Synopsis
This conference will showcase exceptional research from final year PhD students and provides the opportunity to network and share ideas. The subjects covered will be wide ranging within organic chemistry such as synthesis, mechanistic studies, methodology, medicinal chemistry or analysis and computational.
Attendees
The majority of attendees are expected to be academic and industrial researchers including postgraduate students who will be presenting their work, but this event is open to all and free to attend.
The event will be run as a hybrid event which allows remote attendance in addition to in person attendance.
Please select only one option when registering (in-person OR online attendance).
Call for abstracts
Contributions are invited from those working in all areas of organic and medicinal chemistry.
• Oral paper (20 minutes plus Q&A, 5 minutes)
An abstract of maximum one A4 page or 300 words indicating title, authors should be sent to
conferences@soci.org by
Friday 21 March 2025 with the subject line “FCG 35th Post-graduate symposium - abstract submission” Oral presentation slots are inevitably limited and will be allocated to achieve a balanced programme. Topics should cover research results and may have already been presented elsewhere. An
abstract template can be downloaded. Prizes will be awarded for the best presentation.
Sponsorship
Please see the sponsorship pack and email conferences@soci.org to let us know which package you are interested in.
Programme
Friday 9 May 2025
- 10:00
- Registration
- 10:30
- Welcome
Session 1
- 10:35
- Ynamines as next-generation click handles for the synthesis of antibody-drug conjugates
Eilidh McKay, GSK/University of Strathclyde
- 11:00
- Bisarylbutadiyne scaffolds for ratiometric pHi sensing with Raman microscopy
Daniel Powell, GSK/University of Strathclyde
- 11:25
- Aldehyde−Olefin couplings via sulfoxylate-mediated oxidative generation of ketyl radical anions
Zhihang Li, University of Bristol
- 11:50
- Lunch
- Session 2
- 12:40
- Nucleophilic amination of aryl halides with an azanide (–NH2) surrogate
Bradley Cooper, The University of Manchester
- 13:05
- Development of next generation quorum sensing inhibitors of BDSF
Michelle O'Driscoll, University College Cork
- 13:30
- The development of a dynamic kinetic resolution to access novel C–N atropisomeric scaffolds
Aaron Campbell, Newcastle University
- 13:55
- Enantioselective arylative dearomatisation via electrostatically-directed palladium catalysis
Maximilian Kadarauch, University of Cambridge
- 14:20
- Refreshment break
- Session 3
- 14:40
- Cyclobutyl building blocks: A platform for fragment elaboration
Will Butler, University of York
- 15:05
- Switchable SuFEx & SNAr reactivity of sulfonimidoyl fluorides to access diverse sulfonimidamides
Domonique Deans, Imperial College London
- 15:30
- Palladium-catalysed addition of aryl halides to N-sulfinylamines for the synthesis of sulfinamides
Mingkai Wei, University of Oxford
- 15:55
- Judging and discussions
- 16:05
- Prizes and close of event
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Fees
This event is free to attend.
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CPD Info
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Organising committee
Mike Clegg, MSD
Charlotte Dalton, CatSci
Chris Jones, QMUL
Helen Jones, AstraZeneca