F.J. Toole Lecture Series
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 |
| 31 March 1972 | Linus Pauling | "Orthomolecular Psychiatry" |
| 2 October 1972
3 October 4 October |
Vladimir Prelog | Geometrical Basis of Steroisomerism"
"Stereospecificity of Certain Oxidoreductases" "Boromycine Structure and Properties" |
| 4 November 1974
5 November 6 November |
John C. Polanyi | "Infrared Chemiluminescence"
"Who is Winning the Arms Race? - Some Thoughts Concerning Arms Control" "The Molecular Dynamics of Simple Chemical Reactions" |
| 16 February 1976
17 February 18 February |
Karel Wiesner | "The Long Road to Delphinine"
"Topics in Lycopoduim and Ryanodine Chemistry" "The Second Renaissance of Electrochemistry" |
| 31 October 1977
1 October 2 October |
Paul J. Scheuer | "Chemistry on the Halfshell: Natural Products form Marine Invertebrates"
"Marine Toxins" "Chemical Communications of Marine Invertebrates" |
| 22 October 1979
23 October 24 October |
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" |
| 6 October 1980
7 October 8 October |
Ronald J. Gillespie | "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" |
| 17 November 1981
18 November 19 November |
Jack Halpern | "Catalysis by Coordination Compounds"
"Mechanism and Stereochemistry of Asymmetric Catalytic Hydrogenation" Free Radical Processes in Organometallic Chemistry" |
| 26 September 1983
27 September 28 September |
Sir George Porter | "Science and the Human Purpose"
"Picosecond Studies of Photosynthesis" "Photochemical Approaches to Solar Energy Storage" |
| 6 November 1989
7 November 8 November |
Edward C. Piers | "The Use of Rearrangement Reactions in Organic Synthesis"
"Bifunctional Reagents in Organic Synthesis" "Studies in Natural Product Synthesis" |
| 8 November 1993
9 November 10 November |
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" |
| 25 September 2000
26 September 27 September |
Geoffry Ozin | "Panascopic Materials, Synthesis over "All" Length Scales"
"Self-assembling Supramolecular Materials" "Curves in Chemistry, Supramolecular Materials Taking Shape" |
Sources:
- UA Case 215.
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