Invited Academic Seminars:

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois                                                      November, 1978
University of Maryland, University Park, Maryland                                                  November, 1978
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey                                                                  January, 1979
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio                                                     February, 1979
Pennsylvania State University                                                                                           March, 1979
State University of New York at Plattsburgh                                                             November, 1979
St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York                                                             November, 1979
State University of New York at Oswego                                                                  November, 1979
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana                                                                    February, 1980
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio                                                                   March, 1980
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio                                              March 11, 1981
Pennsylvania State University                                                                                   June 17–18, 1981
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana                                                       October 14–15, 1981
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio                                                               April 22–23, 1982
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio                                                                           September 10, 1982
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania                                       September 27, 1982
I.U.P.U.I., Indianapolis, Indiana                                                                                January 26, 1983
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York                                                             September 18–19, 1983
Pennsylvania State University                                                                                          July 18, 1984
Imperial College London                                                                                     September 2–5, 1984
University of Bath, England                                                                                    September 4, 1984
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois                                                              January 24–25, 1985
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York                                                    September 25, 1985
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan                                                             February 26, 1986
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio                                                                       March 12, 1986
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts                             April 24, 1986
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina                                         October 31, 1986
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana                                                                     October 30, 1987
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida                                                          February 18, 1988
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia                                                                         February 19, 1988
SUNY, Binghamton, Binghamton, New York                                                             August 3, 1988
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York                                                                   August 4, 1988
University of California, San Diego, California                                                         February 6, 1989
University of California, Berkeley, California                                                           February 7, 1989
University of California, Riverside, California                                                          February 8, 1989
University of California, Irvine, California                                                                February 9, 1989
University of California, Santa Barbara, California                                                 February 10, 1989
University of Paris VI, Paris, Cedex 5, France                                                      September 11, 1990
University of Grenoble I, Cedex, France                                                              September 12, 1990
Princeton, University, Princeton, New Jersey                                                                 May 14, 1991
SUNY, Buffalo, Buffalo, New York                                                                        October 23, 1991
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois                                                                    March 18–19, 1992
University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany                                                  June 22, 1992
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany                                                                              June 24, 1992
University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany                                                         June 25, 1992
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina                                                                  October 9, 1992
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut                                                           November 18, 1992
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan                                                        December 8, 1993
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana                                                        March 23, 1994
Rice University, Houston, Texas                                                                           September 13, 1995
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas                                                    September 14, 1995
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas                                                        September 15, 1995
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois                                                   October 31, 1995
University of Missouri – St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri                                           November 9, 1995
Northwestern University – Evanston, Illinois                                                                April 18, 1996
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota                                                          May 24, 1996
University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania                                       November 4, 1996
Lehigh University – Bethlehem, Pennsylvania                                                        November 6, 1996
State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York                               September 5, 1997
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), Paris, France                                        September 29, 1997
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI, Paris, France                                      September 30, 1997
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio                                              November 13, 1997
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio                                                            February 26, 1998
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana                                                                          March 5, 1998
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado                                                        April 13, 1998
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana                                                     September 22, 1998
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan                                                                 March 30, 1999
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan                                                        April 1, 1999
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan                                                                                        May 7, 1999
Kansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan                                                                          May 8, 1999
