Programme

Session 1

Plenary 2
C-H: A new functional group for streamlining synthesis
Christina White
University of Illinois, USA

Plenary 3
Title tbc
Karl Hale
Queen's University Belfast, UK

Plenary 4
Synthesis of vaccine adjuvants and bioactive alkaloids
David Gin
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, USA

Session 2

Short Talk 1
Probing Lewis-base catalysis
Andrew Smith
University of St Andrews, UK

Short Talk 2
New Catalytic Strategies for Chemical Synthesis
Matthew Gaunt
University of Cambridge, UK

Short Talk 3
New developments in d-block catalysis
Hon Wai Lam
University of Edinburgh, UK

Short Talk 4
Recent Advances in 19F and 18F Chemistry
Veronique Gouverneur
University of Oxford, UK

Session 3: Evening Lecture

Session 4

Plenary 6
Successful drug discovery and development at Pfizer: Thanks to organic synthesis
Dafydd Owen
Pfizer Global Research and Development, UK

Plenary 7
Photochemical reactions as key steps in the total synthesis of natural products
Thorsten Bach
Technische Universität München, Germany

Plenary 8
Synthesis of and in carbonates
Michael North
University of Newcastle, UK

Plenary 9
Synthesis and Reactions of Heterocycles: New Methods and Applications
Mark Lautens
University of Toronto, Canada

Session 5: Evening Lecture

Plenary 10
Some Natural Product Syntheses: Connections and Relationships
Gerry Pattenden
University of Nottingham, UK

Session 6

Plenary 11
Title tbc
Erick Carreira
ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Plenary 12
Total synthesis and biology of some bioactive natural products
Dawei Ma
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China

Plenary 13
Building molecules to tackle cancer and blindness
Dirk Trauner
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany