The 22nd Boston Regional Inorganic Colloquium (BRIC) will be held at Brandeis University this Saturday, June 12, 2010 in Gerstenzang 123.  BRIC meetings are held several times a year at rotating universities in the “Boston region” (which, at this point has grown to expand all over the northeast). We would be delighted if you would join us for the event on Saturday.  Please RSVP to Chris Thomas (thomasc at brandeis.edu) if you plan to attend.

Schedule:

9-9:30 Refreshments
9:30 Dr. Anthony Fernandez (Merrimack College)
“Studies on the C-N Oxidative Addition Reactions of Pincer Complexes of Rh”
10:30 Dr. John Caradonna (Boston University)
“TBA”
11:30 Thomas Teets (Nocera group, MIT)
“Halogen Photoreductive Elimination from Late Transition Metal Complexes”
12:30 Lunch (free with registration)
2:00 Dr. Jianfeng Jiang (Yeshiva Univeristy)
“Synthetic Approach to the Active Sites of Hydrogenase”
3:00 Dr. Peter Caravan (Harvard/MGH)
“Lanthanide Coordination Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biomedical MRI”

Sponsors:  Strem Chemicals, Inc.; LC Technology Solutions Inc.; Sigma-Aldrich Inc.; M. Braun, Inc.

Special Thanks to the Brandeis Chemistry Department for generous funds and to members of the Thomas group for helping to organize this event.