“A Celebration of Organic Synthesis” to mark the 65th Birthday of Prof. Amos B. Smith III

Invited Speakers

• “Bridged Polycyclic Natural Products: Inspirational Targets for Total Synthesis”
  Professor John L Wood (Colorado State University)
• “Total Synthesis of Azinothricin and Kettapeptin and Allied Chemical Genomics Studies on the A83586C Class of Antitumor Antibiotics”
  Professor Karl Hale (Queen’s University, Belfast)
• “Complex Molecule Synthesis” (tentative)
  Professor Jon D. Rainier (University of Utah)
• “New catalytic Strategies for Chemical Synthesis”
  Professor Matthew Gaunt (University of Cambridge)
• “Studies Directed Toward the Synthesis of Natural Products”
  Professor Gary A. Sulikowski (Vanderbilt University)
• “Evolution of Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC): Construction of Architecturally Complex Natural and Unnatural Products”
  Professor Amos B. Smith III (University of Pennsylvania) – Keynote Address