Organic Chemistry Frontiers Blog

The 2^nd 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:

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.

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is glad to sponsor two poster prizes at the 7^th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry (PSRC-7) to be held in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from 15 – 18 July 2015. The PSRC takes place every two years, and is recognized as being one of the three major international meetings on radical chemistry (the other two being the International Symposium on Organic Free Radicals and the EUCHEM Conference on Free Radical Chemistry).  The PSRC-7 follows the successful series of PSRC symposiums held in Vancouver (2013), Shirahama (2011), Shanghai (2009), Heron Island (2007), Daejeon (2006), and Kanazawa (2003).

The symposium will cover all aspects of free radical chemistry and will bring together industrial and academic chemists from all over the world to discuss the latest advances in synthetic radical reactions, radical polymerizations, mechanistic insights into important radical reactions, new radical-based functional molecules and materials, and radicals in biology.

Take your opportunity to attend PSRC-7 by the registration deadline at 15 June 2015. More information is available at http://conference.ntu.edu.sg/psrc7/Pages/index.aspx.

After the successful launch of the inaugural symposium, 2^nd Organic Chemistry Frontiers International Symposium will be held this coming April in Zhejiang University.

Meeting this year is a one-day free event, supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University.

To find out more details, please see the event webpage.

第二届有机化学前沿研讨会将于2015年4月21日于浙江大学（玉泉校区）举行。本次会议由英国皇家化学会和浙江大学化学系联合举办，旨在加强有机合成方法学和相关领域的学术交流，促进国际合作，推动现代有机化学的发展。

本次研讨会面向所有有机化学工作者免费注册！

在此，我们期待您的莅临，并感谢您的大力支持。您的参与将会使本次会议取得更圆满的成功！

会议主题：

• 不对称催化
• 有机催化
• C-H键活化
• 天然产物化学
• 杂环化学
• 分子识别

主题报告人：

• Cristina Nevado
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Erik Sorensen
  Princeton University, United States
• Masahiro Terada
  Tohoku University, Japan
• Stuart Conway
  University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Louis Fensterbank
  UPMC, France
• Chulbom Lee
  Seoul National University, South Korea
• Mei-Xiang Wang (王梅祥)
  Tsinghua University, China
• Lutz Ackermann
  Georg August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
• Yonggui Robin Chi
  Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Ang Li (李昂)
  Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China
• Zhan Lu (陆展)
  Zhejiang University, China

• Zhangjie Shi (施章杰)

Peking University, China

了解更多详情，欢迎访问我们的网站或在线注册！

Organic Chemistry Frontiers warmly congratulates Zhang-Jie Shi, the Editorial Board member of the journal, on being awarded the Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry at the 13^th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC-13) held in Xiamen University, China from 19^th -22^nd December, 2014.

Professor Zhang-Jie Shi

Dr. Shi, Professor in Chemistry from Peking University, is now serving as an Editorial Board member of Organic Chemistry Frontiers. He received a BS degree in 1996 from the Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University. He further joined Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOC, CAS) and obtained his PhD degree (2001) under the supervision of Professor Shengming Ma. He then moved to Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Gregory Verdine and later as a research associate with Professor Chuan He at the University of Chicago. In 2004, he joined the faculty of College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Peking University and was promoted to full professor in 2008.

He has received many international awards, including the Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in 2014, OMCOS Award in 2013, and Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in 2011 where he was the inaugural Asian recipient.

Dr. Shi was recognized for his seminal contribution in organometallic chemistry and catalysis, especially in the field of the activation of “inert” bonds and small molecules. So far, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers which have been cited over 7,100 times by others.

To find out more about Dr. Shi’s research, please take a look at his publications on the Royal Society of Chemistry journals in the past 12 months:

Direct amidation of the phenylalanine moiety in short peptides via Pd-catalyzed C–H activation/C–N formation

Org. Chem. Front., 2015,2, 51-54

Direct Cross Coupling of Benzyl Alcohols to Construct Diarylmethanes via Palladium Catalysis

Chem. Commun., 2014, Accepted Manuscript

Controllable mono-/di-alkenylation of aryl alkyl thioethers tuned by oxidants via Pd-catalysis

Org. Chem. Front., 2014,1, 1096-1100

Direct alkenyl C–H functionalization of cyclic enamines with carboxylic acids via Rh catalysis assisted by hydrogen bonding

Org. Chem. Front., 2014,1, 634-638

Transition metal-catalyzed direct nucleophilic addition of C–H bonds to carbon–heteroatom double bonds

Chem. Sci., 2014,5, 2146-2159

Palladium-catalyzed base-accelerated direct C–H bond alkenylation of phenols to synthesize coumarin derivatives

Org. Chem. Front., 2014,1, 44-49

Zhang-Jie Shi (middle) with the session Chairs Li-Xin Dai (left) and Henry N. C. Wong (right)

Zhang-Jie Shi was delivering a lecture on 'Direct Transformations of Unreactive Chemical Bonds' at the closing ceremony

ISCOC and the Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry

Starting in 1990, the International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC) took place every other year and has become an important platform for bringing together worldwide Chinese chemists to exchange their scientific findings, cultivate mutual understandings, and foster possible collaborations.

The Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry was established by Professor Sunney Chan, director of the Institute of Chemistry of Academia Sinica in Taiwan, to recognize outstanding organic chemists under the age of 40 during ISCOC.

Organic Chemistry Frontiers is a proud supporter of ISCOC-13, sponsoring the poster prizes, the winners of which received a certificate and a copy of book from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s popular chemistry collection.

Congratulations to our Organic Chemistry Frontiers poster prize winners at the 13^th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists (ISCOC-13) on 19-22 December 2014 in Xiamen University. This conference was held together with the 10^th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists (ISCIC-10), providing an interactive platform for worldwide Chinese researchers to exchange innovative ideas.

The Organic Chemistry Frontiers poster prizes were awarded to:

‘Generation of unforeseeable bioactive molecules from fungal biosynthetic machineries’

Wei Yan (Nanjing University)

‘Iterative Modulation: a Simple Glycosylation Approach for Difficult Glycosidic Bond Formation’

Jhe-Cyuan Hu (National Chiao Tung University)

‘Gold(I)-Catalyzed Polycyclization of Linear Dienediynes to Seven-Membered Ring-Containing Polycycles via Tandem Cyclopropanation/Cope Rearrangement/C − H Activation’

Pei-Jun Cai (Peking University)

‘Total Synthesis of Taiwaniadducts B, C and D’

Shu-Peng Zhou (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry)

‘Construction of a tricyclic core of haliclonin A’

Shi-Peng Luo (Xiamen University)

Winners for both ISCOC-13 and ISCIC-10, judges, scientific committee and RSC staff

The winners all receive a certificate and a copy of book from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s popular science collection.

Once again, our warmest congratulations to all our winners!

The 2014 RSC Organic Division Poster Symposium was successfully held on 01 December 2014 at the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, London.

This symposium provided a fantastic opportunity for final year organic chemistry PhD students to showcase their research and network with their peers, leading academics, and industrial chemists.

Organic Chemistry Frontiers was delighted to sponsor the Participants’ Prize and we would like to join in congratulating the winners.

First Prize

Sonja Kuschel, University of Manchester (Supervisor: Professor David Leigh). Poster title: Towards man-made ribosomes: Nanomachines for sequential peptide synthesis

Runners Up Prizes

Antony Burton, University of Bristol (Supervisor: Professor Derek Woolfson). Poster title: Installing Catalytic Activity into a de novo Designed Protein Structure

Sarah Walker, Heriot-Watt University (Supervisor: Dr Ai-Lan Lee). Poster title: Development of Pd(II)-catalysed oxidative Heck reactions and CH functionalisations

Industry Prize (selected by the industrial delegates)

Antoine Maruani, University College London (Supervisors: Professor Stephen Caddick and Dr Vijay Chudasama). Poster title: A Novel Class of Tuneable reagents for Selective Dual Modification of Proteins

Participants’ Prize (selected by the students)

Owen Davis, Imperial College London (Supervisor: Dr James Bull). Poster title: Synthesis and Functionalisation of Highly Substituted Oxetanes: Molecular Scaffolds for Drug Discovery

The event was supported by: F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., AstraZeneca, Evotec, Johnson Matthey Catalysis and Chiral Technologies, Pfizer Neusentis, Takeda, UCB and Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Participant Prize winner: Owen Davis (© MPP Image Creation / Royal Society of Chemistry)

Winners, judges, scientific committee and RSC staff (left to right): Dr Andrew Thomas, Dr Anne Horan, Professor Jonathan Clayden, Mr Owen Davis, Professor Rob Field, Mrs Sonja Kuschel, Professor Julian Blagg, Miss Sarah Walker, Professor Stuart Conway, Mr Antony Burton, Mr Antoine Maruani, Dr David Rees, Dr Sarah Rook, Professor Sue Gibson, Miss Charlotte Still (© MPP Image Creation / Royal Society of Chemistry)