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ESOR 2023: Event

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 – 10:30Ben 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

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