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan                                                                                      May 10, 1999
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan                                                                                 May 11, 1999
Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan                                                                                      May 13, 1999
Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan                                                                         May 14, 1999
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain                                                         July 13, 1999
Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain                                                           July 14–15, 1999
Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain                                                                 July 16, 1999
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain                                      July 19–23, 1999
Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana                                                               July 30, 1999
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts                       November 6, 1999
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland                                                                      May 8, 2000
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland                                                              May 10, 2000
University of Manchester, Manchester, England                                                            May 11, 2000
University College, London, London, England                                                              May 12, 2000
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio                                                                 September 29, 2000
Southwest Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas                              November 6, 2000
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illionois                            November 15, 2000
University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska                                            December 1, 2000
University of California, Santa Cruz, California                                                              April 9, 2001
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado                    May 17, 2001
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia                                                    September 19, 2001
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada                   October 25, 2001
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon                                                                     October 26, 2001
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon                                                              October 29, 2001
Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York                       November 20, 2001
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts                                                              February 21, 2002
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana                                                                          March 7, 2002
University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, Missouri                                                 April 15, 2002
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England                                                                 April 22, 2002
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England                                                          April 24, 2002
University of Oxford, Oxford, England                                                                        April 26, 2002
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio                                                                                   April 9, 2003
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee                                                         September 22, 2003
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana                                                             October 28, 2003
University of California, San Diego, California                                                      November 6, 2003
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California                                                November 7, 2003
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France                                                               November 18, 2003
University of California, Santa Barbara, California                                                   January 21, 2004
University of California, Los Angeles, California                                                      January 22, 2004
University of California, Santa Barbara, California                                                   January 23, 2004
University of California, Santa Barbara, California                                                   January 26, 2004
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California                                          January 28, 2004
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina                                       February 17, 2004
University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico              November 8, 2004
University of Minnesota, Duluth, Duluth Minnesota                                            November 12, 2004
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania                                          December 6, 2004
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina                     September 22, 2005
Davidson University, Davidson, North Carolina                                                  September 23, 2005
Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain                                                   November 10–11, 2005
Instituto de Química Orgánica General, Madrid, Spain                                        November 14, 2005
Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain                                                                   November 16, 2005
Universidad de Malaga, Malaga, Spain                                                                 November 17, 2005
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (Roche Lecturer)                                    March 21, 2006
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado                                                         May 30, 2006
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii                                                           June 7, 2006
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky                                                      September 22, 2006
Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio                                                                   September 28, 2006
Indiana University Cancer Center/IU Medical School, Indianapolis, Indiana          October 16, 2006
Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana                                                       December 8, 2006
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada                                                        July 27, 2007
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana                                                                October 16, 2007
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio                                                                          October 31, 2007
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas                                                       November 8, 2007
College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio                                                                           January 22, 2008
Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri                                                               March 7, 2008
DePauw University (Burkett Lecture), Greencastle, Indiana                                      March 20, 2008
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois                                                  February 24, 2009

Presentations at Professional Conferences and Colloquia:

2nd Midwest Regional Organic Synthesis Workshop,                                              May 21–24, 1981
Bradford Woods, Indiana
Gordon Research Conference – Natural Products (Young                                        July 20–24, 1981
Faculty Presentation), New Hampton, New Hampshire
ACS (183rd) National Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada (two papers)                March 28–April 2, 1982
Gordon Research Conference – Reaction Processes,                                                 July 17–23, 1982
