Scientific Program

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Plenary Lecturers
- Takeshi Akasaka (Tsukuba Univ., Japan)
"New Vistas in Fullerene Endohedrals: Functionalization with Compounds from Main Group Elements".
- Guy Bertrand (Univ. of California, Riverside, USA)
"Carbenes and Bent-Allenes in Phosphorus Chemistry".
- Matthias Beller (Leibniz Inst. for Catalysis, Germany)
"Coupling Reactions with Pd-, Ru- and Cu-catalysts: Mechanism and Industrial Applications".
- Nobuaki Kambe (Osaka Univ., Japan)
"Transition Metal Catalyzed Reaction of Alkyl Halides and Organochalcogen Compounds".
- Jean Marie Lehn (Strasbourg Univ., France)
"Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry".
- Tien-Yau Luh (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
"Alternating Dialkylsilylene-Divinylarene Copolymers".
- Shengming Ma (Shanghai Inst. of Org. Chem. China)
"Electrophilic Reactions of Allenes and the Application in Organic Synthesis".
- Nazario Martín (Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
"Organizing Donor-Acceptor Supramolecular Assemblies".
- Robert E. Mulvey (Univ. of Strathclyde, UK)
"Synergic Surprises from Bimetallic Molecules with Alkali Metal-Heteroatom Ligand-Metal Bridges".
Invited Lecturers
- Giuseppe Bartoli (Università di Bologna, Italy)
"Asymmetric Aminocatalysis: the Present and the Future in our Experience".
- Eric Block (SUNY Albany, USA)
"Crushing Garlic and Onion: Use of New Instrumental Techniques to "See" Reactive Organosulfur Species".
- David Crich (Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturalles, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
"On Thioacids and their Use in Organic Synthesis".
- Benjamin Davis (University of Oxford, UK)
"Sugars and Proteins".
- H. V. Rasika Dias (Univ. of Texas, Arlington, USA)
"Metals of the Olympiad and Polyfluorinated Anions".
- Santos Fustero (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)
"Asymmetric Tandem Reactions: New Synthetic Approaches".
- Douglas B. Grotjahn (San Diego State University, USA)
"Heteroatoms Moving Protons: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Bifunctional Organometallic Catalysis".
- A. Stephen K. Hashmi (R.-K. Univ. Heidelberg, Germany)
"Heterocycles from Gold Catalysis".
- Cameron Jones (Monash University, Australia)
"Bulky Guanidinates and Related Ligands for the Stabilization of Low Oxidation State Metallacycles".
- Koop Lammertsma (Free Univ. Amsterdam, Holland)
"Phosphorus as Enabling Vehicle – From Ligands to Catalysts –".
- Lechoslaw Latos-Grazyñski (Wroclaw University, Poland)
"Transformation of N-confused porphyrin triggered by insertion of boron(III), silicon(IV) or phosphrous(V)".
- Myong Euy Lee (Yonsei University, Korea)
"Halosilylenoids and Their Reactivities".
- Ilan Marek (Technion- Isr. Inst. Tech, Haifa, Israel)
"When Simplicity Leads to Complexity".
- Yoshihiro Matano (Kyoto University, Japan)
"Synthesis and Coordination Chemistry of Phosphole-Containing Porphyrins and Calixphyrins".
- Toshiaki Murai (Gifu University, Japan)
"Thioamide Dianions as Key Species Leading to Nitrogen-containing Heterocycles".
- Valentine G. Nenajdenko (Moscow State Univ., Russia)
"Sulflower and Other Chemical Flowers".
- Gregory Robinson (University of Georgia, USA)
"Stabilization of Highly Reactive Molecules".
- Magnus Rueping (Frankfurt, Germany)
"Asymmetric Organocatalysis - From Biologically Inspired Concepts to Applications".
- David Scheschkewitz (Imperial College, UK)
"Synthesis of Homo- and Heterocyclic Silanes via Intermediates with Si=Si bonds".
- Jaume Veciana (ICMAB, CSIC, Spain)
"Self-assembling and structuring functional materials based on tetrathiafulvalenes. From basic science to applications".
- Zhenfeng Xi (Pekin University, China)
"Synthesis of Multiply Substituted Pyrrolopyridines (azaindoles), Pyridines and Pyrroles".
- Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Nagoya University, Japan)
"New Functional Organoboron pi-Conjugated Compounds"