May 26, 2011 Frontiers in Catalysis Symposium	Professor Ei-ichi Negishi Purdue University The Magical Power of d-Block Transition Metals – Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling and ZACA Reaction
September 29, 2010	Professor John Hartwig University of Illinois Organometallic Chemistry of Synthetic Methods
September 09, 2009	Professor Barry Trost Stanford University On the Design of Chiral Space for Asymmetric Induction in A Catalytic Synthetic Reaction
October 22, 2008	Professor Larry Overman University of California, Irvine Recent Studies in Alkaloid Total Synthesis
April 27, 2007	Professor Robert G. Bergman University of California, Berkeley Selective Organic and Organometallic Reactions in Water-Soluble Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems
May 12, 2006	Professor Robert Howard Grubbs California Institute of Technology Metathesis Catalyst for the Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules
April 06, 2005	Professor Stephen L. Buchwald Massachusetts Institute of Technology Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Processes: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies
October 20, 2004 Inaugural Lecture	Professor Emeritus Richard F. Heck University of Delaware Cobalt and Palladium Catalysis in Organic Synthesis