24th Annual Organic Area 
ALLERTON CONFERENCE

 
Allerton Park, Saturday, November 6, 2010
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

2010 Schedule:

8:00 a.m.

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

Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.

Marinus Bigi (Prof. M. Christina White)
Carboxlyic Acid-Directed C-H Oxidations and Desaturations using a Non-heme Iron Catalyst and H202
9:20 a.m.

Juan Velasquez (Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk)
Biosynthesis of the Antimicrobial Peptide Epilancin 15X
9:40 a.m.

Eric Woerly (Prof. Martin D. Burke)
Stereoretentive Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling of Haloallenes Enables the Total Synthesis of (-)-Peridinin
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.

Chris Mayne (Prof. John A. Katzenellenbogen)
Insights Into the Effect of Scaffold Structure on Estrogen Receptor Binding Affinity and Subtype Selectivity
11:15 a.m.

Matt Kryger (Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore)
Masked Cyanoacrylates Unveiled by Mechanical Force
11:35 a.m.

Yichen Tan (Prof. John F. Hartwig)
Mechanistic Study of Palladium-Catalyzed Direct Arylation of Benzene: Evidence for the Intermediacy of "Ligandless" Arylpalladium(II) Species in the C-H Cleavage Step
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:

Trent Oman, Chair
   
1:45 p.m.

Michael Terrazas
Acrylic Pressure Sensitive Adhesives: R&D Efforts Towards a mature Technology
2:05 p.m.

Tyler Wilson  (Prof. Scott E. Denmark)
N-Silyl Oxyketene Imines: Highly Versatile Yet Underutilized reagents for Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis
2:25 p.m.

Rahul Palchaudhuri (Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother)

Discovery of a Small Molecule that Induces Rapid Apoptotic Cell Death through a Non-Classical Pathway
2:45 p.m. Poster Session II
3:40 p.m.

Chun-Ho Wong (Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman)
Discovery and Study of Small Molecule Inhibitors of MBNL-RNA Complexations as Therapeutic Agents to Treat Myotonic Dystrophy
4:00 p.m.

Stacie Richardson (Prof. Anne B. Baranger)
Pharmacophore Modeling and Idenitification of Molecular Scaffolds Capable of Inhibiting the Intreaction Between (CUG)n RNA and MBNL1 Protein as Potential Therapeutic Agents for Myotonic Dystrophy
4:20 p.m.

Break
4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks and Presentation of the Seemon H. Pines Award
   
   

The annual Allerton Research Conference is held at beautiful Allerton Park, an English-style estate located approximately 20 miles southwest of Champaign. At this conference one student from each organic chemistry research group presents his/her work in the old library of the Robert Allerton House. Two more students from each group present their work in the form of a poster. Lunch is enjoyed in the grand dining hall, and after lunch free time is used to wander through the more then 5,000 acres of forest and prairie along the Sangamon River. The park features formal English gardens and over 100 outdoor sculptures. At the end of the day, the Seemon Pines award is given to the most outstanding presentation