Stony Brook Alumni Symposium

New Horizons in Organic Chemistry 

Thursday, September 29, 2005

                                9:00 -11:40 AM

                                                   (Theater, The Charles B. Wang Center)

            Greetings: Dr. Donna M. Iula, Chair of Organizing Committee, Pfizer

            Moderator: Dr. Seung-Yub Lee, ICB & DD

             9:00 – 9:20   Dr. Scott D. Kuduk (Merck Research Laboratories, PA)

                        “2,3-Diaminopyridine Bradykinin B₁ Receptor Antagonists”

             9:20 – 9:40   Dr. An T. Vu (Wyeth Research, PA)

“2-Phenylquinolines as Potent and Selective Estrogen Receptor beta (ERβ) Ligands”

             9:40 – 10:00   Professor Thierry Brigaud (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France)

“Chiral fluorinated imines and oxazolidines: synthons for organofluorine chemistry and asymmetric synthesis”

             10:00 – 10:20   Dr. Joseph Zhu (Amgen, Inc., CA)

“Design and Synthesis of Conformationally Constrained TRPV1 Antagonists”

             10:20 – 10:40   Dr. Matthew M. Zhao (Merck Research Laboratories, NJ)

“Development of the Manufacturing Process to Emend^® (Aprepitant), Winner of 2005 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award”

             10:40 – 11:00   Dr. Ivan Habuš (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia)

            “Diels-Alder reactions on imines derived from 3-amino-b-lactams”  

             11:00 – 11:20   Dr. Masakatsu Eguchi (Institute for Chemical Genomics, WA)

“Design, Synthesis, and Application of Peptide Secondary Structure Mimetics”

             11:20 – 11:40   Professor Elke Schoffers (Western Michigan University)

“Looking for a Ligand with a New Twist? Chiral Phenanthrolines for Organic Chemistry”

              11:40   Greeting and Remarks: Professor Iwao Ojima