International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis

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It is a great pleasure to invite you to take part in the third edition of the International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis 2019 (ISySyCat2019) that will take place at the University of Evora in the historically recognized mediaeval city of Evora from September 3-6 2019. The city of Evora besides its striking beauty, uniqueness and hospitality is steeped in history having been the home to the Romans, the Moors, Visigoth's and others, including kings of Portugal. It has a coveted UNESCO world heritage stamp, and this walled city is the location of a Roman temple, and several palaces and exotic cathedrals. The conference will take place in the old part of the University known as Colégio Espirito Santo which dates back to the 16th Century.

The conference will focus on key topics in contemporary organic, organometallic, polymer synthesis and catalysis, which are of relevance to both academic and industrial chemists alike. Like always, we anticipate a good mix of participants from academia and industry. This is reflected in the list of plenary speakers that hail from both academia and industry from all over the world. We are eagerly looking forward to seeing you in Evora in September 2019.

Anthony Burke
Department of Chemistry and Centro de Química de Evora-LAQV,
University of Evora, Conference Chairman

Organization

Conference Chairman: Anthony Burke, University of Évora, Portugal.

Scientific Committee

Prof. Anthony Burke University of Evora, Portugal site
Prof. Artur Silva University of Aveiro, Portugal site
Prof. Teresa Pinho e Melo University of Coimbra, Portugal site
Prof. Narcisso Garrido University of Salamanca, Spain site
Dr. Chris Senanayake AstaTech Biopharmaceutical Corp, China site
Prof. Declan Gilheany University College Dublin, Ireland site
Prof. Janine Cossy ESPCI ParisTech, France site
Dr. Martin Ernst BASF, Germany site
Prof. Maurizio Benaglia University of Milan, Italy site
Dr. Gesine Hermann Chiratecnics Lda, Portugal site

Organizing Committee

Prof. Anthony Burke, University of Evora, Portugal
Prof. António Teixeira, University of Evora, Portugal
Prof. Paulo Mendes, University of Evora, Portugal
Prof. José Eduardo Castanheiro, University of Evora, Portugal
Dr. Elisabete Carreiro University of Evora, Portugal
Dr. Carolina Marques, University of Evora, Portugal
Luís Fernandes, University of Evora, Portugal
Dr. Olivia Furtado, LNEG, Lisbon, Portugal

Scientific Program

The conference will be organized into 16 Plenary Lectures (45 min. each), delivered by a series of internationally recognized speakers from academia and industry, 25 short talks (20 min., selected from the submitted abstracts by the scientific committee), 36 flash talks (about 8 - 10 mins each selected from the submitted abstracts by the scientific committee) and two poster sessions with prizes for the best flash talks and poster presentations

The poster sessions will be divided into three distinct categories; Synthetic Methodology, Catalysis, total or target based synthesis.
The scientific committee will select the best posters from each category, and a prize will be awarded to the first author.

For those presenting posters, they will be expected to present them over the two poster session periods, one will be expected to place their poster in their attributed space by lunch-time on the 3rd of September and remove them by the end of the conference.
Those who arrive on the 2nd of September can register on the evening of the 2nd from around 16h onwards.

Key areas

The conference will focus on the following key areas:

Total synthesis

Synthesis in Medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

New reagents, catalysts, strategies and concepts for organic synthesis

Biocatalysis in synthesis

Organocatalysis

Flow-chemistry approaches to the synthesis of key targets

Applications of organometallic compounds in synthesis and catalysis

Stereoselective synthesis

Synthesis and property of functional molecules and organic materials

Sustainable and Green synthetic and catalytic methods

Process development of key pharmaceutical targets

Computational tools for synthesis and catalysis

Polymer synthesis

Conference Timeplan

Plenary Speakers

Dr. Mikkel Fog Jacobsen, Lundbeck, Denmark
“Process chemistry: Challenges in asymmetric synthesis”

Prof. Amir Hoveyda, Boston College, USA
"New Concepts, Catalysts, and Methods for Stereoselective Synthesis."

Prof. David Leigh, University of Manchester, UK
“Making the tiniest machines”

Prof. John Hartwig, UC Berkeley, USA
“Selective Metal-Catalyzed Functionalizations Based on Mechanism and Nature”

Dr. Francis Gosselin, Genentech, USA
“Complex APIs are Triggers for Scientific Innovation”

Dr. Martin Eastgate, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, USA
“Innovation in the Synthesis of Complex Pharmaceutical Compounds”

Prof. Frank Glorius, University of Muenster, Germany
"On discovery in catalysis"

Prof. Jennifer Schomaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
“Taming nitrene reactivity with silver: Construction (and destruction!) of N-heterocycles”

Prof. Ian Manners, University of Victoria, Canada and the University of Bristol, UK
“Catalytic and Self-Assembly Routes to New Soft Materials”

Prof. Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow, UK
“Programming Discovery and Synthesis in Organic Chemical Space”

Dr. Miko Sodeoka, RIKEN, Japan
“Enantioselective Reactions of alfa-Ketoesters”

Prof. Nuno Maulide, University of Vienna, Austria
“The beautiful simplicity of rearrangements”

Dr. Klaus Ditrich, BASF, Germany
“Biocatalysis on an Industrial Scale”

Dr. Ricardo Mendonça, Hovione, Portugal
“Process Development and Scale-up of a Novel Aminoglycoside Antibiotic”

Dr. Bo Qu Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., USA
“Development of Ideal Synthesis for Diabetic Drug Candidates via Catalytic Transformations”

Dr. Eduardo Palao, Janssen, Spain
“Catalysis in flow as a tool for Drug Discovery”

Oral Speakers

Manuel Orlandi, University of Padua, Italy and University of Utah, USA
"Mechanistic Investigations of the Pd(0)-Catalyzed Enantioselective 1,1-Diarylation of Benzyl Acrylates"

Paulo Paioti, University of Straasbourg, France
" Catalytic Enantioselective Boryl Substitutions to Trifluoromethyl- and Difluoromethyl-Substituted Alkenes"

André de Vries, InnoSyn BV, The Netherlands
" Asymmetric Reductive Amination Combined with Dynamic Kinetic Resolution to Produce the Chiral Amine En Route to Tofacitinib "

Silvia Díez-González Imperial College London, United Kingdom
" Azide-Alkene Cycloaddition Reactions: Molecular Diversity in Deep Eutectic Solvents "

Dmitriy Volochnyuk Shevchenko University of Kyiv and Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
" Semi-industrial electrochemical synthesis of cyclic encarbamates as starting material for the MedChem relevant building blocks "

Barbara Mikulak-Klucznik Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
" The bright future of computer-planned organic synthesis - total synthesis of tacamonidine "

Chen Zhu KAUST Catalysis Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. and RWTH Aachen University, Germany
" A Multicomponent Synthesis of Stereodefined Olefins via Nickel Catalysis and Single Electron/Triplet Energy Transfer"

Ruth Dorel Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
" Stereodivergent Catalysis Using Molecular Motors"

