Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Blog

The Organic Division of the RSC on behalf of IUPAC is now inviting contributions to ICPO21: 21^st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry to be held 9 – 13 September 2012 at Durham University.

The submission deadline dates are:

• Oral abstracts               23 March 2012
• Poster abstracts           13 July 2012

Key topics that will be covered in the meeting include:

• Physical underpinnings
• Mechanism and Catalysis
• Supramolecular and Systems Chemistry

Why join ICPOC21?

A broad range of scientists from across the whole community who share a quantitative perspective on chemistry will be there, providing an opportunity to discuss and celebrate the current status, development, and the future of physical organic chemistry.

In addition to outstanding plenary sessions, there will be three parallel sessions over the five days comprising invited lectures and contributed talks, as well as poster sessions.

Congratulations to the following students who were awarded ChemComm, Dalton Transactions and Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry poster prizes at the 2012 International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand:

• Jean-Francois Ayme (Edinburgh) – “Pentameric Circular Helicates as a Scaffold for a Molecular Pentafoil Knot”
• Jessica Holmes (Melbourne) –  “Supramolecular Systems of Cyclotricatechylene”
• David Hvasanov (UNSW) –  “Photoinduced membrane proton-pumping via polymersomes as chloroplast mimics”

The poster prize winners with Professor Phil Gale from the ISMSC-2012 International Advisory Committee (photo courtesy of Scott Cameron from the Brooker group)

Nominations for the 2013 Cram Lehn Pedersen prize to be awarded at ISMSC-8 in Crystal City, Virginia, USA, will open later in the year. Stay tuned to the ChemComm blog for details.

Related news:
Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize awarded at ISMSC

Posted on behalf of Joanne Thomson

The OBC team will be attending a number of conferences in 2012 and we would be delighted to meet you.

Dr Marie Cote, Deputy Editor

Dr Richard Kelly, Managing Editor

• Zing conference on Natural Products Synthesis and Biosynthesis – 10-13 February, Lanzarote, Spain – Meet Marie
• Gordon Research Conference on Marine Natural Products – 26 Feb.- 02 March, Ventura, USA – Meet Richard
• Keystone sympoium on Addressing the Challenges of Drug Discovery – 19-23 March, Tahoe City, USA – Meet Marie
• BTS Annual Congress 2012 – 25-28 March 2012, Warwick, UK – Meet Richard
• OBC Symposia, touring Shanghai, Lanzhou and Beijing  – 14-21 April, China – Full details coming soon… – Meet Richard
• 48th EUROTOX Congress – 17-20 June, Stockholm, Sweden – Meet Nicola Wise, Business Development Executive
• Gordon Research Conference on Heterocyclic Compounds – 24-29 June, Salve Regina University, USA – Meet Marie
• BOSS XIII – 13th Belgium Organic Synthesis Symposium – 15-20 July, Leuven, Belgium – Meet Marie
• ASIATOX VI – 17-20 July, Sendai, Japan – Meet Richard
• 244th ACS National Meeting, 19-23 August, Philadelphia, USA – Meet Richard
• ISMC 2012 – 22nd International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry – 02-06 Sept., Berlin, Germany – Meet Marie
• ICPOC 21 – 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry – 09-13 Sept., Durham, UK – Meet Marie

Please let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings, as it would be lovely to meet you there!

The first of the International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS) series next year is to be Challenges in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (ISACS7) on 12 – 15 June at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

See the excellent list of confirmed speakers and details of the abstract submission process here.

Are you planning on going to ESOC 2011 this coming summer?

ESOC 2011 is the 17th European Symposium of Organic Chemistry that will be held in Crete, Greece, from 10th to 15th July 2011.

This well established conference will provide a forum for broad scientific and technological exchange
among researchers from Europe and elsewhere. The conference will emphasize on new achievements in
the following fields:

– Total Synthesis of Natural Products
– Catalysis in Organic Synthesis
– New Methods in Organic Synthesis
– Medicinal Chemistry
– Bioorganic Chemistry & Chemical Biology
– Supramolecular Chemistry
– Synthesis of Functional Materials
– Physical Organic Chemistry

The program will include an outstanding line up of invited speakers.
Keep up to date with the latest program information on the website http://www.esoc2011.com/

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry will be there and it is one of the supporters of this meeting. If you are thinking of attending this conference and spending a week of your summer in sunny Crete, drop us an e-mail – it would be great to meet you! OBC will have a stand so feel free to come along!

The OBC team will be attending a number of conferences in 2011 and we would be delighted to meet you.

These are just some of the conferences where you can meet us in the coming months:

• Antibiotics: Where are we now? – 20th January, London, UK – Meet Lorena
• Zing Natural Products – 13th-16th February, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt – Meet Richard
• Lakeland Heterocyclic meeting, May – Grasmere, UK – Meet Lorena
• ACS National Organic Symposium – 5th – 9th June – Princeton, US – Meet Richard
• Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry Meeting: Emerging Targets, Novel Candidates and Innovative Strategies– 19th-21st July – Stockholm, Sweden – Meet Richard
• International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) – 3rd-7th July, Brighton, UK – Meet Lorena
• European Symposium on Organic Chemistry – 10th-15th July, Crete, Greece – Meet Lorena
• 22nd International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry – 11th-14th July, Cambridge, UK – Meet Richard
• OMCOS 16 – 24th-28th July – Shanghai, China – Meet Richard
• GRC Medicinal Chemistry – 7th – 12th August – New Hampshire, US – Meet Lorena
• 4th International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry – 21st-25th August, St Petersburg, Russia – Meet Lorena
• 242nd Meeting of the American Chemical Society- 27th – 31st August, Denver, US – Meet Richard
• 16th RSC-SCI Medicinal Chemistry meeting – 11th-14th September, Cambridge, UK – Meet Lorena

Please let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings as it would be lovely to meet you there.

The OBC team will be attending a number of conferences in 2011 and we would be delighted to meet you.

Here’s where you can meet us in the coming months:

• Antibiotics: Where are we now? – 20th January, London, UK – Meet Lorena
• Zing Natural Products – 13th-16th February, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt – Meet Richard
• Lakeland Heterocyclic meeting, May – Grasmere, UK – Meet Lorena
• Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry Meeting: Emerging Targets, Novel Candidates and Innovative Strategies– 19th-21st July – Stockholm, Sweden – Meet Richard
• International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) – 3rd-7th July, Brighton, UK – Meet Lorena
• European Symposium on Organic Chemistry – 10th-15th July, Crete, Greece – Meet Lorena
• 22nd International Symposium: Synthesis in Organic Chemistry – 11th-14th July, Cambridge, UK – Meet Richard
• OMCOS 16 – 24th-28th July – Shanghai, China – Meet Richard
• 4th International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry – 21st-25th August, St Petersburg, Russia – Meet Lorena
• 16th RSC-SCI Medicinal Chemistry meeting – 11th-14th September, Cambridge, UK – Meet Lorena

Please let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings as it would be lovely to meet you there.