Professors in organic chemistry

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University Names	Professor Names	Recent Publications
MIT	Stephen L. Buchwald	Singh, U.K.; Strieter, E.R.; Blackmond, D.I.; Buchwald, S.L. “Mechanistic Insights into the Pd(BINAP)-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Bromides: Studies Under Synthetically Relevant Conditions.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 14104. Klapars, A.; Buchwald, S.L. “Copper-Catalyzed Halogen Exchange in Aryl Halides: An Aromatic Finkelstein Reaction." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 14844.
	Rick L. Danheiser	"A Practical Method for the Synthesis of 2-Alkynylpropenals", C. Thongsornkleeb and R. L. Danheiser, J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 2364. "Synthesis of Highly Substituted Indolines and Indoles via Intramolecular [4 + 2] Cycloaddition of Ynamides and Conjugated Enynes" J. R. Dunetz and R. L. Danheiser. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 5776.
	Gregory C. Fu	Boronic Acids: New Coupling Partners in Room-Temperature Suzuki Reactions of Alkyl Bromides. Crystallographic Characterization of an Oxidative-Addition Adduct Generated Under Remarkably Mild Conditions J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 13662-13663. Kirchhoff, J. H.; Netherton, M. R.; Hills, I. D.; Fu, G. C. Enantioselective Addition of Amines to Ketenes Catalyzed by a Planar-Chiral Derivative of PPY: Possible Intervention of Chiral Brønsted-Acid Catalysis J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 10006-10007. Hodous, B. L.; Fu, G. C.
	Barbara Imperiali	"Oligosaccharyl Transferase: Gatekeeper to the Secretory Pathway" Dempski, R. E. Jr.; Imperiali, B. Curr. Op. Chem. Biol. 2002, 6, 844-850. "Peptides to Peptidomimetics: Towards the Design of Bioavailable Inhibitors of Oligosaccharyl Transferase" Weerapana, E.; Imperiali, B. Organic and Biomol. Chem. 2003, 1, 93-99.
	Timothy F. Jamison	Miller, K. M.; Huang, W.-S.; Jamison, T. F. "Catalytic Asymmetric Reductive Coupling of Alkynes and Aldehydes: Enantioselective Synthesis of Allylic Alcohols and α-Hydroxy Ketones," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, in press. Patel, S. J.; Jamison, T. F. “Catalytic Three-Component Coupling of Alkynes, Imines, and Organoboron Reagents," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, in press.
	Mohammad Movassaghi	"A Direct Method for the Conversion of Terminal Epoxides into γ-Butanolides." Mohammad Movassaghi and Eric N. Jacobsen J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 2456-2457. "The Simplest Enzyme." Mohammad Movassaghi and Eric N. Jacobsen Science 2002, 298, 1904-1905
	Sarah E. O'Connor	O'Connor, S., Chen, H., Walsh, C. T. (2002) Enzymatic assembly of epothilones: EpoC synthase and reconstitution of the EpoA/B/C PKS/NRPS/PKS interfaces. Biochemistry 41, 5685-5694. Schneider, T. L., Walsh, C. T., O'Connor, S. E. (2002) Utilization of alternate substrates by the first three modules of the epothilone synthetase assembly line. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 124, 11272-11273.
	Timothy M. Swager	Zahn, S.; Swager, T. M. “Three Dimensional Electronic Delocalization in Chiral Conjugated Polymers” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2002, 41, 4225-4230. Yu, H.; Xu, B.; Swager, T. M. “A Proton-Doped Calix[4]arene-Based Conducting Polymer” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 1142–1143.
	Alexander M. Klibanov	Dzyuba SV, Klibanov AM. Stereoselective oxidations and reductions catalyzed by non-redox proteins. Tetrahedron Asymmetry 15: 2771-2777 (2004). Thomas M, Ge Q, Lu JJ, Chen J, Klibanov AM. Cross-linked small polyethylenimines: while still non-toxic, deliver DNA efficiently to mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo. Pharm Res 22: 373-380 (2005).
	Richard R. Schrock
	JoAnne Stubbe	"Radical Initiation in the Class I Ribonucleotide Reductases: Long Range Electron Coupled Proton Transfer?" (2003) J. Stubbe. D. Nocera, C. Yee and M. Chang Chem Reviews in press. "Why multiple small subunits (Y2 and Y4) for yeast ribonucleotide reductase? Toward understanding the role of Y4". Ge J, Perlstein DL, Nguyen HH, Bar G, Griffin RG, Stubbe J. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001, 98(18):10067-72.
	Alice Y. Ting	Site-specific labeling of cell surface proteins with biophysical probes using biotin ligase. Nature Methods 2005, 2, 99-104. I. Chen, M. Howarth, W. Lin, and A. Y. Ting.

