 Sponsor: Novartis Pharmaceuticals
University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Stephen Buchwald |
Essay: The Growing Utility of Ag(I) Catalysts in Organic Synthesis. View Essay |
Timothy Barder graduated with a B.S. degree from the University of California at San Diego in 2002. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at M.I.T. working in Stephen Buchwald's laboratory. Timothy's research has involved developing catalysts for the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction and exploring the relationship between their structure and activity.
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 Sponsor: Schering-Plough Research Institute
University: Boston College
Advisor: Amir Hoveyda |
Essay: Direct and Selective Transition Metal-Catalyzed Olefin Hydroalkoxylation. View Essay |
Kevin Brown graduated with a B.A. with honors in chemistry from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at Boston College working in Amir Hoveyda's laboratory. Kevin has developed peptide-copper complexes that catalyze the asymmetric conjugate addition of organometallic reagents to various classes of unsaturated carbonyls compounds.
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 Sponsor: Merck Research Laboratories
University: California Institute of Technology
Advisor: Brian M. Stoltz |
Essay: Recent Advances in Enantiodivergent Strategies. View Essay |
Daniel Caspi graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemistry with High Honors from the University of California at San Diego in 2002. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at Caltech working in Brian Stoltz' laboratory. Daniel was involved in the total synthesis of both enantiomers of the natural product dragmacidin F. He has also expanded the scope of a palladium-catalyzed oxidative kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols using oxygen as the oxidant.
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 Sponsor: Emmanuil Troyansky Fellowship
University: University of Maryland
Advisor: Michael Doyle |
Essay: Recent Developments in the Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Nitro-Mannich Reaction. View Essay |
Arthur Catino graduated with a B.A. in chemistry (with Honors) from the Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park working in Mike Doyle's laboratory. Arthur is working on allylic oxidation and aziridination methods employing rhodium catalysis.
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 Sponsor: Organic Syntheses, Inc.
University: University of California, Irvine
Advisor: Gregory Weiss |
Essay: Correlating Structure and Function in Enzymatic Organic Synthesis of Terpenes. View Essay |
Juan Diaz graduated with a B.S. magna cum laude in biological sciences from California State University-Fullerton in Fullerton, CA. He is currently a third year graduate student at the University of California-Irvine working in Gregory Weiss' laboratory. Juan is using phage display libraries to engineer novel transcription factors and over-expressing the resultant proteins for X-ray crystallography and biophysical characterization.
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 Sponsor: The Procter and Gamble Company
University: University of Maryland
Advisor: Lawrence Sita |
Essay: Stereoblock Polypropylene Elastomers. View Essay |
Matthew Harney graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from the George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at the University of Maryland working in Larry Sita's laboratory. Matthew designed and synthesized the first homogeneous, well-defined isotactic-atactic stereoblock polypropylene materials and has also studied the mechanism of the Ziegler-Natta polymerization with a monamidinate zirconium complex.
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 Sponsor: Albany Molecular Research, Inc.
University: University of North Carolina
Advisor: Marcey Waters |
Essay: Two Design Strategies for Peptide-Based Asymmetric Catalysis. View Essay |
Robert Hughes graduated with a B.A. in music and a B.S. in chemistry magna cum laude from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at the University of North Carolina working in Marcey Waters' laboratory. Robert has used beta-hairpin peptides to investigate the structure and energetics of pi-cation interactions.
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 Sponsor: Bristol-Myers Squibb
University: Boston University
Advisor: James Panek |
Essay: Direct Coupling of N-Heterocycles: Highly Convergent Approach to Complex Molecular Architecture. View Essay |
Jason Lowe graduated with a B.A. in chemistry and geology from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at Boston University working in James Panek's laboratory. Jason is working on the total synthesis of bistramide A and kendomycin using a [4+2] annulation approach.
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 Sponsor: Eli Lilly and Company
University: Northwestern University
Advisor: Karl Scheidt |
Essay: Recent Umpolung Reactions Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes. View Essay |
Anita Mattson graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI. She is currently a fourth year graduate student at Northwestern University working in Karl Scheidt's laboratory. Anita's research has focused on synthetic methodology primarily using acylsilanes. She has developed a thiazolium-catalyzed sila-Stetter reaction and an acyl anion approach to α-amino ketones using a catalytic addition of acylsilanes to phosphorylimines.
