F.J. Toole Lecture Series
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The F.J. Toole Lecture Series was established in 1972 in honour of Dr. Frank J. Toole, professor of chemistry, UNB's first dean of arts and science, and Vice-President (Academic) before he retired in 1965.
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title of Lecture |
| 2, 4 October 1972 | Linus Pauling | "Orthomolecular Psychiatry" |
| 4, 6 November 1974 | Vladimir Prelog | Geometrical Basis of Steroisomerism" "Stereospecificity of Certain Oxidoreductases" "Boromycine Structure and Properties" |
| 16, 18 February 1976 | John C. Polanyi | |
| 31 October, 2 November 1977 | Karel Wiesner | "The Long Road to Delphinine" "Topics in Lycopoduim and Ryanodine Chemistry" "The Second Renaissance of Electrochemistry" |
| 22, 24 October 1979 | Paul J. Scheuer | "Chemistry on the Halfshell: Natural Products form Marine Invertebrates" "Marine Toxins" "Chemical Communications of Marine Invertebrates" |
| 6, 8 October 1980 | Miroslav Protiva | "New Drug Research in Czechoslovakia During the Last Twenty Years" "Main Contemporary Directions of Chemical Research in the Field of Tricyclic Antipsychotics" "Development of New Trycyclic Neuroleptics Based on metabolic Studies" |
| 17, 19 November 1981 | Ronald J. Gillespi | "The Prediction of Molecular Geometries by Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Theory" "Preparation and Structure of the Polyatomic Cations of the Group VI Elements" "Bonding in the Cage and Cluster Compounds of the Metals and Non-Metals" |
| 26, 28 September 1983 | Jack Halpern | "Catalysis by Coordination Compounds" "Mechanism and Stereochemistry of Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenation" "Free Radical Processes in Organometallic Chemistry" |
| 6, 8 November 1989 | Sir George Porter | "Science and the Human Purpose" "Picosecond Studies of Photosynthesis" "Photochemical Approaches to Solar Energy Storage" |
| 8, 10 November 1993 | Edward C. Piers | "The Use of Rearrangement Reactions in Organic Synthesis" "Bifunctional Reagents in Organic Synthesis" "Studies in Natural Product Synthesis" |
| 25, 27 September 2000 | Martin Karplus | "Dynamics of Proteins: Their Nature and Functional Role" "Molecular Recognition in Proteins: Free Energy Simulation and Ligand Design" "Biophysics of Proteins: Temperature Pulse Echoes and Other Phenomena" |
| Geoffry Ozin | "Panascopic Materials, Synthesis over "All" Length Scales" "Self-assembling Supramolecular Materials" "Curves in Chemistry, Supramolecular Materials Taking Shape" | |
| 15, 16 March 2012 | Robert Howard Grubbs | "Polymer Chemistry and Olefin Metathesis" "Green Chemistry, Catalysis and a Little History" |
Sources: *UA Case 215.
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