2 retro Scientific Committee F. Cozzi (Milano, Italy) M. d’Ischia (Napoli, Italy) A. Guarna (Firenze, Italy) G. Romeo (Messina, Italy) C. Trombini (Bologna, Italy) IASOC 2014 is supported by Organizing Committee S. Pedatella - Secretary (Napoli, Italy) F. Cermola (Napoli, Italy) M. De Nisco (Messina, Italy) P. Manini (Napoli, Italy) F. Temussi (Napoli, Italy) International Advisory Board R. Caputo (Napoli, Italy) A.M. Echavarren (Tarragona, Spain) S. Florio (Bari, Italy) A. Fürstner (Mülheim, Germany) C. Gennari (Milano, Italy) R.H. Grubbs (Pasadena, USA) S. Hanessian (Montréal, Canada) Y. Hayashi (Tohoku, Japan) M. Prato (Trieste, Italy) R.J.K. Taylor (York, UK) Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences fronte Ischia Advanced School of Organic Chemistry Nature-Inspired Organic Chemistry: Products, Processes, Functions September 21–25, 2014 Albergo della Regina Isabella Lacco Ameno - Ischia (Na) 1 3 4 Sunday, September 21 17:00Registration 20:30 Welcome Party 12:00 Tutorial session J. Du Bois (Stanford, USA) “Metal-catalyzed synthetic transformations” Monday, September 22 08:45Opening 09:00 Chairperson: S. Florio (Bari, Italy) E.-i. Negishi (West Lafayette, USA) “Recent advances in the catalytic asymmetric carbon-carbon bond formation – conquering one of the last bastions in organic syntheses” 10:15 C. Jacob (Saarbrücken, Germany) “Organochalcogen compounds in chemistry and biology: from antioxidant activity to complex redox modulation and intracellular signalling via the cellular thiolstat” 11:30 Coffee break 12:00 C. Nativi (Firenze, Italy) “Self or non-self: the carbohydrate tumoral markers” Break 16:15 Coffee break 16:45 Tutorial Session Y. Hayashi (Tohoku, Japan) “Metal-free catalyzed synthetic transformations” 19:00Dinner 20:30 Chairperson: C. Gennari (Milano, Italy) Young fellow contribution: S. Harutyunyan (Groningen, The Netherlands) ”Enantioselective synthesis of chiral tertiary alcohols enabled by copper(i) catalysis” 21:00 Discussion leader: C. Gennari (Milano, Italy) Open session Programme Break 15:00 Chairperson: R. Riccio (Salerno, Italy) C. Lerner (Basel, Switzerland) “Adventures with COMT inhibiton“ 16:15 Special Tutorial Session P. Gölitz (Basel, Switzerland) “The secrets of scientific publishing: angewandte chemie and the chem. pub. soc. europe journals as an example“ 17:00 Coffee break 17:30 Poster Session Tuesday, September 23 09:00 Chairperson: C. Trombini (Bologna, Italy) M. Amat (Barcelona, Spain) “Chiral tricyclic lactams as versatile scaffolds for the synthesis of alkaloids” 10:15 T. Ooi (Nagoya, Japan) “Asymmetric catalysis of designer chiral organic ion pairs” 11:30 Coffee break 15:00 Discussion leaders: S. Hanessian (Montréal, Canada), and J. Maxwell (Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, USA) Special Session “Molecules are us” D.C. Blakemore (Pfizer, Cambridge, UK) P. Gloanec (Servier, Suresnes, France) 16:30 Coffee break 17.00 S. Hadida (Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, USA) P. Tagari (Amgen, Newbury Park, UK) 19:00Dinner 20:30 Chairperson: S. Florio (Bari, Italy) Young fellow contribution: L. Bernardi (Bologna, Italy) “Asymmetric cycloaddition, proton transfer, and domino reactions: a unified view involving stabilisation of charge separation with bifunctional organic catalysts” 21:00 Discussion leader: S. Florio (Bari, Italy) Open session Wednesday, September 24 09:00 Chairperson: G. Romeo (Messina, Italy) D.J. Dixon (Oxford, UK) “Exploring and exploiting new reactivity with novel classes of high-performance multifunctional cooperative catalysts“ 10:15 M.J. Krische (Austin, USA) “Formation of C-C bonds via catalytic hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation“ 11:30 Coffee break 12:00 J. Du Bois (Stanford, USA) “Natural products research“ Break 15:00 Chairperson: Y. Hayashi (Tohoku, Japan) H. Waldmann (Dortmund, Germany) “Biology oriented synthesis“ 09:00 10:15 Thursday, September 25 Chairperson: A. Guarna (Firenze, Italy) T. Carell (München, Germany) “Epigenetic DNA bases beyond Watson and Crick” A.J. Wilson (Leeds, UK) “Adventures in non-covalent chemistry: from self-assembly to protein surface recognition” 11:30 Coffee break 12:00 G. Bifulco (Salerno, Italy) “Quantum chemical calculation of NMR parameters in the stereochemical determination of organic compounds“ Break 15:00 Chairperson: R. Caputo (Napoli, Italy) P. Scrimin (Padova, Italy) (R. Curci Memorial Lecture) “Chemistry at the nanometer scale: from molecular recognition to catalysis” 16:15 Coffee break 16:45 S. Hanessian (Montréal, Canada) “Proximity-induced effects in chemistry and biology: from conception to discovery” 18:00 Closing remarks 20:30 Farewell Party