MONDAY, JANUARY 5
Morning
10:00 - 11:00 Andrew G. Myers
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91125
U S A
TITLE: New Strategies for the Construction of
the Enediyne Antibiotics.
Synthesis of the Antitumor Agent Neocarzinostatin
Chromophore.
11:10 - 12:10 Tom J. Mabry
Department of Botany
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713-76460
U S A
TITLE: Nonprotein Amino Acids and Azoxyglycosides from Cycads
Afternoon
2:00 - 3:00 Dale Poulter
Department of Chemistry
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
U S A
TITLE: Biosynthesis of Non-Head-to-Tail Isoprenoids. Controlling Unruly Substrates.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6
Morning
9:00 - 10:00 Donald Craig
Department of Chemistry
Imperial College of Science
Technology and Medicine
London, UK SW7 1AY
TITLE: Cyclisation and cycloaddition-based Approaches for the Synthesis of Natural Products.
10:25 - 11:25 Susumi Hatakeyama
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Nagasaki University
1-14 Bunkyuo-cho
Nagasaki, Japan 852
TITLE: Allenylmethylsilanes and Their Utilisation for Natural Product Synthesis
Afternoon
2:15 - 3:15 Peter Wipf
Department of Chemistry
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
U S A
TITLE: Synthetic Studies of Azole Natural Products.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
Morning
9:00 - 10:00 David R. Mootoo
Department of Chemistry
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
New York City
NY 10021
U S A
TITLE: Synthesis of C-Glycosides via Oxocarbenium Ion Cyclizations.
10:30 - 11:30 Rawle I. Hollingsworth
Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
U S A
TITLE: Carbohydrates as a Chiral Feedstock Approach: A General Route to Chirality.
Afternoon
2:00 - 3:00 Richard C A Isaacs
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Merck Research Laboratories
Merck and Co. Inc.
P.O. Box 4, WP 26-410
West Point 4, PA 19486
U S A
TITLE: Recent Progress in the Development of
Orally Active Nonpeptidic Thrombin Inhibitors.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9
Morning
9:00 - 10:00 Stuart J. Rowan
University Chemical Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Lensfield Road
Cambridge, UK CB2 1EW
TITLE: Unnatural Things with Natural
Products.
10:30 - 11:30 Joe Connolly
Department of Chemistry
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
Scotland, UK G12 8QQ
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TITLE: Natural Products from Around the
World.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 5
Morning
8:00 - 8:30 Completion of Registration
8:30 - 9:30 Opening Ceremony and Announcements.
Chairman: Prof W. R. Chan
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:00 Plenary Lecture
Andrew G. Myers - New Strategies for the Construction
of
the Enediyne Antibiotics. Synthesis of the Antitumor Agent
Neocarzinostatin Chromophore.
11:00 - 11:10 Question and Discussion Period.
11:10 - 12:10 Plenary Lecture
Tom J. Mabry - Nonprotein Amino Acids and
Azoxyglycosides from Cycads.
12:10 - 12:20 Question and Discussion Period.
Afternoon
Chairman: Prof Stewart McLean
2:00 - 3:00 Plenary Lecture
Dale Poulter - Biosynthesis of Non-Head-to-Tail
Isoprenoids
Controlling Unruly Substrates
3:00 - 3:10 Question and Discussion Period.
3:10 - 3:30 Paper #1
Bernard J. Rawlings, C.M. McNamara, S. Box, J.M.
Crawforth, B.S. Hickman and T.J. Norwood - Biosynthesis
of Amphotericin B.
3:30 - 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:05 Paper #2
William F. Reynolds - Choosing the Optimum
Combinations
of NMR Experiments and Processing Parameters for Natural
Products Structure Elucidation.
4:05 - 4:25 Paper #3
Sonia Peter, W.F. Tinto and W.F. Reynolds -
Cassanes,
Including a Rearranged Furanoditerpene.
4:25 - 4:55 Paper #4
Wolfgang Kraus - Bioassay Guided Isolation of
Bioactive
Compounds from Plant Extracts.
4:45 - 4:55 Question and Discussion Period.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 6
Morning
Chairman: Prof Richard W. Franck
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture
Donald Craig - Cyclisation and Cyclo-addition-based
Approaches for the Synthesis of Natural Products.
10:00 - 10:10 Question and Discussion Period.
