Anthony W. Czarnik Talks

Invited Seminar Presentations

  • “Synthetic Catalysts That Mediate Transamination and Transacylation Reactions”; 6 Sept 84; Miami University, Oxford, OH
  • “Catalysis via the Diels-Alder Reaction”; 12 Nov 85; Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
  • “Catalysis via the Diels-Alder Reaction”; 26 Nov 85; University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Cantonsville, MD
  • “Training the Diels-Alder Reaction to Participate in Catalysis”; 24 Sept 86; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
  • “Metal Catalyzed Conversions of Acrylonitrile, Acrylamide, and Ethyl Acrylate by Way of Their Diels-Alder Cycloadducts”; 2 Oct 86; Cincinnati local section of the ACS (meeting honoring Henry Taube), Cincinnati, OH
  • “Training the Diels-Alder Reaction to Participate in Catalysis”; 6 Nov 86; Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
  • “Training the Diels-Alder Reaction to Participate in Catalysis”; 13 Nov 86; Northern Illinois University, Normal, IL
  • “Towards the Design of an Artificial RNA Glycosylase”; 15 Jan 87; Amoco Research Center, Napersville, IL
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Cycloaddition”; 27 Jan 87; Tufts University, Medford, MA
  • “Syntheses of Monomers Related to Hexaazatriphenylene”; 28 Jan 87; Army Materials Research Center, Watertown, MA
  • “Metal Catalyzed Conversions of Acrylonitrile, Acrylamide, and Ethyl Acrylate by Way of Their Diels-Alder Cycloadducts”; 12 Feb 87; American Cyanamid, Stamford, CT
  • “Towards the Design of an Artificial RNA Glycosylase”; 11 Feb 87; Burroughs-Wellcome Pharmaceutical Co, Research Triangle Park, NC
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Cycloaddition”; 25 Feb 87; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
  • “Towards the Design of an Artificial RNA Glycosylase”; 7 Jun 87; NSF sponsored workshop on reactive intermediates (Squam Lake, NH)
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Cycloaddition”; 1 Jul 87; Euchem conference on the Diels-Alder Reaction, Asissi, Italy
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Cycloaddition”; 10 Jul 87; NSF sponsored workshop on synthetic and natural products chemistry (Pingree Park, CO)
  • “Towards the Design of an Artificial RNA Glycosylase”; 1 Oct 87; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Organic Reactions”; 9 Oct 87; 1987 OSU Industrial/Academic Chemistry Program, Columbus, OH
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Cycloaddition”; 13 Nov 87; Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Cycloaddition”; 20 Jan 88; University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Cycloaddition”; 1 Feb 88; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Cycloaddition”; 3 Feb 88; University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
  • “Designing Catalysts Based on Reversible Cycloaddition”; 8 Feb 88; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  • “Towards the Design of an Artificial RNA Glycosylase”; 25 Feb 88; Northwestern University; Evanston, IL
  • “Towards the Design of an Artificial RNA Glycosylase”; 11 Mar 88; University of Nevada-Reno; Reno, Nevada
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 14 Oct 88; University of Michigan-Dearborn campus; Dearborn, MI
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 27 Oct 88; Miami University; Oxford, OH
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 1 Nov 88; Emory University; Atlanta, GA
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 24 Nov 88; Merck-Frost Center for Therapeutic Research; Montreal, Quebec
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 25 Nov 88; McGill University; Montreal, Quebec
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 9 Dec 88; University of Kentucky; Lexington, KY
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 20 Dec 88; Abbott Laboratories; Abbott Park, IL
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 10 Jan 89; Dayton local section of the ACS; Dayton, OH
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 17 Jan 89; University of California-Irvine; Irvine, CA
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 18 Jan 89; University of California-Riverside; Riverside, CA
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 19 Jan 89; UCLA; Los Angeles, CA
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 20 Jan 89; University of California-Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara, CA
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 25 Jan 89; Bowling Green State University; Bowling Green, OH
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 10 Feb 89; University of Kansas; Lawrence, KA
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 17 Feb 89; Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Indiana, PA
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 2 Mar 89; University of Oregon; Eugene, OR
