25th Annual Organic Area 
ALLERTON CONFERENCE

Allerton Park, Saturday, November 12, 2011

2011 Schedule:

8:00 a.m.

Check-in/Continental Breakfast
Session I: Claire Knezevic
8:40 a.m.

Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.

Paul Gormisky (Prof. M. Christina White)
Synthetic Versatility in C--H Oxidation: A Rapid Approach to Differentiated Diols and Pryans from Simple Olefins
9:20 a.m.

Yuan Fu (Prof. Anne M. Baranger)
MBNL1-RNA Interactions: Binding Inducing RNA Conformational Changes
9:40 a.m.

Vince Carroll (Prof. John A. Katzenellenbogen)
Evaluation of Non-Nuclear Estrogen Receptor Signaling in Vivo Through the Use of an Estrogen Dendrimer Conjugate
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.

Ying Xiao (Prof. Scott K. Silverman)
Deoxyribozymes to Hydrolyze DNA Phosphodiester Bonds
11:15 a.m.

Matthew Burk (Prof. Scott E. Denmark)
Enantioselective Bromocycloetherification by Lewis Base/ Chiral Bronsted Acid Cooperative Catalysis
11:35 a.m.

Joseph S. Bair (Prof. Paul J. Hergenrother)
The Development of Deoxynyboquinone as a Personalized Anticancer Compound
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:

Marinus Bigi
1:25 p.m. Dr. Neil Almstead (PTC Therapeutics)
1:45 p.m.

Junqi Li (Prof. Martin D. Burke)
Pinene-derived iminodiacetic acid (PIDA): A Powerful Ligand for Stereoselective Synthesis and Iterative Cross-Coupling of C(sp3) boronate Building Blocks
2:05 p.m.

Preston May   (Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore)
Polymer Architecture Effects on Mechanochemical Reactions
2:25 p.m. Poster Session II
Poster session and snacks in the Gallery. Talks resume in the library at 3:20 p.m.
3:20 p.m.

Patrick Knerr (Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk)
Total Chemical Synthesis of Lantibiotics
3:40 p.m.

Ying Li (Prof. Steven C. Zimmerman)
Synthesis of a Redox-Responsive Quadruple Hydrogen-Bonding Unit 2 for Applications in Supramolecular Chemistry
4:00 p.m.

Dan Robbins (Prof. John F. Hartwig)
A Simple, Multi-Dimensional Approach to High-Throughput Discovery of Catalytic Reactions
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.