29th Regional Postgraduate Symposia on Novel Organic Chemistry - South

Event Schedule

12:45

Towards brighter bioluminescence: synthesis and properties of rigid infra-luciferins Aisha Syed, University College London

13:10

Intramolecular hydride transfer onto arynes: transition metal-free C(sp3)-H functionalisation of amines Fahima Idris, Queen Mary University of London

13:35

Design and synthesis of fragment-like pyrrolidine-based nucleotide mimetics for use as inhibitors of the DNA repair enzyme AAG Eduard Mas, University of Surrey

14:00

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of geminal-dicarboxylates Nisha Mistry, University of Oxford

14:25

Transient imine directing groups for the C(sp3)-H functionalisation of aldehydes and amines Sahra St John-Campbell, Imperial College London

14:50

The total synthesis of (+)-β-isosparteine David Wheatley, University of Southampton

15:15

Refreshment break

15:30

Prebiotic peptide ligation by iterative, sulfide-mediated aminonitrile coupling in water Pierre Canavelli, University College London

15:55

Permanganate-mediated oxidative cyclisation of 1,5-dienes with a chiral phase transfer catalyst: synthetic and computational investigations Aqeel Alaa Hussein, University of Southampton

16:20

Distal cross-coupling enabled by σ-bond nucleopalladation Alexander Fawcett, University of Bristol

16:45

Designed aplyronine warheads for next-generation antibody-drug conjugatese Talia Pettigrew, University Cambridge

17:10

Wine reception & prizes