Sponsor: Troyansky Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Christopher Chang
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Essay: Fluorescent Probes for Imaging Intracellular Nitric Oxide
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Aaron Edward Albers graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego. He is a fourth year student working in Prof. Christopher Chang's laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. His research centers on small molecule probes to study oxidation reactions in biology.
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Sponsor: Wyeth
Stanford University
Advisor: Justin Du Bois
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Essay: Four- and Six-Electron Oxidations of Olefins: Mechanism, Analysis and Application
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Brian Andresen graduated with a B.A. in Chemistry from University of New Hampshire. He is a fourth year student in Prof. Justin Du Bois' Laboratory at Stanford University. His research is directed toward the design and synthesis of small molecule probes based on the saxitoxin architecture.
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Sponsor: Sanofi-Aventis
University of Utah
Advisor: Matthew S. Sigman
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Essay:
cis-
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trans-Oxypalladation and Aminopalladation: Implications for Asymmetric Catalysis
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Keith Michael Gligorich graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry with Highest Honors from Butler University, Indianapolis. He is a fourth year student in Prof. Matthew S. Sigman's Laboratory at the University Utah. He is studying palladium-hydrides and catalytic olefin functionalization reactions.
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Sponsor: Schering Plough
Columbia University
Advisor: Nicholas J. Turro
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Essay: Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition for the Functionalization of Dendrimers
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Jeremiah Johnson graduated with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently a fourth year student in Prof. Nicholas Turro's laboratory studying light, living polymerizations, and highly efficient reactions as tools for the synthesis and "universal" modification of materials.
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Sponsor: Pfizer
University of California, Riverside
Advisor: Guy Bertrand
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Essay: Stable Cyclic Carbenes: Similarities and differences
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Vincent Lavallo graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from University of California Riverside. He spent the summer of 2003 at University of California Berkeley working in the lab of Prof. T. Don Tilly performing research in to the development of Pt and Ru catalysts for the hydroarylation of alkenes. He is currently a third year student in Prof. Guy Bertrand's laboratory at the University of California Riverside researching carbene chemistry.
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Sponsor: Organic Syntheses
Department of Chemistry
Advisor: Marisa C. Kozlowski
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Essay: Rapid Access to Seven-Membered Rings: Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Intramolecular [5+2] Cycloadditions
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Barbara Jane Morgan graduated with a B.A. in Chemistry, Highest Honors, from Kenyon College. She is a fourth year student working in Prof. Marisa Kozlowski's laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. She is researching the perylenequinone natural products including the total synthesis of cercosporin.
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Sponsor: Eli Lilly
Texas A&M University
Advisor: Daniel Romo
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Essay: Recent Advances in Catalytic Enantioselective Radical Reactions for C-C Bond Formation
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Kay Morris graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Cameron University. She is a fourth year student under the tutelage of Prof. Daniel Romo at Texas A&M Univeristy. She is studying the application of bicyclic tetrehydrofurans in the total synthesis of haterumalide NA and extension of bis-cyclization to bridged carbocycles.
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Sponsor: Organic Syntheses, Nelson J. Leonard Fellowship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: John F. Hartwig
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Essay: Recent Developments in Methodologies Utilizing Silylboranes
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Jaclyn Murphy graduated with a B.S., summa cum laude, in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a fourth year student working in Prof. John Hartwig's Laboratory. Her research centers on methods for the conversion of arylboronic esters into synthetically useful compounds and the development of alkane borylation catalysts.
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Sponsor: GlaxoSmithKline
The Scripps Research Institute
Advisor: K. C. Nicolaou, Ph.D.
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Essay: Recent Approaches Toward Dimeric Natural Products via Biomimetic-Type Couplings
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Andrea Lindsay Nold graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry with Honors and a B.A. in Germanic Studies from Indiana University. She is a fourth year student working in Prof. K. C. Nicolaou's laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute. Her research centers on the synthesis of marinomycins A-C and their monomeric homologs.
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Sponsor: Genentech
Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Gary Posner
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Essay: Toward Synthesis of Icetexane (±)-Komaroviquinone
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Kimberly Petersen received her B.S. degree in Chemistry with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently a fourth year student in the laboratory of Prof. Gary Posner at Johns Hopkins University where she is developing and synthesizing highly antiproliferative low-calcemic analogs of vitamin D and antimalarial trioxane dimers.
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Sponsor: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Northwestern University
Advisor: Karl Scheidt
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Essay: Transition Metal-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Coupling Reactions
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Troy Reynolds graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Dayton. He is a fourth year working in Prof. Karl Scheidt's Laboratory at Northwestern University studying stereoselective additions of silyloxyallenes.
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Sponsor: Novartis
Georgia Institute of Technology
Advisor: Marcus Weck
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Essay: Mobility of Olefin Metathesis in Templated Synthesis
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Clinton South graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of North Alabama. He is a fourth year student studying under the tutelage of Prof. Marcus Weck at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is researching the synthesis and applications of supramolecular polymers
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Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim
University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Bruce H. Lipshutz
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Essay: Enantioselective Construction of Spirocycles Containing All-Carbon Quaternary Centers
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Benjamin Taft graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from California State University, Chico. He is a fourth year student at the University of Santa Barbara under the tutelage of Prof. Bruce Lipshutz. He studies center on the development and application of new methods in transition-metal catalysis.
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Sponsor: Organic Reactions
University of California, Irvine
Advisor: Larry E. Overman
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Essay: Cobalt-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions
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Nicole White graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from University of California, San Diego. She is a fourth year student in the laboratory of Prof. Larry Overman at the University of California Irvine. She is studying the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of allylic aryl ethers and the total synthesis of palau'amine.
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Sponsor: Roche
Harvard University
Advisor: Eric N. Jacobsen
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Essay: Small Molecule-Catalyzed Stereoselective Functionalization of Nearly Unbiased Substrates
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Stephan J. Zuend graduated with a B.A. in Chemistry from Cornell University. He is a fourth year student under the tutelage of Prof. Eric N. Jacobsen at Harvard University. He is investigating the mechanisms of catalytic asymmetric reactions.
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