Organic Chemistry Seminar Abstracts, Fall 2001 - Spring 2002 / Chemistry at Illinois

Fall 2001 Seminars

Designing Enzymes for Organic Synthesis: Enzyme Mimics and Directed Evolution
David Mckinney

Synthetic Routes to the Diterpenoid Cores of Phorbal and Resinferatoxin
Joseph Eckelbarger

Introducing Functionality Through C-H Bond Activations
Rachel Hector

Search for Specific Kinase Inhibitors and Cellular Substrates
Danica Galonic

Probing DNA Stability and Replication with Hydrophobic Bases
Matthew Stone

Ruthenium Catalized Enyne Metathesis
Justin Montgomery

Enhancing Protein Surface Recognition Through Multivalent Interactions
Kyle Plunkett

Catalytic Enantioselective Strecker Reaction
Tommy Bui

[2+2] Photocycloaddition of Enones to Olefins
Timothy Boebel

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as a Unique Reaction Medium
Melissa Witmer

Spring 2002 Seminars

Cyclic Antibiotic Petide Design: Structure and Membrane Interaction
Rebecca Coppins

Low Molecular Weight Bis-urea Organogelators
Kimberly Deaton

Ionic Liquids as Solvents for Chemical Transformations
Jesse Kuiper

Enantioselective Electrophilic Fluorination
Christopher McGinley

Tumor-Associated Carbohydrate Antigens: Synthesis and Applications
Yuxin Zhao

Small-Molecule Organic Semiconductors
Nandita Madhavan