23rd Annual Organic Area

ALLERTON CONFERENCE

8:00 a.m.

Check-in/Continental Breakfast
Session I: Timothy Flood, Chair
8:40 a.m.

Opening Remarks
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
1:25 p.m. 

Christopher J. Welch
Developing Platform Chemical Technologies to Support Pharmaceutical Process Research
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