Boston College	Steven D. Bruner	Fromme, J. C., Bruner, S. D., Yang, W., Karplus, M., and Verdine, G. L. “Product-assisted catalysis in base-excision DNA repair” Nat. Struct. Biol. 2003, 10, 204-211. Tseng C. C., Bruner S. D., Kohli R. M., Marahiel, M. A., Walsh, C. T., Sieber, S. A.“Characterization of the surfactin C-terminal thioesterase domain as a cyclic depsipeptide synthase” Biochemistry 2002, 41, 13350-13359
	Amir H. Hoveyda	"Highly Enantioselective Cu-Catalyzed Conjugate Additions of Dialkylzinc Reagents to Unsaturated Furanones and Pyranones. Preparation of Air Stable and Catalytically Active Cu^.Peptide Complexes," M. K. Brown, S. J. Degrado, A. H. Hoveyda Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 2005, in press. "Proline-Based N-Oxides as Readily Available and Modular Chiral Catalysts. Enantioselective Reactions of Allyltrichlorosilane with Aldehydes," J. F. Traverse, Y. Zhao, A. H. Hoveyda, M. L. Snapper Org. Lett. 2005, in press.
	Shana O. Kelley	"Site-Specific Delivery of DNA and Appended Cargo to Carbon Nanotubes." B.J. Taft, A.D. Lazareck, G.D. Withey, A. Yin, J.M. Xu, S.O. Kelley, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 12750. "Ultrasensitive DNA Detection at 2D and 3D Nanoelectrodes." R. Gasparac, B.J. Taft, M. Lapierre-Devlin, A.D. Lazareck, J.M. Xu, S.O. Kelley, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 12270.
	T. Ross Kelly	I.Cornella and T. R. Kelly, "Synthesis of Porritoxin," J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 2191-2193 J.M.Beierle, E. B. Osimboni, C. Metallinos, Y. Zhao and T. R. Kelly, “Synthesis of Louisianin C.” J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 4970-4972.
	Scott J. Miller	“Thiazolylalanine-Derived Catalysts for Enantioselective Intermolecular Aldehyde-Imine Cross-Couplings” Mennen, S. M.; Gipson, J. D.; Kim, Y. R.; Miller, S. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 1654-1655. “A Peptide-Catalyzed Stetter Reaction” Mennen, S. M.; Blank, J. T.; Tran, M. B.; Imbriglio, J. E.; Miller, S. J. Chem. Commun. 2005, 195-197.
	Dennis J. Sardella	Currently, Professor Sardella teaches organic chemistry to undergraduates and serves as the Director of Boston College's Presidential Scholar's Program, designed to provide top young scholars with the opportunity to combine course work and personal experience with an emphasis on community service, internationalism, and professionalism.
	Lawrence T. Scott	“Ball-and-Socket Stacking of Supercharged Geodesic Polyarenes: Bonding by Interstitial Lithium Ions,” I. Aprahamian, D. Eisenberg, R. E. Hoffman, T. Sternfeld, Y. Matsuo, E. A. Jackson, E. Nakamura, L. T. Scott, T. Sheradsky, M. Rabinovitz, J. Am. Chem. Soc., accepted for publication. “Concave Polyarenes With Sulfide-Linked Flaps and Tentacles: New Electron-Rich Hosts for Fullerenes” P. E. Georghiou, A. H. Tran, S. Mizyed, M. Bancu, L. T. Scott, J. Org. Chem, accepted for publication.
	Marc L. Snapper	"Ag-catalyzed asymmetric Mannich reactions of enol ethers with aryl, alkyl, alkenyl, and alkynyl imines " Josephson, NS; Snapper, Marc L.; Hoveyda, Amir H.;. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126,3734. "(PCy3)(2)Cl2Ru=CHPh Catalyzed Kharasch additions. Application in a formal olefin carbonylation " Lee BT, Schrader TO, Martin-Matute B, Kauffman CR, Zhang P,; Snapper, Marc L.. Tetrahedron 2004, 60,7391