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 3 Mar 89; University of Washington; Seattle, WA
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 24 Mar 89; Ripon College; Ripon, WI
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 2 May 89; Eli Lilly Research Laboratories; Indianapolis, IN
  • “Some Recent Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 19 May 89; Brown University; Providence, RI
  • “Artificial Metalloenzymes based on Covalent and Non-Covalent Association Mechanisms”; 6 Sept 89; Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis; Indianapolis, IN
  • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence. Putting the ‘Signal’ in Molecular Recognition”; 2 Mar 90; University of Iowa; Iowa City, IA
  • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence Detection of Metal and Non-Metal Ions”; 8 Mar 90; SUNY-Stony Brook; Stony Brook, NY
  • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence Detection of Metal and Non-Metal Ions”; 16 Mar 90; University of Missouri-Columbia; Columbia, MO
  • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence. Putting the ‘Signal’ in Molecular Recognition”; 10 Apr 90; Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH
  • “Artificial Metalloenzymes based on Covalent and Non-Covalent Association Mechanisms”; 26 Apr 90; DePauw Univ.; Greencastle, IN
  • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence Detection of Metal and Non-Metal Ions”; 11-15 May 90; NSF sponsored workshop on reactive intermediates (Cape Cod, MA)
  • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence. Some Recent Results in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 31 Jan 91; University of Cincinnati
  • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence. Some Recent Results in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; 19 Apr 91; University of Florida
  • “Artificial Metalloenzymes based on Covalent and Non-Covalent Association Mechanisms”; 10 May 91; Carleton College
  • “Variations on the Polyaniline Motif”; 7 Feb 92; Wright-Patterson Polymer Laboratory
  • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence. Some Recent Results in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; Feb. 26-27, 92; Ball State Univ. [contact: Bob Morris]
  • “Artificial Enzymes based on Cyclodextrin”; 25 Mar 92; Clarion, PA [contact: Fred Keen]
  • “Artificial Enzymes based on Cyclodextrin”; 13 Apr 92; Indiana State University, Terra Haute, IN [contact: William Flurkey]
  • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence. Some Recent Results in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”; May 8, 92; 3M [contact: Colleen Nagel]
  • “Cyclodextrin Based Artificial Enzymes”; 25 Feb 93; Kent State University, Kent, OH
  • “Fluorescent Chemosensors and Dosimeters of Ion and Molecule Recognition in Water”; 1 Mar 93; Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research; Ann Arbor, MI
  • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition in Water”; 10 May 93; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI
  • “Boronic Acids in the Service of Molecule Recognition”; 14-15 Sept 93; Notre Dame; Notre Dame, IN
  • “Chemical Diversity via a Large Library of Small Molecules- A Pharmaceutical Company Perspective”; 14 Jan 94; CHI symposium on Exploiting Molecular Diversity; San Diego, CA
  • “Organic Synthesis using Parke-Davis’ Diversomer™ Method”; 2 Mar 94; University of Toledo; Toledo, OH
  • “Organic Synthesis using Parke-Davis’ Diversomer™ Method”; 20 Apr 94; Wayne State University; Detroit, MI
  • “Organic Synthesis using Parke-Davis’ Diversomer™ Method”; 4 May 94; Michigan State University; East Lansing, MI
  • A series of invited seminars; 23 Mar - 10 Apr, 1994; University of Bordeaux; Bordeaux, France
  • “Chemical Communication in Water Using Fluorescent Chemosensors”; 21 Mar 95; Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA
  • “Combinatorial Organic Synthesis Using Parke-Davis’ DIVERSOMERS™ Technology”; 22 Mar 95; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA
  • “Chemical Communication in Water Using Fluorescent Chemosensors”; 23 Mar 95; University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA
  • “Combinatorial Organic Synthesis Using Parke-Davis’ DIVERSOMERS™ Technology”; 14 Apr 95; New York University; NY, NY
  • “Making Light of Ion and Molecule Recognition”; 20 June 95; Bioorganic Gordon conference; NH
  • “Combinatorial Organic Synthesis Using Parke-Davis’ DIVERSOMERS™ Technology”; 6 May 96; Washington University Medical School
  • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition”; 22 Oct 96; University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA
  • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition”; 20 May 97; University of Twente; Enschede, The Netherlands
  • “Combinatorial Organic Chemistry”; 24 Oct 97; University of Nevada-Reno
  • “Combinatorial Organic Chemistry”; 23 Nov 97; Capital University
  • “Combinatorial Organic Chemistry Encoded Using Electronic Taggants”; 9 Jan 98; Florida State University
  • “Cubes and Tubes, Chips and Tips: Adventures in Combinatorial Organic Synthesis”; 15 Nov 99

Papers Presented at Meetings

  • Two papers and two posters at the April 86 National ACS meeting in New York:
    • “Dienophile Substituent Effect on the Rate of the Retro Diels-Alder Reaction”
    • “Lone Pair Exchange Repulsion in Glycosyl Transferase Enzymes: A Previously Undescribed Mechanism for Enzymatic Catalysis”
    • “9,10-Bis(TMEDA-Zn)Anthracene: A Model for Catalysis in the Conversion of Acrylonitrile to Acrylamide”
    • “Unequivocal Assignment of Nucleoside 2′,3′-Acetal Stereochemistry Using Homonuclear NOE Methods”
    • – also, chaired the session on Biomimetic Chemistry
  • Two papers at the September 86 National ACS meeting in Anaheim:
    • “One-step Synthesis of Hexaazatriphenylene Hexanitrile and its Conversion to Related Derivatives with D3h Symmetry”
    • “Surprising Stability of Cyclonucleosides Towards Glycosidic Hydrolysis”
    • – also, chaired the session on Nitrogen Compounds
  • One paper at the April 87 National ACS meeting in Denver
    • “Diene Substituent Effect on the Rate of the Retro Diels-Alder Reaction”
  • Four posters at the June 87 local ACS meeting in Columbus
    • “Synthesis of Trisimides Derived from Hexaazatriphenylene”
    • “Synthesis and Retro-Diels-Alder Kinetics of Cycloadducts from 9,10-Disubstituted Anthracenes”
    • “Synthesis and Hydrolysis Kinetics of β-D-Nitrophenylribofuranosides”
    • “Studies on Acrylate Conversions via a Michael/Retro-Michael Cycle”
    • – also, chaired the session on Heterocycles
  • One invited paper at the March 88 national meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering in Anaheim, CA
    • “Materials Derived from the Hydrogen-Free Heterocycle Hexaazatriphenylene Hexacarbonitrile. Synthesis and High Temperature Properties of Polyimides”
  • One paper and one poster at the June 88 National ACS meeting in Toronto
    • “Catalyzed Reactions of Acrylates via a Michael/Retro-Michael Formal Cycle”
    • “A Highly Crosslinked, Thermally Stable Polyimide Film Derived From Hexaazatriphenylene”
    • – also, chaired the session on “Physical Organic Chemistry”
  • One poster at the June 88 Organic Reaction Mechanisms Conference in Pittsburgh
    • “Carboxylate-Catalyzed Acetal Hydrolysis in a Carbohydrate-Based Enzyme Model. Experimental Support for Asp-52’s Importance in Lysozyme”
  • One invited paper at the July 88 Gordon Conference, Heterocycles Section
    • “The Varied Utilities of Hexaazatriphenylene Trianhydride in Macromolecular and Supramolecular Chemistry”
  • Plenary Lecture at the Fifth Intl. Symposium on Inclusion Phenomena and Molecular Recognition; Orange Beach, Alabama; 18 Sept 88
    • “Transport and Bond Activation of Nucleic Acid Monomers”
  • Two papers at the September 88 National ACS meeting in Los Angeles
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence in 9,10-Di(TMEDA)anthracene”
    • “Experimental Support for Asp-52’s Importance in Lysozyme Using a Carbohydrate Based Enzyme Model. Acetal Hydrolysis Catalyzed by a ‘Stereochemically-Correct’ Carboxylate Group”
  • Three papers and one poster at the April 89 National ACS meeting in Dallas:
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence in 100% Aqueous Solution” (presenter: X. Cherian)
    • “Catalyzed Methyl Acrylate Hydrolysis via a Michael/retro-Michael Formal Cycle” (presenter: B. Duerr)
    • “Synthesis and Reactivity of Cobalt(III) Complexes Bearing 1o- and 2o-Side Cyclodextrin Binding Sites. Accelerated Hydrolysis of p-Nitrophenyl Acetate at pH 7” (presenter: E. Akkaya)
  • One paper at the May 89 regional ACS meeting in Cleveland:
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence in 100% Aqueous Solution” (presenter: M. Huston)
  • Invited Lecture at the Aug 89 International Conference on Supramolecular Organic Chemistry and Photochemistry in Saarbrucken, West Germany:
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence Detection of Metal and Non-Metal Ions Using Conjugate Probes. Putting the ‘Signal’ in Molecular Recognition”
  • Two papers at the September 89 National ACS meeting in Miami Beach:
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence of Non-Metal Ions in Aqueous Solution” (presenter: M. Huston)
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence and Chelation-Enhanced Quenching of Anthrylpolyamine Conjugate Probes by Biological Polyanions” (presenter: S. Van Arman)
  • Invited Lecture at the NSF/SERC Workshop on Molecular Recognition in Cambridge, England (October 20-23, 1989):
    • “Artificial Metalloenzymes based on Covalent and Non-Covalent Association Mechanisms.”
