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Henry Rzepa, talks and Presentations

Henry Rzepa

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Frequency: 1 episode/163d. Total Eps: 15

Public lectures, talks, workshops and presentations by Henry S. Rzepa.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Natural Sciences
14/12/2025
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Woodward and the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules

Monday, May 20, 2013 • Duration 46:56

A history of symmetry, stereochemistry and how the Woodward-Hoffman rules for pericyclic reactions came about.

Changing ways of sharing research in Chemistry

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 • Duration 17:12

Changing ways of sharing research in Chemistry In 1994 onwards, the Internet was seen as having an increasingly influential potential for how chemistry may be handled, shared, stored and communicated, and how the Internet might have impacted upon the quality, reproducibility and re-use of both experimental observation and computational modelling for new scientific opportunities. Examples will be presented to illustrate from a personal viewpoint how the author carried out collaborative research in pre-Internet days, and how things have changed up to 2012. This will include a review of early attempts at electronic conferencing, examples of modern "datuments" as data-enriched interactive articles, the role of digital repositories and how environments such as blogs and Wikis can be used to promote collaborative new science.

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Computational Chiroptical Spectroscopy and reaction mechanisms in Sulfur-containing natural products.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 • Duration 50:14

The first part of the talk will cover the essential features of modern chiroptical spectroscopies, and the second will illustrate these with several case studies. These will include the rather controversial histories of the determination of the absolute configurations of an important series of sulfur-containing natural products such as the dethiochaetocins and dehydrogliotoxins. The mechanism of dethionation of these species has been claimed to involve both retention and inversion of configuration at the carbon-S centre, and a possible route for either process is shown in the scheme below. Computational chemistry is also used to chart the viability of such a mechanism, although the techniques used to do so require methods that have only recently been introduced as routine procedures. The take-home message is intended to illustrate that the use of computational modeling for both chiroptical spectroscopy and associated mechanistic exploration is increasingly regarded as a sine qua non of the synthetic laboratory.

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Computational Chiroptical Spectroscopies: an important symbiotic instrument for synthetic chemists.

Friday, August 5, 2011 • Duration 54:07

Of the 61M known compounds, it is estimated only around 1M have been reported as scalemic, a term used to describe any non-racemic chiral compound. Of these, an unknown proportion have a clearly established absolute configuration for the dominant enantiomer. Absolute configurations can be established by anomalous dispersion X-ray crystallography (and it is estimated about 11,000 such determinations have been made) or chiroptical spectroscopies. This talk concentrates on the latter, and in particular illustrates how electronic circular dichroism, optical rotatory power, optical rotatory dispersion and vibrational circular dichroism, coupled with powerful modern quantum mechanical simulations, can be used to assign the absolute configurations of scalemic molecules. In effect, the QM "chiroptical instrument" is seen as an indespensible symbiotic component of a modern synthetic laboratory, and the skills needed to operate it properly should be part of the training of any aspiring synthetic chemist who may be making scalemic molecules.

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Wikipedia and Molecular Sciences

Thursday, April 14, 2011 • Duration 28:41

I venture to suggest that ... the general development of the human race to be well and effectually completed when all men, in all places, without any loss of time, at a low rate of charge, are cognizant through their senses, of all that they desire to be cognizant of in all other places. ... This is the grand annihilation of time and place which we are all striving for, and which in one small part we have been permitted to see actually realised" (Samuel Butler, 1863, [1])

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Evolution of the science journal and the chemical publication

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 • Duration 40:31

The concept of a modern scientific journal becomes 346 years old in 2011 (DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0001), although only since 1994 has the journal article been embedded in the Internet and Web era (DOI: 10.1039/C39940001907). Although the structure of the article itself morphed little during the first part of the Internet age, there are now signs that many aspects of its creation and dissemination are starting to evolve more rapidly. Here, several potential future enhancements are reviewed, including the role of the scientific blog in augmenting the effectiveness of the peer-review processes, the role of data-integrity within the article, integration of Web-enhanced and other data-rich and functional objects, the role of open digital repositories, article semantification, and delivery and re-functionalisation of the re-invented article via new generations of mobile personal devices.

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iPads as a laboratory device: The future of the Web is the App?

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 • Duration 22:03

The iPad is the first of an apparently new generation of personal information appliance. The app has become the new shrink-wrapped access point for the web of chemistry, and the metaphors are driven by touch and the sensors built into the devices. Whilst it would be fair to say these have not really started being explored by chemists, we have had one year to explore the potential. Some low-hanging fruits can be picked, including redesigning the text book, the lecture and the laboratory for this medium. But will the concept merely fragment and dumb-down chemistry in yet another proprietory manner, or could this be the start of the next revolution?

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The past, present and future of Scientific discourse

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 • Duration 39:11

A reflection on aspects of scientific publishing, journals and other forms of discourse, based on two scientific stories.

How digital repositories and HPC can help enhance the scientific publication

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 • Duration 26:57

There is now increasing focus on the imortance of structured data as an integral part of the primary scientific, technical and medical publication processes. Whereas traditional journals version 1 (circa 1680-2008) have rarely given structured and semantically enabled data much prominence (this not enhancing their business model), there is now far more pressure (from eg funding councils) to ensure that the often considerable investments in securing the data are not lost to the community, or to posterity. This presentation will give a brief demonstration of how the (computational) data generating resource (the HPC unit at Imperial College) has been structured and preserved via a uportal developed within the HPC unit, ingested into a digital repository, and now embedded in primary journal articles (version 2) and taught courses in the chemistry department.

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To infinity ... and beyond: a scientific (and occasionally chemical) journey full of twists, writhes and three dimensions!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 • Duration 01:01:08

Scientific ideas can take a long time to gestate, and their fusion sometimes emerges from the most unexpected of directions. The talk will illustrate a chemist’s attempt to merge ideas from different areas of mathematics, molecular biology, physics and indeed chemistry, and which together span some 314 years of scientific (and indeed musical) development. The central theme concerns twisted objects known as Mobius bands, their molecular analogues, and the consequences of exploring what happens when additional twists are added. The talk will also address the theme of how to express the emerging three dimensional concepts in a visually comprehensible and semantically harvestable manner suitable for both a (re-invention) of the scientific journal for an Internet era, and in presentations to an audience, with the help of some scissors, paper and hopefully the audience itself.

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