Barton Conference 2007
ANSE CHASTANET RESORT, St Lucia
27 May - 2 June 2007

Organic Chemistry: Perspectives on the 21st Century IV

Date:	27 May - 2 June 2007
Location:	ANSE CHASTANET RESORT, St Lucia
For Further Information:	Please contact Michele Sahrle.

Airlines Servicing St. Lucia American Airlines, US Airways, Delta Airways, American Eagle, BWIA, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, BMI, Air Canada, Air France, Condor via Barbados, LIAT, Caribbean Star Airports Hewanorra International Airport (18 miles) Vigie Airport (inter-island) (30 miles) Taxis Advise MMS of your flight number and we will arrange for a car to meet you. One taxi transfer each way is included in your package. Additional trips cost about US$60 (1-2 persons) from Hewanorra Airport and US$85 (1-2 persons) from George Charles Airport. Rates subject to change without notice. ANSE CHASTANET now has a helipad in operation. The helipad is located in the hills behind ANSE CHASTANET where we can operate it without any noise disturbance to our guests. The helicopter transfers are approximately US 135 per person. If you wish to book a helicopter transfer, please let MMS know and we will book this for you. Currency Local Currency is the Eastern Caribbean Dollar (EC$) Electricity 220 Volts/50 cycles Language English is the official language, St. Lucians also speak a French derived Patois. Dress Dress is smart casual. Gentlemen usually wear long slacks or long cut bermuda shorts and collared shirts in the evening. We would like to discourage gents from wearing of t- shirts or "short shorts" at dinner time. Light cotton or linen is best. At lunchtime, we ask that our clients please not wear wet bathing suits in our bars and restaurants and that they please wear a suitable cover up. Children Anse Chastanet does not accept children under the age of 6 years. Entry Requirements Visitors must carry valid passports, except USA and Canadian citizens who possess valid return tickets and I.D. (as ID - for example - a combination of birth certificate and photo id such as drivers licence are accepted - we still recommend you use your passport if you have one), staying for less than 6 months. Visas are not required where the visitor is a citizen of the USA or a Commonwealth country, or where there is agreement for exemption between the home country and St. Lucia. Russia or former Soviet Union citizens, both Incoming and Outgoing, require Visas. Nationals from the following countries require visas to enter St. Lucia: Please visit http://www.stlucia.org/planner/travel.asp
	Programme Sunday, 27 May 19.30 - 20.30 Welcome reception - cocktails 20.30 - 22.00 Dinner   Monday, 28 May Chair - Tony Barrett 9.20 Opening Remarks Tony Barrett 9.30 New Methods and Synthetic Applications of Asymmetric Heteroatom Transfer Alan Armstrong 10.05 Natural Products as Inspiration in Agrochemical Lead Discovery Steve Smith 10.40 Some Adventures in Drug Discovery Bob Young 11.15 The Development of Clinically Effective Inhibitors of HIV Integrase Neville Anthony 11.45 Total Synthesis of Biologically Intriguing Alkaloids Bob Williams 12.20 - 14.00 Lunch Chair- Tony Wood 18.00 Quinuclidine N-Oxide (QNO): Some Quite Nice Observations Ian O'Neil 18.35 A Tale of Two *Cities Rick Roberts 19.10 Australia's Science and Technology Response to Counter-terrorism Greg Simpson 19.45 Some New Perspectives for Organic Synthesis Samir Zard 20.20 - 22.00 Dinner   Tuesday, 29 May Chair - Derrick Clive 9.30 Designer Porphyrazines: the Importance of Peripheral Substituent Change Tony Barrett 10.05 Total Synthesis of Apoptolidin Hermut Wehlan 10.40 De Novo Synthesis in Carbohydrate Chemistry George O'Doherty 11.15 Adventures in Medicinal Chemistry Tony Wood 11.45 Flow Chemistry Ian Baxendale 12.20 - 14.00 Lunch Chair- Steve Marsden 18.00 Towards a Biosynthetically-Inspired Synthesis of the Obtusallenes Chris Braddock 18.35 Untangling the Mysteries of Hair : Structural and Chemical Knowledge of Hair, Applied to Cosmetic Treatment Laure Ramos 19.10 Fun with Strained Rings Mike Shipman 19.45 1,2-Dioxines - Ignored Starting Materials for Chemical Synthesis Dennis Taylor 20.20 - 22.00 Dinner   Wednesday, 30 May Chair - Daneel Ferreira 9.30 Enantioselective Bifunctional Organocatalysis: New Powerful Methods and Synthetic Applications Darren Dixon 10.05 Enzyme Catalysed Reactions on the Solid Phase Sabine Flitsch 10.40 Inducing Programmed Cell Death in Cancer Cells: A New Therapeutic Approach John Flygare 11.15 Recent Developments in Asymmetric Catalysis and Total Synthesis Pat Guiry 11.45 Natural Product Synthesis: A Stimulus for Discovery Steve Ley 12.20 - 14.00 Lunch Chair - Tony Barrett 18.00 Vignettes on the life and times of Sir Derek Barton Bob Young & Samir Zard 18.45 Flatland Metalation: In Search of New Synthetic Aromatic Chemistry Victor Snieckus 19.30 - 20.30 Champagne reception 20.30 - 22.00 Dinner   Thursday, 31 May Chair - Bob Williams 9.30 Agrochemical Lead Discovery Alan Spivey 10.05 Evolving Enzymes for Use in Organic Synthesis Nick Turner 10.40 New Reactivity and Selectivity Using Transition Metal Catalysis Mike Willis 11.15 Factor Xa - the Blood and Guts of It All Jeremy Edmunds 11.45 Absolute Configuration of Proanthocyanidins via Circular Dichroism Daneel Ferreira 12.20 - 14.00 Lunch Chair- John Flygare 18.00 Organic Synthesis- An End-User's Perspective Simon Baker 18.35 Some Recent Developments in Methodology and Natural Product Synthesis Derrick Clive 19.10 Oxidative Cross-Coupling and Pericyclic Reactions for the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles Rob Batey 19.45 Iron Salt-Catalyzed Alkylation of Indole or Pyrrole Toshiyuki Itoh 20.20 - 22.00 Dinner   Friday, 1 June Chair - Steve Ley 9.30 Quaternary Ammonium Salts; Versatile Catalysts for Organic Synthesis Barry Lygo 10.05 Stereoselective Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds Through Domino Reactions Akio Kamimura 10.40 New Organopalladium Methodology for Complex Molecule Synthesis Mike Greaney 11.15 From Quaternary Asymmetric Centres to Heteroaromatics: a Stereochemist Repents Steve Marsden 11.50 Closing Comments Steve Ley 12.00 - 14.00 Lunch TBC Group sailing trip