September 5, 2007 Professor Ohyun Kwon Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles Phosphine Catalysis of Allenes in Target-Oriented Synthesis (TOS) and Diversity-Oriented Synthesis (DOS)

September 12, 2007 Professor Andrew Phillips Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Colorado at Boulder From Targets to Strategies and Back Again: Some Examples from Complex Molecule Synthesis

September 19, 2007 Professor Stephen L. Buchwald Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Processes: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies

November 7, 2007 Professor Glenn Micalizio Department of Chemistry Yale University Group IV Metal-Mediated Reactions for Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation: Cross-Coupling via Directed Carbometalation