2008 Symposium Program & Presentation Abstracts

Click on presenter names to see abstracts from the 2008 symposium.

09:00: Brandin Lilgert (University of Victoria, BC. Advisor: Fraser Hof)

Replicating a Complex Natural Event Using a Simple Synthetic Host

09:20: Christopher Hazzard (Portland State University, OR. Advisor: Kevin A. Reynolds)

Kinetic Analysis of Crotonyl Coenzyme A Reductive Carboxylases Involved in Natural Product Biosynthesis

09:40: Sheng-Chieh Huang (University of British Columbia, BC. Advisor: David Perrin)

Tryptathionine Enkephalin

10:00: Jamie Murphy (Washington State University, WA. Advisor: Ming Xian) * PRIZE WINNER! *

Novel Bioorthogonal Reactions for S-Nitrosothiols

10:40: Jesse Nye (Central Washington University, WA. Advisor: Levente Fabry-Asztalos)

Synthesis Towards 5,6-Dihydropyran-2-ones as Potential Inhibitors of HIV-1 Protease

11:00: Anna Greenswag (Willamette University/OHSU, OR. Advisors: Sarah Kirk and Jeff Karpen)

Progress Towards the Design and Synthesis of a Tetracaine Derivative as a Bifunctional Ion Channel Blocker

11:20: Nathan Cermak (University of Washington, WA. Advisor: Michael H. Gelb)

Secreted Phospholipase A2 Inhibitors

11:40: Thomas Pinter (Simon Fraser University, BC. Advisor: Rob Britton) * PRIZE WINNER! *

Concise Stereocontrolled Synthesis of 2,5-Disubstituted 3-Hydroxytetrahydrofurans

#001 Bryan Beall (Oregon State University, OR. Advisor: Paul R. Blakemore)

Toward Automated Stereospecific Reagent Controlled Homologation in a Microfluidic Reactor

#002 Tyler Biggs (Washington State University, WA. Advisor: Ming Xian)

Novel Bioorthogonal Reactions for S-Nitrosothiols

#003 Sansan Cao (University of Nevada at Reno, NV. Advisor: Liming Zhang)

One-Pot Synthesis of 2-Acylcyclohexanones from Propargylic Esters

#004 Jason Lusk (Oregon State University, OR. Advisor: Rich G. Carter)

Diels-Alder Approach to the Synthesis of Siamenol Analogs

#005 Philip Rodenbough (University of Washington, WA. Advisor: Michael H. Gelb)

Synthesis and Study of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Secreted Phospholipase A2

#006 Samuel Tartakoff (Brigham Young University, UT. Advisor: Steven L. Castle) * PRIZE WINNER! *

Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Acutumine

#007 Piper Klemm (OSU, OR & Trinity College, CT. Advisor: Claudia S. Maier) * PRIZE WINNER! *

Using H/D Exchange-MS to Determine Protein Dynamics of AhpC, a Peroxiredoxin-Type Antioxidant Enzyme

14:30: Corinne A. Allen (University of Oregon, Advisor: Darren W. Johnson)

Self-Assembled As(III)-Thiolate Macromolecules

14:50: Allison Akagi (Lewis & Clark College, Advisor: Louis Kuo)

Degradation of a VX Analogue: First Organometallic Reagent to Promote Phosphonothioate Hydrolysis Through Selective P-S Bond Scission

15:10: Dagmara Marston (University of Oregon, Advisor: Michael M. Haley) * PRIZE WINNER! *

A Mechanistic Investigation of Iridabenzenes Through the Use of Asymmetric 3-Vinylcyclopropenes

15:30: Jessica Velluci (Western Washington University, Advisor: Timothy B. Clark)

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydroboration Reactions of Aldehydes

Jonathan Ellman (UC Berkeley)

New Metal-Catalyzed C-C Bond Forming Reactions for the Efficient Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds