For the Young Researchers Symposium program, check here.
–––– Tuesday 19 September ––––
08:30 – 09:30 | Registration + coffee and tea
09:30 – 09:40 | Opening by F. Matthias Bickelhaupt and Rainer Herges
09:40 – 10:30 | Ben Feringa | In Control with Light
10:30 – 11:00 | Thomas Hansen | Exploring Chemical Glycosylation Reactions: Can We Control Them?
11:00 – 11:40 | Coffee break
11:40 – 12:10 | Darren Dixon | Catalyst Control in Complex Natural Product Synthesis
12:10 – 12:25 | Robert J. Mayer | A Mechanistic Approach to Nonenzymatic Reduction Reactions: When Metals Take the Role of Enzymes
12:25 – 12:40 | Ganna Gryn’ova | Ab initio and Machine Learning Chemistry of Radical Ions
12:40 – 12:55 | Martin Breugst | Scope and Limitations of Iodine Catalysis
12:55 – 14:10 | Lunch
14:10 – 14:40 | Israel Fernández | The Pauli Repulsion Lowering Concept in Catalysis
14:40 – 14:55 | Jason B. Harper | Efficient Measurements of Nucleophilicities
14:55 – 15:10 | Kirill Nikitin | In the CORE of Olefination: an Umpolung / Eigenbase Update
15:10 – 15:25 | Marc-Etienne Moret | Activation of E–H bonds (E=O, S, N) at Bicyclic Silanides
15:25 – 16:00 | Coffee break
16:00 – 16:40 | Rainer Herges | Early Detection of Cancer by Metabolic Imaging
16:40 – 17:10 | Anja Palmans | Folding Single Polymer Chains into Functional Materials
17:10 – 17:25 | Pascal Vermeeren | Revising the Rationale Behind C–H Bond Distances
17:25 – 17:45 | Conference photo
17:45 – 20:00 | Poster session and walking dinner
* Keynote | Invited | Contributed
–––– Wednesday 20 September ––––
09:00 – 09:40 | Franziska Schoenebeck | Accelerating Advances in Catalysis – Concepts, Insights, Strategies
09:40 – 09:55 | Armin R. Ofial | A Tour to the Upper Limit of Nucleophilicity Scales: Mesoionic N-Heterocyclic Olefins
09:55 – 10:10 | Jordi Poater | Through-space Stabilization of an Imidazolium Cation by Aromatic Rings
10:10 – 10:40 | Thibault Cantat | En Route to More Energy Efficient Silicon Hydrides Using Molecular Catalysis
10:40 – 11:20 | Coffee break
11:20 – 11:50 | Guillaume Berionni | Geometrically Constrained Lewis Acids and Bases for Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry
11:50 – 12:05 | Itzhak Bilkis | Oxoammonium Salts as Mediators in Water Oxidation
12:05 – 12:20 | E. Daiann Sosa Carrizo | Understanding the Unexpected Selectivity in the Rh(II) Catalyzed C(sp3)-H Amination of Propylbenzene
12:20 – 12:50 | Henry Dube | Indigoid Molecular Switches and Machines
12:50 – 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 | Frank de Proft | Influence of Mechanical Force and External Pressure on Chemical Reactivity
14:30 – 14:45 | Lucas de Azevedo Santos | Intermolecular Covalent Interactions
14:45 – 15:00 | Andreea Gheorghe | Chemistry Europe
15:00 – 15:30 | Han Zuilhof | Intrinsically Chiral and Multimodal Click Chemistry
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 | Hrvoj Vančik | Reactions in Crystals and Limits of the Concept of Reaction Mechanism
16:30 – 16:45 | Victor Chechik | Probing the Mechanism of Trialkylborane-Oxygen Radical Initiators by Trapping Radical Intermediates
16:45 – 17:25 | Einar Uggerud | The Factors Determining Reactivity in Nucleophilic Substitution
