Sunday, June 7

• Evening Session: 7:30 - 9:45 PM
  • Francis G. Fang, Eisei Institute - Discussion Leader
  • A. I. Meyers - Colorado State University
    "Synthesis of Natural Products via Asymmetric Reactions"
  • Michael P. Doyle - University of Arizona
    "Stereocontrol in Catalytic Metal Carbene Reactions"

Monday, June 8

• Morning Session: 8:30 -12:30 PM
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  • Donna M. Huryn, Wyeth-Ayerst - Discussion Leader
  • Henri Kagan - Université de Paris Sud
    "Asymmetric Syntheses or Kinetic Resolution with Partially Resolved Chiral Auxiliaries"
  • Amos B. Smith III - University of Pennsylvania
    "Stereocontrol in the Synthesis of Architecturally Complex Natural Products."
  • Peter Wipf - University of Pittsburgh
    "Stereochemical Adventures in the Total Synthesis of Natural Products"
  • Poster Session I (Posters 1-19) - 5:00
• Evening Session: 7:30 - 10:10 PM
  • Donald C. Dittmer, Syracuse University, Discussion Leader
  • Kaoru Fuji - Kyoto University
    "Memory of Chirality: Asymmetric apha-Alkylation of Carbonyl Compounds without Any External Chiral Sources"
  • Peter Beak - University of Illinois
    "Endocyclic Reactions; from the Geometries of Atom Transfers to Asymmetric Syntheses"
  • Xumu Zhang - Pennsylvania State University
    "Asymmetric Catalysis Based on Conformationally Rigid Chiral Phosphine"

Tuesday, June 9

• Morning Session: 7:30 - 12:30 PM
  • Marisa Kozolowski, University of Pennsylvania - Discussion Leader
  • Steven Ley - Cambridge University
    "Developing Methodology for Organic Synthesis"
  • Eric Jacobsen - Harvard University
    "Synthesis with Chiral Building Blocks Made Readily Available Through Asymmetric Catalysis"
  • Cynthia K. McClure - Montana State University
    "Synthesis of Phosphate Analogs of Carbohydrates and Inositols via Pentacovalent Oxaphospholene Methodology"
  • Short Talks Lightning Round
    • Jos Brands - Merck & Co.
      "An Efficient Synthesis of the New Broad-Spectrum Carbapenem Antibiotic MK-0826"
    • Philip P. Garner - Case Western Reserve University
      "Asymmetric Diels-Alder Chemistry Based on a New Chiral Auxiliary for Dienes"
    • Scott R. Gilbertson - Washington University
      "The Parallel Synthesis and Use of Phosphine Based Catalysts"
    • Thomas Lectka - Johns Hopkins University
      "Catalytic, Enantioselective Alkylation of alpha-Imino Esters Using Late Transition Metal Phosphine Complexes as Catalysts"
    • Poster Session 1 (Posters 1-19)- 5:00
• Evening Session: 7:30 - 10:25 PM
  • Lendon N. Pridgen, SmithKline Beecham - Discussion Leader
  • Madeleine Joullié - University of Pennsylvania
    "Asymmetric Syntheses in the Didemnin and Astin Families of Macrocycles"
  • Mukund P. Sibi - North Dakota State University
    "Enantioselective Conjugate Additions"
  • P. Andrew Evans - University of Delaware
    "New Transition Metal Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation Reactions"
  • Short Talks Lightning Round
    • James L. Leighton - Columbia University
      "Synthetic Applications of New Diastereoselective Olefin Carbonylation Reactions"
    • Robert E. Maleczka, Jr. - Michigan State University
      "Stereospecific [1,2]-Wittig Rearrangements: A Divergent Approach to Syn and Anti-13-Polyols'
    • Scott J. Miller - Boston College
      "Kinetic Resolution of Alcohols Catalyzed by Tri- and Tetra-peptides Containing the N-Alkylmidazole Substructure "

Wednesday, June 10

• Morning Session: 8:30 - 12:30 PM
  • Jeffrey Aubé, University of Kansas - Discussion Leader
  • Dale Poulter - University of Utah
    "Insights about Isoprenoid Biosynthesis from Stereochemical Studies"
  • William Nugent - Dupont Central Research and Development
    "Enantioselective Catalysis: What Tools These Metals Be!"
  • Marian Mikolajczyk - Polish Academy of Sciences
    "New Phosphorus- and Sulfur-Mediated Asymmetric and Stereoselective Syntheses of Bioactive Products"
  • Yian Shi - Colorado State University
    "Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins Via Dioxiranes"
  • Poster Session II (Posters 20-38) - 5:00
• Evening Session: 7:30 - 10:10 PM
  • Carl Johnson - Wayne State University
    "Using Nature's Catalysts: Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Bioactive Targets"
  • Lushi Tan - Merck & Co., Inc.
    "Recent Developments in Practical Asymmetric Synthesis"
  • Short Talks Lightning Round
    • Scott McN. Sieburth - State University of New York at Stony Brook
      "Brook Rearrangement Route to Alpha-Amino Silanes"
    • Wojciech J. Stec - Polish Academy of Sciences "Stereocontrolled Synthesis of P-Chiral Nucleotides and Oligonucleotides"

Thursday, June 11

• Morning Session: 8:30 - 12:30 PM
  • Donna Blackmond, Max-Planck - Discussion Leader
  • Edwin Vedejs - University of Wisconsin
    "Stereogenic Heteroatoms"
  • James W. Leahy - University of California, Berkeley
    "Methods for the Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products"
  • Bruce E. Maryanoff - The R. W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute
    "Control of Stereocenters Separated by Four or More Bonds in Strictly Acyclic Substrates."
  • Short Talks Lightning Round
    • Rui Tamura - Kyoto University
      "Mechanism and Generality of Novel Enantiometric Resolution Phenomenon (Preferential Enrichment)"
    • Chris Welch - Regis Technologies, Inc.
      "Microscale Synthesis and Screening of New Chiral Stationary Phases"
  • Poster Session II (Posters 20-38) - 5:00
• Evening Session: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
  • Business Meeting
  • Ernest L. Eliel - University of North Carolina
    "History and Development of Stereochemistry with Emphasis on the last 50 Years"