Program for Saturday, July 11th 2015
at Lecture Center A1, UIC, Chicago, IL


8:15 – 8:45 Registration

8:45 – 9:00 Opening Remarks Laura L. Anderson (University of Illinois at Chicago)

9:00 – 9:30 Jared C. Lewis (University of Chicago)
Engineering Proteins for Selective Catalysis

9:30 – 10:00 Justin T. Mohr (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Confronting Challenges of Regio- and Stereocontrol by Means of Dienolates and Strained Rings

10:00 – 10:30 Anita E. Mattson (Ohio State University)
Metal-Free Approaches for C-C and C-Heteroatom Bond Construction

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:15 Steve Fidanze (AbbVie)
Discovery of Cell Active Mcl-1 Inhibitors

11:15 – 12:00 Viresh H. Rawal (University of Chicago)
Unified Strategy for the Total Synthesis of Welwitindolinone Alkaloids

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 Poster Session

2:30 – 3:00 Chad C. Eichman (Loyola University, Chicago)
Catalytic Methods for the Synthesis of O- and N-Containing Heterocycles

3:00 – 3:45 Karl A. Scheidt (Northwestern University)
New Planar Chiral Carbenes for Catalysis

3:45 – 4:15 Rebecca T. Ruck (Merck Process)
Surprising Synthetic Complexity for Seemingly Straightforward Steps

4:15 – 4:30 Coffee Break

4:30 – 5:30 Gary A. Molander (University of Pennsylvania)
A Novel Mechanistic Paradigm for Cross-Coupling

5:30 Closing Remarks Chad C. Eichman (Loyola University, Chicago)