Distinguished Lecture Series
Mon, Aug 25
|Ridgecrest
Come see Sir David MacMillian, Ph.D. – Princeton University speak on The Development of Photocatalytic Reactions of Value to Chemists and Biologists.
Time & Location
Aug 25, 2025, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Ridgecrest, 221 W Inyokern Rd, Ridgecrest, CA 93555, USA
About the event
This lecture will discuss the application of visible light photocatalysis to the discovery
or invention of transformations that will be conceptually or synthetically valuable (and sometimes,
hopefully, both). He will describe why a healthy balance of reaction discovery and mechanistic
understanding has been important to the development of a field of research that is now being
widely adopted in medicinal chemistry settings. In particular, he will discuss the application of
photocatalysis to the development of new metallaphotoredox coupling reactions involving SH2