Date and meeting venue
March 24-25, 2011
Hotel Re Enzo, Via Santa Croce 26
Bologna - Italy
Location
Programme
Registrations have been closed since the room maximum capacity has been reached. If you wish to be added to the waiting list please contact: comunicazione.aric@unibo.it
Welcome to the webpage of the international workshop in Organocatalysis organized by the CATAFLU.OR project.
Description
The Organocatalysis is a fluent and vibrant new field of research which is introducing new methods and concepts in organic synthesis. Organocatalysis is the catalysis of chemical reactions with small organic molecules. A metal is typically not present in the substrate, nor is it a part of the catalytic mode of action. Traditionally, chemists use almost exclusively metal-containing catalysts. This is surprising if one considers that only half of the enzymes, the efficient catalysts of nature, contain metals.
Only recently, have chemists realized that even low molecular weight pure organic catalysts are able to catalyze chemical reactions in a highly efficient and selective manner. Such organocatalytic reactions are attractive not only from an academic point of view, but they are particularly useful for industrial syntheses: the catalysts used are typically robust, not expensive, nontoxic and easy to synthesize. Other advantages of organocatalytic reactions are that they are generally insensitive to air and moisture and are often carried out at room temperature.
Since the rediscovery of Organocatalysis by List, MacMillan, Barbas, Jørgensen, Terada, Akiyama, Hayashi and many others, the appeal of the new methodology has encountered the favor of the Chemical Community. The number of publications concerning organocatalytic methodologies have grown exponentially in the last decade. A symposium of organocatalysis will be organized in Bologna on 24-25 March 2011 to celebrate the success of organocatalysis and to present the results obtained in the contest of the European project called CATAFLU.OR
During the symposium, all aspects of organocatalysis related to new reactions, new organocatalytic cascade processes, new mechanistic studies of organocatalytic reactions, will be covered.
Symposium Chairman and Speakers
Symposium chairman
Professor Pier Giorgio Cozzi
University of Bologna
Coordinator of the CATAFLU.OR project.
Email: piergiorgio.cozzi@unibo.it
The European Commission through the project CATAFLU.OR is fully acknowledged for the financial support
A list of distinguished speakers, active in the field of organocatalysis, have accepted to present a lecture in the workshop: A. Alexakis, C. Bolm, D. Dixon, Y. Hayashi, K. A. Jørgensen, H. Mayr, K. Maruoka, P. Melchiorre, M. Rueping, D. Seebach, H. Wennemers.
Registration
Registration Deadline: 15 February 2011
Communication of registration acceptance: 21 February 2011
Abstract Submission - Deadline: 21 February 2011
Graduate students and postdoc researchers will be able to apply for presentation by sending an abstract for a short lecture and/or poster. Abstracts (up to 8) will be evaluated on the basis of scientific relevance.