  • Invited Lecture at the Midwest Regional ACS meeting on Enzyme Mimics, a Memorial Symposium in Honor of Myron Bender in St. Louis, MO (November 2, 1989):
    • “Artificial Metalloenzymes based on Covalent and Non-Covalent Association Mechanisms. A Myron Bender homage”
  • One paper at the PacifiChem meeting in Honolulu (December 16-23, 1989):
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence Detection of Metal and Non-Metal Ions in Aqueous Solution”
  • Invited Lecture at the First ONR Molecular Recognition Symposium (January, 19-21, 1990):
    • “Artificial Metalloenzymes based on Covalent and Non-Covalent Association Mechanisms”
  • Plenary Lecture at the Lilly Grantee Symposium in Indianapolis, IN (February, 25-27, 1990):
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence Detection of Metal and Non-Metal Ions Using Conjugate Probes. Putting the ‘Signal’ in Molecular Recognition”
  • Invited Lecture at the Cleveland “miniature” ACS meeting (March 21, 1990):
    • “Artificial Metalloenzymes based on Covalent and Non-Covalent Association Mechanisms”
  • One paper at the March 90 National ACS meeting in Boston:
    • “Rapid Intermolecular Electron Transfer in a Zwitterionic Anthracene Derivative. The Unexpected NMR Behavior of 10-N-Piperidinylanthranol” (presenter: R. Sweger)
  • Plenary Lecture at the Kodak Molecular Recognition Symposium in Rochester, NY (May 21, 1990) [host: John Toner]:
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence. Some Recent Results in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”
  • Invited Lecture at the Reaction Mechanisms Conference in Boulder, CO (June, 10-14, 1990):
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence. Some Recent Results in Bioorganic Chemistry Brought to Light”
  • Two papers at the August 90 National ACS meeting in Washington (August, 26-31, 1990):
    • “Cu(II)-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of an Unactivated Amide. Application of the Groves’ Rule to the Hydrolysis of Acrylamide”
    • “Simultaneous CHEF Analyses of Zn(II) and Cd(II) in Aqueous Solution via Chelatoselective Fluorescence Pertubation. Electrophilic Aromatic Cadmiation”
  • Two papers at the April 91 National ACS meeting in Atlanta (April 14-19, 1991):
    • “Metal Ion Catalyzed Hydrolyses of N- and 0-Acyl Hydroxylamines” (presenter: S. Wathen)
    • “Structural Variants of the Conducting Polymer Polyaniline” (presenter: E. Akkaya)
  • Invited Lecture at the Second ONR Molecular Recognition Symposium (May 10-13, 1991):
    • “Artificial Metalloenzymes based on Covalent and Non-Covalent Association Mechanisms”
  • Invited talk at the Breslow 60th birthday symposium (August 24, 1991):
    • “CD Chemistry in Honor of a CD Chemist: Ronald C. D. Breslow”
  • One paper at the ARO CW conference (November 18-22, 1991):
    • “Preassociating a-Nucleophiles”
  • SPIE Symposium (January 19-24, 1992):
    • “Chelation-Enhanced Fluorescence Detection of Metal and Non-Metal Ions in Aqueous Solution”
  • Sixth International Cyclodextrin Symposium (April 21-24, 1991):
    • “β-Cyclodextrinyl Hydrazine and Hydroxylamine as Preassociating a-Nucleophiles with Transacylating Activity at pH 7”
  • American Chemical Society symposium on Fluorescent Chemosensors of Molecular Recognition (August, 1992):
    • “New Fluorescence Sensing Mechanisms: Application to Glucose and to Hg(II) Ion”
  • Twelve papers at the August 92 National ACS meeting in Washington (August 24-30, 1992):
    • “Intramolecular Carboxylate Catalysis in the Depurination of a 7-Methylguanosine Glycosylase Enzyme Model” (presenter: Scott A. Van Arman)