Boston University	Warren P. Giering
	Guilford Jones	"Contribution of a Pyrene Fluorescence Probe to the Aggregation Propensity of Polypeptides", G. Jones, II and V. I. Vullev, Organic Lett., 3, 2457 (2001).
	James S. Panek	Neil F. Langille, Les A. Dakin, and James S. Panek "Sonogashira Coupling of Functionalized Trifloyl Oxazoles and Thiazoles with Terminal Alkynes: Synthesis of Disubstituted Heterocycles" Org. Lett.2002, 4, 2485-2488. Les A. Dakin, Neil F. Langille, and James S. Panek "Synthesis of the C1'-C11' Oxazole Containing Side-Chain of Leucascandrolide A. Application of a Sonogashira Cross-Coupling" J. Org. Chem. 2002,
	John A. Porco, Jr.	" Synthesis of a Library of Complex Macrodiolides Employing Cyclodimerization of Hydroxy Esters." Beeler, A. B.; Acquilano, D. E.; Su, Q.; Yan, F.; Roth, B. L.; Panek, J. S.; Porco, J. A., Jr. J. Comb. Chem. 2005, 7 " Stereocontrolled Synthesis of a Complex Library via Elaboration of Angular Epoxyquinol Scaffolds." Lei, X.; Zaarur, N.; Sherman, M. Y.; Porco, J. A., Jr. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 6474-6483.
	Scott E. Schaus	di Bernado, D.; Thompson, M. J.; Gardner, T. S.; Chobot, S. E.; Eastwood, E. L.; Wojtovich, A. P.; Elliott, S. J.; Schaus, S. E.; Collins, J. J. "Chemogenomic profiling on a genome-wide scale using reverse-engineered gene networks," Nat. Biotechnol. 2005, 23, 377-383. McDougal, N. T.; Trevellini, W. L.; Rodgen, S. A.; Kliman, L. T.; Schaus, S. E. "The Development of the Asymmetric Morita–Baylis–Hillman Reaction Catalyzed by Chiral Brønsted Acids," Adv. Synth. Cat. 2004, 346, 1231-1240.
	John K. Snyder	Ma, B. and Snyder, J.K. "A Homo Diels-Alder Approach to Bicyclo[4.2.1]nonanes", Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 2731 - 2734.

Brandeis University

Li Deng

1. “Catalytic Enantioselective Conjugate Additions with Vinyl Sulfones,” Li, H.; Song, J.; Liu, X.; Deng, L. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8948-8949.

2. “Catalytic Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Bisorbicillinolide, Bisorbicillinoland Bisorbibutenolide,” Hong, R.; Chen, Y.; Deng, L. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 3478-3481.

3. “Stereocontrolled Creation of Adjacent Quaternary and Tertiary Stereocenters via a Catalytic, Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Conjugate Addition,” Li, H.; Wang, Y.; Tang, L.; Wu, F.; Liu, X.; Guo, C.; Foxman, B.; Deng, L. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 105-108 (designated as a “Very Important Paper (VIP)” paper).

Phillip Keehn

"Tri-3-(2-butyl)-6-methylsalicylide. A Novel, Versatile Tri-o-thymotide Based Clathrate Host Having Chiral Centers," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 1915; with J.M. Gnaim, B.S. Green, R. Arad-Yellin, K. Vyas, J. Levy and F. Frolow.

"Analogues of Tri-o-thymotide (TOT) and Tri-o-carvacrotide (TOC) by Direct Bromination of TOT and TOC," J. Org.

Barry B. Snider

Neubert, B. J.; Snider, B. B. “Synthesis of (±)-Phloeodictine A1” Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 765-768.

Gao, X.; Nakadai, M.; Snider, B. B. “Synthesis of (-)-TAN-2483A. Revision of the Structures of and Syntheses of (±)-FD-211 (Waol A) and (±)-FD-212 (Waol B)” Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 451-454

Jinquan Yu

“Palladium-catalyzed oxidation of methyl groups by inexpensive oxidants under mild conditions: a dual role for carboxylic anhydrides in catalytic C-H bond oxidation” Gir, R.; Liang, J.; Lei, J. G.; Li, J. J.; Wang, D. H.; Chen, X.; Naggar, I. C.; Guo, C.; Foxman, B. M.; Yu, J. Q.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, in press.

“Catalytic and stereoselective iodination of prochiral C-H bonds” Giri, R.; Chen, X.; Hao, X. S.; Li, J. J.; Fan, Z. P.; Yu, J. Q.* Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2005, invited contribution, in press.