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 Sponsor: Abbott Laboratories
University: Boston College Advisor
Advisor: Scott Miller |
Essay: Preventing β-Hydride Elimination in Pd(II) Catalyzed Bond-Forming Processes. View Essay |
Steve Mennen graduated with a B.S. with distinction in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in Stevens Point, WI. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at Boston College working in Scott Miller's laboratory. He developed a streamlined synthesis of the core of mitomycin C, a peptide-catalyzed Stetter reaction, and a thiazolylalanine-derived catalyst for enantioselective intermolecular aldehyde-imine cross-coupling.
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 Sponsor: GlaxoSmithKline
University: University of Michigan
Advisor: John Wolfe |
Essay: Recent Advances in Palladium-Catalyzed Functionalization of sp3 C-H Bonds. View Essay |
Joshua Ney graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Chemistry. He is currently a fourth year graduate student in John Wolfe's laboratory at the University of Michigan. In his graduate work, Joshua has developed a palladium-catalyzed stereoselective synthesis of pyrrolidines and studied the scope and mechanism of the method.
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 Sponsor: Nelson J. Leonard ACS DOC Fellowship, sponsored by Organic Syntheses, Inc.
University: University of California, Los Angeles
Advisor: Fraser Stoddard and Ken Houk |
Essay: Self-Assembling Interwoven and Interlocked Dendrimer Architectures. View Essay |
Brian H. Northrop received his B. A. degree (with honors) in Chemistry from Middlebury College in Vermont in 2001. He is a fourth-year graduate student with Professors J. F. Stoddart and K. N. Houk in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research includes the synthesis and computational modeling of supramolecular interlocked bundles, single-molecule force spectroscopy of [2]rotaxanes, computational investigations of diradical rearrangements, and the study of charge-charge interactions in mechanically interlocked molecules.
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 Sponsor: Pfizer, Inc.
University: Harvard University
Advisor: Eric Jacobsen |
Essay: Recent Advances in C-C Bond Formation via C-H Activation. View Essay |
Izzat Raheem graduated with a B.S. in chemistry (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at Harvard University working in Eric Jacobsen's laboratory. Izzat was involved in an asymmetric total synthesis of quinine and quinidine and has developed asymmetric synthetic methods, including a highly enantioselective aza-Baylis-Hillman reaction.
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 Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim
University: Scripps Research Institute
Advisor: M. G. Finn |
Essay: State of the Art in Anion Receptor Design. View Essay |
Valentin Rodionov performed his undergraduate studies at the Moscow Chemical Lyceum and the Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Valentin earned a M.S. degree in Chemistry at the University of Maryland before moving to Scripps. He is currently a third year graduate student at Scripps Research Institute working in M. G. Finn's laboratory. Valentin is working on developing the new catalysts for the copper-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition and has performed mechanistic studies on the same reaction.
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 Sponsor: Organic Reactions, Inc.
University: Harvard University
Advisor: David Liu |
Essay: Recent Chemical Strategies for the Site-Specific Modification of Proteins. View Essay |
Thomas Snyder graduated from the California Institute of technology with a B.S. in Chemistry and Economics (with Honors). He is currently a fourth year graduate student at Harvard University working in David Liu's laboratory. Thomas's research goal is to develop new methods for controlling the reactivity of small molecules using DNA-templated synthesis.
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 Sponsor: Sanofi-Aventis
University: University of Pittsburgh
Advisor: Scott Nelson |
Essay: Applications of Strain-Induced Lewis Acidity to Stereoselective Organic Synthesis. View Essay |
Benjamin Stevens graduated with a B.S. cum laude in Biochemistry from the University of Rochester. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh working in Scott Nelson's laboratory. Benjamin has developed an olefin isomerization-Claisen rearrangement with subsequent intramolecular Sakurai reaction for preparing carbocyclic compounds.
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 Sponsor: Roche Pharmaceuticals
University: Scripps Research Institute
Advisor: Dale Boger |
Essay: C-H Bond Functionalization of Nitrogen Heterocycles. View Essay |
Mark Tichenor graduated with a B.S. summa cum laude in chemistry from the University of California at San Diego. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at the Scripps Research Institute working in Dale Boger's laboratory. Mark was involved in the successful total synthesis, structure revision, and absolute configuration determination of the natural product (+)-yatakemycin.
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 Sponsor: Wyeth Research
University: Indiana University
Advisor: Jeffrey Johnston |
Essay: Enantioselective Biomimetic Total Syntheses Inspired by Nature's Elegance. View Essay |
| Ryan Yoder graduated with a B.S. with honors in chemistry from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. He is currently a fourth year graduate student at Indiana University working in Jeff Johnston's laboratory. Ryan has developed "chiral proton catalysts" and applied them to an enantioselective aza-Henry reaction. |
