Postdoctoral position in Organic Chemistry in France

Highlights:
1. The Unité de Chimie des Biomolécules (UCB), Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry at the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), has an opening for a full-time postdoctoral research position in glycochemistry.

2.  This postdoctoral position is available from October 2009 for one year and possibly subjected to a one year renewal.

3. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary network of organic chemists, structural chemists, microbiologists, and immunologists.

4. He/She will take part in a research program dedicated to the development of new anti-infectious vaccines. He/She will be responsible for developing efficient innovative synthetic strategies to complex bacterial oligosaccharides, and conjugates thereof. Besides, he/she will be involved in the development of new purification and analysis methods suitable for the later targets.

Postdoctoral Research positions in homogeneous catalysis and transition metal chemistry

Highlights:

1. Starting Sept. - Dec. 2009

2. In the research group of Prof. Kenneth Nicholas,Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Oklahoma,Norman, OK 73019

3. Three projects:

Transition-Metal Catalyzed Nitrogenation of Hydrocarbons
Catalyst Evolution by Dynamic Templating (with Transition State Analogs)
Chemicals and Fuels via Deoxydehydration of Biomass-Derived Polyols

4.  Preferred background for candidates:
- synthetic and/or mechanistic organic, inorganic, organometallic chemistry and/or homogeneous catalysis
- tools: air-free techniques, compound isolation, characterization by spectroscopy, kinetics, QM computational methods
- Ph. D. completed

5. Stipend: $30,000/yr (+ health insurance); 1 year appointment with extension possible by mutual agreement

6. Send application/vita + 2-3 reference letters from research mentors to above address or to knicholas@ou.edu; 405-325-3696

7. Webaddress for KN: http://chem.ou.edu/Details/Kenneth-M.-Nicholas.html) and for OU Chem-Biochem. dept.: http://chem.ou.edu/