    • “Enhanced Fluorescence Detection of a Quenching Metal. Application to Fluorimetric Hg(II) And Ag(I) Analyses in Water” (presenter: Mi-Young Chae)
    • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Carbohydrates. A Mechanism for Chemically Communicating the Binding of Polyols in Water Based on Chelation-Enhanced Quenching” (presenter: Juyoung Yoon)
    • “Metal Ion-Insensitive Polyanion Sensing. Application to Metal Ion Activation of DNase I” (presenter: Sung-Yeap Hong)
    • “Functional Group Convergency in a Binuclear Dephosphorylation Reagent” (presenter: David H. Vance)
    • “Amide-Amide Hydrogen Bonding in the Solid State of an Organic Hexaamide” (presenter: John C. Beeson)
    • “a-Amino Acid Binding and Transport by Arylboronic Acids”(presenter: Linda K. Mohler)
    • “Proximity Effects in the Metal-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of an Unactivated Ester” (presenter: Thomas J. Bleisch)
    • “General Acid-Base Modification of Guanosine at N-7 via Alkylation” (presenter: Shelly Weeks)
    • “Preassociating a-Nucleophiles. β-Cyclodextrinyl Hydroperoxide” (presenter: Kristy A. Martin)
    • “Aqueous Solubilization of a Synthetic Receptor via Cycloamylose Inclusion” (presenter: Jude T. Rademacher)
    • “Preassociating a-Nucleophiles. The Secondary-Side β-Cyclodextrinyl Hydroxylamine” (presenter: Mark A. Mortellaro)
  • Five Invited Talks at the 22nd Swisse Romande Summer School on Organic Chemistry; Aug 30-Sept 4, 1992; Valais, Switzerland
  • SPIE Symposium (September 8, 1992): Boston, MA
    • “Fluorescent chemosensors that signal carbohydrates in aqueous solution. A novel mechanism for signal transduction is required and found”
  • Invited presentation at the IEEE meeting; Nov 17, 1992; Boston, MA
    • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Carbohydrates. A Means of Chemically Communicating the Binding of Polyols in Water Based on Chelation-Enhanced Quenching”
  • Invited presentation at the ACS Symposium on Chemically Sensitive Interfaces; Aug. 26, 1993; Chicago, IL
    • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition in Water”
  • Invited presentation at the Regional ACS meeting; Oct. 4, 1993; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA
    • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition in Water”
  • Invited presentation at the CHI meeting on Exploring Molecular Diversity: Combinatorial Libraries for Drug Discovery; Jan. 14, 1994; SanDiego, CA
    • “Chemical Diversity via a Large Library of Small Molecules-A Pharmaceutical Company Perspective”
  • Invited presentation at a Symposium on Frontiers in Physical Organic Chemistry; July 26, 1994; Ohio State University; Columbus
    • “Chemical Communication in Water Using Fluorescent Chemosensors”
  • Plenary lecture at the ACS Symposium on Frontiers in Physical Organic Chemistry; Aug. 22, 1994; Washington, DC
    • “Chemical Communication in Water Using Fluorescent Chemosensors”
  • Plenary lecture at the ACS Symposium on Solid-Phase Organic Synthesis; Aug. 23, 1994; Washington, DC (presented in lieu of principle author S. H. DeWitt)
    • “Diversomer™ Libraries: Multiple, Simultaneous Organic Synthesis on a Solid Support”
  • Invited lecture at the ACS Symposium on Chemical Reactions in Polymeric Environments; Aug. 23, 1994; Washington, DC
    • “Parke-Davis’ Diversomer™ Technology. A Practical Approach to Simultaneous, Parallel Organic Synthesis”
  • Invited lecture at the Northeastern Section of the ACS Symposium on Molecular Diversity: Drug Development for the Future Generation?; Sept. 28, 1994; Boston, MA
    • “Small Molecule Combinatorial Libraries using Parke-Davis’ Diversomers™Technology”
  • Invited Lecture at the Ohio State University 1994 Industrial Associates Program; Oct. 7, 1994; Columbus, OH