Pawel Dydio Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering UMR 7006, University of Strasbourg, France
" Dual-catalytic Transition Metal Systems for Functionalization of Unreactive Sites of Molecules""

Mariusz Milewski Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland
" Dissolution is not always a solution – vacuum-assisted ring closing metathesis for synthesis of macrocycle""

Jose Gonzalez-Gomez Instituto de Síntesis Orgánica (ISO) y Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
" Visible-Light Promoted Transformations of Carboxylic Acids using Organic Photocatalysts"

Roman A. Novikov N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
" Application of Gallium Catalysis in Donor–Acceptor Cyclopropanes and Alkenes Chemistry — New Synthetic Tool in Organic Synthesis"

Azusa Kondoh Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University and Research and Analytical Center for Giant Molecules, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Japan
" Ring Expansion of Epoxides under Brønsted Base Catalysis: Enantioselective Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition of Epoxides with Imines"

Doris Dallinger Center for Continuous Flow Synthesis and Processing (CCFLOW), Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH (RCPE), and Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz, Austria
" Generation of Anhydrous Diazomethane using Membrane Separation Technology"

Ivan Vilotijevic Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, University Jena, Germany
" Latent Nucleophiles in Lewis Base Catalysis "

Gianvito Vilé Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Chemistry Technologies and Lead Discovery, Department of Drug Discovery Chemistry, Switzerland
" Novel sustainable routes for the synthesis of small molecules in continuous-flow mode "

Monissa C. Paderes Institute of Chemistry, University of the Philippines, Philippines and Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore 3, Singapore
" Towards the Enantioselective Synthesis of 3-3’-Disubstituted Oxindole via Bifunctional Catalysis"

Elisabetta Massolo Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
" Methods for amide bond formation mediated by organosilicon species"

Marc Font Centro Singluar de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e Materiais Moleculares (CIQUS) and Departamento de Química Orgánica. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
" Unconventional Rhodium(III)-catalysed Annulation of 2-Alkenylanilides with Alkynes via C–H Activation: Direct Access to 2-Substituted Indolines"

Fernando Coelho Department of Chemistry, University of Campinas, Brazil
" One-pot catalyst-free conjugated addition of indolizines to oxidized Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts"

Federico Cisnetti Université Clermont Auvergne, France
" Copper(I)-promoted NHC-nitrene cyclization : a catalytic access to fused nitrogen-rich heterocycles using NHCs as reactive intermediates "

Jakub Švenda Department of Chemistry, Masaryk University and International Clinical Research Center, Czech Republic
" Synthetic Route to Ribosome-Targeting Natural Product (B)-Bactobolin A"

Anna Chiara Vicini Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
" Hydrogen Bonding Phase-Transfer Catalysis with Potassium Fluoride: Enantioselective Synthesis of β Fluoroamines"

Michael Fuchs Institute of Chemistry, Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria
"Organo- and Biocatalyzed Preparation of Bioactive Lignan Natural Products"

Marco Lombardo Department of Chemistry University of Bologna, Italy
" Synthetic Substituted 1,2-Dioxanes and Tetrahydropyranes as Potential Agents Against Human Leishmaniasis"

Registration

Registration includes:

Access to all talks, poster sessions and exhibition booths.

Coffee breaks and lunches.

Book of abstracts.

Social receptions.

Conference banquet (in the Vila Galé 4-Star Hotel with a fine selection of local and regional dishes and wines).

Free-wireless connection throughout the conference

Category Price before June 25^th 2019 (€) Price after June 25^th2019 (€)

non-members of the
Portuguese Chemical Society members of the
Portuguese Chemical Society ^** non-members of the
Portuguese Chemical Society members of the
Portuguese Chemical Society ^**

Academic 410 370 510 470

Industrial 600 560 700 660

Post-docs 330 290 430 390

Students ^* 230 190 320 280

Accompanying Person 150

Visit to the Ravasqueira Winery (price per person) 40

Social Program This will be indicated in due course

^* PhD, MSc and undergraduate. ^** With subscription up to date.

Registration Registration FAQ & Cancellation/Refund Policy

Cancellation and Refund

For any cancellation received until July 25, 2019, refund will be subject to a fee of 50 €

For any cancellation received after July 25, 2019, no refund will be made

All bank charges involved in the transactions are paid by the participant

Any request for refund must be addressed to Anthony Burke: isysycat2019@chemistry.pt

Refunds will be handled after the Conference

Payment Information

Bank Transfer
Account Owner: Sociedade Portuguesa de Química
Bank: Millennium BCP (Lisboa, Pt)
IBAN: PT50 0033 0000 4534 5670 6780 5
BIC/SWIFT: BCOMPTPL
Bank address: Millennium BCP (Avenida 5 de Outubro 60-68, 1050-059 Lisboa, Portugal)

Credit Card & Paypal
Payment with credit card is possible - choose the payment method in your personal/registration area and follow the guidelines

Abstract submission

Each registered participant will be entitled to submit up to 2 abstracts, for a poster or either an oral or a flash presentation. However, only one abstract will be considered for oral or flash presentation.

The meeting’s official language will be English

Abstracts should be submitted via the SPQ registration site. Please, log in using the login and the password provided during the registration process and then proceed with "abstract submission". Please use the Microsoft Word file Abstract Template.

The abstract must not exceed one A4 page. Decision between poster and oral communications will be made by the scientific committee upon evaluation of the submitted abstracts. The abstract file should be saved as follows: name_surname_poster.doc or name_surname_oral.doc (or docx in either case). Each participant can submit up to two abstracts as presenting author, however, only one will be considered for oral communication and this should be indicated on the appropriate form.

The Deadline for receipt of poster/oral presentation/flash talk abstracts will be the 31^st of May 2019
The participants will be informed by e-mail message about the acceptance of their contribution and the type of their presentation by the June 12 ^th, 2019.

Accepted abstracts will be published in the Book of Abstracts (only abstracts of registered participants will be included).

Please make sure your abstract does not contain any spelling or grammar mistakes, as it will be reproduced as submitted.

The third addition of the International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis 2019 (ISySyCat2019) will take place at the University of Evora in the historical Colégio de Espirito Santo from September 3 to 6 2019.

The conference will focus on key topics in contemporary organic and organometallic synthesis and catalysis, which are of relevance to both academic and industrial chemists alike.

Steps for abstract(s) submission Abstract template Personal Area/abstract submission

Key Dates

The deadline for receipt of payment for registration with discount is the 25^th June 2019

The deadline for registration without discount will be 25^th June 2019

The Deadline for receipt of poster/oral communication abstracts will be until 31^st of May 2019 ^{* **}

^*Applicants will be informed about the acceptance of their abstract for a poster, an oral or flash presentation (with poster or not) prior to the 20^th June 2019.
^** Abstract submission will involve registration without payment.

