Actively Updated Seminars
These groups regularly post their weekly or monthly meeting slides. This is a great way to catch emerging methods and see how they are dissecting the latest literature.
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Baran Lab Seminars (Scripps): Regularly refreshed handouts. If you want to see how complex natural products are stripped down to their core logic using modern, scalable methodology, this is the place.
https://baranlab.org/seminars/ -
MacMillan Group Presentations (Princeton): A chronological list of talks. Essential reading for understanding single-electron transfer, photoredox catalysis, and how to harness highly reactive radical intermediates safely.
https://macmillan.princeton.edu/presentations/ -
Denmark Group Presentations (UIUC): Ongoing group-meeting slides (2019–2025). A brilliant resource if you want to understand the physical organic underpinnings of why reactions work—focusing heavily on transition state geometries, stereocontrol, and Lewis acid/base interactions.
https://denmarkgroup.illinois.edu/group-presentations/ -
Inoue Research Group Archive (UTokyo): A massive, decade-long seminar archive focusing heavily on the synthesis of highly complex, biologically active molecules.
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Kanai Lab Literature Seminars (UTokyo): Excellent handouts and speaker notes, often diving deep into catalytic architectures and new modes of activation.
https://gousei.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp/seminar/index.html
Archival Slide-Set Collections
These sites might not be updated every single week, but they offer rich, well-organized back-catalogues. They are invaluable when you need a deep dive into a specific historical topic or a broad overview of a synthetic strategy.
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Morken Group (Boston College): Presentations stretching from historical 1950s chemistry up to 2025. Great for seeing the evolution of catalytic methods over time.
https://sites.google.com/bc.edu/james-morken/presentations -
Sarpong Group (UC Berkeley): A dense PDF archive of literature talks, heavily focused on the skeletal rearrangements and structural logic of complex alkaloids.
https://sarponggroup.com/presentations/ -
Gaich Group (Universität Konstanz): Topic-focused synthesis overviews. Very useful when you need a structured, pedagogical summary of a specific class of reactions to clear up the mess in your head.
https://www.chemie.uni-konstanz.de/gaich/group-seminar-teaching/ -
Shenvi Group (Scripps): Excellent slides covering the intersection of new methodology and natural product applications, with a keen eye for thermodynamic control in ring systems.
https://shenvilab.org/seminars/ -
Stoltz Group (Caltech): A fantastic PDF archive summarizing complex synthetic chemistry. Highly recommended for studying how to build tough quaternary stereocenters.
https://stoltz2.caltech.edu/seminars2.html
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