Conference program
The program of the conference can be found below and consists of 10 plenary lectures (50 min), 12 invited lectures (35 min), and 36 contributed lectures (15 min), all in single session format. The list of posters that will be presented during the poster session on Tuesday can be found here: list of posters
| Sunday 21 October | |
| 15:00 - 16:30 |
Registration at Ani Plaza Hotel Transfer with conference buses to Matenadaran |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
Excursion at Matenadaran Transfer with conference buses to welcome reception |
| 18:30 - 22:00 |
Welcome reception in Yans Club Address: 76 Teryan St., Yerevan; Shuttle service back to Ani Plaza from 21:00 |
| Monday 22 October | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Registration |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Opening ceremony |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Fraser Stoddart: Engines through the ages |
| 9:50 - 10:05 | Ksenia Egorova: Ionic liquid tags as a tool for investigating drugs at the single-cell level |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Felipe Garcia: Mechanochemistry: new opportunities in main group synthesis |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | Jan Deska: Reverse biomimetics: teaching enzymes the art of modern organic synthesis |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | Coffee break |
| 10:55 - 11:30 | Vladimir Gevorgyan: Removable tether strategy for C-H functionalizations |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Eduard Bobylev: Template assisted formation of ultrasmall bimetallic nanoparticles with precise number of atoms using M12L24 nanospheres |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Maria Angeles Fernández-Ibáñez: Ligand-accelerated C-H functionalization reactions |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | José Augusto Berrocal: Patterning graphite for spatiotemporally-controlled translation of unidirectional motors |
| 12:15 - 12:50 | Stefan Hecht: Building and overcoming walls |
| 12:50 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Peter Stang: Abiological self-assembly: predesigned metallacycles and metallacages via coordination |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | Maciej Giedyk: Photocatalytic reduction of redox-demanding compounds in microheterogenous solutions |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | Andreas Vargas Jentzsch: Using molecular switching to achieve super-resolution microscopy |
| 15:20 - 15:55 | Valentin Ananikov: How do NHC ligands interact with metal complexes in solution? Efficient catalysis provided by dynamic metal-ligand framework |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 17:05 | Harry Anderson: Porphyrin nanorings: synthesis and cooperative phenomena |
| 17:05 - 17:20 | Fabien Cougnon: Why knot? A synthetic strategy to access molecular knots and links |
| 17:20 - 17:35 | Carlos Vila: Catalytic enantioselective reformatsky reaction with cyclic imines |
| 17:35 - 17:50 | Nina Hentzen: Cross-linked collagen triple helices by oxime ligation |
| Tuesday 23 October | |
| 8:30 - 9:20 | Bert Meijer: Supramolecular polymerizations - chirality as a muse |
| 9:20 - 9:35 | Julietta Yedoyan: Highly regio and enantioselective synthesis of functionalized piperidine derivatives triggered by Heck coupling of monocyclopropanated pyrroles |
| 9:35 - 9:50 | Daishi Fujita: A synthetic molecular wireframe enables protein refolding |
| 9:50 - 10:25 | Ivan Aprahamian: TBD |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:20 | Christian Hackenberger: The power of chemoselectivity: functional protein conjugates for extra- and intracellular targeting |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Anzhela Galstyan: Turning photons into drugs: advanced photoactive compounds and interfaces in the resistance era |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | Denis Chusov: Strategy for selective reductive addition |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Hans-Werner Schmidt: Long-range energy transport in single supramolecular nanofibers at room temperature |
| 12:05 - 12:40 | Masahiro Murakami: Photon-driven organic synthesis |
| 12:40 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 14:35 | Odile Eisenstein: Information on reactivity from NMR? An approach combining solid state NMR and quantum calculations |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | Ben Pilgrim: Covalent post-assembly modification of tetrazine-edged self-assembled molecular capsules |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | Radim Hrdina: Directed C–H functionalization of bridged cycloalkanes |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | Viktor Iaroshenko: Application of silicon-containing reducing reagents in organic synthesis |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Coffee break |
| 15:40 - 15:55 | Ali Trabolsi: Synthesis and Applications of Metal-Organic Knots |
| 15:55 - 16:10 | Tessel Bouwens: Kinetic pathways for the formation of a pseudorotaxane nanosphere |
| 16:10 - 17:00 | Wesley Browne: The secret life of oxydation catalysts |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Poster session + buffet |
| Wednesday 24 October | |
| 8:30 - 9:20 | Takuzo Aida: New self-healable materials by supramolecular chemistry |
| 9:20 - 9:35 | Artur Mardyukov: Preparation and characterization of species with molecular formula RPE2: the monomeric forms of Lawesson’s and Woollins’ reagents |
| 9:35 - 9:50 | Maria Koyioni: Adventures with S,N-heterocycles |
| 9:50 - 10:25 | Magnus Rueping: Nickel catalysis for C-C and C-heteroatom bond forming reactions |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:20 | Tanja Weil: Nature-inspired polymer synthesis |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Vladimir Larionov: "Chiral-at-metal" inert octahedral Co(III) complexes as "organocatalysts in disguise" for asymmetric transformations |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | Filip Ulatowski: Structural parameters determined by supramolecular interactions in dynamic libraries |
| 11:50 - 12:25 | Uttam Tambar: Stereoselective functionalization of unsaturated hydrocarbons |
| 12:30 - 18:00 |
Excursion To Tsitsernakaberd, temple of Garni and Geghard Monastery |
| 19:00 - 23:00 | Conference banquet |
| Thursday 25 October | |
| 8:45 - 9:35 | Bert Weckhuysen: Catalysts live & up close |
| 9:35 - 9:50 | Mathieu Surin: Chirality and photoswitching in DNA-templated supramolecular assemblies |
| 9:50 - 10:05 | Amalia Poblador Bahamonde: Non-innocent role of the CNHC ligand on the isomerization of cationic [Ir(CNHC)(CH3CN)2(PR3)]+ complex: A DFT Approach |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Ralf Jackstell: Our use of CO surrogates in carbonylations |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | Pim Frederix: Supramolecular assembly by computational microscopy and spectroscopy |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | Coffee break |
| 10:55 - 11:30 | Rafal Klajn: Assembling Nanoparticles using External Stimuli |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Mira Holzheimer: Towards the total synthesis of crenarchaeol |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Kajetan Dąbrowa: Photoresponsive ditopic receptor for dynamic binding of ion pairs |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Xingchen Yan: Cu-catalyzed direct enantioselective conjugate addition of Grignards to α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids |
| 12:15 - 12:50 | Eva Hevia: Towards a paradigm shift in main group polar organometallic chemistry |
| 12:50 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Matt Sigman: Developing data-driven physical organic analysis tools for reaction optimization and interrogation |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | Ghislaine Vantomme: Photo-actuated communicating devices |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | Santhosh Rao: A ligand guided stereodivergent alkyne reduction using water as the hydrogen source |
| 15:20 - 15:55 | Rienk Eelkema: Catalysis as a tool to control soft matter behavior |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Anna Mkrtchyan: Asymmetric synthesis of new enantiomerically enriched α-amino acids |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Toshifumi Dohi: μ-Oxo hypervalent iodine catalyst for oxidative coupling of N-H substrates to various aromatics |
| 16:45 - 17:35 | Ben Feringa: Control and amplification of chirality in dynamic molecular systems |
| 17:35 - 17:50 | Closing |