Professor Craig Merlic UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry "Palladium-Catalyzed Cyclization Strategies: Avoiding the High Energy Oxidative Addition Step"
Professor Barry Trost Tamaki Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University "On the Invention of Pd Catalyzed Reactions for Enabling Chemical Synthesis"
Professor Stephen Buchwald Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Pd-Catalyzed Carbon-Nitrogen and Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies"
Professor Larry Overman Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine "The Intramolecular Heck Reaction: A Remarkably Versatile Transformation for Forming Complex Polycyclic Structures"