19 March 2021
8th National retrosynthesis competition
Organised by:
SCI's Young Chemists’ Panel, SCI's Fine Chemicals Group and RSC’s Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group
Online Webinar - 10:00 - 15:00 GMT
Synopsis
For many years, the UK has produced high calibre synthetic organic chemists, able to retrosynthetically disconnect complex molecules and natural products then solve the challenging problem associated with the forward synthesis. To celebrate this and following on from the success of the previous seven competitions, we are pleased to announce the 8th SCI-RSC National Retrosynthesis Competition.The event will showcase the calibre of UK chemists from both industry and academia and provide a platform for them to demonstrate their retrosynthetic and forward synthetic prowess. Entries will be shortlisted to a final 10 teams who will then be invited to present before their peers and the judges. Following the presentations, an exciting line up of the UK's leading academic and industrial synthetic chemists will judge the event, with the top three teams winning specifically designed trophies, in addition to the acclaim and praise from peers, colleagues and the wider Chemistry community for winning the event.
Registration
Team members who are not presenting will need to register to join the event.
Exhibition and Sponsorship
If you are interested in exhibiting at this event or in sponsorship opportunities, please conferences@soci.org for further information and costs.
Programme
10:00 Welcome and introduction
10:15 Team Alder but not Wiser
Drug Discovery Unit (University of Dundee)
10:40 Flu Fighters.
Aggarwal Group, University of Bristol
11:05 The SmartARCs
Arcinova
11:30 Break
11:40 Cyclopropane And Suffering
University of Manchester
12:05 Ready, Stetter, Go!
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Ion the prize
Imperial College London
13:55 We Found Grubbs in a Hyp(atulone)less Place
GSK/University of Strathclyde
14:20 You'd Stetter Believe It
University of Edinburgh
14.45 Deliberation/networking
15.10 Results and closing remarks
15:30 Meeting close
Fees
This event is free to attend
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Booking Process/Deadlines
Partners
Sponsors
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Organising Committee
- Dr Dave Alker, SCI/David Alker Associates
- Dr Jason Camp, SCI/University of Bath
- Dr Nessa Carson, SCI/Syngenta
- Dr Marc Kimber, SCI/Loughborough University
- Dr Kiri North, SCI/Vertex
- Dr Robert Wybrow, Tennants Fine Chemicals
Conference Team
Tel: +44 (0)20 7598 1561
Email: conferences@soci.org