18:15 – 20:30 | International Board Meeting
* Keynote | Invited | Contributed
–––– Thursday 21 September ––––
09:00 – 09:40 | Sijbren Otto | Mechanisms of Emergence in the Approach Toward De-Novo Life
09:40 – 09:55 | Harvey J. A. Dale | Kinetics and Mechanism of Azole n-π* Catalysed Acylation
09:55 – 10:10 | Mansour Nawasreh | Methoxylation/Demethoxylation Toward anti-Cancer Cephalostatins
10:10 – 10:40 | Sami Lakhdar | New Polar and Radical Methods for the Formation of Carbon-Phosphorus Bonds: A Mechanistically-Driven Approach
10:40 – 11:20 | Coffee break
11:20 – 11:35 | Davor Šakić | Regioselectivity in the Hofmann–Löffler–Freytag Reaction: A Computational Analysis of Rearrangement Reactions
11:35 – 11:50 | Susanna Wood | Mechanistic Studies of Benzylic Oxidation Using Chlorine Dioxide
11:50 – 12:05 | Nikolaos Vagkidis | Substituted Phenylhydroxycarbenes in the Carbonyl-ene Reaction in Solution
12:05 – 12:20 | Maria de Lurdes dos Santos Cristiano | Insights on the Structure and Photochemistry of Synthetic Compounds Bearing the Endoperoxide Pharmacophore
12:20 – 12:35 | Ken Yamazaki | Rationalization of Chemical Selectivity in Catalytic Reactions
12:35 – 13:45 | Lunch
13:45 – 14:15 | Renana Gershoni-Poranne | A Journey to the Land of Polycyclic Aromatic Systems
14:15 – 14:30 | Moisés Canle López | A Multi-site Adsorption Model for Heterogeneous Photocatalysis
14:30 – 14:45 | Ian W. Ashworth | Nitrosamine Formation in Pharmaceuticals: Developing Biased Kinetic Models to Assess Nitrosation Risk in Solid Drug Products
14:45 – 15:15 | Marcin Stępień | π-Conjugated Oligoradicaloids and Anions: Aromaticity, Magnetism, and Non-covalent Interactions
15:15 – 15:50 | Coffee break
15:50 – 16:30 | Fernando Cossío | Concerted and Stepwise Cycloadditions: Applications to Medicinal Chemistry and Particle Physics
16:30 – 16:45 | Celine Nieuwland | How the Chalcogen Atom Size Dictates the Hydrogen-Bonding Capability of Amides
18:30 – 20:30 | Dinner cruise
* Keynote | Invited | Contributed
–––– Friday 22 September ––––
09:00 – 09:40 | Paolo Melchiorre | Photochemistry & Organocatalysis: New Radical Opportunities
09:40 – 09:55 | Ian H. Williams | Fundamentalist vs. Canonical Descriptions of Isotope Effects in Enzymic Reactivity
09:55 – 10:10 | Jonny Proppe | Uncertainty Quantification of Organic Reactivity
10:10 – 10:40 | Ralph Tonner-Zech | Surface-Mediated Organic Reactivity: Chemistry on and with the Surface
10:40 – 11:20 | Coffee break
11:20 – 12:00 | AnnMarie O’Donoghue | Mechanistic Evaluation of Bis-aminocyclopropenylidenes as Nucleophilic Organocatalysts
12:00 – 12:15 | Boris Maryasin | Enhancing Organic Chemistry With Calculations: From Density Functional Theory to Machine Learning
12:15 – 12:30 | Piotr de Silva | Computational framework for automated discovery of degradation reaction mechanisms of organic redox flow battery materials
12:30 – 13:00 | Leonard Prins | Controlling Chemical Reactivity in Time and Space
13:00 – 13:10 | Poster prize by Trevor A. Hamlin
13:10 – 13:15 | Closing by F. Matthias Bickelhaupt and Leonard Prins
13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch
* Keynote | Invited | Contributed