University of California, Berkeley	Clayton H. Heathcock	H. S. Christie and C. H. Heathcock, "Total Synthesis of (±)-Halichlorine, (±)-Pinnaic Acid, and (±)-Tauropinnaic Acid," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2004, 101, 12079-12084. M. Brito-Arias, R. Pereda-Miranda and C. H. Heathcock, "Synthesis of Tricolorin F," J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69, 4567-4570. C. H. Heathcock, M. McLaughlin, J. Medina, J. L. Hubbs, G. A. Wallace, R. Scott, M. M. Claffey, J. Jayes and G. R. Ott, "Multigram Synthesis of Altohyrtin C (Spongistatin 2), J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 12844-12849.
	Robert G. Bergman	Tan, K.L.; Vasudevan, A.; Bergman, R.G.; Ellman, J.A.; Souers, A.J. "Microwave Assisted C-H Bond Activation: A Rapid Entry into Functionalized Heterocycles" Org. Lett., 2003, 5, 2131-2134. Fox, D.J.; Bergman, R.G. "Synthesis of a First Row Transition Metal Parent Amido Complex and Carbon Monoxide Insertion into the Amide N-H Bond" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 30, 8984-8985.
	Carolyn R. Bertozzi	Chemical remodelling of cell surfaces in living animals. Nature. 2004, 430, 873-7 Functional self-assembling bolaamphiphilic polydiacetylenes as colorimetric sensor scaffolds. J Am Chem Soc. 2004, 126, 8459-65.
	Christopher J. Chang	Chang, M. C. Y.; Pralle, A.; Isacoff, E. Y.; Chang, C. J. "A Selective, Cell-Permeable Optical Probe for Hydrogen Peroxide in Living Cells", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 15392-15393. Chang, C. J.; Loh, Z.-H.; Shi, C.; Anson, F.C. Nocera, D. G. "Targeted Proton Delivery in the Catalyzed Reduction of Oxygen to Water by Bimetallic Pacman Porphyrins", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 10013-10020.
	Jonathan A. Ellman	Brinner, K. M.; Powles, M. A.; Schmatz, D. M.; Ellman, J. A. “Potent 4-Aminopiperidine Based Antimalarial Agents” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 15, 345-348 (2005). Boitano, A.; Leonetii, F.; Emal, C.; Ellman, J. A.; Roush, W. R.; Opipari, A. W.; Glick, G. D. “Structure Activity Studies of a Novel Cytotoxic Benzodiazepine” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 13, 3327-3330 (2003).
	Matthew B. Francis
	Jean M. J. Fréchet	Gillies, Elizabeth R.; Fréchet, Jean M. J.. Dendrimers and Dendritic Polymers in Drug Delivery. Drug Discovery Today, 2005, 10, 35-43. Furuta, P.T.; Deng, L.; Garon, S.; Thompson,M.E.; Fréchet, J.M.J.; Platinum Functionalized Random Copolymers for use in Solution Processible Efficient White Organic Light Emitting Diodes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 15388-9 .
	Michael A. Marletta	Gray JM, Karow DS, Lu H, Chang AJ, Chang JS, Ellis RE, Marletta MA, Bargmann CI. Oxygen sensation and social feeding mediated by a C. elegans guanylate cyclase homologue.Nature. 2004 Jul 15;430(6997):317-22.
	Richmond Sarpong	Su, J.T.; Sarpong, R.; Stoltz, B.M.; Goddard III, W.A. "Substituent Effects and Nearly Degenerate Transition States: Rational Design of Substrates for the Tandem Wolff/Cope Reaction" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 126(1); 24-25. Sarpong, R.; Su, J. T.; Stoltz, B. M. "The Development of a Facile Tandem Wolff/Cope Rearrangement for the Synthesis of Fused Carbocyclic Skeletons " J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125(45), 13624 - 13625.
	T. Don Tilley	"Efficient, High-Yield Route to Long, Functionalized Paraphenylene Oligomers Containing Perfluorinated Segments, and Their Cyclodimerizations by Zirconocene Coupling." J. Nitschke and T. D. Tilley. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 10183. "Novel Templating Effect in the Macrocyclization of Functionalized Diynes via Zirconocene Coupling." J. R. Nitschke and T. D. Tilley. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 2001, 40, 2142.
	F. Dean Toste	Gold(I)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Acetylenic Schmidt Reaction Gorin, D.J.; Davis, N.R.; Toste, F.D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, ASAP. Synthesis of 2-Cyclopentenones by Gold(I)-Catalyzed Rautenstrauch Rearrangement Shi, X.; Gorin, D.J.; Toste, F.D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 5802-5803.
	Dirk Trauner	"An Electrochemical Approach to the Guanacastepenes." Hughes, C. C.; Miller, A. K.; Trauner, D. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, ASAP. "Mining the Tetraene Manifold: Total Synthesis of Complex Pyrones from Placobranchus ocellatus." Miller, A. K.; Trauner, D. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 4602-4606. "Biomimetic Synthesis of Elysiapyrones A and B." Barbarow, J. E.; Miller, A. K.; Trauner, D. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 2901-2903. "Stereoselective Syntheses of the Bioactive Polypropionates Aureothin, N-Acetylaureothamine, and Aureonitrile." Liang, G.; Seiple, I. B.; Trauner, D. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 2837-2839. "Biomimetic Synthesis of Antimalarial Naphthoquinones." Malerich, J. P.; Maimone, T. J.; Elliott, G. I.; Trauner, D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 6276-6283.
	Peter C. Vollhardt	Iglesias, B.; Cobas, A.; Pérez, D.; Guitián, E.; Vollhardt, K. P. C., Tris(benzocyclobutadieno)triphenylene and Its Lower Biphenylene Homologs by Palladium-Catalyzed Cyclizations of 2,3-Didehydrobiphenylene, Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 3557. Gandon, V.; Leca, D.; Aechtner, T.; Vollhardt, K. P. C.; Malacria, M.; Aubert, C., Synthesis of Arylboronic Esters via Cobalt(0)-mediated Cycloaddition of Alkynylboronates with α,ω-Diynes, Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 3405.

