11th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium
13/07/2008
16:00REGISTRATION
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
18:00WELCOME RECEPTION
14/07/2008
Chairman
Prof. Léon GHOSEZ
(IECB, Pessac, France)
TETRAHEDRON CHAIR
Prof Erick M. CARREIRA
(ETH, Zürich, Switzerland)
09:30Opening
10:00Lecture 1.
Molecular Editing of Natural Products: Testing the Limits of Synthesis
11:00Coffee-Break
11:30Lecture 2.
Small Molecule Building Blocks for Medicinal Chemistry
12:30Lunch and Poster Session
14:30Lecture 3.
Discovery of New Functionalization Modes
15:30Coffee-Break
16:00Lecture 4.
Asymmetric Catalysis: Juggling Design and Discovery
17:30BELGIAN BEER RECEPTION
sponsored by Elsevier
15/07/2008
Chairmen
Prof. Bert MAES (UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium)
Prof. Christian STEVENS (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
09:00Asymmetric Catalysis with Chiral Lewis Bases: A New Frontier in Main Group Chemistry
Prof. Scott E. DENMARK
(UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, United States)
10:00The Evolution of New Oxidation Reactions for Fine Chemicals Synthesis
Prof. Justin DU BOIS
(STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, United States)
11:00Coffee-Break
11:30Biomimetic Organocatalysis: Methods and Applications
Prof. Dieter ENDERS
(RWTH AACHEN, Aachen, Germany)
12:30Lunch and Poster Session
14:30Recent Progress in Asymmetric Two-Center Catalysis
Prof. Masakatsu SHIBASAKI
(UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan)
15:30Coffee-Break
16:00Total Synthesis of Brevetoxin A
Prof. Michael T. CRIMMINS
(UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hill, United States)
17:00Catalytic Organometallic Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation
Prof. John F. HARTWIG
(UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, United States)
16/07/2008
Chairmen
Prof. Olivier RIANT (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
09:00C-H Bond Functionalization and Asymmetric Synthesis Using Rhodium Catalysts
Prof. Jonathan A. ELLMAN
(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, United States)
10:00Natural Products for Cell Biology
Prof. Markus KALESSE
(UNIVERSITÄT HANNOVER, Hannover, Germany)
11:00Coffee-Break
11:30Total Synthesis of Structurally Demanding and Biologically Interesting Natural Products
Prof. Johann MULZER
(UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria)
12:30Lunch and Poster Session
14:30EXCURSIONS in Ghent
17/07/2008
Chairmen
Prof. Pierre DE CLERCQ (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
Prof. Norbert DE KIMPE (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
09:00Misconception and Design: a Quest for New Chemical Reactions
Prof. Samir ZARD
(ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, Palaiseau, France)
10:00Biomimetic Furan Oxidation : a ‘Trojan Horse’ Strategy for Crosslinking and Labeling of Biomacromolecules
Prof. Annemieke MADDER
(UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
11:00Coffee-Break
11:30A Tale of Two Neurotransmitters
Prof. Dirk TRAUNER
(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, United States)
12:30Lunch and Poster Session
14:30New Organopalladium Chemistry for Complex Molecule Synthesis
Dr. Michael GREANEY
(UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
15:30Coffee-Break
Chairman
Dr Lieven MEERPOEL
(JOHNSON & JOHNSON PRD, Beerse, Belgium)
JANSSEN PRIZE LECTURE
16:00Case Studies in Catalysis
Prof. Alois FÜRSTNER
(MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FUR KOHLENFORSCHUNG, MUELHEIM AN DER RUHR, Germany)
17:30JANSSEN PRIZE RECEPTION
offered by Johnson&Johnson PRD
18/07/2008
Chairmen
Prof. Alain KRIEF (FUNDP, Namur, Belgium)
Prof. Olivier RIANT (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
09:00The Catalytic Cycle of Discovery in Total Synthesis
Prof. Phil BARAN
(SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, La Jolla, United States)
10:00New Catalytic Strategies for Chemical Synthesis
Dr Matthew GAUNT
(UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
11:00Coffee-Break
11:30On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy
Prof. Barry M. TROST
(STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, United States)
12:30Closing remarks
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