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2011 Seaborg Symposium Program
"The Heck Reaction and Cross-Couplings"
Saturday, November 5, 2011

Alpha Chi Sigma Poster Session
- UCLA CNSI Lobby - 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Symposium - UCLA CNSI Auditorium - 1:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Dinner and Medal Awarding - UCLA Covel Commons Grand Horizon Ballroom - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 pm.

CNSI
  Symposium:
  California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Auditorium, UCLA
11:00 a.m.   Alpha Chi Sigma Poster Session (CNSI lobby)
Courey    Welcome and Introduction of Professor Richard Heck
   Professor Albert Courey

  
Chair, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Houk    Session I Chair:
   Professor Ken Houk

  
UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Merlic    Professor Craig Merlic
   UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
   "Palladium-Catalyzed Cyclization Strategies: Avoiding the High Energy Oxidative    Addition Step"
Trost    Professor Barry Trost
   Tamaki Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
   "On the Invention of Pd Catalyzed Reactions for Enabling Chemical Synthesis"
Diaconescu     Professor Paula Diaconsescu
    UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    "Unique Advantages of Organometallic Supporting Ligands"
3:00 p.m.    Coffee Break (CNSI lobby)
3:15 p.m. Harran    Session II Chair:
   Professor Patrick Harran
   UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
3:30 p.m. Buchwald     Professor Stephen Buchwald
    Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    "Pd-Catalyzed Carbon-Nitrogen and Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions:     Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies"
Garg     Professor Neil Garg
    UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
   "Cross-Coupling Reactions of Unconventional Electrophiles"
Overman     Professor Larry Overman
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
    "The Intramolecular Heck Reaction: A Remarkably Versatile Transformation for     Forming Complex Polycyclic Structures"
5:30 p.m. Houk    Concluding Remarks
   Professor Ken Houk

   UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Covel Commons
   Dinner and Medal Awarding:
   UCLA Covel Commons


   6:30 p.m. Reception
7:30 p.m. Dinner 8:30 p.m. Program
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