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2009 Welch Conference on Chemical Research
"Advances in Synthetic Chemistry"

Hilton Houston North Hotel, Houston, Texas
October 26-27, 2009

Peter B. Dervan
Conference Chairman

Monday, October 26, 2009
Session I
	8:40 AM	Discussion Leader: Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology
	8:50 AM	Speaker: Eric N. Jacobsen, Harvard University Lecture: "Asymmetric Catalysis by Chiral Hydrogen-Bond Donors"
	9:50 AM	Speaker: David W.C. MacMillan, Princeton University Lecture: "New Catalysis Concepts"
	10:35 AM	Speaker: Stephen L. Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lecture: "Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Processes: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies"
	11:20 AM	Speaker: Melanie S. Sanford, University of Michigan Lecture: "Palladium(II/IV)-Catalyzed Reactions in Organic Synthesis"
Session II
	1:15 PM	Discussion Leader: Daniel Romo, Texas A&M University
	1:25 PM	Speaker: Brian M. Stoltz, California Institute of Technology Lecture: "Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry"
	2:10 PM	Speaker: Scott J. Miller, Yale University Lecture: "Asymmetric Catalysis with Amino Acids and Peptides: Some Structures and Functions"
	3:05 PM	Speaker: Gregory C. Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lecture: "Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Alkyl Electrophiles"
	3:50 PM	Speaker: Justin Du Bois, Stanford University Lecture: "Catalytic C-H Oxidation: Recent Insights and Advances"
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Session III
	8:00 AM	Discussion Leader: Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	8:10 AM	Speaker: John F. Hartwig, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lecture: "Catalytic Organometallic Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation"
	8:55 AM	Speaker: Erick M. Carreira, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lecture: "Discovery and Surprises with Natural Products"
	10:00 AM	Speaker: M. Christina White, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lecture: "C-H Oxidation and Organic Synthesis"

2009 Welch Award Lecture
	10:45 AM	Speaker: Harry B. Gray, California Institute of Technology Lecture: "The Currents of Life: Electron Flow through Proteins"

Session IV
	1:00 PM	Discussion Leader: Stephen Martin, The University of Texas at Austin
	1:10 PM	Speaker: Phil S. Baran, The Scripps Research Institute Lecture: "Aiming for the Ideal Synthesis"
	1:55 PM	Speaker: David A. Evans, Harvard University Lecture: "Studies in Natural Products Synthesis"
	2:55 PM	Speaker: Samuel J. Danishefsky, Columbia University Lecture: "Chemical Synthesis in the Study of Biologically Active Natural Products"

2009 Welch Conference on Chemical Research"Advances in Synthetic Chemistry"

2009 Welch Conference on Chemical Research
"Advances in Synthetic Chemistry"