This is the 13th annual meeting in the YC series and features research lectures from recently appointed young synthetic (organic) chemists that have started their independent academic careers within the last five years, and a keynote lecture from a senior scientist.

This conference is FREE to all to attend.

	Young Chemists 2015 (YC15) - 24th April 2015 Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London 10:00 COFFEE & TEA 10:40 Opening Remarks Dr Chris Braddock, Imperial College London Session 1: Chair: Prof Donald Craig, Imperial College London 10:45 "RNA the first biopolymer? Chemoselective prebiotic synthesis of activated purine nucleotides" Dr Matthew Powner, University College London 11:25 "Exploiting pi-electron deficient systems: Responsive micelles and electrochromic oligomers" Dr Barnaby Greenland, University of Reading 12:05 “Towards supramolecular and covalent graphene hybrids" Dr Dan Pantos, University of Bath 12:45 BREAK Session 2: Chair: Professor Alan Spivey, Imperial College London 14:00 "Synthesis of cyclometallated iridium(III) complexes: from observations to discoveries" Dr Etienne Baranoff, Birmingham University 14:40 "Electrochemical synthetic methods to NHC complexes and other organometallic species" Dr Charlotte Willans, University of Leeds 15:20 "Biomimetic Synthesis of Dimeric Natural Products" Dr Andrew Lawrence, University of Edinburgh 16:00 BREAK Session 3: Chair: TBA 16:40 "Alkenes: catalysts, reactants, products n'all" Keynote Speaker: Professor John Brown, Oxford University 17:30 Closing remarks 17:35 WINE RECEPTION