| Sunday July 8, 2018 |
| 14:30 | Registration |
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| 17:00 | Opening |
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| Session Chairs: |
Prof. Paul KNOCHEL (LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY, Munich, Germany)
Prof. Gwilherm EVANO (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
Prof. Guido VERNIEST (VUB, Brussels, Belgium) |
| 17:10 | L01 - Controversy and Resolution in Organic Chemistry: Claims of Plagiarism, Fabrication and Falsification |
Prof. Jeffrey SEEMAN
(UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Richmond, United States) |
| 18:10 | In-memoriam Istvan Marko |
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| Led by: |
Prof. Léon GHOSEZ
(IECB, Pessac, France) |
| 18:25 | Welcome Reception |
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| Monday July 9, 2018 |
| 08:30 | Registration |
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| 09:45 | Introduction & Award Ceremony |
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| Session Chair: |
Prof. Christian STEVENS
(UGENT, Ghent, Belgium) |
| Tetrahedron Chair: Studies in Natural Product Synthesis, Translational Chemistry & Electrifying Synthesis
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Prof. Phil BARAN
(THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, La Jolla, United States) |
| 10:00 | Studies in Natural Product Synthesis |
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| 11:00 | Coffee break & Exhibiton |
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| 11:30 | Translational chemistry - part 1 |
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| 12:30 | Sandwich lunch, Poster Session 1 & Exhibition |
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| 14:15 | Reaxys workshop |
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| 14:45 | End of the workshop |
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| 15:00 | Translational chemistry – part 2 |
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| 16:00 | Coffee break & Exhibiton |
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| 16:30 | Electrifying Synthesis |
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| 17:30 | Belgian Beer Cocktail |
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| Tuesday July 10, 2018 |
| Session Chair: |
Prof. Steve LANNERS
(UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR, Namur, Belgium) |
| 09:00 | L02 - Going Around in Circles - Pathways to Mechanism |
Prof. Guy LLOYD-JONES
(UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, Edinburgh , United Kingdom) |
| 10:00 | L03 - Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry They Inspire |
Prof. Sarah E. REISMAN
(CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, United States) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break & Exhibiton |
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| Session Chair: |
Prof. Olivier RIANT
(UC LOUVAIN, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) |
| 11:30 | L04 - Lewis Acid Enabled Copper Catalysed Synthesis of Functional Molecules |
Prof. Syuzanna HARUTYUNYAN
(UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands) |
| 12:30 | Sandwich lunch, Poster Session 1 & Exhibition |
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| Session Chair: |
Prof. Stéphane VINCENT
(UNAMUR, Namur, Belgium) |
| 14:30 | L05 - Synthetic Molecules for Cell Biology and Cell Therapy |
Prof. Motonari UESUGI
(KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto, Japan) |
| 15:30 | Coffee break & Exhibiton |
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| Session Chairs: |
Prof. Ben FERINGA
(UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, Groningen, The Netherlands) |
| 16:00 | L06 - Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis - Organic Reactions Inspired by the Organometallic Chemistry of Gold |
Prof. F. Dean TOSTE
(UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, United States) |
| 17:00 | Award ceremony & cocktail |
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| Wednesday July 11, 2018 |
| Session Chair: |
Prof. Michael SINGLETON
(UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) |
| 09:00 | L07 - Adventures in Catalysis: from Mechanisms to Applications |
Prof. Franziska SCHOENEBECK
(RWTH AACHEN, Aachen, Germany) |
| 10:00 | L08 - New Organocatalytic Concepts for Higher-Order Cycloadditions and Coupling Reactions |
Prof. Karl Anker JOERGENSEN
(AARHUS UNIVERSITY, Aarhus, Denmark) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break & Exhibiton |
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| Session Chair: |
Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN
(UGENT, Ghent, Belgium) |
| 11:30 | L09 - The Simplicity of Rearrangements: Methodology and Total Synthesis |
Prof. Nuno MAULIDE
(UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria) |
| 12:30 | Sandwich lunch, Poster Session 2 & Exhibition |
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| 15:15 | Excursions |
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| Thursday July 12, 2018 |
| Session Chair: |
Prof. Sven MANGELINCKX
(GHENT UNIVERSITY, Ghent, Belgium) |
| 09:00 | L10 - The (Ongoing) Evolution of the Hexadehydro-Diels-Alder (HDDA) Reaction |
Prof. Thomas HOYE
(UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, United States) |
| 10:00 | L11 - Bioinspired Chemistry with Proline-Rich Peptides |
Prof. Helma WENNEMERS
(ETH ZURICH, Zürich, Switzerland) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break & Exhibiton |
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| Session Chair: |
Prof. Norbert DE KIMPE
(UGENT, Ghent, Belgium) |
| 11:30 | L12 - Asymmetric Catalysis Directed by Metal-Centered Chirality |
Prof. Eric MEGGERS
(PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG, Marburg, Germany) |
| 12:30 | Sandwich lunch, Poster Session 2 & Exhibition |
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| Session Chair: |
Alain DE MESMAEKER
(SYNGENTA INTERNATIONAL AG, Basel, Switzerland) |
| 14:30 | L13 - Making the Tiniest Machines |
Prof. David LEIGH
(UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, Manchester, United Kingdom) |
| 15:30 | Coffee break & Exhibiton |
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| Session Chair: |
Prof. Pierre DE CLERCQ
(UGENT, Ghent, Belgium) |
| 16:00 | L14 - Recent Progress on Catalytic Asymmetric Dearomatization Reactions |
Prof. Shuli YOU
(SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, CAS, Shanghai, China) |
| 17:00 | L15 - A Journey with Pyridine in Transition Metal Catalysis |
Prof. Bert MAES
(UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP, Antwerp, Belgium) |
| 20:30 | Symposium Dinner |
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| Friday July 13, 2018 |
| Session Chair: |
Prof. Erik VAN DER EYCKEN
(KU LEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium) |
| 09:00 | L16 - Conformational Analysis and Domino Processes in Natural Product Total Synthesis |
Prof. Jieping ZHU
(ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, Lausanne, Switzerland) |
| 10:00 | L17 - New Cyclizations and Cycloadditions Catalyzed by Gold |
Prof. Antonio M. ECHAVARREN
(INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break & Exhibiton |
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| Session Chair: |
Prof. Alain KRIEF
(UNAMUR, Namur, Belgium) |
| 11:30 | L18 - Reversible Reservoirs for Radicals: A Powerful Strategy for the Construction of Carbon-Carbon Bonds |
Prof. Samir ZARD
(ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, Palaiseau, France) |
| 12:30 | Closing Ceremony |
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