Sunday, June 28

• William Roush (University of Michigan) - Problems in Glycoside Chemistry: Progress Towards the Synthesis of Aureolic Acid Antitumor Antibiotics
• Vincent Rocco (Eli Lilly) Palladium-Mediated Cross Coupling Reactions in Heterocyclic Construction

Monday, June 29

• Peter Jacobi (Dartmouth University) - Synthesis and Study of Biologically Important Tetrapyrroles
• John Macor (Bristol Myers-Squibb) - A Tale of Two Receptors: Synthesis of Agonists for the Serotonergic and Cholinergic Families of Receptors
• Edward Taylor (Princeton University) Multiple Inhibition of Folate-Dependent Enzymes--Discovery of an Exceptionally Promising Antitumor Agent

• Duane Burnett (Schering-Plough) - Design and Synthesis of Biochemical Tools for the Investigation of the Mechanism of Action of the ß-Lactam Cholesterol Absorption Inhibitor, Sch 58235
• Joachim Schantl, University of Innsbruck - Azomethine Imines in Four- and Five-Membered Rings: Stable Cyclic Valence Isomers of an alpha-(Phenyldiazenyl)ketocarbene
• Steven Burke (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - Conformational Engineering and Convergent Functionality: Applications to Synthetic Ionophores and Ion Channel Templates

Tuesday, June 30

• Shuji Kanemasa (Kyushu University) - Interaction of 1,3-Dipoles with a Lewis Acid - The Case of Diazo Compounds
• Ronald Ratcliffe (Merck) - Synthesis of a New Series of Carbapenem Antibiotics Active Against MRSA
• Jacquelyn Gervay (University of Arizona) - Synthesis and Structural Studies of Novel Carbohydrate-Based Heterocycles

• Joel Hawkins (Pfizer) - New Asymmetric Aldol and Ortho Boration Chemistry for a Drug Candidate
• Stephen Bergmeier (Ohio State University) - Intramolecular Cyclization Reactions of Aziridine Allysilanes
• Michael Martinelli (Eli Lilly) - Synthetic Studies on the Anti-Tumor Agent Cryptophycin 52 (LY355703)

Wednesday, July 1

• Michelle Weidner-Wells (R. W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute) - An Unexpected Reversal of Regioselectivity in the Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions of Nitrile Oxides with Tertiary Cinnamides and Crotonamides
• David Van Vranken (University of California-Irvine) - Protein Aging: Clues for Organic Synthesis
• Robert Batey (University of Toronto) - New Synthetic Approaches toward Pyrrolidine and Indolizidine Synthesis
• Marco Ciufolini (Université Claude Bernard, Lyon) - Synthetic Studies on Heterocyclic Natural Products

• George Sheppard (Abbott) - Synthetic Approaches to a Novel Series of MMP Inhibitors
• Partha Ray (University of Memphis) - Synthesis and Antitumor Properties of Pyrimidoazepine-Based Tetrahydrofolic Acid Derivatives
• Philip Kocienski (University of Glasgow) - Synthesis of the Marine Antitumour Agents of the Pederin-Mycalamide Class

Thursday, July 2

• Russell Dushin (Wyeth-Ayerst) - A New Route to Enaminone Intermediates
• Eric Edstrom (University of Montana) - Chemistry of Indole-3-triflates
• Harry Finch (Glaxo-Wellcome) - A Natural Product Lead Into Strained [5,5]Bicyclic-trans-Lactones and -Lactams: Total Synthesis and Potential Applications

• James Cook (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) - Enantiospecific Synthesis of Sarpajine and Ajmaline Alkaloids via the Asymmetric Pictet-Spengler Reaction
• Joe Konopelski - Vice Chair's Remarks