Stanford University	Justin Du Bois	“ Expanding the Scope of C–H Amination Through Catalyst Design ,” C.G. Espino, K. Williams Fiori, M. Kim, and J. Du Bois, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 15378-15379 (2004). “ Rh-Catalyzed Amination of Ethereal a–C–H Bonds: A Versatile Strategy for the Synthesis of Complex Amines ,” K. Williams Fiori, J.J. Fleming, and J. Du Bois, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 43, 4349-4352 (2004).
	Jennifer J. Kohler	"A Small-Molecule Switch for Golgi Sulfotransferase," C.L. de Graffenried, S.T. Laughlin, J.J. Kohler, and C.R. Bertozzi, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A., 101, 16710-16715 (2004). "Directing Flux in Glycan Biosynthetic Pathways with a Small Molecule Switch," J.J. Kohler, J.L. Czlapinski, S.T. Laughlin, M.W. Schelle, C.L. de Graffenried, and C.R. Bertozzi, ChemBioChem, 5, 1455-1458 (2004).
	Paul A. Wender	Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2004, 8803; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 13648; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 4956; Organic Lett. 2000, 2323; Organic Lett., 1999, 137; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2002, 13648; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1997, 12976. Chemistry & Biology 2004, 1261; Organic Lett. 2005, 79; Current Drug Discovery Technologies 2004, 1; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2004, 8803; Pure Appl. Chem. 2003, 143; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 13648; Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2001, 719-722; Pure & Appl. Chem, 1998, 539; Medicinal Research Reviews, 1999, 388; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 1998, 6624

