ORGNMonday, March 26, 2007

1:00 PM-5:40 PM McCormick Place Lakeside -- Room E350, Level 3, Oral
Asymmetric Syntheis of α-Amino Acids: Novel Developments and Future Directions
Organizers:Vadim A. Soloshonok
Kunisuke Izawa
1:00 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:05 PMRecent developments in the application of organometallic chemistry to amino acid synthesis
Richard F. W. Jackson
1:30 PMLooking for efficiency in the preparation of heterocycle-tethered C-glycosyl amino acids via multicomponent reactions and 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions
Alessandro Dondoni
1:55 PMTotal synthesis of natural products possessing α,α-disubstituted α-amino acid substructure
Yasufumi Ohfune
2:20 PMSynthesis of optically active α-methyl amino acids utilizing biotransformation as a key step
Masanobu Yatagai, Takayuki Hamada, Hiroyuki Nozaki, Shinji Kuroda, Kenzo Yokozeki, Kunisuke Izawa
2:45 PMNew tricks in amino acid synthesis: Applications to complex natural products
Robert M Williams
3:10 PMDesign of simple, yet very active chiral phase transfer catalysts for practical amino acid synthesis
Keiji Maruoka
3:35 PMAsymmetric synthesis of amino acids with a tetrasubstituted carbon center via memory of chirality
Takeo Kawabata
4:00 PMProduction of α-amino acids using recombinant whole-cell catalysts
Wolfgang Wienand
4:25 PMThe large scale synthesis of amino acids: So which catalyst is best?
David J Ager
4:50 PMIntegrated solution of non-natural aliphatic α-amino acid
Masanobu Sugawara, Masahiko Yamada
5:15 PMUnnatural amino acids in natural products and enzyme inhibitors
Stephen Hanessian, Karolina Ersmark, Juan Del Valle

Symposium Grid -- Division of Organic Chemistry -- Session Listing

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007