Social Program

Ravasqueira Winery

On the afternoon of the 6th of September, you are invited to part-take in a delightful social program. One of the programs includes a coach trip to the famous Ravasqueira Winery in Arraiolos (a small historic village famous for unique hand-made carpets, 20 mins outside of Evora), here you will be served a beautiful buffet lunch, accompanied by a selection of excellent wines (including some wine tasting) from the Ravasqueira wine cellar, followed by a visit to the winery and the coach museum. As the visit will coincide with the peak of the vine harvesting season, it should be an interesting experience. The other includes a walking guided tour to visit the most exciting historic sites in the town of Évora. Full details on the walking guided tour will be given during the conference.
Brochure

Conference Gala Dinner

The Conference Gala Dinner will take place on the evening of the 5th of September at the Hotel Vila Galé Evora, a modern 4-star hotel just outside the main city gates. This buffet dinner will consist of a fine selection of local and regional dishes and wines, and other beverages. We look forward to having your company

Guided tour

Participants can partake in a guided tour of the city of Evora on the afternoon of the 6th of September. The tour will depart from outside the Tourist office located on Praça do Giraldo (the main city square) at 15h and will terminate outside the Capela dos Ossos at aprox. 16:30h.

Travel

The conference organization will place one or more coaches at the disposal of participants to take them from the airport in Lisbon to Evora on the evening of the 2^nd of September 2019. A member of the conference organization will meet them at the meeting point and will then bring participants to the coach for the trip to Evora. Immediately after the conference closing ceremony on the 6^th of September, a coach will take participants back to Lisbon airport. More details will be given later.

The conference will take place in the Colégio Espirito Santo, of the University of Evora, with the following reference: www

GPS Coordinates: Latitude/longitude: 38.5731/-7.904408333333

By Car

From Lisbon (approx. 1-2 hr journey)
Take the A12 motorway in the direction of Spain, change to A6 motorway in the direction of Evora. www

From Faro (approx. 3 hr journey)
Take the A22 motorway in the direction of Lisbon. Change to the IP2 roadway in the direction of Beja and then on the same roadway to Evora. www

From Spain
Take the E-90 from Badajoz in the direction of Evora. www

By Train

Evora has train connections with a number of key towns and cities. There is a service to Evora from Lisbon (from the Sete Rios Train Station ) running twice in the morning and twice in the evening ( Refer). The trip takes about 1 and a half hours. Tickets can be bought on-line.
There is a metro connection at Lisbon airport that will take you to the train station at Sete Rios.

By Bus

Evora has bus connections with a number of key towns and cities, including Faro ( Rede-Expressos). Tickets can be bought on-line. If you are coming from Lisbon airport you can take the metro to Sete Rios bus station (you get out at the Jardin Zoologico metro station). The trip takes about 2 hours.

Accommodation

For the duration of the conference, the University of Evora, has made available to delegates a limited number of rooms (for 2 or 3 people on a sharing basis) close to the conference venue. The cost will be 20 €/night, which includes a light continental breakfast in the University canteen in the morning. Please contact the staff at daa@sas.uevora.pt for further details. University residential
Here is a selection of hotels/residences that should suit all pockets. When making your reservation or your enquiry, please mention ISySyCat2019 for the conference discount.

M´AR De AR Aqueduto ^***** reservas@mardearhotels.com
M'AR De AR Muralhas ^**** reservas@mardearhotels.com
Albergaria do Calvário ^**** hotel@adcevora.com
Vitória Stone Hotel ^**** book@vitoriastonehotel.com
Evora Hotel ^**** reservas@evorahotel.pt
Vila Galé – Evora ^****
Santa-Clara Best Western ^*** reservas@hotelsantaclara.pt
Olive Hotel (Eborim) ^**** evora.reservas@luxhotels.pt
Moov Hotel Evora ^*** evora@hotelmoov.com

Hotel íbis Évora ^*** H1708@accor.com
Stayinn Ale-Hop stayinn.alehop@gmail.com
Evorainn evorainn@gmail.com
Pousada de Juventude de Évora evora@movijovem.pt
Hotel Dom Fernando reservas@hoteldomfernando.com
Old Evora Hostel oldevorahostel@gmail.com
The Noble House hotel.noblehouse@unlockhotels.com
Heaven Inn Évora Hostel
Casa Morgado Esporão Special offer: 25% discount – please indicate promotional code ISYSYCAT201

Contacts Us

Secretariat/Payments/Billing
SPQ - Sociedade Portuguesa de Química

Av. da República, 45 - 3º Esq.
1050 - 187 Lisboa
Portugal
Vat Number: 501 139 265

(+351) 217 934 637 11h00-12:30h and 15:00-16:30 eventos@spq.pt

General Information - Organization/Program
isysycat2019@chemistry.pt

SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITING

To promote and advertise your company we have a number of interesting packages available for you at competitive prices. Please contact Anthony Burke isysycat2019@chemistry.pt for further details.

We thank the following companies and organizations for their kind sponsorship and support of ISySyCat2019.

Platinum (Catalyst) Sponsor

Gold Sponsor

Boehringer Ingelheim

Silver Sponsor

Media Partner

Wiley-VCH has generously offered a Wiley-VCH book for the best oral and runner-up presentations

Synlett, which is a major Thieme publication, has kindly agreed to run a special edition of the journal for ISySyCat2019, this will appear initially as a web-edition during the conference, for information contact: isysycat2019@chemistry.pt.

Chimica Oggi – Chemistry Today is a peer reviewed, bimonthly journal, of the TKS TeknoScienze Publisher.
It deals with Fine Chemicals, Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology.
Founded in 1983 Chimica Oggi – Chemistry Today soon became a leading journal in linking industry and academia and gained an immediate appreciation worldwide.

Open Chemistry

Catalysis Science & Technology

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Frontiers

Catalysis Science & Technology, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Frontiers have very kindly agreed to sponsor poster prizes in the areas of Catalysis, Synthetic Methodology and Total/Target Oriented Synthesis (which will include a certificate)

Molecules
Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049, CODEN: MOLEFW) provides an advanced forum for science of chemistry and all interfacing disciplines. Our aim is to provide rigorous peer review and enable rapid publication of cutting-edge research to educate and inspire the scientific community worldwide. The article processing time is 31 days (median values for papers published in 2018). The Impact Factor for Molecules is 3.098 (2017 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition, Clarivate Analytics, 2018)

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Rules

Before the abstract submission the author should proceed with the Online Registration.

After registering, you will receive an e-mail with the Code to access the abstract submission tool in your Personal Area.

In the Personal Area you will be able to submit your abstract(s) and replace the submitted abstract(s) at anytime until the deadline for abstract submission.

For each abstract you should indicate the other authors and the preferred type of presentation (Oral or Poster).

If you don’t receive an e-mail with the confirmation of the abstract(s) submission, please contact us.

Abstract Guidelines

First author MUST be the presenting author and MUST be registered.

Each registrant is permitted to submit only TWO abstracts as presenting/first author; additional abstracts submitted with the same presenting first author will be accepted, however in this case the author should contact the organizing committee.

Abstracts will be considered only if the following guidelines are respected.

Accepted abstracts will be published in electronic form. The abstract should be written in such a way that the Background, Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusion are clearly described. However, the use of these headings in the abstract text is NOT mandatory.

