Bioheterocycles 2019

XVIII International Conference on Heterocycles in Bioorganic Chemistry

 Ghent, Belgium    June 17-20, 2019

Programme

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08:00

Registration

09:10

Opening

Prof. Matthias D'HOOGHE
GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium

Session 1

Session Chair

Prof. Christian STEVENS
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
09:30

Heterocycles as Key Features of New Starting Points for Drug Discovery (PL01)

Dr Peter MEIER
NOVARTIS PHARMA AG, Basel, Switzerland
10:15

Development of Enzyme Inhibitors and Multi-target-directed Ligands for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases (IL01)

Prof. Stanislav GOBEC
UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA, Ljubljana, Slovenia
10:45

Coffee break

Session 2

Session Chair

Prof. Till OPATZ
JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITY, Mainz, Germany
11:15

Silil-Prins Cyclization: Towards the Synthesis of Medium Sized Heterocycles (OC01)

Prof. Asuncion BARBERO
UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID, Valladolid, Spain
11:30

Chiral Piperidines from Pyridines: the Meta-Substitution Challenge in Asymmetric Hydrogenation (OC02)

Dr Paul ALSTERS
INNOSYN B.V., Geleen, The Netherlands
11:45

Expanding the Chemical Space of Chiral Trifunctional Building Blocks by Stereoselective Synthesis from Natural Terpenes (IL02)

Prof. Zsolt SZAKONYI
UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED, Szeged, Hungary
12:15

Lunch

Session 3

Session Chair

Prof. Fawaz ALDABBAGH
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, London, United Kingdom
13:30

A Journey in Heteroaromatic Scaffolds as Protein Kinase Inhibitors (PL02)

Prof. Pascale MOREAU
UNIVERSITY OF CLERMONT AUVERGNE, Aubičre, France
14:15

Bacterial Quinolones and Derivatives: New Drugs for Bad Bugs (IL03)

Dr Thomas BOTTCHER
UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ, Konstanz, Germany
14:45

Hydrogen Peroxide and Hydrohalic Acid-Mediated Synthesis of Ring-Fused Benzimidazolequinone Anti-Cancer Agents (OC03)

Mr Darren CONBOY
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY LONDON, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
15:00

Coffee break

Session 4

Session Chair

Dr Bart ROMAN
GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium
15:30

Thionations Using a P4S10-Pyridine Complex (OC04)

Ms Ngarita KINGI
VIRONOVA MEDICAL AB, Stockholm, Sweden
15:45

First Solid-Phase Strategy for the Total Synthesis of Fengycin Derivatives, a Class of Cyclic Lipodepsipeptides (OC05)

Dr Lidia FELIU
LIPPSO, UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA, Girona, Spain
16:00

Design and Synthesis of New Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles for the Treatment of Mechanical Allodynia (OC06)

Ms Alexia VISSEQ
INSTITUT DE CHIMIE DE CLERMONT FERRAND, AUBIERE, France
16:15

Poster Session

18:00

Welcome Reception (Ghent City Hall)

Session 5

Session Chair

Prof. Bert MAES
UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium
09:00

Heterocycles To Control Immune Cell Function (PL03)

Prof. David FAIRLIE
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, Brisbane, Australia
09:45

Vitamin B12 – an Intriguing Bioheterocycle (IL04)

Prof. Dorota GRYKO
INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PAS, Warsaw, Poland
10:15

Hydroxylated Heterocycles as a Bioisosteric Tool to Modulate the Carboxylic Function (OC08)

Dr Agnese Chiara PIPPIONE
UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, Torino, Italy
10:30

Tweaking the Blebbistatin Scaffold Towards Better Pharmacological Tools (OC09)

Dr Bart ROMAN
GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium
10:45

Coffee break

Session 6

Session Chair

Prof. Asuncion BARBERO
UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID, Valladolid, Spain
11:15

The Magic of Wood and Light – New Concepts for Synthetic Chemistry (OC10)

Prof. Till OPATZ
JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITY, Mainz, Germany
11:30

Synthesis of Enantioenriched 3-Isobenzofuranones Using Chiral Organomagnesiates (OC11)

Dr Sabrina TOUCHET
UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
11:45

Functionalization of Aromatic Heterocycles Using Bases Derived from LiTMP (IL05)

Prof. Florence MONGIN
UNIVERSITY OF RENNES, Rennes, France
12:15

Lunch

Session 7

Session Chair

Prof. Stanislav GOBEC
UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA, Ljubljana, Slovenia
13:30

Synthesis of Heterocyles Using Visible Light Photocatalysis (PL04)

Prof. Burkhard KÖNIG
UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG, Regensburg, Germany
14:15

Leveraging Carbonylation and N-acyl imine Chemistry in Heterocycle Synthesis (IL06)

