The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois

Allerton Conference - 2008 Schedule and Presenters

22nd Annual Organic Area
ALLERTON CONFERENCE

Sponsored by
Dr. Seemon H. Pines and Merck & Company
Allerton Park, Saturday, November 8, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 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:Adam Langenfeld, 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.

John Whitteck (Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk)
Insights into the Mechanism of Hydroxyethylphosphonate Dioxygenase

9:20 a.m.

Adrienne (On Yi) Wong (Prof. Scott K. Silverman)
Development of DNA Catalysts that use Peptide and Protein Substrates

9:40 a.m.

Nathan Duncan-Gould (Prof. Scott E. Denmark)
Investigation of Phase Transfer Catalysis Employing Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships

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.

Davis Oldham (Prof. John A. Katzenellenbogen)
Estrogen Receptor Mediated Inhibition of NF-кB as a Route to Treatment of Breast Cancer

11:15 a.m.

Todd Meyer (Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother)
Development of Spirocyclic Ligands for Bulged RNA Secondary Structure

11:35 a.m.

David Knapp (Prof. Martin D. Burke)
Direct cross-coupling of MIDA boronates under aqueous basic conditions

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:

Tyler Wilson, 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. 

Prof. Chris Cramer (University of Minnesota)
Diverting Diradicals -- From Methylene to Metal-Dioxygen Complexes

1:45 p.m.

Aaron Finke (Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore)
C-H Activation: A New Tool for the Preparation of Phenylene Scaffolding

2:05 p.m.

Giang Vo (Prof. John F. Hartwig)
Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Aryl Halides and Aryl Tosylates with Ammonia: A General Method for the Preparation of Primary Arylamines

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.

Richie Kohman (Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman)
Degradable dendrimers, hydrogels, and gene delivery vehicles made from 1,3,5-triazaadamantanes

3:40 p.m.

Andrew Young (Prof. M. Christina White)
Allylic C-H Alkylation via Pd(II) catalysis

4:00 p.m.

Divina Anunciado (Prof. Anne M. Baranger)
Investigation of Dynamic Processes in RNA-Protein Recognition

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
Chemistry at Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign