Scientific program

The final scientific program of the conference can be found below. The program consists of 12 plenary lectures (55 min), 8 keynote lectures (35 min), and 28 contributed talks (15 min), all in single session format. On Tuesday is the poster session.

Sunday 25 August

Monday 26 August

Session I (Chair: Feringa)
9:20 - 10:15Bert Meijer — Mastering complexity: functional supramolecular systems
10:15 - 10:30Clement Mazet — Isomerization of Epoxides by a [Pd-H] Catalyst: a Combined Experimental and Theoretical Mechanistic Study
10:30 - 10:45Alexander Dilman — New approach for the synthesis of organofluorine compounds containing CF2 fragment
10:45 - 11:15Coffee break
Session II
11:15 - 11:50Scott Snyder — Exploring Chemoselectivity through Natural Product Total Synthesis
11:50 - 12:05Alexey Sukhorukov — First Asymmetric Syntheses of Three GlaxoSmithKline's Highly Potent Rolipram Analogues
12:05 - 12:20Patrick Shahgaldian — Organo-Inorganic Hybrids: Design of Novel Molecular Recognition and Biocatalytic Nanomaterials
12:20 - 12:35M. Ángeles Fernández-Ibáñez — Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies on the Pd-catalyzed C(sp3)-H gamma-Arylation of Amino Acid Derivatives with Aryl Iodides
12:35 - 14:00Lunch
Session III (Chair: Lacour)
14:00 - 14:55Michael Doyle — Highly Selective Catalytic Syntheses of Heterocyclic Compounds
14:55 - 15:10Hidehiko Asanuma — Exploiting "micron" superhydrophobicity
15:10 - 15:25Adriaan Minnaard — Crystallization-induced Deracemisation of P-stereogenic Phosphine Oxides
15:25 - 15:40Marcin Kwit — Zinc(II)-Amine Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrosilylation
15:40 - 16:15Coffee break
Session IV (Chair: Minnaard)
16:15 - 16:50Takashi Ooi — Asymmetric catalysis of Designer Chiral Organic Ion Pairs
16:50 - 17:05Thomas Buyck — Enantioselective Michael Addition of Isocyanoactate to Vinyl Selenone: Access to alpha-Quaternary Amino Acids
17:05 - 17:20Renee Roemmele — Development and Scale-Up of an Optimized Route to the ALK Inhibitor CEP-28122
17:20 - 18:15Erik Sorensen — Taking Risks in Complex Synthesis Design

Tuesday 27 August

Session V (Chair: Harutyunyan)
8:45 - 9:40Matthias Beller — Catalysis: An Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
9:40 - 10:15Helma Wennemers — Peptides as Asymmetric Catalysts
10:15 - 10:30Dennis Gillingham — Catalytic Alkylation of Nucleic Acids
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break
Session VI
11:00 - 11:55Luisa De Cola — Hard and soft luminiscent materials. Properties and applications
11:55 - 12:10Kounosuke Oisaki — Fe-Catalyzed Oxidative C(3)-Functionalization of Amines
12:10 - 12:25Aleksandr Sahakyan — Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics through the Synergy of Experiment and Computation
12:25 - 14:00Lunch
Session VII (Chair: Wennemers)
14:00 - 14:55Stephen Hanessian — The Art of Perception in Organic Synthesis. From Mind's Eye to Practice
14:55 - 15:30Sjoerd Harder — Renaissance of Early Main Group Chemistry - From Applications in Catalysis to Hydrogen Storage
15:30 - 15:45Zinatossadat Hossaini — Solvent-free synthesis of substituted pyrroles via multicomponent reaction of primary amines
15:45 - 16:00Anna Hirsch — De Novo Design of Novel Aspartic Protease Inhibitors Exploiting Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry
16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
Session VIII (Chair: Saghyan)
16:30 - 17:25Tamio Hayashi — Chiral Diene Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis
17:25 - 19:00Poster session
(list of poster presentations)

Wednesday 28 August

Session IX (Chair: Harder)
8:45 - 9:40Herbert Mayr — A Quantative Approach to Polar Organic Reactivity
9:40 - 9:55Jiawen Chen — Substituent effects on rotary motion of molecular motor
9:55 - 10:10Sabina Pisarek — Synthesis of selected porphyrins for NO-free regulation of sGC enzyme
10:10 - 10:25Ana Belenguar — Sequential polymorphic transformation assisted by Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
10:25 - 11:00Coffee break
Session X (Chair: Hirsch)
11:00 - 11:55Shankar Balasubramanian — Chemical biology of the genome
11:55 - 12:10Petr Beier — Fluoroalkyl group transfer using phosphonates
12:10 - 12:25Natalia Belkova — Structural Peculiarities and Catalytic Activity of Dibenzobarrelene-Based PCsp3P Pincer Iridium Complexes
12:30 - 13:30Lunch

Thursday 29 August

Session XI
8:45 - 9:40(Novartis lecture) Brian Stoltz — Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry
9:40 - 10:15Ben Davis — Sugars & proteins: towards a synthetic biology
10:15 - 10:30Jan Deska — Molecular Origami: Oxonium-Ylide Rearrangements of Enzymatically Desymmetrized Glutarates
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break
Session XII (Chair: Fernández)
11:00 - 11:35Jerome Lacour — Stereoselective synthesis & catalysis with metal carbenes
10:35 - 10:50Mikolaj Chrominski — Natural tetrapyrroles — just "click" it!
10:50 - 11:05Pawel Dydio — Supramolecular control of selectivity in transition metal catalysis using ligands functionalized with an anion binding pocket
11:05 - 11:20Valentina Pirovano — Gold catalyzed synthesis of tetrahydrocarbazole derivatives through an intermolecular cycloaddition of vinyl indoles and N-allenamides
12:20 - 13:30Lunch
Session XIII (Chair: Browne)
13:30 - 14:25Paul Weiss — Cooperative Function in Atomically Precise Nanoscale Assemblies
14:25 - 14:40Davit Zargarian — Synthesis & Reactivities of Divalent and Trivalent Nickel Complexes Based on Pincer Ligands
14:40 - 14:55Norbert Miskolczi — Effect of the catalyst (HZSM-5 and Ni-Mo-catalysts) grain size to the product yield, composition and contaminants during waste plastic pyrolysis
14:55 - 15:25Coffee break
Session XIV (Chair: Barta)
15:25 - 16:00Alexander Trifonov — Rare-earth complexes for catalytic formation of C-C, C-N and C-P bonds
16:00 - 16:15Martín Fañanás-Mastral — Selective Catalytic Cross-couplings with Organolithium Reagents
16:15 - 16:30Hasan Mehdi — Sterically Congested Boranes for Frustrated Lewis Pairs
Session XV
16:30 - 17:25Eiichi Nakamura — Chemistry of Organic Solar Cells