The Scripps Research Institute	Phil S. Baran	Baran, P.S.; Richter, J.M. Direct Coupling of Indoles with Carbonyl Compounds: Short, Enantioselective, Gram-Scale Synthetic Entry into the Hapalindole and Fischerindole Alkaloid Families, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 7450-7451. Baran, P.S.; O’Malley, D.P.; Zografos, A.L. Sceptrin as a Potential Biosynthetic Precursor to Complex Pyrrole-Imidazole Alkaloids: The Total Synthesis of Ageliferin, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 2674-2677. Baran, P.S.; Zografos, A.L.; O’Malley, D.P. Short Total Synthesis of Sceptrin, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 3726-3727.
	Carlos F. Barbas III	Notz, W.; Tanaka, F.; Barbas III, C.F. Enamine-based organocatalysis with proline and diamines: The development of Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Aldol, Mannich, Michael, and Diels-Alder Reactions. Acct. Chem. Res., 37(8):580-591. 2004 Rader, C; Sinha, S.C.; Popkov, M.; Lerner, R.A.; Barbas III, C.F. Chemically programmed monoclonal antibodies for cancer therapy: Adaptor immunotherapy based on a covalent antibody catalyst. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA, 100(9):5396-5400. 2003
	Dale L. Boger	M.S. Tichenor, D.B. Kastrinsky, and D.L. Boger, "Total synthesis, structure revision, and absolute configuration of (+)-yatakemycin". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 8396-8398, 2004. D.L. Boger, J. Desharnais, and K. Capps "Solution-phase combinatorial libraries: modulating cellular signaling by targeting protein-protein or protein-DNA interactions". Angrew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42,4138-4176, 2003.
	Kim D. Janda	Meijler, M.M., Hom, L.G., Kaufmann, G.F., McKenzie, K.M., Sun, C., Moss, J.A., Matsushita, M., Janda, K.D. Synthesis and biological validation of a ubiquitous quorum sensing molecule, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 43:2106, 2004. Carrera, M.R.A., Kaufmann, G.F., Mee, J.M., Meijler, M.M., Koob, G.F., Janda, K.D. Treating cocaine with viruses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:10416, 2004.
	Ehud Keinan	Benenson, Y., Paz-Elizur, T., Adar, R., Keinan, E., Livneh, Z., Shapiro, E. Programmable and autonomous computing machine made of biomolecules, Nature, 414:430, 2001. Lo, H.C., Haskel, A., Kapon, M., Keinan, E. TpPt(IV)Me(H)2 forms a s-CH4 complex that is remarkably resistant to methane liberation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124:3226, 2002
	Chris Liang	X Wang, P Le, C Liang, J Chan, D Kiewlich, T Miller, D Harris, L Sun, A Rice, S Vasile, RA Blake, AR Howlett, N Patel, G McMahon, and KE Lipson Potent and Selective Inhibitors of the Met [Hepatocyte Growth Factor/Scatter Factor (HGF/SF) Receptor] Tyrosine Kinase Block HGF/SF-induced Tumor Cell Growth and Invasion. Mol. Cancer Ther. (2003); 2(11), 1085-92. Li Sun, Chris Liang, Sheri Shirazian, Yong Zhou, Todd Miller, Jean Cui, Juri Y. Fukuda, Ji-Yu Chu, Asaad Nematalla, Xueyan Wang, Hui Chen, Anand Sistla, Tony C. Luu, Flora Tang, James Wei, and Cho Tang Discovery of 5-[5-Fluoro-2-oxo-1,2- dihydroindol-(3Z)-ylidenemethyl]-2,4- dimethyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylic Acid (2-Diethylaminoethyl)amide, a Novel Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Targeting Vascular Endothelial and Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase, J. Med. Chem. (2003), 46 (7), pp 1116 – 1119.
	Masayuki Matsushita	M. Matsushita, K. Yoshida, N. Yamamoto, P. Wirsching, R. A. Lerner and K. D. Janda. High-throughput screening by using a blue-fluorescent antibody sensor. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 42, 5984, 2003. M. M. Meijler, L. G. Hom, G. F. Kaufmann, K. M. McKenzie, C. Sun, J. A. Moss, M. Matsushita and K. D. Janda. Synthesis and biological validation of a ubiquitous quorum-sensing molecule. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 43, 2106, 2004.
	K.C. Nicolaou	Nicolaou, K.C., Montagnon, T., Snyder, S.A. Tandem Reactions, Cascade Sequences, and Biomimetic Strategies in Total Synthesis, Chem. Commun., 551, 2003. Nicolaou, K.C. Perspectives in Total Synthesis: A Personal Account, Tetrahedron 59:6683, 2003
	Julius Rebek Jr.	P.L. Wash, A.R. Renslo, J. Rebek, Jr. Isolated Acid/Base Complexes in Solution Put the Brakes on Nitrogen Inversion. Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed. Engl. 2000, 40, 1221-1222. L. Somogyi, G. Haberhauer, J. Rebek, Jr. Improved Synthesis of Functionalized Molecular Platforms Related to Marine Cyclopeptides. Tetrahedron, 2000, 57, 1699-1708.
	William R. Roush	T. B. Durham, B. M. Savall, N. Blanchard, and W. R. Roush, “Total Synthesis of Formamicin,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 9307. D. J. Mergott, S. A. Frank, and W. R. Roush, “Total Synthesis of (-)-Spinosyn A via Transannular Diels-Alder Reaction/Ring Contraction Sequence,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2004, 101, 11955.
	K. Barry Sharpless	V. V. Rostovtsev, L. G. Green, V. V. Fokin and K. B. Sharpless, "A Stepwise Huisgen Cycloaddition Process: Copper(I)-Catalyzed Regioselective "Ligation" of Azides and Terminal Alkynes" Angew. Chem., 41, 2596 (2002). W. G. Lewis, L. G. Green, F. Grynszpan, Z. Radic, P. R. Carlier, P. Taylor, M. G. Finn and K. B. Sharpless, "Click Chemistry in situ: Aceytlcholinesterase as a Molecular-Scale Reaction Vessel for the Selective Assembly of a Femtomolar Inhibitor from an Array of Building Blocks" Angew. Chem., 41, 1053 (2002).
	Fujie Tanaka	Tanaka, F., Thayumanavan, R., Barbas, C. F., III. Fluorescent detection of carbon-carbon bond formation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125: 8523-8528, 2003. Tanaka, F., Flores, F., Kubitz, D., Lerner, R. A., Barbas, C. F., III. Antibody-catalyzed aminolysis of a chloropyrimidine derivative. Chem. Commun. 1242-1243, 2004.
	Chi-Huey Wong	Bryan, M.C., Fazio, F., Lee, H.-K., Huang, C.-Y., Chang, A., Best, M., Calarese, D.A., Blixt, O., Paulson, J.C., Burton, D., Wilson, I.A., Wong, C.-H. “Covalent display of oligosaccharide arrays in microtiter plates”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2004) 126, 8640

