The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois

Allerton Conference

23rd Annual Organic Area 
ALLERTON CONFERENCE

Sponsored by
Dr. Seemon H. Pines and Merck & Company
Allerton Park, Saturday, November 21, 2009
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

 

 

8:00 a.m.

Check-in/Continental Breakfast
Attendees pick up name tags and programs
Poster Session I should put up their posters between 8 and 8:40
AV should be set up and ready to go
Session I: Timothy Flood, Chair
8:40 a.m.

Opening Remarks
Everyone should be in library, all 143 of us, with speakers sitting in the front row
9:00 a.m.

Brad Carrow (Prof. John F. Hartwig)
Mechanistic Studies in Palladium Catalysis: The Role of Anionic Arylpalladium Halide Intermediates in the Mizoroki-Heck Reaction
9:20 a.m.

Sreenivasa Rao Ramisetty (Prof. Anne M. Baranger)
Unraveling the Interaction of Poly(CUG)RNA with MBNL1 Protein
9:40 a.m.

Ian Dailey (Prof. Martin D. Burke)
Synthesis of a Universal Polyene Macrolide Building Block via a Novel Diastereotopic Group-Selective Lactonization
10:00 a.m.

Poster Session I
Break for poster session in Gallery with snacks/coffee
Talks will resume in library at 10:55 am
10:55 a.m.

Alex Parent (Prof. John A. Katzenellenbogen)
Small-Molecule Inhibitors of the Estrogen and Androgen Receptor/Coactivator Binding Interaction
11:15 a.m.

Erik Stang (Prof. M. Christina White)
Total Synthesis and Study of 6-deoxyerythronolide B by Late-Stage C-H Oxidation
11:35 a.m.

Amit Sachdeva (Prof. Scott K. Silverman)
DNA-Catalyzed Reactivity of Amino Acid Side Chains
11:55 a.m.

Lunch in the Main Dining Room
Tables will be assigned to each person previously. Tables will be seated and called to go through buffet
Session II:

Aaron Finke, Chair
During the lunch hour, Poster Session I presenters should take down their posters and Poster Session II presenters should put theirs up.
After lunch, everyone is back in the library with speakers ready to go in front row
1:25 p.m. 

Christopher Welch

1:45 p.m.

Phil Janowicz (Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore)
Creation and Implementation of a Fully Online Organic Chemistry Course
2:05 p.m.

Trent Oman (Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk)
Insights into the Mode of Action of the Two-Peptide Lantibiotic Haloduracin
2:25 p.m.

Poster Session II
Poster Session and snacks in the Gallery
Talks will resume in library at 3:20 p.m.
3:20 p.m.

Nathan Werner (Prof. Scott E. Denmark)
The Cross-Coupling of Allylic Silanolate Salts with Aromatic Bromides
3:40 p.m.

Diana West (Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother)
Procaspase-Activating Compounds: in vitro Mechanism and in vivo Applications as a Personalized Anti-Cancer Therapy
4:00 p.m.

Darrell Kuykendall (Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman)
Supromolecular Adhesives: Adhesion Promotion at Interfaces Facilitated by Quadruply Hydrogen-Bonding Modules
4:20 p.m.

Break
Professors will vote on best posters and talk of the conference
4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks and Presentation of the Seemon H. Pines Award
5:00 p.m. Exit Allerton Park and Retreat Center
   

The annual Allerton Research Conference is held at beautiful Allerton Park, an English-style estate located approximately 20 miles southwest of Champaign. At this conference one student from each organic chemistry research group presents his/her work in the old library of the Robert Allerton House. Two more students from each group present their work in the form of a poster. Lunch is enjoyed in the grand dining hall, and after lunch free time is used to wander through the more then 5,000 acres of forest and prairie along the Sangamon River. The park features formal English gardens and over 100 outdoor sculptures. At the end of the day, the Seemon Pines award is given to the most outstanding presentation.

 

 
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