24th South Postgraduate Symposium on Novel Organic Chemistry

Event Schedule

13:00

Opening Remarks

13:05

Enantioselective syntheses of pharmaceutically important molecules using lithiation/borylation methodology Stefan Roesner, University of Bristol

13:25

Iodide as an activating agent for acid chlorides in acylation reactions Russ Wakeham, University of Bath

13:45

Iodide as an activating agent for acid chlorides in acylation reactions Russ Wakeham, University of Bath

14:05

Functionalising hydrocarbons with aluminium: A mechanistic investigation Catherine Lyall, University of Bath

14:25

Copper-catalysed electrophilic carbofunctionalisation reactions of alkynes using hypervalent iodine reagents Andrew J. Walkinshaw, University of Cambridge

14:45

Peptidomimetics of trans-proline rich small peptides Boris Aillard, University of Southampton

15:05

Refreshment break

15:30

Catalytic asymmetric carbon-carbon bond formation using alkenes as alkylmetal equivalents Rebecca Maksymowicz, University of Oxford

15:50

Gold and silver catalysed reactions of propargylic alcohols Matthew Pennell, University College London

16:10

B(OCH2CF3)3 mediated amidation reactions Rachel Lanigan, University College London

16:40

Dichotomais reactivity of organolithium and organoytterbium reagents: Extending the use of cyclobutendiones as isoprene synthons Emma Packard, University of Southampton

17:00

Direct ester synthesis from alcohols in a continuous flow system Felicity Roberts, Imperial College

17:20

The development of a new class of maleimides as reagents for protein modification Cristina Marculescu Panea, University College London

17:40

Closing remarks

17:45

Wine reception followed by prize presentation

18:45

Speakers Dinner