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MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED TO AND ATTENDED THIS EXCELLENT MEETING, WHICH WAS COMPLETED ON APRIL 13TH 2012. A FULL REPORT WILL APPEAR HERE SOON.
MEANWHILE BELOW IS A LINK TO THE PHOTOS OFTHE EVENT:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/wills/willsgroup/rscorganicchemistrymidlandsmeeting/photos/

The RSC Organic Chemistry Midlands meeting will be held at Warwick University on 13th April 2012. The speakers are:

Dr Etienne Baranoff, Birmingham.
Dr Robert Britton, Leicester.
Dr Mikhail Kabeshov, Loughborough.
Dr Simon Jones, Sheffield.
Dr Neil Oldham, Nottingham.
Dr Christophe Corre, Warwick.
Prof Ilan Marek, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

A full programme is available to download: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/wills/willsgroup/rscorganicchemistrymidlandsmeeting/rsc_organic_chemistry_midlands_section_meeting_brochure.pdf

and is also given towards the end of this page. Supervisors from local Universites participating in the programme (whether attending or not) should complete the registration information, providing details about which members of their group will attend the meeting, and who will will present posters. This form should be submitted by 16th March 2012, although late submissions will be considered.

Chemists from outside the midlands universities are also welcome to attend.

Location; Mathematics institute, Warwick University building 39 on this page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/campusmap/

Location and car park information, is here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/ Car parking on campus costs £3 for the day.

For further details contact m.wills@warwick.ac.uk

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Programme:

From 10.00 – coffee/snacks/ set up posters, Mathematics Institute foyer (‘Maths Street’).

11.00-12.30 Welcome and session 1. Lecture Theatre MS01. Chaired by Dr David Fox.

11.00-11.30 Dr Etienne Baranoff, Birmingham.
Tris-heteroleptic cyclometallated iridium(III) complexes: synthesis and electroluminescence.

11.30-12.00 Dr Robert Britton, Leicester.
Affinity chromatography and LC-MS/MS: Identification of protein targets of Resveratrol.

12.00-12.30 Dr Mikhail Kabeshov, Loughborough.
Aminoalcohols as efficient organocatalysts in aldol reaction of isatins with ketones. Mechanistic studies and syntheses of natural products.’

12.30-2.00 Lunch and posters in maths street. Posters may be either landscape OR portrait if A1 size, but may only be portrait format if A0 size. Fixing materials will be provided.

2.00-3.30 Session 2. MS01. Chaired by Dr Andrew Marsh.

2.00-2.30 Dr Simon Jones, Sheffield.
Chiral 9-Substituted anthracene templates in asymmetric synthesis.

2.30-3.00 Dr Neil Oldham, Nottingham.
Mass spectrometry as a tool for assigning trans-AT Polyketide Synthases to their products

3.00-3.30 Dr Christophe Corre, Warwick.
Furan signalling molecules and natural product discovery in Streptomyces bacteria.

3.30-4.00 tea/coffee/biscuits.

4.00-5.00 Session 3. MS01. Chaired by Professor Michael Shipman

Presentation, by Professor Ray C. F. Jones, of the RSC Organometallic Chemistry Award to Professor I. Marek.

Prof Ilan Marek, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Recent Advances in Stereoselective Synthesis.

followed by award of poster prizes.

5.00 wine/drink/snacks reception, Maths Street.

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REGISTRATION – has now closed:

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Posters may be either landscape OR portrait if A1 size, but may only be portrait format if A0 size. We hope to accept all the posters which are submitted, however space is limited, and if we exceed the number we can cope with, then applicants will be advised. If you complete this form after the submission deadline of March 16th 2012, then please include poster titles.

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Please submit this form by 16th March 2012 – submission button is after the programme below.

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