Abstracts MUST be submitted electronically according to the given instructions. Abstracts submitted by fax or by email will not be accepted.

Abstracts should be submitted in MSWord format or any compatible file format.

When submitting your abstract, choose the most relevant topic. However, the Organizing Committee reserves the right to decide on a final topic assignment upon abstract selection.

The Graphical Abstract that will be included in a book of Graphical Abstracts distributed to the participants in printed form.

No abstracts will be accepted that include presenting authors who do not register to attend the Meeting.

Registration Rules

Step to register and participate

Please be aware of the steps to undertake to register and participate. The guidelines will improve the efficiency on all organization levels. Thank you for your collaboration!

The management platform is prepared for online invoice emission. The correct accounting data should be fulfilled in the registration platform (name of the legal organization receiving the invoice and the corresponding address and tax number) in order to avoid possible errors during the invoice emission process.

Abstract submission is only possible after your online registration.

After registering, you will receive an e-mail with the Code to access the abstract submission tool in your Personal Area. In this area, and using the Code, you will be able to submit your abstract(s) and replace the submitted abstract(s) at anytime until the deadline for abstract submission.

If you don’t receive an e-mail with the confirmation of the abstract(s) submission, please contact us.

Please comply with the payment deadline; any form of payment can be used. It is recommended to avoid payments on location since they could imply some delay in issuing the receipts.

After identifying the payment, an online receipt will be emitted. The online receipts are legal documents and can be printed and used in our institution accounting system.

After payment, if you don’t receive a confirmation e-mail in a period of 7 days, please contact us and/or send us the payment confirmation document (if you are not the first bearer of the bank account, or if the payment is going to be carried out by an institution, please let us know).

Payments

All fees for the Congress registration should be paid in EUR (€). VAT is included in all fees. In case payment is made via bank transfer, please note that we must receive the full amount clear of all bank charges.

Cancellation/Refund Policy

All cancellations must be notified in writing (by mail, fax or e-mail) to the Meeting secretariat according to the following conditions. Please note cancellations received:

For any cancellation received until July 25, 2019, refund will be subject to a fee of 50 €

For any cancellation received after July 25, 2019, no refund will be made

All bank charges involved in the transactions are paid by the participant

Any request for refund must be addressed to Anthony Burke: isysycat2019@chemistry.pt

Refunds will be handled after the Conference

Nuno Maulide

Nuno Maulide was born in Lisbon (Portugal) in 1979. He is a Full Professor and Chair of Organic Synthesis at the University of Vienna (Austria) since 2013. Prior to that, he was a Max-Planck Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim, Germany) from 2009, following Ph.D. studies in Belgium and a Postdoctoral stay at Stanford. His research interests revolve around the exploration of rearrangements and high-energy intermediates in organic chemistry, and have been acknowledged by several awards (including the Bayer Early Excellence Award 2012, the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize 2013, the EurJOC Young Researcher Award 2015, the Elisabeth Lutz Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2016, the Incentive Prize of the City of Vienna 2017 and three ERC Grants – StG 2011, CoG 2016 and PoC 2018). He was recently elected as Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and also serves in the Executive Board of the Austrian Science Fund.

David Leigh

David Leigh is one of the pioneers of the field of artificial molecular machinery and molecular nanotechnology. He has introduced influential concepts for the synthesis of interlocked and knotted molecular architectures, pioneered the use of ratchet mechanisms in the invention of synthetic molecular motors, and initiated the field of molecular robotics.
David obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield, UK, in 1987 and, after postdoctoral research at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, David returned to the UK as a Lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1989. After spells at the Universities of Warwick and Edinburgh, in 2012 David returned to Manchester where he is currently the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry and a Royal Society Research Professor.
He has won a number of major international awards including the Izatt-Christensen Award for Macrocyclic Chemistry, EU Descartes Prize and the Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS), the UK’s National Academy of Science and Letters, in 2009.

Frank Glorius

Frank Glorius, born in 1972, is a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He was chemically educated at Hannover, Stanford (Wender), MPI für Kohlenforschung, Basel (Pfaltz) and Harvard University (Evans). His research program focuses on the development of new concepts for diverse areas of catalysis such as C–H activation, photocatalysis, screening technologies, N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) in organocatalysis and as surface modifiers and in (asymmetric) arene hydrogenation. The group has published more than 290 papers in peer reviewed journals (H-index 86) and this work was cited more than 4,500 times in 2017. Frank Glorius was several times selected as Clarivate (Thomson Reuters) Highly Cited Researcher, received the OMCOS award (2011), Leibniz award (2013), Mukaiyama award (2017), MSD award of the RSC (2018) and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar award of the ACS (2018). Frank Glorius is also member of several committees and is the organizer of symposia such as co.labore (art and science collaboration and exhibition) and FoChIn (research of the chemical industry symposium).
For more information, please, see the homepage: www

Klaus Ditrich

Klaus Ditrich was born in Rhina, Germany in 1956. He studied chemistry at the University of Marburg where he joined Prof. R.W. Hoffmann’s group for a diploma thesis (“oxidation of metal organic compounds”) and a Ph.D thesis in the field of natural product synthesis (total synthesis of macrolide antibiotics). After receiving his Ph.D. in 1986, he joined BASF SE in 1987, starting his career in the field of agrochemicals research. In 1992 he moved to the research unit for fine chemicals & biocatalysis, working in the field of asymmetric catalysis and enzymatic reactions. Since 1995 he has been developing processes for the production of agro and pharma intermediates with a strong focus on optically active amines. In 1996 he received the “BASF Innovations Award” and in 2008 the “Siegfried Gold Medal” for innovations in process chemistry. Since 2002 he is a lecturer at the University of Freiburg where he was appointed as an honorary professor (2006).

Mikiko Sodeoka

Mikiko Sodeoka studied at Chiba University (Pharmaceutical Sciences) and. then she worked with Prof. Masakatsu Shibasaki at Sagami Chemical Research Center (1983-1986) and at Hokkaido University (1986-1990) receiving her PhD degree in 1889. She moved to Harvard University as a post-doctoral fellow working with Prof. E. J. Corey and then Prof. Gregory L. Verdine (1990-1992). After working at the University of Tokyo, she started her independent career at Sagami Chemical Research Center in 1996. She became an associate professor of the University of Tokyo in 1999 and moved to Tohoku University as a full professor in 2000. Since 2006 she has been a chief scientist at RIKEN. She received several awards including the “Encouraging Award of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan” (1993), The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2004), Nagoya Medal Prize (Silver Medal) (2007), The Commendation for Science and Technology by the MEXT, Japan (2010), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award, Japan (2016), and Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (American Chemical Society) (2017).

