Heck
"The Heck Reaction and Cross-Couplings"

On Saturday, November 5, 2011
the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
awarded the 2011 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal

to
Richard Heck, Ph.D.
Willis F. Harrington Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware, and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Biography

Trost audience Buchwald audience Overman poster session
Merlic poster session Diaconescu presentation Garg slide show
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2011 Seaborg Symposium Speakers
(Program)
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Courey    Welcome and Introduction of Professor Richard Heck
   Professor Albert Courey

  
Chair, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Houk    Session I Chair:
   Professor Ken Houk

  
UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Merlic    Professor Craig Merlic
   UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
   "Palladium-Catalyzed Cyclization Strategies: Avoiding the High Energy Oxidative    Addition Step"
Trost    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"
Diaconescu     Professor Paula Diaconsescu
    UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    "Unique Advantages of Organometallic Supporting Ligands"
Harran    Session II Chair:
   Professor Patrick Harran
   UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Buchwald     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"
Garg     Professor Neil Garg
    UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
   "Cross-Coupling Reactions of Unconventional Electrophiles"
Overman     Professor Larry Overman
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
    "The Intramolecular Heck Reaction: A Remarkably Versatile Transformation for     Forming Complex Polycyclic Structures"
Houk    Concluding Remarks
   Professor Ken Houk

   UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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