    • “BioOrganic Chemistry: A New Career Pathway for the Ph.D. Chemist at Parke-Davis”
  • Invited lecture at the Strategic Research Institute Symposium on Random & Rational: Lead Generation via Rational Design and Combinatorial Chemistry; Oct. 19, 1994; NY, NY
    • “Small Molecule Combinatorial Libraries via Parke-Davis’ Diversomers™ Technology”
  • Invited lecture at the Philadelphia Organic Chemists’ Club; Mar. 23, 1995; Philadelphia, PA
    • “Combinatorial Organic Synthesis Using Parke-Davis’ DIVERSOMERS™ Technology”
  • Invited lecture at the IBC Technical Services Ltd. Symposium on Synthetic Chemical Libraries in Drug Discovery; April 24, 1995; London, England
    • “Small Molecule Combinatorial Libraries via Parke-Davis’ Diversomers™ Technology”
  • Two papers at the April 95 National ACS meeting in Anaheim (April 2-6, 1995):
    • “Diversomer technology: Recent advances in the generation of chemical diversity” (presenter: S. DeWitt)
    • “Inhibition of an HIV-1 Tat-derived peptide binding to TAR RNA by aminoglycoside antibiotics” (presenter: H.-Y. Mei)
  • One poster at the June 95 Bioorganic Gordon conference in New Hampshire
    • “Combinatorial Synthesis of Cyclic Oligonucleotides Using DIVERSOMER Technology” (presenter: H.-Y. Mei)
  • One paper at the International Conference on Automation and Robotics in San Diego (January 15, 1996)
    • “A Modular Approach to Automated Organic Synthesis Using DIVERSOMER™ Technology” (presenter: E. Hogan)
  • Invited lecture at the CHI Combinatorial Chemistry Symposium (January, 1996)
    • “Resin By-Products in Solid-Phase Organic Synthesis” (presenter: A. MacDonald)
  • One poster at the 4th International Symposium on Solid Phase Synthesis in Edinburgh, Scotland (September 12-16, 1996)
    • “Parallel Purification and Resin By-Products in Solid Phase Organic Synthesis” (presenter: A. MacDonald)
  • Invited lecture at a symposium on Drug Targeting of RNA at the ACS meeting in Chicago(August 21, 1995)
    • “RNA as a Target for Small Molecule Intervention”
  • Invited lecture at the MDL User’s Group Meeting, Philadelphia (May 7-10, 1996)
    • “Managing Parallel Organic Synthesis Reaction Information Using Diversomer Technology” (presenter: D. Nickell)
  • Invited lecture at the annual 1996 Buffalo Medicinal Chemistry meeting (May 20, 1996)
    • “RNA as a Target for Small Molecule Intervention” (presenter: H.-Y. Mei)
  • Invited lecture at the Great Lakes regional ACS meeting (May 21, 1996)
    • “Combinatorial Organic Synthesis”
  • Two invited lectures at the 1996 Gordon Conference on Biomolecular Recognition and Immobilization (Aug. 3-9, 1996)
    • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition”
    • “Acoustic Wave Sensors in Signalling Molecular Interactions” (presenter: D. Mack)
  • One invited seminar at the 1996 NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition (Sept. 1-4, 1996)
    • “Fluorescent Chemosensors: Challenges, Insights, and Opportunities”
  • Five invited talks at the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (Sept. 9-13, 1996)
  • Plenary lecture at the 15th annual Esther and Brigham J. Humphrey Memorial Symposium, University of Vermont (October 5, 1996; other speakers: Ernest Eliel, Norman Allinger)
    • “Combinatorial Chemistry: A New Vista for Chemists”
  • Plenary lecture at the Cincinnati ACS section (October 16, 1996)
    • “High Volume Synthesis and Screening. Two Challenges That Must Be Addressed in Synchrony”
  • Invited lecture at the Association for Laboratory Automation meeting, San Diego, CA (January 22, 1997)
    • “No Static at All: Using Radiofrequency Memory Tubes Without (Human) Interference”