Amir H. Hoveyda

Amir H. Hoveyda is the Patricia and Joseph T. ’49 Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry at Boston College and the Professor of Catalysis in Chemical Synthesis at the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires at the University of Strasbourg. He received his B. A. degree at Columbia, and was a graduate student at Yale. He was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. In June 1990, Hoveyda joined the faculty of chemistry at Boston College, where he was promoted to rank of Professor in 1994 and appointed to his present position in 1998. Hoveyda’s research team in Strasbourg will commence activities in January 2019. His honors include an NIH MERIT Award (2005), the Yamada-Koga Prize (2010), the ACS Award for Creative Work in Organic Synthesis (2014), and the Eni Prize for Hydrocarbon Research (2014). His scholarly interests are in the development of new approaches, and discovery of catalysts and methods for chemical synthesis through investigation of reaction mechanism. Hoveyda has published more than 250 research articles.

Ian Manners

Ian Manners was born in London, England and, after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, he conducted postdoctoral work in Germany and then in the USA. He joined the University of Toronto, Canada as an Assistant Professor in 1990 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1995 and was made a Canada Research Chair in 2001. In 2006 he returned to his Alma Mater to take up a Chair in Inorganic, Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry supported by an EU Marie Curie Chair. In 2018 he was awarded a Canada 150 Research Chair and will take up a position at the University of Victoria, Canada in the next year. He also holds a visiting professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Ian’s research interests broadly focus on synthetic problems at molecular, macromolecular, and longer length scales. His current research projects include: catalytic main group chemistry and main group polymers, functional metallopolymers, crystallization-driven self-assembly of block copolymers, nanoelectronics with soft materials, and biological-synthetic hybrids based on DNA and viruses. He is the recipient of a range of awards including an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (from the US), the Steacie Prize (from Canada), the RSC Award in Main Group Chemistry, and a Humboldt Research Award from Germany. Most recently he received the RSC de Gennes Prize (2017) and a 1000 Talents Award from China (2018) to support a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Ian’s work is documented in ca. 670 career publications and 4 books and has been presented in ca. 560 invited lectures worldwide. He is an elected member of both the Canadian and the British National Academies of Science.

Martin Eastgate

Martin Eastgate obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Surrey, UK (1999), graduating with first class honors. He received his doctoral degree in Organic Chemistry (2002) from the University of Cambridge, UK, working under the direction of Dr. Stuart Warren. His thesis research involved sulfur participation chemistry, specifically the generation of thiiranium ions under basic conditions and their use in pyrrolidine synthesis. Martin then carried out postdoctoral research with Prof. Scott E. Denmark, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working on the Lewis-base activation of Lewis-acids and understanding ligand-field theory in hyper-valent silyl cations.
In 2005 Martin joined Bristol-Myers Squibb and is currently a Group Director in Chemical and Synthetic Development. Martin has led multiple teams to develop novel approaches to complex molecular systems, designing commercial approaches to important drug candidates (such as the HIV attachment inhibitor BMS-663068). Martin is currently responsible for chemical development strategy for all small molecule programs (IND-tox through Ph2a/b) and endorses commercial route selection. Martin leads chemistry recruiting for BMS-Chemical and Synthetic Development, is site-Chair for the BMS Unrestricted-Grant Committee, coordinates academic consulting and coordinates the BMS-Scripps academic collaboration. Additionally, Martin manages the CSDBBRC (BMS-Biocon Research Center in India) interface and coordinates the development and delivery of small-molecule compounds for IND-tox/FIH. Martin is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of Asymchem Life Sciences Inc, is an ad hoc study section member for the NIH and has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
Martin has co-authored multiple (>60) peer reviewed publications, is a co-inventor on several (>15) patent applications and has been invited to give more than 70 lectures at conferences and Universities world-wide. Martin has been the recipient of several awards including the GlaxoSmithKline Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Organic Chemistry; was selected as a 2011 ACS Young Investigator; was a 2017 McElvain lecturer at the University of Wisconsin; and was the inaugural recipient of the ‘Industrial Chemistry Award’ from the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry.

Jesús Alcázar

Jesús Alcázar studied at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Ciudad Real where he got his bachelor degree in 1990 and a Ph.D. in 1996. As a Ph.D. student he stayed for 6 months at the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy (Copenhagen, Denmark) under the direction of Prof. Michael Begtrup. In 1995 he joined Janssen-Cilag at the research center in Toledo. Currently he is a Senior Principal Scientist at Janssen Research and Development. In this position he is involved in the implementation of novel technologies in Drug Discovery in Toledo and in collaboration with other J&J sites worldwide. In this role he has led the successful implementation of 3 different technologies: microwave, H-CUBE and Flow chemistry, technologies that are currently a common tool at J&J worldwide. In addition, he has successfully applied these technologies to Medicinal Chemistry programs with 4 compounds selected as clinical candidates. In the field of catalysis, he has made important contributions in the field of supported catalysis as well as the discovery of light induced cross coupling reactions. He is the author of around 55 articles, 4 reviews and 4 book chapters. He is an inventor in more than 25 patent applications.

Jennifer Schomaker

Jennifer Schomaker began her research career as an undergraduate intern at Dow Chemical in Organic Chemicals and Polymers, later moving to Agricultural Chemicals Process Research, where she participated in the route selection and scale-up campaigns for two new herbicides. She obtained her Ph.D. with Professor Babak Borhan at Michigan State University in 2006 before moving to UC-Berkeley as an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Professor Robert G. Bergman. She joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009, where her research focuses on new methodologies for the preparation of stereochemically complex, densely functionalized amines, catalyst-controlled, tunable chemo- and site-selective C-H functionalizations, uncovering new reactivities catalyzed by first-row transition metals, and the total synthesis of bioactive natural and unnatural products. She has received the NSF-CAREER award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, Thieme Chemistry Journal Award, ACS-WCC Rising Star Award, MSU Distinguished Alumni Award, UW-Vilas Mid-Career Award, and was named a Kavli Fellow.

John Hartwig

John Hartwig was raised near Schenectady New York, received his A.B. from Princeton University, obtained his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley with Bob Bergman and Richard Andersen, and conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT with Stephen Lippard. In 1992 he began his independent career at Yale University and became the Irenée P. DuPont Professor in 2004. In 2006, he moved to the University of Illinois, where he was the Kenneth L. Rinehart Jr. Professor of Chemistry, and in 2011, he returned to U.C. Berkley as the Henry Rapoport Professor. Professor Hartwig's research focuses on the discovery and understanding of new reactions for organic synthesis catalyzed by transition metal complexes. He is well known for contributions to widely practiced cross-coupling chemistry that form arylamines, aryl ethers, aryl sulfides, and -aryl carbonyl compounds and for the discovery of practical C-H bond functionalization reactions. While developing these catalytic processes, he has focused on the mechanism and fundamental organometallic chemistry that underpins them, including studies on reductive eliminations to form carbon-heteroatom bonds, oxidative addition of N-H bonds, and olefin insertions into amides and alkoxides. He is the author of the textbook “Organotransition Metal Chemistry: From Bonding to Catalysis.” He has received numerous awards, including an A.C. Cope Scholar Award, the ACS award in Organometallic Chemistry, the H.C. Brown Award for Synthetic Methods, the Nagoya Gold Medal, the Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry and the Willard Gibbs Medal first granted to Ahrrenius in 1911. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.

