The 2004 F. A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research will be presented to Professor Albert Eschenmoser.
The award symposium will take place in Room 2104 of the Chemistry Building beginning at 1:50 p.m. on March 26.
2:00 PM
Professor Scott Denmark
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Silicon-Based Cross-Coupling Reactions: Synthetic and Mechanistic Aspects"
3:30 PM
Professor Eric Sorensen
Princeton University
"Architectural Self-Construction in Nature and Chemical Synthesis"
4:30 PM
Keynote Speaker: Professor Albert Eschenmoser
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich
"The Quest for a Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure"