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