Lee Cronin

Lee Cronin was born in Ipswich and was fascinated with science and technology from an early age getting his first computer and chemistry set when he was 8 years old. This is when he first started thinking about programming chemistry. He went to the University of York where he completed both a degree and PhD in Chemistry and then went on to a post doc in Edinburgh, Scotland followed by an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Bielefeld, Germany. He then became a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham in 2000, and then moved to Glasgow in 2002 where he has been since working up the ranks to become the Regius Professor of Chemistry in 2013. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry by developing a universal chemical robot (chemputer), and construct chemical computers that might be able to beat quantum computers.

Francis Gosselin

Francis Gosselin pursued his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Université de Montréal in 2000 under the guidance of Professor William D. Lubell. After a stint as a NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University under the mentorship of Professor Paul A. Wender, he joined Merck Process Research where he contributed to the small molecule and siRNA portfolio from 2002 to 2010. He joined Genentech Research and Early Development in 2010 and is currently Director of Process Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Sourcing. He leads a group of scientists that focus on innovative process research, development and manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients for the Genentech small molecule pipeline, linker-drugs for monoclonal antibody conjugates, and imaging agents as companion diagnostics.

Mikkel Fog Jacobsen

Mikkel Fog Jacobsen completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Troels Skrydstrup at Aarhus University in 2004, and did his postdoctorial studies at the University of Oxford with Professor Jack E. Baldwin in biomimetic synthesis from 2004 to 2005. He then moved back to Aarhus University and joined Center for DNA Nanotechnology at Aarhus University as assistant professor from 2005 to 2009, working on DNA-directed chemistry and self-assembly of nucleobases on surfaces.
In 2009 he joined Lundbeck A/S as a process chemist, specializing in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis in hydrogenations.

Antonio Togni

Antonio Togni, born 1956 in Switzerland, studied chemistry at ETH Zurich and obtained a PhD in 1983 (L. M. Venanzi). After a postdoctoral stay (1983-84) at the California Institute of Technology in John E. Bercaw’s group, he returned to ETH as a research associate. In 1985 he joined the Central Research Laboratories of Ciba-Geigy Ltd., where he worked as a research scientist and group leader in the field of asymmetric catalysis. He returned to ETH in 1992 as an Assistant Professor and became Full Professor of Organometallic Chemistry in 1999. His research interests are in the field of asymmetric catalysis, organometallic chemistry, and organofluorine chemistry. Antonio Togni has served as a member of the National Research Council with the Swiss National Science Foundation and is currently Vice-Rector for doctoral studies at ETH. He is married and father of three grown-up children.

Ricardo Mendonça

Ricardo Mendonça joined Hovione in 2007 as a process chemist and is currently a Principal Chemist in the R&D Process Chemistry Development area where he is responsible for the development and scale-up of processes to produce Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) under development.
Ricardo has a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Algarve (1998). Afterwards he moved to Liverpool UK to carry out a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. After completing his Ph.D. Ricardo moved to Tempe, Arizona as a post-doc fellow working at the Cancer Research Institute, under the supervision of Prof. George R. Pettit, in the area of Natural Products Synthesis. After moving back to Portugal Ricardo worked between 2005 and 2007 at the New University of Lisbon working on the development of new asymmetric brominating reagents.
Ricardo Mendonça has published nine scientific papers and is the author of two patents. He has also made several oral and poster communications. Ricardo also contributes to the scientific community as a referee for various scientific papers.
Currently his interests are biocatalysis, carbohydrate chemistry, peptide synthesis and large-scale chromatography.

Bo Qu

Bo received her BS degree in chemistry from China. She then came to the US and received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of South Carolina with Prof. Richard Adams, there she developed transition metal complexes and applied them in catalytic reactions. She then undertook a postdoctoral fellow in 2003 with Professor David Collum at Cornell University working on organolithium structures and reactivity relationship in a number of reactions including 1,2-addition to imines, ketones and acylation reactions.
In 2006, she started her career at Boehringer Ingelheim as a Process Chemist. Currently she is a Sr. Principal Scientist. In addition to process research, and leading multidiscipline project teams; she also spent much of her time on developing new cost effective asymmetric catalytic processes for the synthesis of bioactive molecules and heterocycles. Bo has authored more than 60 papers and 10 patents.

Eduardo Palao

Eduardo Palao is a scientist at Janssen in Toledo, Spain. He received his B.A. and MSc from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 2010 and 2013 respectively, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the same university in 2015 (March) with “Cum Laude” (maximum qualification), where he worked with Prof. Maria Jose Ortiz designing and developing photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy. He joined the University of Masaryk (Czech Republic) as a Postdoc in January of 2015, where he worked in Photoreleasing carbon monoxide molecules (PhotoCORMs) and photoremovable protecting groups (PPGs). In September 2016, he moved to Radboud University (Netherlands) as a Postdoc, where he worked in the European Lead factory project, designing new C(sp3)-enriched scaffolds for the European library. In October 2017, he moved to the Spanish National Research Council to work in a collaboration with the Swiss company Givaudan S.A. designing new hits for TRPM8 ion channels. Finally, in June 2018, he joined the Chemical technologies group of Dr. Jesus Alcazar in Janssen Toledo where he explores new methodologies, including continuous flow, to create new “chemical space” and apply it to med-chem projects. In addition to their fundamental interest, these methods play a growing role in the design of prodrugs, molecular probes and new hits for different therapeutic areas.
He has coauthored 14 papers in high impact factor journals such as JACS, Org. Lett., etc..., with approximately 300 citations and 1 book Chapter.

Prof. Dmitriy Volochnyuk

Prof. Dmitriy Volochnyuk at present shares his time between the posts of senior scientific advisor of ENAMINE LTD, Head of Department of Biologically Active Compounds at the Institute of Organic Chemistry NAS of Ukraine and Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of High Technologies of Kiev National University. He received his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2005 and Dr.Sci in Organic and Organomettalic Chemistry in 2011. Having previously worked in key positions in the CRO industry (2006–2010: Director of Chemistry at Enamine Ltd; 2010–2014: Executive Director at Curplyx–Macrochem; 2014 – 2017: New business development director at Life Chemicals), Dr. Volochnyuk has over 10-year experience in managing chemical outsourcing projects and is an expert in fluoroorganic, organophosphorus, heterocyclic, combinatorial and medicinal chemistry. He is an author of more than 130 scientific papers.