New Hampton, New Hampshire
ACS (185th) National Meeting, Seattle, Washington                                            March 20–24, 1983
Gordon Research Conference – Heterocycles, New Hampton,                                 July 10–15, 1983
New Hampshire
NSF Organic Synthesis & Natural Products Chemistry                                            July 20–24, 1983
Workshop, Fort Collins, Colorado
ACS (186th) National Meeting, Washington, D.C.                              August 28–September 2, 1983
IUPAC Fifth International Conference on Organic Synthesis,                            August 27–30, 1984
Freiburg, Germany
ACS (189th) National Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida                                     April 28–May 3, 1985
Gordon Research Conference – Natural Products,                                                    July 22–26, 1985
New Hampton, New Hampshire
ICHC – 10th International Congress on Heterocyclic Chemistry,                       August 11–16, 1985
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
11th MONA Symposium on Natural Products, Kingston, Jamaica                       January 6–10, 1986
20th Great Lakes ACS Regional Meeting, Symposium on                                           June 2–4, 1986
Stereocontrol in Organic Synthesis, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Heidelburg, Germany          August 16–21, 1987
ACS (194th) National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana                    August 30–September 4, 1987
NIH Workshop – Bioassay Directed Discovery of Antitumor                           October 18–19, 1988
and Antiviral Agents From Natural Sources
31st National Organic Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York             June 18–22, 1989
ACS (198th) National Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida                                   September 21–22, 1989
ACS (199th) National Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts                                          April 22–25, 1990
G.E.C.O. XXXI, Corsica Island, France                                                             September 3–8, 1990
25th ACS Midwest Regional Meeting, Manhattan, Kansas                                November 7–9, 1990
13th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Corvallis, Oregon        August 11–16, 1991
ACS (202nd) National Meeting, New York, New York                                      August 28–30, 1991
24th ACS Central Regional Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio                                            May 26–29, 1992
Third French-American Chemical Society Meeting, Aussios, France                       June 15–19, 1992
15th Conference on Isoprenoids, Zakopane, Poland                                       September 20–24, 1993
ACS (211th) National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana                                      March 24–28, 1996
Hauser Symposium, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado                             May 28–30, 1997
16th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Bozeman, Montana     August 10–15, 1997
ACS (214th) National Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada                                        September 7–11, 1997
XVII Conference on Isoprenoids, Krawkow, Poland                                     September 20–26, 1997
31st ACS Central Regional Meeting, Columbus, Ohio                                                   June 23, 1999
ACS (218th) National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana                                    August 25–26, 1999
ACS (225th) National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana                                      March 23–25, 2003
38st National Organic Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana         June 8–12, 2003
IUPAC/Canadian Society of Chemistry Symposium:                                          August 10–13, 2003
Stereoselective Organic Synthesis, Ottawa, Canada
2004 Gordon Research Conference on Marine Natural Products,                     February 22–27, 2004
Ventura Beach, California
2004 Ohio Valley Organic Chemistry Symposium, Dayton, Ohio                           May 14–15, 2004
36th ACS Central Regional Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana                                        June 2–4, 2004
2004 Gordon Research Conference on Stereochemistry, Newport, Rhode Island   June 20–24, 2004
2004 Procter & Gamble Colloquium on Organic Chemistry, Mason, Ohio                     July 30, 2004
2005 UCI-/Pfizer Symposium on Natural Product Synthesis                                  December 9, 2005
2007 Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society                               March 6, 2007
          Spring Meeting, Paris, France
2007 Paquette Legacy Symposium on Synthetic Organic Chemistry,                            May 19, 2007
          The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
IUPAC International Conference on Organic Synthesis 17, Daejeon, Korea                June 26, 2008
3rd Negishi-Brown Lectures – CAOSS Short Course, Purdue University,               October 13, 2008
          West Lafayette, Indiana

Lectures at Industrial Laboratories:

Ciba-Geigy, Summitt, New Jersey                                                                                    March, 1978
Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Rahway, New Jersey                                                              March, 1978
Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Rahway, New Jersey                                                              March, 1979
Miles Laboratory, Elkhart, Indiana                                                                          October 1–2, 1981
Upjohn Laboratories, Kalamazoo, Michigan                                                                     March, 1982
Upjohn Laboratories, Kalamazoo, Michigan                                                   September 13–14, 1982
Merck, Sharp and Dohme, West Point, Pennsylvania                                           September 28, 1982
FMC Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey                                                           October 27–28, 1982
DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware                                                                             February 1–2, 1983
Sandoz Corporation, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey                                                            March 1, 1983
Berlex Corporation, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey                                                             March 2, 1983
Ciba-Geigy, Summitt, New Jersey                                                                                 March 3, 1983
Upjohn Laboratories, Kalamazoo, Michigan                                                   September 26–27, 1983
Smith-Kline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania                                                                   October 10, 1983
Rohm Haas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania                                                              October 10–11, 1983
G.D. Searle, Chicago, Illinois                                                                                    October 14, 1983
Bristol-Myers, Evansville, Indiana                                                                       November 3–4, 1983
Upjohn Laboratories, Kalamazoo, Michigan                                                          February 8–9, 1984
Revlon, Tuckahoe, New York                                                                                      March 14, 1984
Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Greenfield, Indiana                                                      May 23, 1984
Proctor and Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio                                                                              June 6, 1984
Upjohn Laboratories, Kalamazoo, Michigan                                                                  July 5–6, 1984
Pfizer, Sandwich, England                                                                                      September 3, 1984
Upjohn Laboratories, Kalamazoo, Michigan                                                           October 4–5, 1984
Pennwalt Corporation, Rochester, New York                                                       September 26, 1985
Upjohn Laboratories, Kalamazoo, Michigan                                                       October 24–26, 1985
Sea Pharm, Princeton, New Jersey                                                                             January 24, 1986
Warner-Lambert, Ann Arbor, Michigan                                                                   February 25, 1986
New England Nuclear (DuPont), No. Billerica, Massachusetts                                     April 22, 1986
Cambridge Isotopes Laboratory, Woburn, Massachusetts                                             April 23, 1986
Stuart Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington, Delaware                                                                June 9, 1986
Berlex Corporation, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey                                                       November 7, 1986
Monsanto Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri                                                           November 14, 1986
PPG Industries, Barberton, Ohio                                                                             December 5, 1986
Pfizer, Groton, Connecticut                                                                                   December 11, 1986
Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Rahway, New Jersey                                                       January 28, 1987
Schering AG, West Berlin, Germany                                                                          August 13, 1987
Sandoz AG, Basel, Switzerland                                                                                 August 24, 1987
Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, Illinois                                                             November 28–29, 1989
Ciba-Geigy, Summitt, New Jersey                                                                                 April 17, 1990
Eli Lilly Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana                                                                      May 9, 1990
Eli Lilly Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana                                                                 August 7, 1990
Firmenich SA, Geneva, Switzerland                                                                     September 14, 1990
Hoffmann LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey                                                             September 27, 1990
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, Raritan, New Jersey                                        January 31, 1991
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey                                                                 May 15, 1991
FMC Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey                                                                      May 16, 1991
Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois                                                            September 16, 1991
OxyChem Corporation, Grand Island, New York                                                    October 24, 1991
Burroughs Wellcome, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina                                   March 26, 1992
Glaxo, Incorporated, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina                                     March 27, 1992
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut                                                  November 19, 1992
Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, New Jersey                                                 January 27, 1993
Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, Collegeville, Pennsylvania                                                   February 10, 1993
Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, New York                                                              March 25, 1993
Gliatech, Incorporated, Cleveland, Ohio                                                                        May 21, 1993
Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, Illinois                                                            September 13–14, 1993
Proctor & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio                                                                 June 7, 1994
Miles Incorporated, West Haven, Connecticut                                                        November 2, 1994
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Syracuse, New York                                                               August 28, 1995
Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois                                                            September 21, 1995
Monsanto Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri                                                             November 8, 1995
DuPont Ag Products, Newark, Delaware                                                                 October 23, 1996
Wyeth-Ayerst Research, Princeton, New Jersey                                                     November 5, 1996
R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Institute, Raritan, New Jersey                                        June 19, 1997
Unité Mixte CNRS – Roussel UCLAF (UMR 26), Paris, France                               October 1, 1997
American Cyanamid, Princeton, New Jersey                                                            October 24, 1997
Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, New Jersey                                                   March 11, 1998
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Syracuse, New York                                                                   May 14, 1998
Astra Research Center, Boston, Massachusetts                                                       September 2, 1998
Merck and Company, Incorporated, West Point, Pennsylvania                              November 6, 1998
Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Cincinnati, Ohio                                              December 1, 1998
Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals, Ann Arbor, Michigan                                                   March 31, 1999
Sankyo Company, LTD, Tokyo Japan                                                                            May 12, 1999
Fujisawa Company, LTD, Osaka, Japan                                                                         May 17, 1999
Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, Illinois                                                                      October 20, 1999
Eli Lilly Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana                                                              October 26, 1999
Schering-Plough Research Institute, Kenilworth, New Jersey                               December 13, 2000
Pharmacia Corporation, Kalamazoo, Michigan                                                      November 12, 2001
Merck & Company, Incorporated, Rahway, New Jersey                                      November 21, 2001
AstraZeneca, Waltham, Massachusetts                                                                    February 20, 2002
Merck & Company, Essex, England                                                                              April 23, 2002
Pfizer Global Research, Groton, Connecticut                                                                   June 6, 2002
GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina                                        August 22, 2002
Wyeth Ayerst, Pearl River, New York                                                                  September 23, 2002
Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, Indiana                                                                 January 13, 2003
Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals                                                                            February 7, 2003
Icagen Pharmaceuticals, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina                            February 19, 2003
Sphinx Pharmaceuticals, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina                           February 20, 2003
Albany Molecular, North Syracuse, New York                                                             April 24, 2003
Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California                                             November 3, 2003
Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California                                            November 4, 2003
Pfizer Global Research, La Jolla, California                                                            November 5, 2003
Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ridgefield, Connecticut                         March 3, 2005
GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania       December 1, 2005
Merck & Company, Incorporated, West Point, Pennsylvania                                        March 7, 2006
Sepracor, Incorporated, Marlborough, Massachusetts                                                   April 28, 2006
Pfizer Global Research, St Louis, Missouri                                                              February 11, 2008
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