Chemistry at Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois

Frontiers in Organic Chemistry Symposium

2010 FRONTIERS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM

11th Biennial Organic Symposium

Beckman Institute

Saturday, October 9, 2010

8:00 AM Breakfast
8:20 AM Opening Remarks
8:45 AM

David Y. Gin
Synthesis of Vaccine Adjuvants and Bioactive Alkaloids

9:45 AM

William R. Roush
Synthesis of Bifunctional Allylboron Reagants via Allene Hydroboration Rections, and Applications to the Synthesis of Biologically Active Products

10:45 AM

Break

11:15 AM

Anna K. Mapp
Small- and Large-molecule Transcriptional Modulators

12:15 PM

Lunch

1:35 PM

David A. Leigh
Making the Tiniest Machines

2:35 PM

Gregory C. Fu
Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Alkyl Electrophiles

3:35 PM

Break

3:45 PM

Roundtable Discussion

4:30 PM

Closing Remarks