Elisabetta Massolo

Elisabetta Massolo was born in Milano in 1988. In 2012 she completed her Master thesis in Chemistry on the design and the synthesis of new chiral atropisomeric ligands with Prof. F. Sannicolò at Università degli Studi di Milano. There, she started the PhD program in the group of Prof. M. Benaglia working on organocatalytic methods, and during this period she worked for six months on photoredox catalysis at Universität Regensburg (Germany) in the group of Prof. B. König. In 2016 she worked on synthetic methods as a postdoc in the group of Prof. J. S. Johnson at University of North Carolina (USA) and in 2017 she joined the group of Prof. Bo Li at UNC collaborating on biosynthetic projects. Back in Milano in 2018, she became a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. M. Benaglia

Dr. Silvia Díez-González

Dr. Silvia Díez-González graduated in 2000 from the Universidad del País Vasco (Spain) and Université Paris XI (France) with a MSci in Organic Chemistry. She stayed in Paris XI for a Ph.D. on organosilicon chemistry before joining the group of Professor Steven P. Nolan as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of New Orleans, USA in 2004. Two years later the group moved to the ICIQ (Spain) and she was promoted to Scientific Group Coordinator. In 2009 and after a brief stint on the theoretical side of chemistry (Professor Feliu Maseras, ICIQ), Silvia joined the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London as part of the first promotion of Imperial College Junior Research Fellows, where she is currently a Senior Lecturer in Catalysis.

Fernando Coelho

Fernando Coelho is a full Professor of Organic Chemistry at Institute of Chemistry, Campinas University, Brazil. His main research interests are the development of new synthetic methods, synthetic organic synthesis, synthesis of natural products, drugs, medicinal chemistry and mechanistic studies of organic reactions (monitored by mass spectrometry), focusing on all aspects related to the chemistry of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction.

Jakub Švenda

Jakub Švenda received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University working with Professor Andrew G. Myers (2010). He was a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in the group of Professor Herbert Waldmann at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Germany (2010-2012). Since 2013, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry of Masaryk University and a scientist at the International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne’s University Hospital in the Czech Republic. His research group focuses on the synthesis of analogs of structurally complex natural products with interesting biology.

Mariusz Milewski

Mariusz Milewski obtained his Engineering and Msc degree from the Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology. He started his PhD studies under supervision of Prof. Karol Grela in Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw. He specia-lizes in organic and organometallic synthesis. His research interests includes developing novel condi-tions for olefin metathesis reactions and utilization of olefin metathesis catalysts bearing quatenary ammonium centers. He is the co-author of several research articles and patent applications.

Monissa Paderesi

Monissa Paderes was born and raised in the Philippines. After getting her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, she pursued graduate studies. She obtained her MS degree in Chemistry at University of South Carolina in Columbia working on self-assembled bis-urea macrocycles. In 2012, she obtained her doctorate degree at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Her work includes developing methods on the synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles via copper catalysis and understanding the mechanism involved in the transformation. After PhD studies, she worked as a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore and as Research Scientist at KU Leuven and Procter & Gamble in Belgium. Her post graduate work include: developing methods for the enantioselective alkylation of oxindoles via organocatalysis and design and functionalization of polymers as rheology modifier for hydrophobic systems such as perfume and cosmetic oils and hydrophilic systems such as laundry detergent and hard surface cleaners. In 2017, she joined the faculty of Institute of Chemistry, University of the Philippines Diliman.

Paulo Paioti

Paulo Paioti was born in São José dos Campos, São Paulo in 1987 and graduated with a BSc in Chemistry (2009) and a MSc in Organic Chemistry (2011) at the University of Campinas (Unicamp - São Paulo). In Brazil, he worked under the supervision of Prof. Fernando Coelho on the synthetic applications of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction. He then moved to the University of Florida where he completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Aaron Aponick in 2016. In the Aponick group he developed catalytic methods for spiroketal synthesis as well as -stacked P,N-ligands for Cu-based catalytic enantioselective synthesis of amines. In September 2017 he became a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Amir H. Hoveyda at Boston College and in January 2019 moved with part of his group to the Supramolecular Science and Engineering Institute (ISIS) at the University of Strasbourg. In the Hoveyda group, he continues to develop catalytic methods for enantioselective synthesis.

Paweł Dydio

Paweł Dydio was born in Sanok (Poland) in 1985. He studied Natural Sciences and Mathematics at U. Warsaw (Poland), graduating in Chemistry (summa cum laude) in 2008. He obtained his PhD (cum laude) in 2013 from U. Amsterdam (the Netherlands) with Joost Reek. In 2014-2016, he conducted a postdoctoral research at U.C. Berkeley (US) with John Hartwig in 2014-2016, as a LBNL postdoctoral fellow and an NWO Rubicon postdoctoral scholar. In mid-2016, he moved back to Europe to be appointed an assistant professor and to direct a new laboratory at the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering, U. Strasbourg (France). His research interests lie in the fields of homogeneous catalysis, bio-catalysis, supramolecular and organometallic chemistry, and complex systems. He was awarded the IDEX Starting Grant 2016 and the ERC Starting Grant 2018.

André H.M. de Vries

André H.M. de Vries received a PhD in organic chemistry in 1996 from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Ben L. Feringa on asymmetric catalysis. During his PhD study he introduced the monodentate chiral phosphoramidites, (now known as MonoPhos®) as highly successful ligands for conjugate addition reactions of dialkylzinc reagents to α,ß-unsaturated ketones. After a post-doctoral position in the group of John M. Brown (Oxford University) on asymmetric hydrogenations, he joined DSM in 1998.
André has hold several positions within DSM, with ‘competence manager homogeneous catalysis’ and ‘program manager Pharma R&D projects’ as most pronounced ones.
Since May 1st, 2017, the chemical R&D group spun-out to become InnoSyn BV, a fully independent process R&D service provider to the chemical industry (55 FTE).
He is co-inventor of over 20 patent (applications) and has contributed to large scale application of catalytic processes, notably the Rh-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of an alpha-alkylated cinnamic acid using a member of the MonoPhos® ligand library, the same class of ligands as during his PhD studies. He is also co-author of over 40 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Anna Chiara Vicini

Anna Chiara Vicini is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow as part of the ISOTOPICS European project. She completed both her BSc (Industrial Chemistry) and MSc (Chemistry) at the University of Bologna, Italy. She carried out her Bachelor project in the field of asymmetric organocatalysis under the supervision of Prof. Luca Bernardi and Dr. Maria Francesca Fochi (University of Bologna). For her master thesis she won an Erasmus scholarship and joined the laboratories of Prof. Roland J. Pieters (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), where she conducted research on carbohydrate-based divalent ligands. In 2016, Anna was awarded a Marie Sklowdoska fellowship and began her PhD research under the supervision of Prof. Véronique Gouverneur at the University of Oxford. Here, her research focuses on organocatalytic asymmetric fluorination using abundant and inexpensive metal alkali fluorides. During her time in Oxford, Anna took part in numerous outreach activities and joined the Committee of OxHOS (Oxford Hand on Science) as Chemistry Officer.

Azusa Kondoh

Azusa Kondoh was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1982. He obtained his B.S. and PhD in 2005 and in 2010, respectively, from Kyoto University under the supervision of Professor Koichiro Oshima. During his PhD program, in 2008, he studied at MIT as a visiting student under the guidance of Professor Timothy F. Jamison. After obtaining his PhD, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Alois Fürstner at MPI für Kohlenforschung. He then became an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University in 2012. His current research program focuses on the development of new synthetic methods under organocatalysis as well as transition metal catalysis. He received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemist in 2019.

