11th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium 13/07/2008
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
14/07/2008
Chairman
Prof. Léon GHOSEZ (IECB, Pessac, France)
TETRAHEDRON CHAIR
Prof Erick M. CARREIRA (ETH, 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
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)
09:00 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, Urbana, United States)
16/07/2008
Chairmen
Prof. Olivier RIANT (UCL, 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 (UNIVERSITÄT 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
17/07/2008
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, Beerse, 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
18/07/2008
Chairmen
Prof. Alain KRIEF (FUNDP, Namur, Belgium) Prof. Olivier RIANT (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
09:00 The Catalytic Cycle of Discovery in Total Synthesis
Prof. Phil BARAN (SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, La Jolla, United States)
10:00 New Catalytic Strategies for Chemical Synthesis
Dr 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
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