EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry - 14th Young Investigator Workshop (YIW2023)

7 Jul 2023, 10:00 → 8 Jul 2023, 23:59 Europe/Brussels

MTC1 00.03 (Leuven, Belgium)

Upendra K. Sharma (KU Leuven), Wim De Borggraeve (KU Leuven)

The Young Investigator Workshop (YIW) is the hallmark event of the EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry. It promotes and recognises academic excellence in organic chemistry within (and outside) Europe. The EuCheMS member societies can nominate one young investigator among their members for participation in the workshop. Participation in the workshop is typically limited to about 30 attendees as this restricted number ensures the highest quality output as well as interaction between participants.

The 14th edition of the event will be organised in Leuven on July 7 and 8 2023 just before the ESOC conference.

Dr. Upendra K. Sharma and Prof. Wim De Borggraeve will take care of the local organisation on behalf of the Royal Flemish Chemical Society (KVCV) and the Société Royale de Chimie (SRC).

Book of Abstracts

Friday, 7 July

10:00 Registration and coffee

Friday: Session 1 - Chair: Pat Guiry

1 Welcome and opening

Speaker: Pat Guiry (University College Dublin)

2 The Iron Age of Catalysis - A World of Opportunities

Speaker: Graham de Ruiter (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

G_de_Ruiter

3 Study of two protocols for the separation of heterogeneous catalysts after decarbonylation of aldehydes

Speaker: Vladimir Ajdačić

V_Ajdacic

4 Homogeneous Catalysis for Sustainable Chemistry

Speaker: Prof. Martin Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark)

M_Nielsen

5 Sponsor talk 1 - Magritek - Spinsolve benchtop NMR to speed up the organic chemistry work

Speaker: Dylan Bouillaud (Magritek GmbH)

D_Bouillaud.pdf

12:40 Lunch break

Friday: Session 2 - Chair: Ari Koskinen

6 Synthesis and Applications of Planar Chiral [2.2]Paracyclophanes

Speaker: Erica Benedetti (Université Paris Cité - CNRS)

E_Benedetti

7 Supramolecular Architectures Comprising Conformationally Flexible Cavity

Speaker: Augustina Jozeliunaite (University of Geneva)

A_Jozeliūnaitė

8 Sponsor talk 2 - Boehringer Ingelheim - Discovery and synthesis of covalent HER2 selective inhibitors for the treatment of HER2 Exon 20 insertion driven tumors

Speaker: Birgit Wilding (Boehringer Ingelheim)

B_Wilding.pdf

9 From Liquid Crystal Dimers to Supramolecular Assemblies in Water with a Touch of Chirality

Speaker: Anamarija Knežević (Ruđer Bošković Institute)

A_Knežević

10 Oxidation of Isodiphenylfluorindine and Synthesis of Isodiphenylfluorindinone and Isodiphenylfluorindone

Speaker: Georgia Zissimou (University of Cyprus)

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16:00 Coffee break

Friday: Session 3 - Chair: Michael Schnürch

11 Target elucidation through target degradation: Discovery of BET bromodomains as the target of Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitor 1

Speaker: Sascha Hoogendoorn

S_Hoogendoorn

12 Peptide chemical engineering: from substrate-derived inhibitors to bioconjugation techniques

Speaker: Alesia Tietze

A_Tietze

13 Peptide-Based Supramolecular Constructs

Speaker: Aniello Palma (University College Dublin)

A_Palma

19:00 Dinner @ Domus Leuven

dinner at Domus in Tiensestraat 8, 3000 Leuven

Saturday, 8 July

Saturday: Session 4 - Chair: Michael Schnürch

14 Access to high rotational barrier atropisomers

Speaker: Constantinos Neochoritis (University of Crete)

C_Neochoritis

15 A Modular Strategy for the Synthesis of Dothideopyrones E and F, Secondary Metabolites from an Endolichenic Fungus

Speaker: Eirik Solum (NTNU)

EJ_Solum

16 Sponsor talk 3 - Elsevier - The Elsevier’s chemistry ecosystem

Speaker: Marta Da Pian (Elsevier)

M_Da_Pian.pdf

YIW23_DaPian.pdf

17 Unlocking the potential of chromones and steroids to create chemical diversity and bioactive compounds

Speaker: Hélio Albuquerque (University of Aveiro)

H_Albuquerque

18 From phosphorus and sulfur – multicomponent and one pot reactions

Speaker: Dr Péter Ábrányi-Balogh (Medicinal Chemistry Research Group, Research Centre for Natural Sciences)

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11:00 Coffee break

Saturday: Session 5 - Chair: Ari Koskinen

19 New Modes of Reversible Photochemistry

Speaker: Tomáš Slanina (IOCB Prague)

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20 Factors Impacting Cage-Escape Yields in Iron(III) Photoredox Catalysis

Speaker: Ludovic Troian-Gautier (UCLouvain)

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21 Harnessing chirality: molecules, light, properties and applications

Speaker: Francesco Zinna (University of Pisa)

F_Zinna

22 Reaction Development for the Synthesis of Conjugated Organic Materials

Speaker: Derek Schipper (University of Waterloo)

D_Schipper

23 Sponsor talk 4 - Wiley VCH - EurJOC

Speaker: Dr Leana Travaglini (Wiley VCH - EurJOC)

L_Travaglini.pdf

13:25 Group picture

13:40 Lunch break

Saturday: Session 6 - Chair: Monica Oliva

24 Electrochemical Deconstructive Functionalization of Cycloalkanols

Speaker: Louis Morrill (Cardiff University)

L_Morrill

25 A Radical Approach to Organic Chemistry

Speaker: Julian West (Rice University)

J_West

26 Sponsor talk 5 - Thieme - Synlett YIW Special Issue

Speaker: Stefanie Baumann (Thieme Goup)

S_Baumann.pdf

27 Can simple amines mimic organotin?: Aminoalkyl radicals as halogen-atom transfer (XAT) agents for redox chemistry

Speaker: Fabio Juliá (Universidad de Murcia)

F_Julia

28 Towards Predictive and Operando Computational Catalysis – Recent Advancements for Transition-Metal Chemistry

Speaker: Maren Podewitz (TU Wien)

M_Podewitz

16:20 Coffee break

Saturday: Session 7 - Chair: Pat Guiry

29 Synthesis of N-Heterocycles via Aryne Intermediates

Speaker: Courtney Roberts (University of Minnesota)

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30 All-organic Photomagnetic Switching

Speaker: Oliver Dumele (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

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31 Young Investigator Award Ceremony

32 Concluding remarks and closing

Speaker: Pat Guiry (University College Dublin)

19:30 Dinner @ Fonduehuis Leuven

dinner at Fonduehuis Leuven in Sint-Maartenstraat 12 C