ORGNWednesday, April 9, 2008

1:00 PM-4:40 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. R06, Oral
Peptides, Proteins and Amino Acids
Presiding:Richard Cheng
1:00 PMEffect of Glu side chain length on intrahelical Glu-Lys interactions
Richard P. Cheng, Prashant Girinath
Paper Withdrawn
1:40 PMIn vitro β-amyloid aggregation mitigation
Cyrus K. Bett, Johnpeter N. Ngunjiri, Marcus A. Etienne, Jayne C. Garno, Robert P. Hammer
2:00 PMIncorporation of Ca, adisubstituted amino acids into model b-sheet peptides: Conformational analysis and applications as possible therapeutic agents
Marcus A. Etienne, Cyrus K. Bett, Larry R. Masterson, Gianluigi Veglia, David Morgan, Robert P. Hammer
2:20 PMAccelerated synthesis of polyamide dendrimers using allylamine as novel ammonia equivalent
Baghavathy S. Balaji, Michael R. Lewis
2:40 PMConformationally homogeneous heterocyclic β-turn mimetics as structurally predictable 3-D scaffolds
John M. Beierle, W. Seth Horne, Ana Montero, M. Reza Ghadiri
3:00 PMNew developments in microwave assisted solid phase peptide synthesis
Grace S. Vanier
3:20 PMOrganocatalytic asymmetric 5-hydroxypyrrolidine synthesis: A highly enantioselective route to 3-substituted proline derivatives
Ramon Rios, Ismail Ibrahem, Jan Vesely, Henrik Sunden, Armando Cordova
3:40 PMPeptidomimetic oligomers containing beta-peptoid units
Christian A. Olsen
4:00 PMPreparation of several homochirally similar unnatural amino acids from a common intermediate
Douglas S. Masterson
4:20 PMWhat does nature's photosynthesis teach us on how to make efficient solar cells?
Yonghong Song

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008