LD Organisation

Scientific Conference Producers

Programme


16:00

REGISTRATION
The registration desk will be open
16:00 - 19:00 Sunday
08:30 - 17:00 Monday
08:30 - 17:00 Tuesday
08:30 - 14:00 Wednesday
08:30 - 17:00 Thursday
08:30 - 14:00 Friday

18:00

WELCOME RECEPTION

Chairman

Prof. Léon GHOSEZ
IECB, Pessac, France

TETRAHEDRON CHAIR

Prof. Erick M. CARREIRA
ETH ZÜRICH, Zürich, Switzerland
09:30

Opening

10:00

Lecture 1.
Molecular Editing of Natural Products: Testing the Limits of Synthesis

11:00

Coffee-Break

11:30

Lecture 2.
Small Molecule Building Blocks for Medicinal Chemistry

12:30

Lunch and Poster Session

14:30

Lecture 3.
Discovery of New Functionalization Modes

15:30

Coffee-Break

16:00

Lecture 4.
Asymmetric Catalysis: Juggling Design and Discovery

17:30

BELGIAN BEER RECEPTION
sponsored by Elsevier

Chairmen

Prof. Bert MAES
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium
Prof. Christian STEVENS
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
09:00

Asymmetric Catalysis with Chiral Lewis Bases: A New Frontier in Main Group Chemistry

Prof. Scott E. DENMARK
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, United States
10:00

The Evolution of New Oxidation Reactions for Fine Chemicals Synthesis

Prof. Justin DU BOIS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, United States
11:00

Coffee-Break

11:30

Biomimetic Organocatalysis: Methods and Applications

Prof. Dieter ENDERS
RWTH AACHEN, Aachen, Germany
12:30

Lunch and Poster Session

14:30

Recent Progress in Asymmetric Two-Center Catalysis

Prof. Masakatsu SHIBASAKI
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
15:30

Coffee-Break

16:00

Total Synthesis of Brevetoxin A

Prof. Michael T. CRIMMINS
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hill, United States
17:00

Catalytic Organometallic Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation

Prof. John F. HARTWIG
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Berkeley, United States

Chairmen

Prof. Olivier RIANT
UC LOUVAIN, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
09:00

C-H Bond Functionalization and Asymmetric Synthesis Using Rhodium Catalysts

Prof. Jonathan A. ELLMAN
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, United States
10:00

Natural Products for Cell Biology

Prof. Markus KALESSE
UNIVERSITY OF HANNOVER, Hannover, Germany
11:00

Coffee-Break

11:30

Total Synthesis of Structurally Demanding and Biologically Interesting Natural Products

Prof. Johann MULZER
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria
12:30

Lunch and Poster Session

14:30

EXCURSIONS in Ghent

Chairmen

Prof. Pierre DE CLERCQ
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
Prof. Norbert DE KIMPE
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
09:00

Misconception and Design: a Quest for New Chemical Reactions

Prof. Samir ZARD
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, Palaiseau, France
10:00

Biomimetic Furan Oxidation : a ‘Trojan Horse’ Strategy for Crosslinking and Labeling of Biomacromolecules

Prof. Annemieke MADDER
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
11:00

Coffee-Break

11:30

A Tale of Two Neurotransmitters

Prof. Dirk TRAUNER
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, United States
12:30

Lunch and Poster Session

14:30

New Organopalladium Chemistry for Complex Molecule Synthesis

Dr. Michael GREANEY
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
15:30

Coffee-Break

Chairman

Dr Lieven MEERPOEL
JOHNSON & JOHNSON PRD, Belgium

JANSSEN PRIZE LECTURE

16:00

Case Studies in Catalysis

Prof. Alois FÜRSTNER
MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FUR KOHLENFORSCHUNG, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany
17:30

JANSSEN PRIZE RECEPTION
offered by Johnson&Johnson PRD

Chairmen

Prof. Alain KRIEF
FUNDP, Namur, Belgium
Prof. Olivier RIANT
UC LOUVAIN, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
09:00

The Catalytic Cycle of Discovery in Total Synthesis

Prof. Phil BARAN
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, La Jolla, United States
10:00

New Catalytic Strategies for Chemical Synthesis

Prof. Matthew GAUNT
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom
11:00

Coffee-Break

11:30

On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy

Prof. Barry M. TROST
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, United States
12:30

Closing remarks