Session Chair
Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
09:30
Opening Ceremony
Prof. Johan VAN DER EYCKEN
UGENT, Ghent, Belgium
09:45
PL01 - Harnessing Fluorine as Directing Tool in Organic Synthesis
Prof. Tanja GULDER
LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY, Leipzig, Germany
Tanja Gulder studied chemistry at the University of Wuerzburg where she received her diploma in 2004. After earning her Ph.D. with distinction under the supervision of Prof. G. Bringmann in 2008, she pursued postdoctoral studies with Prof. P. S. Baran at The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA, USA). After her return to Germany, she started her independent career in 2011 supported by a Liebig fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie at RWTH Aachen. In 2014, she moved to TU Muenchen as a Emmy-Noether-research-group leader and got appointed the Heisenberg-Professorship of Biomimetic Catalysis in 2018. Since 2020, she is the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Leipzig University. Her laboratory is dedicated to biomimetic catalysis (enzyme mimicking) with special focus on halogenations and its application in the synthesis of natural products and therapeutics.
10:40
OC01 - Synthesis Of L-Au(I)-Cf2H Complexes and Their Application as Transmetalation Shuttles to the Difluoromethylation of Aryl
Dr Patricia GARCÍA
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO, Vigo, Spain
Patricia García Domínguez graduated in Chemistry at the Universidade de Vigo. In 2012 she obtained her PhD at the same university working under the supervision of Prof. Ángel Rodríguez de Lera and Prof. Rosana Álvarez Rodríguez. After finalizing her postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. Cristina Nevado (University of Zurich, 2013-2015), she joined the Universidade de Vigo where she currently works on the total synthesis of natural products and on the development of new transition-metal catalyzed reactions.
10:55
OC02 - Chiral N-Tethered 1,7-Enynes as Powerful Building Blocks in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Dr Jorge ESCORIHUELA
UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA, Valencia, Spain
Jorge Escorihuela received his PhD in Chemistry at Universitat Jaume I of Castellon (Spain) in 2009. After a postdoctoral stage in the Institute of Molecular Recognition and Technological Development (IDM), he worked at Wageningen University and Research (The Netherlands) with Prof. Zuilhof. Later, he moved to Universitat Politècnica de València as a postdoctoral researcher and focused his research on polymeric materials as proton exchange membranes for fuel cell applications. In 2019, he joined the Organic Chemistry Department at Universitat de València as an Assistant Professor in the group of Prof. Santos Fustero. His actual research interests include organic synthesis, click chemistry, computational chemistry and PEM fuel cells.
11:10
VC01 - Quantifying the Formation of Stereoisomers On-Line During an HWE Reaction Employing Spinsolve Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy
Dr Sanel SULJIC
MAGRITEK, Aachen, Germany
I studied chemical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences NTA in Isny, Germany from 2007 to 2011. From February 2010 to February 2011, I carried out my diploma thesis within the medicinal department at Boehringer Ingelheim in Vienna, Austria. The main focus was to synthesize 5- and 6-membered pharmaceutically active compounds. After receiving my diploma, I went for a PhD in Organic Chemistry within the group of Prof. Dr Jörg Pietruszka in the Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry at the HHU in Düsseldorf, Germany from October 2011 to March 2016. During that time, I was working on the development of laccases as catalytic species within the asymmetric synthesis of C-C couplings. From March 2015 to June 2015, I was performing an inter-doc within the group of Prof. Dr Shinobu Itoh at Osaka University, Japan working on the application of metal clusters for synthetic approaches. As a postdoctoral co-worker within the groups of Prof. Dr Marsden, Prof. Dr Blacker, and Prof. Dr Turner at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester from August 2016 to September 2017, I was part of a collaboration project called Chem21 involving several European universities and pharmaceutical companies with the aim of introducing biotechnology into today`s manufacturing process of medicines. After a short intermezzo with PharmaCytics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, I am an application scientist & regional sales manager within Magritek Ltd in Aachen, Germany since April 2018 working on the development and sales of Spinsolve benchtop NMR systems.
11:20
Networking & Exhibition break
11:40
OC03 - Z-Selective PD-Catalyzed 2,2,2-Trifluoroethylation of Acrylamides at Room Temperature
Ms Louise RUYET
UNIVERSITY OF ROUEN NORMANDY, Rouen, France
In 2018, Louise RUYET graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR) and received her master’s degree in molecular chemistry. In the course of her studies, she joined the laboratory of Pr. Kevin Ryan at CCNY (NYC, USA) for an internship and worked on the synthesis of potent olfactory receptor antagonists. Then, she had the opportunity to gain expertise in organometallic chemistry during her research stay in Mauduit’s Group at the University of Rennes I (France). She is currently in her 3rd year PhD at the COBRA Laboratory (UMR 6014, Rouen INSA and Rouen Normandy University, CNRS, Rouen, France) in the “Fluorinated Biomolecules Synthesis” group under the supervision of Dr. Tatiana Besset and Pr. Thomas Poisson. Her research interests focus on the development of new methodologies in organofluorine chemistry and the design of new transition metal-catalyzed transformations (C−H bond activation).
11:55
OC04 - Novel Electrochemical and Photochemical Methods for Heterocycle Synthesis
Prof. Adrian DOBBS
UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH, Kent, United Kingdom
Adrian Dobbs obtained his BSc and PhD (with Professor Keith Jones) from King’s College London and then undertook postdoctoral research at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (with Professor Istvan Marko) and with GlaxoSmithKline. He was then appointed as Lecturer at the University of Exeter (2001), senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London (2006) and then full Professor at the University of Greenwich (2013-date) where he is also currently Head of Department. He is a former Secretary & Treasurer of the Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and currently a committee member of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry . He was the recipient of the inaugural RSC Inspirational Member Prize (2015). Research interests are heterocyclic chemistry, total synthesis and medicinal chemistry centred around neglected diseases, such as leishmaniasis and mesothelioma.
12:15
OC05 - Development of Lactose-Derived Ligands and Their Application in Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Alkylation
Ms Sandra BULAWA
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, Dublin, Ireland
Originally from Poland, she moved to Ireland with her parents and sister in 2006. She obtained her Honours Bachelor of Science degree with specialisation in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology from University College Dublin in 2017. She then joined Professor Pat Guiry’s group in the same university to pursue a PhD in organic chemistry. She is currently in her fourth year.
12:30
End of Morning Session