goal of minimizing waste and energy consumption in the upg
 rading of phosphate raw materials to value-added chemicals.\n\nThe researc
 h accomplishments of Kit’s group have been recognized with Harvard Unive
 rsity’s E. Bright Wilson Prize\, the Phi Lambda Upsilon National Freseni
 us Award\, a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering\, an Alfred P.
  Sloan Foundation Fellowship\, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry\, the NSF A
 lan T. Waterman Award\, the TR100 Award\, an Alexander von Humboldt Resear
 ch Award\, the Dannie-Heineman Preis of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu
  Göttingen\, the ACS F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemis
 try\, the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences\, the
  inaugural Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award\, the RSC Ludwig Mond Awa
 rd\, the Linus Pauling medal\, the ACS M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in Mai
 n Group Inorganic Chemistry\, and the International Award of the Japan Soc
 iety of Coordination Chemistry. Kit has been a Fellow of the Hagler Instit
 ute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University\, he is a corresponding mem
 ber of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen\, an honorary member 
 of the Israel Chemical Society\, an honorary Professor of the Institute II
 SER Kolkata\, and an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts a
 nd Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
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LOCATION:Hutchison Hall\, 140
SUMMARY:Chemistry Hutchison Memorial Lectureship: “From Small Molecule Ac
 tivation to Interstellar Molecule Generation”
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/chemistry-hutchison-memori
 al-lectureship-from-small-molecule-activation-to-interstellar-molecule-gen
 eration
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