| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| Huw Davies (University at Buffalo)
Welcome and Introductory Remarks |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEW SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES |
| Discussion Leader: John Macor (Bristol-Myers Squibb Company) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Amir Hoveyda (Boston College)
"New Ligands and Catalysts for Efficient Enantioselective C-C Bond Formation" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Barry Trost (Stanford University)
"The Impact of New Methodology on Synthetic Strategy: Heterocycles" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SYNTHESIS OF HETEROCYCLES |
| Discussion Leader: Duane Burnett (Schering Plough) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Tom Hoye (University of Minnesota)
"gamma-Lactams and Beyond" |
| 9:45 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
| 9:55 am - 10:45 am | Photograph / Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:25 am | Joel Hawkins (Pfizer)
"Profiling Palladium Species in Heterogeneous Heck Reactions by in situ ATR UV/vis Spectroscopy, Application to a Quinazoline Nucleus" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Robert Batey (University of Toronto)
"Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles: Applications to
the Formation of Alkaloids and Related Heterocycles" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 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 | HETEROCYCLIC TRANSFORMATIONS |
| Discussion Leader: Michael VanNieuwenhze (UC San Diego) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Short Talk: Mark. C. McMills (Ohio University)
"Approaches to the Synthesis of Bicyclic Derivatives via Tandem Intramolecular Rh(II) Catalyzed Insertion/Ring Closing Metathesis (RCM) Sequence" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Short Talk: Kevin R. Campos (Merck)
"A General Synthesis of Substituted Indoles from Cyclic Enol Ethers and Enol Lactones" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Short Talk: Helen Blackwell (University of Wisconsin)
"Efficient Heterocycle Construction via Microwave-Assisted Solid-Phase Reactions" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Vladimir Gevorgyan (University of Illinois, Chicago)
"Novel Transition Metal-Catalyzed Protocols Toward Heterocycles" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOLOGICALLY SIGNIFICANT HETEROCYCLES |
| Discussion Leader: Karl Scheidt (Northwestern University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Greg Wayne (Abbott)
"Synthetic Approaches to ABT-598" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:20 am | Louis Jungheim (Eli Lilly)
"How Many Heterocycles Does it Take to Make an NK-1 Antagonist?" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break |
| Discussion Leader: Duncan Wardrop (U of Illinois, Chicago) |
| 11:00 am - 11:40 am | Melanie Sanford (University of Michigan)
"Synthetic Applications and Mechanistic Investigations of Directed C-H Bond Oxidation" |
| 11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
| 11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Dennis Wright (Dartmouth College)
"Furan, Thiophene and Other Heterocycles as Synthetic Building Blocks" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ASSEMBLY OF COMPLEX HETEROCYCLES |
| Discussion Leader: Chulbom Lee (Princeton University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Conference Business (Nominations) |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Donald Hertzog (Glaxo Smith Kline)
"The Synthesis of MCH R1 Antagonists for the Treatment of Obesity" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Timothy Guzi (Schering Plough)
"Diverging Biological Activity in Substituted Piperazines" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:25 pm | Mark Lautens (University of Toronto)
"Metal Promoted Ring Forming and Ring Cleaving Reactions" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NEW APPLICATIONS OF HETEROCYCLES |
| Discussion Leader: Helen Blackwell (University of Wisconsin) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jieping Zhu (ISCN, CNRS, France)
"Rapid Access to Heterocycles and Macrocycles by Developing Novel Multicomponent Reactions and Domino Process" |
| 9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
| 9:50 am - 10:20 am | Jaume Balsells-Padros (Merck)
"Synthesis of [1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]piperazines. The Synthesis of MK-0431" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break |
| Discussion Leader: Jeffrey Bode (UC Santa Barbara) |
| 11:00 am - 11:40 am | Kevin Burgess (Texas A & M)
"Fluorescent and Chemiluminscent Dyes For Multiplexing in Biotechnology" |
| 11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
| 11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Christine Tarby (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
"Design and Synthesis of Tricyclic Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NNRTIs)" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 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 AND CATALYSIS |
| Discussion Leader: Tim Gallagher (Bristol University, UK) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Short Talk: Jetze Tepe (Michigan State University)
"Synthesis of Biologically Active Heterocycles: Exploring the Effects of NF-kappa B Regulation" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Carsten Bolm (University of Aachen, Germany)
"Heterocycles in and by Metal Catalysis" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Jeffrey Johnston (Indiana University)
"The Development of New Reagents and Reactions for Heterocycle Synthesis: The Advent of Chiral Proton Catalysis" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ORGANOMETALLICS AND HETEROCYCLE SYNTHESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Mikund Sibi (North Dakota State University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Timothy J. Donohoe (Oxford, UK)
"New Catalytic Reactions for the Formation of Heterocycles" |
| 9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Wendy Young (Celera)
"Small Molecule Protease Inhibitors" |
| 10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Conference Business (Elections) |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break |
| Discussion Leader: George Sheppard (Abbott) |
| 11:00 am - 11:15 am | Short Talk: Keith Fagnou (University of Ottawa)
"Direct Catalytic Arylation Reactions: Mechanistic Insights Leading to New Intermolecular Cross Coupling Processes" |
| 11:15 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Short Talk: J. Ramon Vargas (Eastman Kodak Company)
"Diazaboracyclic Heterocycles for Green Emission in OLED" |
| 11:35 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 12:20 pm | Richard Larock (Iowa State University)
"Synthesis of Heterocycles via Iodine- and Palladium-Promoted Cyclization and Annulation" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HETEROCYCLES AND TOTAL SYNTHESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Edward C. Taylor (Princeton University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Dean Toste (UC Berkeley)
"Discovery and Application of Gold(I)-Catalyzed Reactions" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 9:10 pm | Erik Sorensen (Princeton University)
"Exploiting the Diels-Alder Reaction in Syntheses of Complex Heterocycles" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | John Macor (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
Vice-Chair's remarks |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
