13th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium

BOSS XIII

 Leuven, Belgium    July 15-20, 2012

Programme


16:00

Registration

08:30

Registration

09:45

Opening Ceremony

Session Chair

Prof. Léon GHOSEZ
IECB, Pessac, France

Tetrahedron Chair: Exploring Chiral Space in Asymmetric Catalysis

Prof. Ben FERINGA
UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands
10:00

Tetrahedron Lecture 1: Exploring Chiral Space in Asymmetric Synthesis

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

Tetrahedron Lecture 2: Phosphoramidites, Privileged Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis

12:30

Sandwich Lunch & Poster Sessions

14:30

Tetrahedron Lecture 3: Catalytic Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

Tetrahedron Lecture 4: From Enzymes to DNA-based Asymmetric Catalysis

17:00

Belgian Beer & Cheese Cocktail

Session Chair

Prof. Stéphane VINCENT
FUNDP, Namur, Belgium
09:00

Redesign of Vancomycin for Resistant Organisms

Prof. Dale L. BOGER
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, La Jolla, United States

Session Chair

Prof. Olivier RIANT
UC LOUVAIN, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
10:00

From Basic Research to the Development of "Real" Catalysts for Organic Synthesis

Prof. Matthias BELLER
UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK, Rostock, Germany
11:00

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Erik VAN DER EYCKEN
KU LEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium
11:30

New Polar Groups in Medicinal Chemistry

Prof. Klaus MÜLLER
F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE, Switzerland
12:30

Sandwich Lunch & Poster Sessions

Session Chair

Dr Edmond DIFFERDING
DIFFERDING CONSULTING, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
14:30

Molecular Editing with Fluorine

Prof. Véronique GOUVERNEUR
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford, United Kingdom
15:30

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
16:00

Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products: an Exercise in Serendipity

Prof. István MARKÓ
UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Session Chair

Dr Lieven MEERPOEL
JANSSEN R&D, Belgium
17:00

Inducing Nerve Regeneration by Natural Product Surfaces

Prof. Karl GADEMANN
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, Zürich, Switzerland

Session Chair

Prof. Alain KRIEF
FUNDP, Namur, Belgium
09:00

Late-Stage Fluorination for PET Imaging

Prof. Tobias RITTER
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Mulheim, Germany

Session Chair

Prof. Alain KRIEF
FUNDP, Namur, Belgium
10:00

The Chemistry of NHC-Boranes

Dr. Emmanuel LACÔTE
ICSN-CNRS, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
11:00

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Léon GHOSEZ
IECB, Pessac, France
11:30

Toward Transformative Therapies and the Ideal Synthesis: Approaches to HIV/AIDS Eradication, Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer

Prof. Paul A. WENDER
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, United States
12:30

Sandwich Lunch & Poster Sessions

15:00

Excursions

Session Chair

Dr Christophe GENICOT
UCB BIOPHARMA, Brussels, Belgium
09:00

Candida Antarctica Lipases A and B in Dynamic Kinetic Resolution. Model Studies and Directed Evolution

Prof. Jan-Erling BÄCKVALL
STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, Stockholm, Sweden

Session Chair

Prof. Christian STEVENS
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
10:00

Hydrogenation for C-C Bond Formation

Prof. Michael J. KRISCHE
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Austin, TX, United States
11:00

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Gwilherm EVANO
ULB, Brussels, Belgium
11:30

Novel Immobilized Catalysts for Environmentally Benign Organic Synthesis

Prof. Shu KOBAYASHI
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
12:30

Sandwich Lunch & Poster Sessions

Session Chair

Prof. Kourosch ABBASPOUR TEHRANI
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium
14:30

Exploring Chemoselectivity through Natural Product Total Synthesis

Prof. Scott SNYDER
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, United States
15:30

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Pierre DE CLERCQ
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium

Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis

A Different View of Challenging Synthetic Problems

Prof. Dr Ilan MAREK
TECHNION-ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Haifa, Israel
17:00

Award Ceremony

17:30

Cocktail offered by Janssen Pharmaceutica

20:30

Symposium Dinner

Session Chair

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

Stories on Design & Surprise: C-H Activation, Asymmetric Arene Hydrogenation and NHC Organocatalysis

Prof. Frank GLORIUS
UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER, Münster, Germany

Session Chair

Prof. Norbert DE KIMPE
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
10:00

Exploring New Strategies in Asymmetric Synthesis --- From Chiral Sulfur and Olefin Chemistry to Chiral Sulfur-Olefin Chemistry

Prof. Ming Hua XU
SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA, Pudong, Shanghai, China
11:00

Coffee Break

Session Chair

Prof. Bert U.W. MAES
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium
11:30

Novel Boron Reagents and Reactivities

Prof. Gary A. MOLANDER
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, United States
12:30

Closing Remarks