May 2007 Symposium: New Methods and Strategies for Heterocyclic Synthesis

Thursday, May 24, 2007

From left to right: Dr. Binh Vu, Prof. Victor Snieckus, Prof. Lawrence Williams Prof. Steve Martin, Prof. Chulbom Lee, Dr. Albert DelMonte, Prof. Mo Movassaghi, Dr. Amjad Ali, Dr. Gabor Butora, Dr. Dong Xiao, Prof. Tomas Hudlicky.

Invited Speakers

• “Strategies for the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Natural Products”
  Stephen F. Martin (University of Texas, Austin)
• “Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Alkaloids: A Multi-Generational Approach”
  Tomas Hudlicky (Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada)
• “A Conducted Tour of Recent Heteroaromatic Directed ortho Metalation”
  Victor Snieckus (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
• “Synthesis of Heterocycles via Transition Metal-Mediated Catalysis”
  Chulbom Lee (Princeton University)
• “Cascade Reaction in Complex Alkaloid Synthesis”
  Mohammad Movassaghi (MIT)