California Institute of Technology CALTECH	Fred Anson	"(5,10,15,20-Tetramethylporphyrinato) cobalt(II): A Remarkably Active Catalyst for the Electroreduction of O2 to H2O", C. Shi and F. C. Anson, Inorg. Chem., 37, 1037 (1998).
	John E. Bercaw	Mechanistic Studies of the Ethylene Trimerization Reaction with Chromium – Diphosphine Catalysts: Experimental Evidence for a Mechanism Involving Metallacyclic Intermediates Theodor Agapie, Susan J. Schofer, Jay A. Labinger and John E. Bercaw J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 1304 (2004)
	Mark E. Davis	Dillon, C.J., Holles, J.H., Davis, R.J., Labinger, J. and Davis, M.E., (2003) J. Catalysis, 218, 54-66 Holles, J.H., Dillon, C.J., Labinger, J., and Davis, ME; (2003) J. Catalysis, 218, 42-53, 2000
	Peter B. Dervan	Inhibition of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor with a Sequence-Specific HRE Antagonist. B. Olenyuk, G.-J. Zhang, J. M. Klco, N. Nickols, W. G. Kaelin, Jr. and P. B. Dervan, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 101, 16768 (2004) Arresting Cancer Proliferation by Small Molecule Gene Regulation. L. A. Dickinson, R. Burnett, C. Melander, B. S Edelson, P. S. Arora, P. B. Dervan and J. M. Gottesfeld, Chem. & Biol., 11, 1 (2004).
	Dennis Dougherty
	William A. Goddard, III
	Robert H. Grubbs	“Chemoselective Construction of Substituted Conjugated Dienes Using an Olefin Cross-Metathesis Protocol.” T. W. Funk, J. Efskind, and R. H. Grubbs, Organic Lett. 2005, 7 (2), 187-190. “A Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalyst with a Four-Membered N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand.” E. Despagnet-Ayoub and R. H. Grubbs, Organometallics 2005, 24, 338-340.
	Linda Hsieh-Wilson	"Tailor-made Glycoproteins," Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, Trends Biotechnol., 22, 489-91 (2004). "A Role for Fucose a(1-2) Galactose Carbohydrates in Neuronal Growth," Stacey Kalovidouris, Cristal Gama, Lori Lee, Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson, J. Am. Chem. Soc., (2005).
	Nathan Lewis
	David MacMillan	Publications
	Brian M. Stoltz	"Heterogeneous Reductive Isomerization Reaction Using Catalytic Pd/C and H₂", Daniel D. Caspi, Neil K. Garg, and Brian M. Stoltz. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 2513. "Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Saudin: Development of a Tandem Stille-Oxa-Electrocyclization Reaction", Uttam K. Tambar, Taichi Kano, and Brian M. Stoltz. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 2413.
	David A. Tirrell	Biomacromolecules, 1, 23 (2000). E.R. Welsh and D.A. Tirrell. "Engineering the Extracellular Matrix: A Novel Approach to Polymeric Biomaterials. I. Control of Physical Properties of Artificial Protein Matrices Designed to Support Adhesion of Vascular Endothelial Cells." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 39, 2148 (2000). K.L. Kiick, J.C.M. van Hest and D.A. Tirrell. "Expanding the Scope of Protein Biosynthesis by Altering the Methionyl-tRNA Synthetase Activity of a Bacterial Expression Host."

UCLA	Kendall N. Houk	Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong and K. N. Houk: "Origins and Predictions of Stereoselectivity in Intramolecular Aldol Reactions Catalyzed by Proline Derivatives," Synthesis, 9, 1533-1537 (2005). Pierluigi Caramella, Paolo Quadrelli, Lucio Toma, Silvano Romano, Kelli S. Khuong, Brian Northrop, and K. N. Houk: "The Three Corrugated Surfaces of 1,4-Divinyltetramethylene Diradical Intermediates and Their Connections to 1,2-Divinylcyclobutane, 4-Vinylcyclohexene, 1,5-Cyclooctadiene, and Two Butadienes," J. Org. Chem., 70, 2994-3008 (2005).
	Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay	Resendiz, M.; Garcia-Garibay, Miguel A. "Hammet Substituent Analysis on the Photodecarbonylation of Crystalline 1,3-Diphenylacetones", Org. Letters, 2005, 7, 371-374. Khuong, T.A.V.; Sanrame, C.N.; Zepeda, G.; Dang, H.; Bartberger, M.; Houk, K.N.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. "Internal dynamics of a Highly Congested Bis(triarylmethyl)peroxide: Volume-Conserving Motions in a Simple Molecular Crankshaft." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 14778-14786
	Michael E. Jung	Jung ME, Jung ME, Min SJ, Houk KN, Ess D "Synthesis and relative stability of 3,5-diacyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazoles prepared by dipolar cycloaddition of enones and alpha-diazoketones J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69, 9085-9089 Jung ME, Maderna A "Microwave-assisted allylation of acetals with allyltrimethylsilane in the presence of CuBr " J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69, 7755-7757.
	Ohyun Kwon	X.-F. Zhu; A.-P. Schaffner; R. C. Li; O. Kwon, "Phosphine-Catalyzed Synthesis of 6-Substituted 2-pyrones: Manifestation of E/Z-Isomerism in the Zwitterionic Intermediate" Org. Lett. 2005, 7, in press X.-F. Zhu; C. E. Henry; J. Wang; T. Dudding; O. Kwon, "Phosphine-Catalyzed Synthesis of 1,3- Dioxan-4-ylidenes" Org. Lett. 2005, 7,1387-1390.
	Heather D. Maynard	Bontempo, D.; Maynard, H. D.; "Streptavidin as a Macroinitiator for Polymerization: In Situ Protein-Polymer Conjugate Formation" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 6508-6509. Maynard, H. D.; Hubbell, J. A. "Discovery of a Sulfated Tetrapeptide that Binds to Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor" Acta Biomaterialia, 2005, 1, 451-459.
	Craig A. Merlic	Merlic, C. A.; You, Y.; McInnes, D. M.; Zechman, A. L.; Miller, M. M.; Deng, Q." Benzannulation Reactions of Fischer Carbene Complexes for the Synthesis of Indolocarbazoles " Tetrahedron 2001, 57, 5199-5212
	Yves Rubin	Qian, W.; Rubin, Y. “Complete Control over Addend Permutation at All Six Pseudooctahedral Positions of Fullerene C 60 ”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000 , 122 , 9564-9565.
	J Fraser Stoddart	Honing up a genre of amphiphilic bistable [2]rotaxanes for device settings (J.O. Jeppesen, S. Nygaard, S.A. Vignon, J.F. Stoddart), Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 196–220. Superstructures and properties of self-assembled monolayers of bistable [2]rotaxanes on Au(111) surfaces from molecular dynamics simulations validated by experiment (S.S. Jang, Y.H. Jang, Y.-H. Kim, W.A. Goddard III, A.H. Flood, B.W. Laursen, H.-R. Tseng, J.F. Stoddart, J.O. Jeppesen, J.W. Choi, D.W. Steuerman, E. DeIonno, J.R. Heath), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 1563–1575.
	Fred Wudl	Sonmez G, Wudl F "Completion of the three primary colours: the final step toward plastic displays" J. Mats. Chem., 2005, 15, 20-22. Viculis LM, Mack JJ, Huang SC, Huang JX, Hick SM, Ding ZF, Falcao E, Wudl F, Kaner RB "Intercalation and exfoliation routes to nanoscrolled materials" Abstracts of Papers of The American Chemical Society, 2004, 227 U1302-U1302 100-INOR Part 1.