  • Invited lecture at a Symposium on Optical Chemosensors, ACS meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 16, 1997; organizer: Prof. Tom Bell)
    • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition”
  • Invited lecture at the Strategic Research Institute meeting on Solid & Solution Phase Combinatorial Synthesis, New Orleans (April 28, 1997)
    • “Radiofrequency Encoding as a Tool in the Synthesis of Organic Compound Libraries: Combining the Advantages of Parallel and Split-Pool Synthesis”
  • Plenary lecture at the 11th Noordwijkerhout-Camerino Symposium on Trends in Drug Research, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands (May 12, 1997)
    • “High Volume Synthesis and Screening: Two Challenges That Must Be Solved in Synchrony”
  • Invited lecture at the 29th ACS Central Regional Meeting, Midland, MI (May 29, 1997)
    • “High Volume Synthesis and Screening: Two Challenges That Must Be Solved in Synchrony”
  • Invited lecture at the 3rd Annual Symposium on the German-American Frontiers of Science, Munich, Germany (June 20, 1997)
    • “High Volume Synthesis and Screening: Two Challenges That Must Be Solved in Synchrony”
  • Invited lecture at the 4th Annual High Throughput Screening for Drug Discovery CHI meeting, Arlington, VA (June 25, 1997)
    • “Radiofrequency Encoding as a Tool in the Synthesis and Screening of Organic Compound Libraries”
  • Two invited lectures at the Analytical Gordon Research Conference (August 10, 1997)
    • “A Brief History of Combinatorial Chemistry”
    • “Radiofrequency Encoding as a Tool in the Synthesis and Screening of Organic Compound Libraries”
  • Invited lecture at the NMHCC conference on “Emerging Directions in Combinatorial Chemistry”, San Diego, CA (September 15, 1997)
    • “Radiofrequency Encoding as a Tool in the Synthesis and Screening of Organic Compound Libraries”
  • Invited lecture at the ISLAR meeting, Boston, MA (October 19, 1997)
    • “Radiofrequency Encoding as a Tool in the Synthesis and Screening of Organic Compound Libraries”
  • Invited lecture at the CHI meeting on “Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening”, Tokyo, Japan (October 28, 1997)
    • “Radiofrequency Encoding as a Tool in the Synthesis and Screening of Organic Compound Libraries”
  • Two invited lectures at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences meeting, Boston, MA (November 2-4, 1997)
    • “A Brief History of Combinatorial Chemistry”
    • “Radiofrequency Encoding as a Tool in the Synthesis and Screening of Organic Compound Libraries”
  • Invited lectures at the CHI meeting on “Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening”, Barcelona, Spain (December 4, 1997)
    • “Radiofrequency Encoding as a Tool in the Synthesis and Screening of Organic Compound Libraries”
  • Plenary lecture at the 23rd International Symposium on Macrocyclic Chemistry, Turtle Bay, Hawaii (June 7-12, 1998)
    • “Fluorescent Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition”
  • Four invited lectures at the annual Merck-Lipha seminar, Château de Gilly, Dijon, France
  • Plenary lecture at “Frontiers in Bioorganic Chemistry - 2000”, Taipei, Taiwan (November 29, 1999)
  • Invited lecture at the NSF Analytical Workshop, Orlando, FL (March 5, 1999)
  • Invited seminar at the Dow Bioanalysis/Bioprocessing Technology Exchange, Midland, MI (August 24, 2000)
  • Invited lecture at the symposium in honor of Ronald Breslow’s 70th birthday, NY, NY (March 24, 2001)
  • Invited lecture at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s annual “Combinatorial Approaches to Chemistry and Biology” symposium, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK (July 16-18, 2001)