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2025 Research Talks

The Organic Retreat features one advisor-nominated graduate student to represent each participating research group within the organic division, for a total of ten oral presentations. The speakers and presentation titles are listed below.


9:50 – 10:10 | Presentation
MIDA Boronates as Prodrugs

Forrest G. FitzGerald, Jasmin M. Frei, Ronald Raines

10:10 – 10:30 | Presentation
Intercepting a Mycobacterial Biosynthetic Pathway with Covalent Labeling 

Teddy Warner, Kiessling Group

10:30 – 10:50 | Presentation
Synthesis and Fabrication of Hydrophobic Conjugated Polymers for Environmental Sensing Applications
Collette T. Gordon, Michael U. Ocheje, Timothy M. Swager

1:00 – 1:20 | Presentation
1,2-O-Atom Migration Enabled by directed Radical Generation

Qian Xu, Alison Wendlandt  

1:20 – 1:40 | Presentation
Boron-Doped Heptacenes
Jinhyo Hwang, Robert J. Gilliard

2:00 – 2:20 | Presentation
Total Synthesis of Complex Aspidosperma-Aspidosperma Alkaloids 

Robert-Cristian Raclea, Mohammad Movassaghi 

2:20 – 2:40 | Presentation
Cu-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Chlorides
Han-Jun Ai, Stephen L. Buchwald 

2:40 – 3:00 | Presentation
Visible light-driven reductive N-arylation of nitroarenes via P(III)/P(V) catalysis

Bora Kang, Alexander Radosevich

4:00 – 4:20 | Presentation
Metal organic cage polymer hybrids

Eduard Bobylev, Jeremiah Johnson 

4:20 – 4:40 | Presentation
Synthetic Approaches to (+)-CC-1065

Benjamin Senzer, Rick Danheiser