Speakers

Plenary Lectures:

 
"New reactivities of gold complexes: it is all a question of ligand design!"
 
Dr. Didier Bourissou
University of Toulouse
LPPB - France
     

 
"Recent developments in the chemistry of amides"
 
Pr. André Charette
University of Montréal
Canada
     
 
"Lewis Base Activation of Lewis Acids: An Evolving Paradigm for Catalysis in Main Group Chemistry"
 
Pr. Scott E. Denmark
University of Illinois
USA
     
 
"Making the tiniest machines"
 
Pr. David A. Leigh
University of Manchester
England
     
 
"Enantioselective Photo-Organocatalysis – Making Chiral Molecules with Light"
 
Pr. Paolo Melchiorre
ICIQ Tarragona
Spain
   
 
"Mechanistically playful Metals"
 
Pr. Cristina Nevado
University of Zürich
Switzerland
     
 
"Cationic gold-catalyzed heteroannulations"
 
Pr. Erik Van der Eycken
University of Leuven
Belgium
     
 
 
"Metamorphosis of Cycloalkenes: A bioinspired, non-Biomimetic Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids"
 
Pr. Jieping Zhu
EPFL Lausanne, LSNP
Switzerland

 

Invited Speakers:

 
"Double Kinetic Resolution and the Enantioselective Synthesis of Helicenes"
 
Dr. G. Richard Stephenson
University of East Anglia
England
     

 
"Recent developments in cationic chemistry"
 
Dr. Catherine Taillier
University of Le Havre
France
     
 
"ion mobility and mass spectrometry in chemistry"
 
Pr. Carlos Afonso
University of Rouen
France
 
     

 
"Boron-based catalysts: useful non-metal tools for applications in amide chemistry"
 
Dr. Jérôme Blanchet
University of Caen
France
     
 
"Small functional rotaxanes"
 
Dr. Steve Goldup
University of Southampton
England