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:25 Plenary Lecture
Susumi Hatakeyama - Allenylmethylsilanes and their
Utilisation for Natural Product Synthesis.
11:25 - 11:35 Question and Discussion Period.
11:35 - 11:55 Paper #5
Michael Thomas, C.J. Suckling, A.R. Pitt and K.E. Suckling
-
The Synthesis and Evaluation of Cholesterol Derivatives.
11:55 - 12:15 Paper #6
Raul G. Enriquez, W.F. Reynolds, B. Ortiz, E.
Alducin,
D. Gnecco and M.L. Villarreal - Chemical Transformations of
Secondary Metabolites in Search for Bioactive Compounds,
Promising Derivatives of Perozone.
12:15 - 12:25 Question and Discussion Period.
Afternoon
Chairman: Prof G. Davon Kennedy
2:15 - 3:15 Plenary Lecture
Peter Wipf - Synthetic Studies of Azole Natural
Products.
3:15 - 3:25 Question and Discussion Period.
3:25 - 3:40 Coffee Break
3:40 - 4:00 Paper #7
Mohammad Behforouz - Synthesis and Antitumor Studies
of
Lavendamycins
4:00 - 4:20 Paper #8
James Cook, Jin Li and P. Yu - Enantiospecific Total
Synthesis of (+)-Ajmaline, Talpinine, Talcarpine and Alkaloid G
via The Asymmetric Pictet-Spengler Reaction.
4:20 - 4:30 Question and Discussion Period.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
Morning
Chairman: Prof James Cook
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture
David R. Mootoo - Synthesis of C-Glycosides via
Oxocarbenium Ion Cyclizations.
10:00 - 10:10 Question and Discussion Period.
10:10 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:25 Plenary Lecture
Rawle I. Hollingsworth - Carbohydrates as a Chiral
Feedstock Approach: A General Route to Chirality.
11:25 - 11:35 Question and Discussion Period.
11:35 - 11:55 Paper #9
Richard W. Franck and P. Belica - C-Glycosides via
the
Ramberg-Backlund Reaction.
11:55 - 12:15 Paper #10
John W. Huffman and Shu Yu - Synthesis and
Pharmacology
of 1-Deoxy Cannabinoids.
12:15 - 12:25 Question and Discussion Period.
Afternoon
Chairman: Prof John Huffman
2:00 - 3:00 Plenary Lecture
Richard C.A. Isaacs - Recent Progress in the Development
of
Orally Active Nonpeptidic Thrombin Inhibitors.
3:00 - 3:10 Question and Discussion Period.
3:10 - 3:25 Coffee Break
3:25 - 3:45 Paper #11
William N. Setzer - Phytochemical Investigation of a
Salacia
Liana Species from Monteverde Costa Rica.
3:45 - 4:05 Paper #12
Sophia Edwards, S. Song and D.W. Dixon -
Anthraquinones
as DNA Threading Intercalators and DNA Cleaving Agents.
4:05 - 4:25 Paper #13
Keshore R. Bidasee, J.A. Coles, J.S. Rastegar and H.R.
Besch Jr. -
Understanding Cardiac Contractility: Plant Alkaloid
Ryanodine.
4:25 - 4:35 Question and Discussion Period.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9
Morning
Chairman: Prof Baldwin Mootoo
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture
Stuart J. Rowan - Unnatural Things with Natural
Products.
10:00 - 10:10 Question and Discussion Period.
10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Plenary Lecture
Joe Connolly - Natural Products from Around the World
11:30 - 11:40 Question and Discussion Period.
11:40 - 12:00 Closing Ceremony.
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BEHFOROUZ, M. HOLLINGSWORTH, R.
MYERS, A.
BIDASEE, K. HOLLINGSWORTH, S.
PARZIALE, V.
CHAN, W. HUFFMAN, J.
PITTER, S.
COOK, J. ISAACS, R.
POULTER, D.
CONNOLLY, J. KENNEDY, D.
RAWLINGS, B.
CRAIG, D. KRAUS, W.
REYNOLDS, W.
DRYSDALE, N. MABRY, T.
ROWAN, S.
EDWARDS, S. MAXWELL, A.
SETZER, W.
FRANCK, R. MCLEAN, S.
THOMAS, M.
GROUTAS, W. MOOTOO, B.
TINTO, W.
HATAKEYAMA,S. MOOTOO, D.
WIPF, P.