Programme

Sunday July 3, 2022
16:00	Registration

18:00	Welcome Reception

20:00	End of the Day

Monday July 4, 2022
08:30	Registration

09:30	Opening Ceremony
	Prof. Stéphane VINCENT (UNAMUR, Namur, Belgium) Prof. Jieping ZHU (ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Lausanne, Switzerland)
	2020 Tetrahedron Chair

	Session Chair:
	Prof. Jieping ZHU (ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Lausanne, Switzerland)
10:00	General Principles of Selective Catalysis
	Prof. Eric JACOBSEN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, United States)
11:00	Coffee break & Exhibition

11:30	Asymmetric Catalysis as a Mechanistic Tool
	Prof. Eric JACOBSEN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, United States)
12:30	Lunch, Poster Session #1 & Exhibition

13:30	Workshop: Development of Reaxys Predictive Retrosynthesis, its Use and Adoption by Chemists
	Mr Moritz HANSEN (ETH ZÜRICH, Zurich, Switzerland) Dr Leanne MULLEN (ELSEVIER, Oxford, United Kingdom)
14:30	Selectivity and Generality in Enantioselective Catalysis
	Prof. Eric JACOBSEN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, United States)
15:30	Coffee break & Exhibition

16:00	Minding Mechanistic Misfits!
	Prof. Eric JACOBSEN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, United States)
17:00	Belgian Beer Cocktail Sponsored by Elsevier

19:00	End of the Day

Tuesday July 5, 2022
	Session Chairs:
	Prof. Gwilherm EVANO (ULB, Brussels, Belgium) Dr Christophe GENICOT (UCB BIOPHARMA, Brussels, Belgium)
09:00	L01 - Taming Multifaceted Nickel Catalysts: An Academic Fascination
	Prof. Ruben MARTIN (INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA, Tarragona, Spain)
10:00	L02 - Difluoromethylene Transfer Reactions: New Wine from an Old Bottle Virtual Lecture
	Prof. Jinbo HU (SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Shanghai, China)
11:00	Coffee Break & Exhibition

	Session Chair:
	Prof. Christian STEVENS (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
11:30	L03 - Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry
	Prof. Brian STOLTZ (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, United States)
12:30	Lunch, Poster Session #2 & Exhibition

	Session Chair:
	Prof. Annemieke MADDER (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
14:30	L04 - Designer Enzymes Featuring Abiotic Catalytic Groups for Catalysis of New-to-Nature Reactions
	Prof. Gerard ROELFES (UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands)
15:30	Coffee Break & Exhibition

	Session Chairs:
	Prof. Steve LANNERS (UNAMUR, Namur, Belgium) Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
16:00	L05 - New Methods in Halogen-Atom Transfer
	Prof. Daniele LEONORI (RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY, Aachen, Germany)
17:00	L06 - Rational Design of High-performance Catalysts Based on Acid–Base Combination Chemistry
	Prof. Kazuaki ISHIHARA (NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, Nagoya, Japan)
18:00	End of the Day

Wednesday July 6, 2022
	Session Chairs:
	Prof. Guillaume BERIONNI (UNAMUR, Namur, Belgium) Prof. Bert U.W. MAES (UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium)
08:30	L07 - Exploiting Conformational Control
	Prof. Jonathan CLAYDEN (UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, Bristol , United Kingdom)
09:30	L08 - Boron an Emergent Element in Radical Chemistry
	Prof. Armido STUDER (UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER, Münster, Germany)
10:30	Coffee Break & Exhibition

	Session Chairs:
	Prof. Jean-Christophe MONBALIU (ULIÈGE, Liège, Belgium) (SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH) Prof. Erik VAN DER EYCKEN (KU LEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium)
11:00	L09 - Harnessing the Chemistry of Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis
	Prof. Sarah E. O’CONNOR (MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY, Jena, Germany)
12:00	L10 - Metal- or Metal-free? Complementarity Towards the Sustainable Synthesis of Complex Molecules via C-H Functionalization
	Prof. Joanna WENCEL-DELORD (UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG, Strasbourg, France)
13:00	Lunch & Exhibition

14:00	Excursions

14:30	End of the Day

Thursday July 7, 2022
	Session Chairs:
	Prof. Alain KRIEF (UNAMUR, Namur, Belgium) Dr Lieven MEERPOEL (MEERPOEL DC CONSULTANCY, Belgium)
09:00	L11 - Carbenes as Powerful Transition Metal Surrogates
	Prof. Guy BERTRAND (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, La Jolla, United States)
10:00	L12 - Digital Chemistry and Chemputation
	Prof. Leroy CRONIN (UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, Glasgow, United Kingdom)
11:00	Coffee Break & Exhibition

	Session Chair:
	Prof. Ulrich HENNECKE (VUB, Brussels, Belgium)
11:30	L13 - Synthesis of Zigzag Hydrocarbon Belts - An Organic Chemist's Perspective on Carbon Nanostructures Virtual Lecture
	Prof. Mei-Xiang WANG (TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, Beijing, China)
12:30	Lunch, Poster Session #3 & Exhibition

	Session Chair:
	Prof. Bruno LINCLAU (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
14:30	L14 - Strained Rings, Hypervalent Bonds, Tethers: Reactivity Design for Synthesis
	Prof. Jerome WASER (ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Lausanne, Switzerland)
15:30	Coffee Break & Exhibition

	2020 Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis

	Session Chair:
	Dr Hilmar WEINMANN (JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA, Beerse, Belgium)
16:00	L15 - Simplifying Synthesis with Electricity
	Prof. Phil BARAN (THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, La Jolla, United States)
	2022 Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis

17:00	L16 - On Discovery and Sensitivity in Catalysis
	Prof. Frank GLORIUS (UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER, Münster, Germany)
18:00	Award Ceremony & Cocktail Sponsored by Janssen Pharmaceutica

19:30	End of the Day

20:30	Symposium Banquet

Friday July 8, 2022
	Session Chair:
	Dr Hilmar WEINMANN (JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA, Beerse, Belgium)
09:00	L17 - Shuttle Catalysis – A Conceptual Blueprint for Reversible Functional Group Transfer
	Prof. Bill MORANDI (ETH ZÜRICH, Zürich, Switzerland)
10:00	L18 - Heterocyclic Tools to Reshape Molecules: From Novel Carboannulations to New Organic Materials
	Prof. Johan WINNE (UGENT, Ghent, Belgium)
11:00	Coffee Break & Exhibition

	Session Chair:
	Prof. Olivier RIANT (UC LOUVAIN, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
11:30	L19 - A Trip from Central to Axial and Helical Chiralities
	Prof. Jean RODRIGUEZ (AIX-MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY, Marseille, France)
12:30	Closing Ceremony

13:00	End of the Symposium