The 2nd Organic Chemistry Frontiers International Symposium was successfully held in Zhejiang University on 21 April 2015. Symposium this year was attended by over 250 researchers and students from more than 20 universities and institutes of mainland China.
12 excellent scientific talks were featured at the symposium covering many popular and advancing researches in organic chemistry. Scientific talks and speakers are listed as follow:
| Toward a nature-inspired, dual-catalytic method to dehydrogenate hydrocarbons
Erik Sorensen, Princeton University, USA |
| Selectivity in Metal-Catalyzed C–H Activation
Lutz Ackermann, Georg August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
| Direct Transformation of Benzyl Alcohols and Their Ethers
Zhangjie Shi, Peking University |
| Opportunities with N-Heterocyclic Carbene Organocatalysis: New Basic Activation Modes
Yonggui Robin Chi, Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Some New Stories about Gold(I) and Related Catalyses
Louis Fensterbank, UPMC, France |
| Radical Anion on Nitrogen Compounds
Zhan Lu, Zhejiang University, China |
| Cyclization Cascades via N-Amidyl Radicals: Novel Access to Complex Heterocycles
Cristina Nevado, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Kinetic Resolution of Racemic Amino Alcohols through Intermolecular Acetalization Catalyzed by Chiral Brønsted Acid
Masahiro Terada, Tohoku University, Japan |
| Traceless C–C Bond Formations Using Sulfones
Chulbom Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Total Synthesis of Indole Terpenoids
Ang Li, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China |
| Synthesis and Molecular Recognition of Corona[n]arenes
Mei-Xiang Wang, Tsinghua University, China |
| Chemical probes for targeting and imaging hypoxia in tumours
Stuart Conway, University of Oxford, UK |
We thank very much the speakers for their excellent presentations, as well as the host organization Zhejiang University for their tireless efforts and generous financial support to ensure the successful Symposium!
Delegates are communicating at the coffee break
The lecture room was filled with attendees
Speakers, organizing committees and RSC staffs (left to right) -- Row 1: Yan-Guang Wang, Chulbom Lee, Yonggui Robin Chi, Ying Liu, Erik Sorensen, Shengming Ma, Wenjun Liu, Stuart Conway, Masahiro Terada, Bingfeng Shi; Row 2: Daping Zhang, Louis Fensterbank, Mei-Xiang Wang, Cristina Nevado, Lutz Ackermann, Zhangjie Shi, Ang Li, Zhan Lu.