José Carlos González Gómez completed his M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Havana (Cuba) and his Ph.D. in 2003 at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), under the guidance of Prof. Eugenio Uriarte. After two years of postdoctoral experience (2005-2006) in Erick M. Carreira group at the ETH in Zurich, he moved to the University of Alicante in 2007. He was initially appointed at this university as ¨Juan de la Cierva¨ researcher (2007-2009), then promoted to Assistant Professor (2009-2012), and finally (2012-up to now) to Associate Professor. He has also been Research Associate at Boston University in 2009. His research interests are in the field of organic synthesis of bioactive compounds, the development of green protocols in organic synthesis using radical chemistry and photoredox catalysis with visible light.

Marc Font

Marc Font studied Chemistry at the University of Girona (Spain), where he was awarded a MSc in Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Design in 2011. In 2015 he earned his PhD in Chemistry for studies focused on the use of high valent organometallic model complexes for the elucidation of the mechanisms of coinage metal-catalysed cross-coupling reactions with the guidance of Dr Xavi Ribas and Dr Miquel Costas. His PhD studies included a research period within Prof John F. Hartwig’s team at the University of California at Berkeley (USA).
Following this, Marc joined the group of Prof Igor Larrosa at the University of Manchester (UK) as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow to apply his organometallic and mechanistic background to developing novel strategies towards the selective C–H bond functionalization of arenes.
Marc is currently pursuing Postdoctoral work at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) within Prof José L. Mascareñas’s team. His research focuses on developing methods for transition metal-catalysed cycloaddition reactions via C–H bond functionalization, unveiling new reactivity of transition metals and their application to the preparation of compounds of biological relevance.

Chen Zhu

Chen Zhu obtained his B.Sc. in 2015 and M.Sc. in 2017 from RWTH Aachen University. He recently completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof.Magnus Rueping, at the RWTH Aachen University. Now he is working as a Postdoc at KAUST University. His research interests focus on the development of radical-involved nickel catalyzed reactions.

Doris Dallinger

Doris Dallinger obtained her PhD degree in the group of Professor Kappe at the University of Graz (Austria) on projects related to microwave chemistry and the high-throughput synthesis of biologically active heterocycles. After postdoctoral research work with a focus on microwave effects and scale-up studies she joined the Kappe Group at the University of Graz as Senior Scientist in 2011. Her main research interest is related to reaction development and optimization by microwave technology and translation to continuous-flow conditions, in addition to developing hazardous reagents such as diazomethane. Since 2017, she is also Key Researcher at the Center for Continuous Flow Synthesis and Processing (CC FLOW) at the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering Gmbh (RCPE).

Federico Cisnetti

Federico Cisnetti studied at the University of Geneva and at ENS, Paris. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Université Paris Sud working with Professor Clotilde Policar (2007). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Dr. Pascale Delange (CEA Grenoble, France). Since 2009, he is an Assistant Professor at Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA) and belongs to the Institut de Chimie de Clermont Ferrand laboratory (UCA, CNRS, Sigma-Clermont). His current research interests focus on the synthesis of functionalized coinage metal-carbene complexes and the use of stabilized carbenes in catalytic processes, among others to generate fluorescent compounds.

Gianvito Vilé

Dr Gianvito Vilé graduated in Chemical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and received a PhD in Chemistry from ETH Zurich. Since 2016, he is Lab Head in Chemistry Technologies at Idorsia Pharmaceutical, where he coordinates research activities focused on flow chemistry and process intensification.

Ivan Vilotijevic

Ivan Vilotijevic studied chemistry at the University of Belgrade, the Ohio State University (with Leo Paquette) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (with Dave Gin). He earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under tutelage of Tim Jamison working on epoxide-opening cascades for synthesis of ladder polyether natural products. He took on a postdoctoral position at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces as a Marie Curie Fellow with Peter Seeberger working on synthesis and biological studies of glycosylphosphatidylinositols. In 2015, he joined the Institute of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena as an assistant professor. His group develops novel catalytic methods for synthesis of complex organic molecules with the focus on Lewis base catalysis and organophosphorus chemistry..

Manuel Orlandi

Manuel Orlandi was born in Bergamo in the 1987 and received his M.Sc. and then the Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from University of Milan in the October 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Maurizio Benaglia and Prof. Franco Cozzi. Once completed his doctoral studies, he moved to Salt Lake City (USA) where he joined the group of Prof. Matthew S. Sigman supported by a post-doctoral Ermenegildo Zegna Founder’s Scholarship (February 2016 – August 2017). From October 2017 to December 2018, he worked at the University of Milan sponsored by Janssen under the supervision of Dr. Vittorio Farina and Prof. Maurizio Benaglia. Since January 2019 he is a researcher at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Padua. His interests in chemistry include the development of new stereoselective catalytic processes and especially the use of physical organic and computational chemistry to study reaction mechanisms.

Marco Lombardo

Marco Lombardo is an associate professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Bologna, Italy. His main research interests are the development of new methodologies in synthetic organic chemistry and the synthesis of new molecules for applications in analytical and in medicinal chemistry. He is author of 91 papers on international peer-reviewed journals, 2 conference papers, 7 book chapters and 3 patents.

Michael Fuchs

Michael Fuchs received his PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Graz in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Kurt Faber in the field of biocatalysis. After a 2 years stay at the Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung in the group of Prof. Alois Fürstner working on the total synthesis of Brefeldin A and trans-selective alkyne hydrogenation, he returned to Graz and is working as a university assistant in the group of Prof. Wolfgang Kroutil since 2013. His research focus concentrates on late stage biocatalytic transformation of natural products, organocatalysis and lignan natural products.

Roman A. Novikov

Dr. Roman A. Novikov graduated from Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2011, and received his PhD degree from N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in 2014. Currently, he is a Senior research scientist and NMR specialist of Laboratory of chemistry of diazo compounds, and with Prof. Yury V. Tomilov he develops new approaches to the use of gallium compounds in organic chemistry. His scientific interests also include chemistry of diazo compounds, cyclopropanes and cyclobutanes, creation of new synthetic and catalytic methods, chemistry of organometallic compounds. The main focus is on the chemistry of donor–acceptor cyclopropanes and on the use of modern NMR spectroscopy methods for the study of organic reactions and various biological objects.

Ruth Dorel

Ruth Dorel was born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1989. She graduated in Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza in 2012. She next conducted her MSc and PhD studies at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) working in the group of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren. During her graduate studies, she carried out research stays in the groups of Prof. John Montgomery (University of Michigan, 2014) and Prof. John F. Hartwig (UC Berkeley, 2016). After earning her PhD in 2017 (summa cum laude), she joined the group of Prof. Ben L. Feringa at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) as a Ramón Areces postdoctoral fellow, where she is currently working on the design and synthesis of new molecular motors.

Barbara Mikulak-Klucznil

Barbara Mikulak-Klucznik obtained her Engineering and MSc degree from the Faculty of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology. She started her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski in the Institute of Organic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences. Her main research interest is computer-assisted chemistry, including multistep synthesis planning and performing synthesis in automated systems.

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