| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:20 pm | Kay Brummond (University of Pittsburgh)
Welcome and Introductory Remarks |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Synthetic Strategies |
| Discussion Leader: Matt McIntosh (University of Arkansas) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Rick Danheiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Cycloaddition and Annulation Strategies for the Synthesis of Carbocyclic and Heterocyclic Compounds" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Barry Trost (Stanford University)
"A Mechanistic Enigma but a Synthetic Bonanza in Ru Catalyzed Hydrosilylation" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Selective Processes and Scale-up |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Bech Sommer (H. Lundbeck A/S) |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Leland Weigel (Eli Lilly and Company)
"Development of selective processes: SNAr reactions, aldehyde/ketone deracemizations, reductions, and epoxide ring-openings" |
| 9:35 am - 10:10 am | Ephraim Vidal (Aventis)
"Scale-up Synthesis of the D3 Antagonist AVE 1734" |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Natural Product Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: P.J. Persichini III (Allegheny College) |
| 10:30 am - 11:20 am | Mark Rizzacasa (The University of Melbourne)
"Efficient Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products" |
| 11:20 am - 11:55 am | Matt McIntosh (University of Arkansas)
"Claisen and Aldol Approaches to the Eunicellin Diterpenes" |
| 11:55 am - 12:30 pm | Dirk Trauner (University of California-Berkeley)
"Development and Application of New Pericyclic Reactions" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #1 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Catalysis and Cycloisomerizations |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Harmata (University of Missouri-Columbia) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Frank MacDonald (Emory University)
"Metal Vinylidenes in Catalysis: The Alkynol Cycloisomerization Reaction" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:45 pm | Jean Suffert (CNRS)
"Cascade Cyclization via a 4-exo-dig Cyclocarbopalladation: Easy Access to New Polycyclic Structures" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | Carsten Bolm (University of Aachen)
"Chiral Catalysts for Enantioselective Oxidations and C-C-Bond Formations" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Process Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Molly Hoke (Wyeth Research) |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Norihiro Ikemoto (Merck & Co., Inc.)
"Synthesis of a LF Inhibitor for Anthrax" |
| 9:35 am - 10:10 am | Rajappa Vaidyanathan (Pfizer Inc)
"Process Research Towards the Synthesis of PHA-290940AD, a Split Kinase Inhibitor" |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Organometallics |
| Discussion Leader: Norbert Krause (Universität Dortmund) |
| 10:30 am - 11:20 am | Mikiko Sodeoka (Tohoku University)
"Acid-Base Catalysis Using Chiral Palladium Complexes" |
| 11:20 am - 11:55 am | José Luis Marco-Contelles (Instituto de Química Orgánica General CSIC)
"PtCl2-Mediated Cycloisomerization of Polyunsaturated Precursors:
The Rautenstrauch Isomerization Revisited" |
| 11:55 am - 12:30 pm | F. Dean Toste (University of California-Berkeley)
"Development of "Open-Flask" Transition Metal Catalysts" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 1:30 pm | ORP Golf Classic |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Reaction Technology |
| Discussion Leader: Fraser Fleming (Duquesne University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:05 pm | Jennifer Rutherford (Pfizer Inc)
"Application of Flow Reactors to Process Chemistry" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:40 pm | Cathleen Crudden (Queen's University)
"Convenient and leach-proof heterogeneous catalysts for coupling reactions of aromatic bromides and chlorides" |
| 8:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Dennis Curran (University of Pittsburgh)
"New Fluorous Reactions and Processes" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | New Reactants |
| Discussion Leader: Xini Zhang (J & J Pharmaceutical R&D) |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Shelli McAlpine (San Diego State University)
"Antibiotic synthesis and the synthesis of their corresponding peptidomimetics" |
| 9:35 am - 10:10 am | Johannes Platzek (Schering AG-Berlin)
"Dendrimeric contrast agents - novel challenges for process R&D" |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Asymmetric Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Alison Frontier (University of Rochester) |
| 10:30 am - 11:20 am | Mukund Sibi (North Dakota State University)
"Chiral Relay in Catalysis" |
| 11:20 am - 11:55 am | Patrick Walsh (University of Pennsylvania)
"Asymmetric C-C Bond Forming Reactions" |
| 11:55 am - 12:30 pm | Yoshio Urawa (Process Research Laboratories, Eisai Co. LTD)
"Process Research of E1010" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #2 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Marisa Kozlowski (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Huw Davies (University of Buffalo-SUNY)
"Catalytic Asymmetric C-H Activation: Application in Organic Synthesis" |
| 8:15 am - 8:45 pm | Anna Mapp (University of Michigan)
"New Synthetic Approaches Towards Biologically Active Chiral Amines" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | Gary Molander (University of Pennsylvania)
"New Methods for Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:50 am | Asymmetric Synthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Bob Grossman (University of Kentucky) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Amy Howell (University of Connecticut)
"Unusual Oxetanes as Templates in Organic Synthesis" |
| 9:40 am - 10:20 am | Robert Waltermire (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
"Asymmetric Synthesis of the TACE Inhibitor BMS-561392" |
| 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 12:30 pm | Transition Metal Catalysis & Poster Presentation |
| Discussion Leader: Steve King (Abbott Laboratories) |
| 10:50 am - 11:30 am | Vladimir Gevorgyan (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"New Advances in Selected Transition Metal Catalyzed Transformations" |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Poster Competition (Industrial)
TBA |
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Poster Competition (Academic)
TBA |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Poster Competition (Industrial or Academic) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Featured Speaker |
| Discussion Leader: Rich Tillyer (Merck & Company, Inc) |
| 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Ed Grabowski (Merck & Company, Inc)
"Reflections on Process Research" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |