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
8:00 - 8:30 | Registration |
8:45 - 9:20 | Opening ceremony |
Session I (Chair: Feringa) |
9:20 - 10:15 | Bert Meijer — Mastering complexity: functional supramolecular systems |
10:15 - 10:30 | Clement Mazet — Isomerization of Epoxides by a [Pd-H] Catalyst: a Combined Experimental and Theoretical Mechanistic Study |
10:30 - 10:45 | Alexander Dilman — New approach for the synthesis of organofluorine compounds containing CF2 fragment |
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
Session II |
11:15 - 11:50 | Scott Snyder — Exploring Chemoselectivity through Natural Product Total Synthesis |
11:50 - 12:05 | Alexey Sukhorukov — First Asymmetric Syntheses of Three GlaxoSmithKline's Highly Potent Rolipram Analogues |
12:05 - 12:20 | Patrick Shahgaldian — Organo-Inorganic Hybrids: Design of Novel Molecular Recognition and Biocatalytic Nanomaterials |
12:20 - 12:35 | M. 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 - 14:00 | Lunch |
Session III (Chair: Lacour) |
14:00 - 14:55 | Michael Doyle — Highly Selective Catalytic Syntheses of Heterocyclic Compounds |
14:55 - 15:10 | Hidehiko Asanuma — Exploiting "micron" superhydrophobicity |
15:10 - 15:25 | Adriaan Minnaard — Crystallization-induced Deracemisation of P-stereogenic Phosphine Oxides |
15:25 - 15:40 | Marcin Kwit — Zinc(II)-Amine Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrosilylation |
15:40 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
Session IV (Chair: Minnaard) |
16:15 - 16:50 | Takashi Ooi — Asymmetric catalysis of Designer Chiral Organic Ion Pairs |
16:50 - 17:05 | Thomas Buyck — Enantioselective Michael Addition of Isocyanoactate to Vinyl Selenone: Access to alpha-Quaternary Amino Acids |
17:05 - 17:20 | Renee Roemmele — Development and Scale-Up of an Optimized Route to the ALK Inhibitor CEP-28122 |
17:20 - 18:15 | Erik Sorensen — Taking Risks in Complex Synthesis Design |
Tuesday 27 August
8:00 - 8:30 | Registration |
Session V (Chair: Harutyunyan) |
8:45 - 9:40 | Matthias Beller — Catalysis: An Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
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9:40 - 10:15 | Helma Wennemers — Peptides as Asymmetric Catalysts |
10:15 - 10:30 | Dennis Gillingham — Catalytic Alkylation of Nucleic Acids |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
Session VI |
11:00 - 11:55 | Luisa De Cola — Hard and soft luminiscent materials. Properties and applications |
11:55 - 12:10 | Kounosuke Oisaki — Fe-Catalyzed Oxidative C(3)-Functionalization of Amines |
12:10 - 12:25 | Aleksandr Sahakyan — Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics through the Synergy of Experiment and Computation |
12:25 - 14:00 | Lunch |
Session VII (Chair: Wennemers) |
14:00 - 14:55 | Stephen Hanessian — The Art of Perception in Organic Synthesis. From Mind's Eye to Practice |
14:55 - 15:30 | Sjoerd Harder — Renaissance of Early Main Group Chemistry - From Applications in Catalysis to Hydrogen Storage |
15:30 - 15:45 | Zinatossadat Hossaini — Solvent-free synthesis of substituted pyrroles via multicomponent reaction of primary amines |
15:45 - 16:00 | Anna Hirsch — De Novo Design of Novel Aspartic Protease Inhibitors Exploiting Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
Session VIII (Chair: Saghyan) |
16:30 - 17:25 | Tamio Hayashi — Chiral Diene Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis |
17:25 - 19:00 | Poster session (list of poster presentations) |
Wednesday 28 August
8:00 - 8:30 | Registration |
Session IX (Chair: Harder) |
8:45 - 9:40 | Herbert Mayr — A Quantative Approach to Polar Organic Reactivity |
9:40 - 9:55 | Jiawen Chen — Substituent effects on rotary motion of molecular motor |
9:55 - 10:10 | Sabina Pisarek — Synthesis of selected porphyrins for NO-free regulation of sGC enzyme |
10:10 - 10:25 | Ana Belenguar — Sequential polymorphic transformation assisted by Dynamic Covalent Chemistry |
10:25 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
Session X (Chair: Hirsch) |
11:00 - 11:55 | Shankar Balasubramanian — Chemical biology of the genome |
11:55 - 12:10 | Petr Beier — Fluoroalkyl group transfer using phosphonates |
12:10 - 12:25 | Natalia Belkova — Structural Peculiarities and Catalytic Activity of Dibenzobarrelene-Based PCsp3P Pincer Iridium Complexes |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 - 19:00 | Excursions to Garni+Geghard and Echmiadzin+Zvartnots |
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 - 10:15 | Ben Davis — Sugars & proteins: towards a synthetic biology |
10:15 - 10:30 | Jan Deska — Molecular Origami: Oxonium-Ylide Rearrangements of Enzymatically Desymmetrized Glutarates |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
Session XII (Chair: Fernández) |
11:00 - 11:35 | Jerome Lacour — Stereoselective synthesis & catalysis with metal carbenes |
10:35 - 10:50 | Mikolaj Chrominski — Natural tetrapyrroles — just "click" it! |
10:50 - 11:05 | Pawel Dydio — Supramolecular control of selectivity in transition metal catalysis using ligands functionalized with an anion binding pocket |
11:05 - 11:20 | Valentina Pirovano — Gold catalyzed synthesis of tetrahydrocarbazole derivatives through an intermolecular cycloaddition of vinyl indoles and N-allenamides |
12:20 - 13:30 | Lunch |
Session XIII (Chair: Browne) |
13:30 - 14:25 | Paul Weiss — Cooperative Function in Atomically Precise Nanoscale Assemblies |
14:25 - 14:40 | Davit Zargarian — Synthesis & Reactivities of Divalent and Trivalent Nickel Complexes Based on Pincer Ligands |
14:40 - 14:55 | Norbert 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 - 15:25 | Coffee break |
Session XIV (Chair: Barta) |
15:25 - 16:00 | Alexander Trifonov — Rare-earth complexes for catalytic formation of C-C, C-N and C-P bonds |
16:00 - 16:15 | Martín Fañanás-Mastral — Selective Catalytic Cross-couplings with Organolithium Reagents |
16:15 - 16:30 | Hasan Mehdi — Sterically Congested Boranes for Frustrated Lewis Pairs |
Session XV |
16:30 - 17:25 | Eiichi Nakamura — Chemistry of Organic Solar Cells |
17:25 - 18:00 | Closing ceremony |
19:30 - 22:30 | Conference banquet |