UCIrvine	Richard Chamberlin	Gulledge, B.M.; Aggen, J.B.; Chamberlin, A.R. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2003, 13, 2903-2906. Linearized and Truncated Microcystin Analogues as Inhibitors of Protein Phosphatases 1 and 2A. Gulledge, B.M.; Aggen, J.B.; Eng, H.; Sweimeh, K.; Chamberlin, A.R. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2003, 13, 2907-2911. Microcystin Analogues Comprised Only of Adda and a Single Additional Amino Acid Retain Moderate Activity as PP1/PP2A Inhibitors.
	Fillmore Freeman	"Kinetics of the Base-Catalyzed Permanganate Oxidation of Benzaldehyde," Wiberg, K. B.; Freeman, F. J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 573-576. "Synthesis of Highly Functionalized 1,3-Oxazoles," Freeman, F.; Chen, T.; van der Linden, J. B. Synthesis 1997, 861-862.
	Elizabeth Reinhardt Jarvo	Efficient Total Syntheses of (-)-Colombiasin A and (-)-Elisapterosin B: Application of the Cr-Catalyzed Asymmetric Quinone Diels-Alder Reaction." A. A. Boezio, E.R. Jarvo, B.M. Lawrence, E.N. Jacobsen, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 6046-6050. Highly Enantio- and Regioselective Quinone Diels-Alder Reaction Catalyzed by a Tridentate [(Schiff Base)CrIII] Complex. E.R. Jarvo, B.M. Lawrence, E.N. Jacobsen, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 6043-6046.
	Larry E. Overman	"Catalytic Asymmetric Intramolecular Aminopalladation: Improved Palladium(II) Catalysts" Journal of Organic Chemistry 2005, 70, 2859-2861 S. F. Kirsch and L. E. Overman "Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Allylic Esters" Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, 2866-2867 S. F. Kirsch and L. E. Overman "Toward an Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Sarain A: Construction of an Advanced Intermediate and Rearrangement of the Sarain A Core Under Mild Conditions" Organic Letters 2005, 7, 933-936 C. J. Douglas, S. Hiebert and L. E. Overman "Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Angularly-Substituted 1-Azabicyclic Rings by Cationic 2-Aza-Cope Rearrangements" Organic Letters 2005, 7, 913-916 Z. D. Aron and L. E. Overman
	Scott D. Rychnovsky	Synthesis of Rimocidinolide Methyl Ester, the Aglycone of (+)-Rimocidin. Garrick K. Packard, Yueqing Hu, Andrea Vescovi and Scott D. Rychnovsky, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 2822-2826. A Unified Approach to Polyene Macrolides: Synthesis Candidin and Nystatin Polyols. Isao Kadota, Yueqing Hu, Garrick K. Packard and Scott D. Rychnovsky, PNAS, 2004, 101, 11992-11995.
	Keith A. Woerpel	"Synthesis of ()-epi-Citreoviral and ()-Citreoviral and the Kinetic Resolution of an Allylic Silane by a [3 + 2] Annulation." Peng Z-H, Woerpel KA, Org. Lett. 2002. "Stereochemical Reversal of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions Depending Upon Substituent: Reactions of Heteroatom-Substituted Six-Membered Ring Oxocarbenium Ions Through Pseudo-Axial Conformers," Romero, J. A. C.; Tabacco, S. A.; Woerpel, K. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 168-169.