19th Annual Organic Area
ALLERTON CONFERENCE

8:00 a.m Check-in/Continental Breakfast
Session I: Daniel Ryan, Chair
8:40 a.m. Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. Chandrasekhar Miduturu (Prof. Scott K. Silverman)
DNA Constraints for Rational Control of Macromolecular Structure and Folding
9:20 a.m. Nathan Ide (Prof. David Y. Gin)
Efforts Toward the Total Synthesis of (-)-Crambidine
9:40 a.m. Hugo Ong (Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman)
7-Deazaguanine Analogues as Useful Modules for Quadruply Hydrogen-Bonded Heterocomplexation with Diamidonaphthyridine
10:00 a.m. Poster Session I
10:45 a.m. Mark Chen (Prof. M. Christina White)
Palladium-Sulfoxide Catalyzed Allylic Oxidations and Serial Ligand Catalysis
11:05 a.m. Ephraim Parent (Prof. John A. Katzenellenbogen)
Imaging Prostate Cancer: Synthesis and In Vivo Testing of Androgen Radiopharmaceuticals
11:25 a.m. Kyle Bodine (Prof. Mary S. Gin)
Synthesis and Properties of Selectively Modifiable Cyclodextrin Analogues
11:45 a.m. Lunch in the Main Dining Room
Session II Steve Tymonko , Chair
1:15 p.m. Dr. Michael Palucki (Merck & Co.)
Stereoselective Synthesis of a Merck Anti-HIV Drug Candidate and Studies in the
Development of the Mo-Catalyzed Asymmetric Alkylation Reaction
1:35 p.m. Benjamin Leslie (Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother)
Discovery of the Biological Target of Triphenylmethylamides, Small Molecules which Potently Induce Apoptosis in Melanoma
1:55 p.m. Chuck Hickenboth (Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore)
Mechanochemical Triggers for Self-Reinforcing Polymers
2:15 p.m. Poster Session II
3:00 p.m. Ramil Baiazitov (Prof. Scott E. Denmark)
Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Daphnilactone B Using a Tandem Double Intramolecular [4+2]/[3+2] Cycloaddition of Nitroalkenes
3:20 p.m. Heather Relyea (Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk)
Kinetic Analysis and pH Dependence of the Phosphite Dehydrogenase Reaction
3:40 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks and Presentations of the Seemon H. Pines Award