| Fall | 1997 | Rawle Hollingsworth |
| Title | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Elucidation of p-stacking in duplex DNA | Chad Hansen | |
| Using Secondary ?-Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effects for Determining the Structure of SN2 Transition States | Radu Custelcean | |
| Design, Synthesis, and Use of Chi Constrained Amino Acids for the Topological Control of Peptide Conformations | Hussen Mohammed | |
| Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Azasugars and Other Rare Monosaccharides | Guijun Wang | |
| Epothilones: Novel 16-Membered Macrolides with Taxol-like Activity, A Look into Macrolide Synthesis through Epothilone Eyes | Erik L. Ruggles | |
| Recent Stereoselective ?-Amino Acid Synthesis and ?-Peptide Foldamers | Jimin Li | |
| Biosynthesis of Isopenicillin N: A Key Intermediate Leading to the Penicillin-Cephalosporin Antibiotics | Sunil Chandran | |
| Synthetic Approaches to FR-900482 | Gang Huang | |
| Menthone as a Chiral Auxiliary in Enatiodifferentiation and Desymmetrization Reactions | Joseph Ward | |
| Recent Developments in the Baylis-Hillman Reaction | Guangfei Huang |
| Spring | 1998 | William Reusch |
| Title | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Capsaicin and Resiniferatoxin: A New Recipe for Pain Relief | Jessica Barker | |
| Fluorosugars: Applications and Synthesis | Gabriela Pistia | |
| Design and Synthesis of High-Spin Organic Polyradicals | Micah Stowe | |
| Group Transfer Polymerization: Mechanism, Scope and Applications | Chun Wang | |
| [2+2] Cycloaddition Reaction in the Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Products | Jong-Ill Lee | |
| Simple Molecular Machines: Catenanes, Pseudorotaxane and Rotaxanes | Chen-Yu Yeh | |
| Asymmetric Cyclopropanation in Organic Synthesis | Mao Yin | |
| Eleutherobin and Sarcodictyin A&B -- Recent Expansion of the Microtubule Stabilization Club | Jie Song | |
| Spongistatins - Highly Potent Anti-cancer Natural Products: A Race Toward Their Total Syntheses | Lamont Terrell | |
| Using Palladium (II) Reagents to Form C-C and C-Heteroatom Bonds | Michael Rice | |
| Pauson - Khand Reaction | Ancuta Cernat | |
| The Heck Reaction | Gao Liu |