Swiss Chemical Society - SCS Spring Meeting 2014

«Frontiers in Organic Chemistry»
and Werner Prize Lectures 2014

April 24, 2014, 09.30 - 17.30
Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg

Program

09.30	Welcome coffee, registration
10.00	Opening, welcome
10.10	Prof. F. Dean Toste, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (USA) Enantioselective Catalysis with Cations and Anions
11.00	Ceremony Werner Prizes 2014
11.10	Prof Clémence Corminboeuf, EPFL Lausanne Pitfalls and Perils in DFT Land: A Survival Guide
11.45	Prof. Jérôme Waser, EPFL Lausanne Taming Hypervalent Bonds and Strained Rings for Catalysis and Synthesis
12.20	Lunch / Commercial Exhibition
13.00	SCS General Assembly 2014
13.30	Prof. Matthew Gaunt, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge (UK) New activation modes for palldium-catalyzed aliphatic C–H bond functionalization
14.20	Prof. Andreas Pfaltz, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel (Switzerland) New catalysts and screening methods for asymmetric synthesis
15.10	Break
15.40	Prof. Erik J. Sorensen, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University (USA) Taking Risks in Complex Synthesis Design
16.30	Prof. Tobias Ritter, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University (USA) Late-Stage Fluorination for PET Imaging
17.20	Closing remarks