Sponsored by Pfizer and the Department of Chemistry

Professor Huw Davies

Emory University

“C–H Functionalization:  Applications in Organic Synthesis”

Professor Dennis Dougherty

California Institute of Technology

“Chemistry on the Brain:  High-Precision Studies of the Nicotine Receptor”

Professor Michael Kerr

The University of Western Ontario

“Heterocycles from Cyclopropanes:  Enabling Methodologies for the Total Synthesis of Alkaloids”

Professor Ilan Marek

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

“When Simplicity Leads to Complexity”

March 27, 2009, 8am-5pm

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies

Dr. Steve Tanis

Pfizer

“Herpes Antivirals:  The Importance of Asymmetry”