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Organic Division Seminar Series

Time & Location: 4 pm in Gilbert 324

2007-08 Academic Year


October 8
(Note New Date)
Professor Kay Brummond
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburg, PA
Underutilized Functional Groups and Reaction Discovery
October 15 Professor Lawrence Williams
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ
The Bedeviled Epoxide
October 30
11:00 AM
Dr. Brendan Crowley
Faculty Candidate
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Synthesis and Reengineering of Complex Natural Products with Significant Biological Activities

November 5


Professor Richard Hsung University of Wisconsin - Madison
Wisconsin, WI
New Strategies for Syntheses of Alkaloids
November 6
11:00 AM
Dr. Eric Ferreira
Faculty Candidate
Standford University,
Stanford, CA
Palladium and Ruthenium Catalysts Inspired by Both Reaction Mechanism and Natural Products
November 12
11:00 AM
Prof. Armen Zakarian
Faculty Candidate
Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL
Marine Natural Products: Explorations in Synthesis
November 19
11:00 AM
Dr. Isaac Krauss
Faculty Candidate
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Syntheses of Challenging Molecules Relevant to the Fight Against Cancer Metastasis and HIV
January 7

Professor Frank McDonald
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Biomimetic Synthesis of Cyclic Ether Natural Products
January 25
Professor Marcus Tius
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI
Some New Nazarov Chemistry
February 25
Professor Edwin Vedejs
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Heteroatom-Directed Hydroboration
March 3 Professor Marisa Kozlowski
University of Pennslyvania
Philadelphia, PA
Enantioselective Oxidative Naphthol Coupling:  Mechanism and Applications in Natural Product Synthesis
March 10 (New)
Dr. Miles A. Fabian
Program Director
Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, & Biological Chemistry
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
National Insitute of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, MD
Recent Developments at the NIH and NIGMS
April 14

Professor William Roush
Scripps Research Institute
Jupiter, FL
Applications of the Double Allylboration Reaction in the Synthesis of Natural Products
May 5
Professor Steven Weinreb
Penn State University
University Park, PA
5th Annual Büchi Lecturer
Methodology for Alkaloid Synthesis
May 12
Dr. Olof Ramström
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden,

Dynamic Chemistry for Synthesis and Discovery
May 13 (Note Tuesday Date)
Professor Scott Miller
Yale University
New Haven, CT
A "Biomimetic" Approach to Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions

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