PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE SERIES  
2003
 
presents
 

Dr. Erick M. Carreira

Erick M. Carreira was born in Havana, Cuba in 1963. He obtained a B.S. degree in 1984 from the University of Illinois at Urbana_Champaign under the supervision of Scott E. Denmark and a Ph.D. degree in 1990 from Harvard University under the supervision of David A. Evans. After carrying out postdoctoral work with Peter Dervan at the California Institute of Technology through late 1992, he joined the faculty at the same institution as an assistant professor of chemistry and subsequently was promoted to the rank of associate professor of chemistry in the Spring of 1996, and full professor in Spring 1997. Since September 1998, he has been full professor of Organic Chemistry at the ETH Zürich. He is the recipient of the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry, Nobel Laureate Signature Award, Fresenius Award, a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, Merck Young Investigator Award, Eli Lilly Young Investigator Award, Pfizer Research Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award. He is also the recipient of the Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology Annual Award in Teaching and a Richard M. Badger Award in Teaching.

LECTURE

“Natural Products Inspired Studies in Asymmetric Synthesis”

Thursday, September 25th, 2003
11:00 a.m.

Florida International University (FIU)
Wertheim Conservatory WC 130
11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL

(Enter FIU through SW 107th Avenue and SW 16th Street)

Arrive early, doors open at 10:30 a.m.
Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
  Three research programs in target-oriented natural products synthesis will be discussed. Particular emphasis will be placed on methods discovery and development. Their application to the selected targets as well as their relevance in addressing broader issues in asymmetric synthesis will be presented. The methods include: the use of nitrile oxide cycloadditions reaction to furnish a general, modular synthesis of polyketides, and the annulation reaction of spirocyclopropyl oxindoles and imines as an approach to spiropyrrolidino oxindoles.