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| Summer | 2001 | Babak Borhan |
| Title | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| A Dithiane Approach to C-Disaccharides | Professor Pete Norris | Youngstown State University |
| Sulfonyl-Substituted Reagents as Building Blocks for 2,4-Disubstituted Furans | Professor Shaun Murphree | Allegheny College (Cancelled) |
| Oxidized Metabolites of Linoleic Acid: Enzymatic and Non-Enzymatic Reactions | Professor Arthur Bull | Oakland University |
| Use of Modified Zeolites in the Synthesis of Terpenoids, Heterocycles and Useful Fine Chemicals | Pulgam Veera Reddy, MSU | |
| Oxygen Abstraction: A New Type of Carbene Reactivity | Dalila Kovacs | MSU |
| Isolation and Structure Determination of Bioactive Natural Products From Physena Madagascariensis and Design and Synthesis of 24-Nortriterpene Analogues | Dr. Yonghong Deng | MSU |
| Synthesis of Inhibitors of Dihydrofolate Reductase as Antitumor Agents | Professor Ali Zand | Kettering University |
| New Dimensions in the [N]Phenylenes: From Non-Planarity to Helical Structures | Dr. Dan Holmes | MSU |
| Fall | 2001 | Babak Borhan |
| Title | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Synthetic Studies Towards Taxol: The Reaction Between Fischer Carbene Complexes and Chiral Dienynes | Michael J. Fuertes and William D. Wulff | |
| Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors as Anti HIV-1 Drugs | Vasudha Sharma | MSU |
| Glycotechnology: How Sweet a Sugar Sequence in the Hands of Synthetic Organic Chemists? | Professor George Wang | Wayne State University |
| Asymmetric Synthesis Using Chiral Sulfinyl Groups | Yiqian Lian | MSU |
| Cycloaddition Reactions of Chiral Allenamides and Vinylogous Amides in Natural Product Synthesis | Professor Richard Hsung | University of Minnesota |
| Synthesis of Dihydropyrimidinones: The Biginelli Reaction | Fadi Asfour | MSU |
| Molecular Assembly and Disassembly: Dithiane and Trithiane-Based Photolabile Scaffolds for Molecular Recognition | Professor Andrei Kutateladze | University of Denver |
| The Enantioselective Snythesis of Antifungal Natural Products, Via Regio-, Diastereo- and Enantioselective Polyene Oxidations | Professor George A. O’Doherty | University of Minnesota |
| Ligand-Receptor Engineering of Nuclear Hormone Receptors; Selective Transcriptional Regulators and Molecular Complements for Disease-Associated Mutants | John Koh | University Of Delaware |
| One Size Fits All? Catalytic Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation Using the Modular Trost Ligand System | Jason Dahl | MSU |
| Alkyne Metathesis in Organic Synthesis | Devi Adhikari | MSU |
| Palladium-Cataylzed Carbocyclization of Functionalized Dienes | Professor Ross Widenhoefer | Duke University |
| Development of Novel Membrane Lipids: Applications in Artificial Photosynthesis and Biosensor Design | Dr. Aniruddha P. Patwardhan | MSU |
| Folding Dendrimers: Driving Dendrimer Self-Organization with Intramolecular Hydrogen-Bonding and Packing Interactions | Professor Jonathan Parquette | Ohio State University |
| Functional Dendrimers and Some Uses in Drug Delivery | Xuezheng Song | MSU |
| Spring | 2002 | Babak Borhan |
| Title | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| New Catalytic Asymmertic Reactions for Organic Synthesis | Professor Huw Davies | SUNY - Buffalo |
| Biomimetic, Aerobic Oxidation of Primary and Secondary Alcohols to Aldehydes and Ketones | Edith Onyeozili | MSU |
| Development of Enyne Metathesis for the Synthesis of Natural Products | Professor Steven T. Diver, SUNY – Buffalo | |
| Biosynthesis of Aflatoxin B1 | Mapitso Molefe | MSU |
| Expensive Ways to Make Nitrogen Gas – The Schmidt Reaction: Inter- and Intra-Molecular Reactions of Alkyl-Azides With Ketones and Carbocations | Kevin Anderson | MSU |
| The Application of Organosilicon Compounds in Cross-Coupling Reactions | Robson Teixeira | MSU |
| Development of Novel Transition Metal-Catalyzed Annulation Methodologies | Professor Vladimir Gevorgyan, University of Illinois at Chicago | |
| Towards the Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Oligodeoxyribonucleoside Phosphorothioates | Li Gao, MSU | |
| A Surface Chemistry Approach to Studying Cell Adhesion | Professor Milan Mrksich | University of Chicago |
| 150 Years of Strecker Reaction | Yu Zhang | MSU |
| The Total Synthesis of Sclerophytin A | Jill Muchnij | MSU |
| Chorismate Mutase Catalyzed Claisen Rearrangement | Heather Stueben | MSU |
| Biosynthesis of Trichodiene | Tulika Datta | MSU |
| Mechanistic & Structural Analysis of Protein Prenylation: Multiple Targets for Chemotherapeutic Agents | Professor Mark Distefano – University of Minnesota | |
| Synthetic Studies Towards Taxol: The Reaction Between Fischer Carbene Complexes and Chiral Dienynes | Michael Fuertes | University of Chicago |