Program

The 2011 Madison Organic Chemistry Symposium

in honor of

Professor Edwin Vedejs The Vedejs Reunion, Retirement and Birthday Celebration

The Chemistry Department University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin

Saturday, July 16, 2011

9:00 Registration and coffee - Room 1371

10:00-10:15 Introductory remarks

10:15-10:45 Unconventional Nazarov Reactions and Surprising Detours
Professor Fred West
University of Alberta

10:45-11:15 DNA Cross-Linking by Synthetic Aziridinomitosenes
Professor Don Warner
Boise State University

11:15-11:45 Ring-Expanding Ene-Yne Metathesis
Professor Steven Diver
University of Buffalo

11:45-12:00 Q&A

12:00-1:45 Lunch at Union South, 1308 West Dayton St.
Tours of chemistry building, meet Bob McMahon at 1:15

1:45-2:15 Doping Control: The Dark Side of the 2002 Winter Olympics
Janet Grissom, MD, Ph.D.

2:15-2:45 Wimpy Weirdo Bonding between Aromatic Molecules
Professor Art Cammers
University of Kentucky

2:45-3:15 The Chemist's Story of Taranabant: from Conception to Production
Linus Lin, Ph.D. and Artis Klapars, Ph.D.
Merck

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-4:00 Organic Optoelectronics and Super-resolution Imaging
Professor Robert Twieg
Kent State University

4:00-4:30 Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Functionalization Methodology Development
Professor Olafs Daugulis
University of Houston

4:30-5:00 Closing remarks

Former Vedejs group members organized this reunion and retirement symposium. Contact for more information.

Vedejs Registration

Professor Edwin Vedejs is Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and received an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. He received the Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods from the American Chemical Society, as well as the Walden Medal. He served as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chair of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. Vedejs received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan (1962) and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from UW-Madison (1966), working with Hans Muxfeldt. Following a year of postdoctoral research with E. J. Corey, Ed joined the chemistry faculty at UW-Madison (1967-1998) before moving to Michigan. Vedejs’ research interests include conceptual and mechanistic aspects of organic synthesis, nucleophilic catalysis, asymmetric catalysis

Previous conferences in this series: 2005, 1999, 1997, 1996, 1990, 1986, 1985 1961

9:00	Registration and coffee - Room 1371
10:00-10:15	Introductory remarks
10:15-10:45	Unconventional Nazarov Reactions and Surprising Detours Professor Fred West University of Alberta
10:45-11:15	DNA Cross-Linking by Synthetic Aziridinomitosenes Professor Don Warner Boise State University

11:15-11:45	Ring-Expanding Ene-Yne Metathesis Professor Steven Diver University of Buffalo
11:45-12:00	Q&A
12:00-1:45	Lunch at Union South, 1308 West Dayton St. Tours of chemistry building, meet Bob McMahon at 1:15
1:45-2:15	Doping Control: The Dark Side of the 2002 Winter Olympics Janet Grissom, MD, Ph.D.
2:15-2:45	Wimpy Weirdo Bonding between Aromatic Molecules Professor Art Cammers University of Kentucky
2:45-3:15	The Chemist's Story of Taranabant: from Conception to Production Linus Lin, Ph.D. and Artis Klapars, Ph.D. Merck
3:15-3:30	Break
3:30-4:00	Organic Optoelectronics and Super-resolution Imaging Professor Robert Twieg Kent State University
4:00-4:30	Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Functionalization Methodology Development Professor Olafs Daugulis University of Houston
4:30-5:00	Closing remarks