24th Scotland Postgraduate Symposium on Novel Organic Chemistry

Event Section

12:30

Arrival and refreshments

13:00

Opening remarks Chair: Steve Brand

13:05

Organocatalytic Asymmetric Functionalisation of Carboxylic Acids Louis C Morrill, University of St Andrews

13:25

Approaching Optically-Enriched Conformationally-Locked Morpholines Rachael Bogacki, University of Strathclyde

13:45

Design and Synthesis of Coenzyme A Biosynthesis Inhibitors Alan Sewell, University of Glasgow Chair: Laura Cleghorn

14:05

Silver Mediated Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of Azole-4-Carboxylates Jennifer Stephen, University of Edinburgh

14:25

Development of Novel Gold(I)-Catalysed Reactions Paul Young, Heriot-Watt University

14:45

Nitric Oxide Therapies for the Treatment of Metastatic Prostate Cancer Andrew Nortcliffe, University of St Andrews

15:05

Refreshment break Chair: Mark Bell

15:35

New Multi-Bond Forming Tandem Processes for the Synthesis of Highly Functionalised Carbocyclic and Heterocyclic Compounds Mark Grafton, University of Glasgow

15:55

Target Identification and Mechanism of Action Studies in Folate Metabolism in Trypanosoma brucei Lauren Webster, University of Dundee

16:15

Unexpected Cascade and Dearomatisation Pathways en route to Perophoramidine and the Communesins Ross Wilkie, University of St Andrews Chair: Dan Spinks

16:35

Synthesis of Benzopyrans by Pd(II) - or Ru(II)-Catalyzed C-H Alkenylation of 2-Aryl-3-hydroxy-2-cyclohexenones Martin D Wieczysty, University of Edinburgh

17:15

Closing remarks

17:25

Wine reception followed by prize presentation