Prof. Luke ODELL
UNIVERSITY OF UPPSALA, Uppsala, Sweden
14:45

Structurally Simple Cytosine Peptidomimetics as Potent Cardioprotectors in Myocardial Ischemia (MI) Mouse Model: Design, Synthesis And Biological Evaluation (OC12)

Dr Edward KORSHIN
BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY, Ramat Gan, Israel
15:00

Biradical Formation by Deprotonation in Conjugated 2-Amino/Imino Thiazole Derivatives (OC13)

Prof. Francisco LOPEZ-CALAHORRA
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA, Barcelona, Spain
16:00

Excursion

Session 8

Session Chair

Prof. Wim DE BORGGRAEVE
KU LEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium
09:00

The Beautiful Simplicity of Rearrangements (PL05)

Prof. Nuno MAULIDE
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria
09:45

A journey with Saponins (IL07)

Dr Martina LAHMANN
BANGOR UNIVERSITY, Wales, United Kingdom
10:15

Small but Selective: Developing Chemical Probes for PKN/PRK2 (OC14)

Dr Fiona SCOTT
SUSSEX DRUG DISCOVERY CENTRE, Falmer, United Kingdom
10:30

Application of Tsunoda reagent to the convenient synthesis of drug-like pyrazoles (OC15)

Dr Olivier LORTHIOIR
ASTRAZENECA, Cambridge, United Kingdom
10:45

Coffee break

Session 9

Session Chair

Prof. Florence MONGIN
UNIVERSITY OF RENNES, Rennes, France
11:15

The Phenanthridine PJ-34 Exclusively Eradicates Human cancer Cells (OC16)

Prof. Malka COHEN-ARMON
TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, Tel-Aviv, Israel
11:30

Synthesis and in vitro -Glucosidase Inhibitory Activity of Polyhydroxylated 2-Styrylchromones (OC17)

Dr Clementina SANTOS
INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA, Braganca, Portugal
11:45

Heterocycles and Neglected Diseases: Still a Role for Total Synthesis (IL08)

Prof. Adrian DOBBS
UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH, Kent, United Kingdom
12:15

Lunch

Session 10

Session Chair

Prof. Zsolt SZAKONYI
UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED, Szeged, Hungary
13:30

Multiple Conjugation Reactions on Peptides and Oligonucleotides (PL06)

Prof. Anna GRANDAS
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA, Barcelona, Spain
14:15

Heterocycles as a Route to New Chemical Space for Drug Discovery (IL09)

Prof. James BULL
IMPERIAL COLLEGE, London, United Kingdom
14:45

'Stretched' Analogs of Piperidine, Piperazine, and Morpholine: Advanced Building Blocks for Drug Discovery (OC18)

Dr Ivan KONDRATOV
ENAMINE, Kyiv, Ukraine
15:00

Coffee break

Session 11

Session Chair

Dr Thomas HEUGEBAERT
UGENT, Gent, Belgium
15:30

Biologically Active Oxygen and Nitrogen Heterocyclic Compounds from Cycloaddition and Conjugate Addition Reactions On Chromones (OC19)

Prof. Artur M.S. SILVA
UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO, Aveiro, Portugal
15:45

Combining Isocyanides with Carbon Dioxide for Heterocycle Synthesis (OC20)

Mr Jeroen BOMON
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN, Antwerpen, Belgium
16:00

Kolbe Anodic Decarboxylation as a Green Way to Access Pyrrolidinones (OC21)

Ms Mathilde QUERTENMONT
UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, La Hulpe, Belgium
16:15

Playing with Properties of Biologically Active Compounds: High-Throughput Conjugation of Drug-Like Molecules for Chemical Biology (OC22)

Ms Sona KRAJCOVICOVA
PALACKY UNIVERSITY, Olomouc, Czech Republic
16:30

Poster Session

19:00

Symposium Banquet

Session 12

Session Chair

Prof. Sven MANGELINCKX
GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium
10:00

Heterocyclic Chemistry in Drug Development (PL07)

Prof. Wim DE BORGGRAEVE
KU LEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium
10:45

Biologically Active Azaheterocycles Containing a Ferrocene Moiety (IL10)

Prof. Niko S. RADULOVIC
UNIVERSITY OF NIS, Nis, Serbia
11:15

Regioselective C-H Arylation of Nitro Heterocycles and Further Transformation of Manipulable Nitro Group (OC23)

Dr Viktor IAROSHENKO
POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Lodz, Poland
11:30

Towards DNA-Encoded Heterocycle Libraries - DNA-Compatible Povarov and Groebke Reactions by Micellar Broensted Acid Catalysis (OC24)

Dr Andreas BRUNSCHWEIGER
TU DORTMUND, Dortmund, Germany
11:45

Closing and Award ceremony

Prof. Matthias D'HOOGHE
GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium
12:00

Lunch