ICOS-16 organizing committee

Medicinal Chemistry

Chair: Tarek Mansour

Tarek Mansour	USA
(Chairman

Victor E. Marquez	USA
"The Landscape of DNA Methylase Inhibitors: From Single Nucleosides to Modified Oligodeoxynucleotides"

Edward Salaski	USA
"Pyranoquinone Lactones: A New Class of AKT Selective Kinase Inhibitors"

Fabio C. Tucci	USA
"Melanocortin-4 Receptor (MC4R) Antagonists for the Treatment of Cancer-Cachexia"

Martin John Slater	UK
"Acyl Pyrrolidine Palm Site Inhibitors of HCV Polymerase: From Screening to Development Candidate"

Michael C. Pirrung	USA
" The Central Dogma of Chemical Biology: Small Molecule Insulin Mimics "

Organocatalysis

Chair: Carlos Barbas, III

Carlos F. Barbas, III	USA

Yujiro Hayashi	Japan
"Enantioselective Michael Reaction Catalyzed by Organocatalysis"

Eric N. Jacobsen	USA
"Thioureas as General Acid Asymmetric Catalysts"

Yoshiji Takemoto	Japan
"Bifunctional Thiourea Catalysts for Asymmetric Nucleophilic Reactions"

Keiji Maruoka	Japan
" Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis with Chiral Designer Phase Transfer Catalysts"

Wei Wang	USA
"Chiral Pyrrolidine Sulfonamide Promoted Enantioselective Organic Reactions"

Enantioselective synthesis of b-amino acids

Chair: Ferenc F

Ferenc F�l�p	Hungary
"Synthesis of cyclic b-amino acids: toolkits to construct foldamers"

Norbert De Kimpe	Belgium
"Synthesis and rearrangements of b-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid derivatives"

Rosa M. Ortuño	Spain
"Cyclobutane Containing b-Amino Acids: Stereoselective Synthesis and Incorporation Into Highly Rigid b-Peptides"

Peter Spiteller	Germany
"b-Amino Acids in Nature"

David J. Aitken	France
"Total Synthesis of Cyclotheonamide C: Focus on the a-Oxo-b-Aminoacid Moiety"

Claudio Palomo Nicolau	Spain
"Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of b-Amino acids"

Giuliana Cardillo	Italy
"Unusual b-Amino Acids: Synthesis and Application"

Organolithium compounds in organic synthesis

Chair: William F. Bailey

William F. Bailey	USA
"Asymmetric Cyclization of Achiral Organolithiums�

Theodore Cohen	USA
"Cyclizations of Organolithiums Prepared by Reductive Lithiation"

David B. Collum	USA
Organolithium Structure-Reactivity Relationships"

Robert E. Gawley	USA
"The Role of Organostannanes in the Generation of Chiral Organolithium Compounds for Synthesis"

Victor Snieckus	CANADA
"Lithium as a Conduit to Synthetic Aromatic Chemistry"

Miguel Yus	SPAIN
"Functionalized Organolithium Compounds: Recent Advances"

Selenium and tellurium in organic synthesis

Chair: Joao V. Comasseto

Joao Comasseto	Brazil

Marcello Tiecco	Italy
"Chiral Organoselenium Reagents in Enantioselective Synthesis"

Leandro Helgueira de Andrade	Brazil
"Synthesis of chiral organic selenium and tellurim compounds. The role of Biocatalysis"

Antonio Luiz Braga	Brazil
"Chiral Selenium and Tellurium Compounds as Ligands in Enenatioselective Catalytic Transformations"

Nobuaki Kambe	Japan
"Construction of b-Lactam Frameworks by Cyclization of Organoselenium and Tellurium Compounds"

Shigeru Yamago	Japan
"Recent Advances in Radical Reactions of Organotellurium Compounds"

Applications of microwave in organic synthesis Chair: Nicholas E. Leadbeater

Nicholas Leadbeater	USA
"Fast, easy synthesis of organic molecules and biofuels"

Luis Martinez	USA
"Microwave-Assisted Carbocyclizations on Solid Support"

Cynthia McGowan	USA
"Clean, Fast Organic Chemistry for the Undergraduate Laboratory"

Scott Throner	USA
"Microwave-assisted Organic Synthesis: a) Thermal vs. Microwave Studies Opposite 2,4-dialkylaminoquinolines and b) Real-time in situ Raman Analysis"

Catalina Maria Perez Berumen	México
"Making waves in the lab: the application of microwaves on organic and macromolecular synthesis"

Jonathan Collins	USA
"New Advances in Microwave Assisted Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis"

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