Programme Overview...

Tuesday 22 June 2010

15:00 – 18.00

Registration and Poster Set-up

18:00 – 19:00

Welcome Drinks Reception

18:30 – 19:30

Poster Session

Wednesday 23 June 2010

07:30

Registration

09:00

Opening presentation

09:10

Dale L. Boger, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Title to be announced

10:00

Brian M. Stoltz, California Institute of Technology, USA
Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award Winner
Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry

10:50

Coffee Break and Poster Session

11:50

Yongqiang Tu, Langzhou University, China
Strategies for Construction of Quaternary Units in the Synthesis of Natural Products

12:40

Lunch

14:00

Shu Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Title to be announced

14:50

Qilin Zhou, Nankai University, China
Catalytic Asymmetric Carbenoid Insertion into Heteroatom-Hydrogen Bonds

15:40

Coffee Break and Poster Session

16:40

Chien-Tien Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, China
Directed Evolution of C4-Symmetric Metal Vanadate-Centered Helical Quadruplexes: Synergistic Ion-specific Transport and Asymmetric Catalysis

17:30

David W.C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA
Photoredox Catalysis in Chemical Synthesis

18:20

End of Day 1

Thursday 24 June 2010

09:00

Yoshinori Yamamoto, Tohoku University, Japan
Coinage-metal Catalyzed New Synthetic Reactions

09:50

P. Andrew Evans, The University of Liverpool, UK
New Multi-Component Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbocyclization Reactions

10:40

Coffee Break and Poster Session

11:20

Sukbok Chang, KAIST, Korea
Metal-Mediated C-H Bond Activation of Heterocycles for the C-C and C-N Bod Formation

12:10

Jianbo Wang, Peking University, China
Title to be announced

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Peter H. Seeberger, ETH, Switzerland
Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award Winner

14:50

Dan Yang, The University of Hong Kong, China
Catalytic Asymmetric Cyclization Reactions for Natural Product Synthesis

15:40

Coffee Break and Poster Session C

16:30

Karen N. Allen, Boston University, USA
Unravelling Hidden Pathways with Chemical and Computational Approaches

17:20

Dawei Ma, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China
Recent Progress on the Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products

18:10

End of Day 2

20:00

Gala Dinner

Friday 25 June 2010

09:00

Matthias Beller, University of Rostock, Germany
Development of Practical Metal Catalysts for Organic Synthesis

09:50

Remi Chauvin, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, France
New Facts in the Carbo-benzene Family: Variations in Synthesis, Structures, and Properties

10:40

Coffee Break and Poster Session C

11:30

Rik R. Tykwinski, University of Erlangen, Germany
Carbyne: The Rational Synthesis of an sp-hybridized Carbon Allotrope

12:20

Shenming Ma, East China Normal University, China
Title to be announced

13:10 – 13:30

Closing remarks

13.30

Lunch – End of conference