22nd International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry

Topics: Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Keywords: Organic synthesis, Natural products, Heterocycles, Supramolecular systems

Date: /11/12/13/14/ July 2011, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Europe

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The Synthesis in Organic Chemistry Symposium traditionally provides an international showcase for the core area of organic chemistry - synthesis - covering all aspects of contemporary organic synthesis and providing a forum for the ever more exciting methodologies and strategies that continue to emerge.

Programme:
New Reactions and the Secrets of their Success
Jeffrey Bode, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Metal-Catalysed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Processes: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies
Stephen Buchwald, MIT, USA

Total Synthesis of Natural Products: Strategies and Opportunities
David Chen, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, A*STAR, Singapore

Synthetic Studies on Complex Natural Products
Tohru Fukuyama, University of Tokyo, Japan

Heterocycle Synthesis Using C-H Activation
Michael Greaney, University of Edinburgh, UK

Making the Tiniest Machines
David Leigh, University of Edinburgh, UK

Title TBA
Steven Ley, University of Cambridge, UK

Photoredox Catalysis in Chemical Synthesis
David MacMillan, Princeton University, USA

Non-Covalent Synthesis of Complex Supramolecular Systems
Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Amazing Diversity of Functional Carbon Clusters - Imaging of Single Organic Molecules in Motion
Eiichi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan

Total Synthesis of Bioactive Heterocycles
Larry Overman, UC Irvine, USA

From Carbohydrate Synthesis to Medical and Materials Applications
Peter Seeberger, Max Planck Institute, Potsdam, Germany

Synthesis of Bridged Natural Products
Nigel Simpkins, University of Birmingham, UK

Approaches to Asymmetric Electrocyclic Reactions
Martin Smith, University of Oxford, UK

The Search for New Antibacterials Using Diversity-Oriented Synthesis
David Spring, University of Cambridge, UK

Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry
Brian Stoltz, Caltech, USA

Peptides and Other Bioinspired Catalysts
Helma Wennemers, University of Basel, Switzerland