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Young Chemists 2006 (YC06), Imperial College, Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Building Friday 31st March
   
MMS Conferencing & Events is hosting a one-day conference featuring presentations from young organic chemists that have started their independent
academic careers within the last five years. The topics will range from molecular pharmaceutics to asymmetric catalysis to heterocycle formation.
Date: |
Friday 31st March 2006 |
Location: |
Imperial College, Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Building |
Application and Fees: |
The rates for this meeting will be £150 for Industrialists, £65 for Academics and £35 for students. |
For Further Information: |
Please contact Michele Sahrle. |
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9:15 |
Registration and Coffee |
10:15 |
Opening Remarks Professor Charles Rees, FRS CBE, Imperial College London |
Session 1: Chair: Dr Chris Braddock, Imperial College London |
10:20 |
"Transition Metal-Catalysed Desymmetrisation Reactions" Dr Dave Lindsay, Bristol University |
10:55 |
"Iodonium salts as precursors to fluorine-18 radiopharmaceuticals" Dr Mike Carroll, University of Newcastle |
11:30 |
"Substrate Directed Palladium(II) Catalysed aza-Claisen Rearrangements; A New Approach for Natural Product Synthesis" Dr Andrew Sutherland, Glasgow University |
12:05 |
"Two-Directional Synthesis and Cascade Reactions: Powerful Tools for Synthesis" Dr Robert Stockman, University of East Anglia |
12:40 |
LUNCH |
Session 2: Chair: Professor Donald Craig, Imperial College London |
13:45 |
"Understanding, controlling and exploiting unusual observations in Pd-catalysed reactions" Dr Ian Fairlamb, University of York |
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14:20 |
"Adventures in Diversity Oriented Synthesis" Dr David Spring, University of Cambridge |
14:55 |
"Ring Rearrangement Reactions of Substituted Norbornenes" Dr John McKendrick, University of Reading |
15:30 |
"From stereoselective cyclizations to high-throughput synthesis: New applications for samarium iodide" Dr David Procter, Manchester University |
16:05 |
COFFEE |
Session 3: Chair: Charles Rees, FRS CBE, Imperial College London |
16:40 |
"Some New Perspectives for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry" Prof Samir Zard, Ecole Polytechnique France |
17:25 |
Closing remarks Dr David Hollinshead, AstraZeneca |
17.30 |
Wine reception |
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