Keynote Lectures
Time: 09:30-11:30, May 19, 2010 (Wednesday)      Place: 305AB, 3F, BICC, China

Moderator

Dr. Xumu Zhang, Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Rutgers University, USA

09:30-10:00

Title: On the Interplay of Enzymes and Asymmetric Synthesis
Dr. David Berkowitz, Professor, University of Nebraska, USA

10:00-10:30

Title：Innovation as the Driver of Green Chemistry Advances in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Dr. Jos Brands, St. Director, Merck Research Laboratories, USA

10:30-11:00

Title: Highly Efficient Asymmetric Synthesis with Chiral Spiro Catalysts
Dr. Qi-Lin Zhou, Professor, Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, China

11:00-11:30

Title: Recent Advances in Asymmetric Hydrogenation for Making Chiral Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Xumu Zhang, Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Rutgers University, USA

Chair: Dr. David Berkowitz, Professor, University of Nebraska, USA

13:30-13:35

Chair's Introduction

13:35-13:55

Title: An In Situ Enzymatic Screening (ISES) Platform for Catalyst Discovery
Dr. David Berkowitz, Professor, University of Nebraska, USA

13:55-14:15

Title: The Employment of an Anionic-Nitrogen Heterocyclic Carbene in Main and Early Transition Metals for C-H Activation and Catalysis Application
Dr. Tiow-Gan Ong, Assistant Professor/Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

14:15-14:35

Title: 3D-QSPR Approaches for Predictions of the Outcome in Asymmetric Organometallic Catalysis
Dr. Jorge J. Carbo, Associate Professor, Rovira i Virgi University, Spain

14:35-14:55

Title: Design of Chiral AminoOrganoBoron (AOB) Complexes for Molecular Recognition and Catalysis
Dr. Susumu Saito, Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Research & Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan

14:55-15:15

Title: Chiral Ligands for Catalysts of Asymmetric Reactions Derived from Diterpenes
Dr. Tatiana B. Khlebnikova, Senior Researcher, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:50

Title: Design and Development of Chiral Macromolecular Catalysts for Asymmetric Catalysis
Dr. T Punniyamurthy, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Chair: Dr. Patrick Perlmutter, Professor, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Australia

08:30-08:35

Chair's Introduction

08:35-09:00

Title: The Application of Surface Acoustic Wave Technology to Synthetic Methods Development, Examples from Asymmetric Catalysis
Dr. Patrick Perlmutter, Professor, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Australia

09:00-09:25

Title: Photoreactive Metal-Oxo Complexes as Functional Redox Enzyme Mimetics
Dr. Guenther Knoer, Professor, University of Linz, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Austria

Track 1-3: Practical Chiral Catalyst Immobilization
Time: 13:30-15:15, May 20, 2010 (Thursday)         Place: 311A, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. José Antonio Mayoral Murillo, Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Zaragoza, Spain

13:30-13:35

Chair's Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Selectivity Modulation through Immobilization of Chiral Catalysts on Nano-structured Supports
Dr. José Antonio Mayoral Murillo, Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Zaragoza, Spain

14:00-14:25

Title: Sol-gel Immobilisation of Asymmetric Catalysts
Dr. Michel Wong Chi Man, Research Director, The ENSC Montpellier, France

14:25-14:50

Title: Immobilization of MacMillan Imidazolidinone as Mac-SILC and its Catalytic Performance on Sustainable Enantioselective Diels-Alder Cycloaddition
Dr. Hisahiro Hagiwara, Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Japan

14:50-15:15

Title: Immobilized Chiral Catalysts for Enantioselective Carbene Insertion into C-H Bonds
Dr. José M. Fraile, Scientific Researcher, ICMA (Universidad de Zaragoza – C.S.I.C.), Spain

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

Track 1-4: Nanotechnologies in Asymmetric Catalysis
Time: 08:30-11:20, May 21, 2010, Friday         Place: 310, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Su Seong LEE, Principal Research Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore

08:30-08:35

Chair's Introduction

08:35-09:00

Title: Ab-initio Studies of Cobalt-doped Beta-peptide Nanotubes as a Class of Spintronic Materials
Dr. Biplab Sanyal, Associate Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden

09:00-09:25

Title: Sol-Gel Immobilization of Late Transition Metal Complexes on Nanostructured Metal Oxides as a Model System to Demonstrate the Growth of Polyethylene
Dr. Il Kim, Professor, Director of the WCU Center for Synthetic Polymer Bioconjugate Hybrid Materials, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea

09:25-09:50

Title: Immobilization of Lipase on Hydrophobically Modified Nanoporous Silica under High Flow Conditions
Dr. Su Seong LEE, Principal Research Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore

09:50-10:15

Title: Bioinspired Nanostructured Photocatalyst: Novel Titania Coated Nanofibrous Carbon Materials
Dr. Jianguo Huang, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, China

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: Development of Chiral Catalytic Systems for Molecular Machineries
Dr. Kazushi Kinbara, Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Japan

10:55-11:20

Title: Imprinted Polymers - New Applications for Enantioselective- Controlled Drug Delivery
Dr. Roongnapa Suedee, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

Track 2-1: Catalytic Asymmetric Alkylation
Time:15:50-17:15,  May 19, 2010, Wednesday         Place: 310, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Jon Tunge, Associate Professor, Member of ACS, USA

15:50-15:55

Chair's Introduction

15:55-16:15

Title: Recent Advances in Decarboxylative Coupling
Dr. Jon Tunge, Associate Professor, Member of ACS, USA

16:15-16:35

Title: Palladium Catalyzed Asymmetric Alkylation of Benzophenone Schiff Base Glycine Esters in Chiral Lonic Liquid
Dr. Deb Kumar Mukherjee, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Korea

16:35-16:55

Title: Synthesis of Titanium-bis-BINOLate-2,2´-propylether Complexes and Their Evaluation in Asymmetric Alkylation of Aldehydes Studies of Catalytic Active Species in Solution
Dr. Artur R. Abreu, Chemistry Department, University of Coimbra, Portugal

16:55-17:15

Title: Natural Product Based Chiral Ligands for the Catalytic Enantioselective Addition of Diethyl Zinc to Aldehydes
Dr. Peyman Salehi, Professor, Chemistry Department of Phytochemistry, Medicianl Plants and Drugs Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

Track 2-2: Catalytic Asymmetric Additions
Time: 08:30-10:15, May 20, 2010, Thursday         Place: 311C, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Schulz Emma, Directrice de Recherches, CNRS, Équipe de Catalyse Moléculaire, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, Université Paris Sud 11, France
Co-Chair: Dr. Douglass Taber, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, USA

08:30-08:35

Chair's Introduction

08:35-09:00

Title: Computational Organometallic Chemistry: Synthesis of (-)-Veratramine
Dr. Douglass Taber, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, USA

09:00-09:25

Title: Carboxylate Directed, Pd-and Cu-Tunable Cross Coupling Reactions of Electronically Equivalent Aromatic Halides
Dr. Ioannis Houpis, Senior Research Fellow, Janssen Pharmaceutica-a Division of JNJ, API Development, Belgium

09:25-09:50

Title: Catalysis of the Clinkering Tendency of Coals
Dr. Mark Shkoller, Professor, Novokuznetsk Branch of Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia

09:50-10:15

Title: Studies on New Chiral Catalysts for Nucleophilic Additions and Thermal [3+2] Cycloadditions
Dr. Fernando P. Cossio, Professor, The University of the Basque Country, Spain

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

Track 2-3: Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Reductions( part one)
Time:09:25-12:35,  May 20, 2010, Thursday         Place: 311B, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Ian C. Lennon, Senior Vice President, Chiral Quest Corp., UK

09:25-09:30

Chair's Introduction

09:30-09:55

Title: Syntheses and Applications of Chiral Quest’s Catalysts for Asymmetric Hydrogenation
Dr. Ian C. Lennon, Senior Vice President, Chiral Quest Corp., UK

09:55-10:20

Title: New opportunities in Asymmetric Hydrogenation : Synthetic Applications
Dr. Virginie VIDAL, Research Director, Laboratoire Charles Friedel, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de PARIS, France

10:20-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: Rh-complex Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation - new Results
Dr. Detlef Heller, Professor, Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis, University of Rostock, Germany

10:55-11:20

Title: Chiral Amines by Catalytic Asymmetric (transfer) Hydrogenation Processes
Dr. Laurent Lefort, DSM Innovative Synthesis, A Part of DSM Pharmaceuticals Product, the Netherlands

11:20-11:45

Title: Multi Core Rhodium Complexes in Asymmetric Hydrogenation
Dr. Hans-Joachim Drexler, Scientist, Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis, University of Rostock, Germany 

11:45-12:10

Title: Recent Development of Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation Using P-Chiral Phosphine Ligands
Dr. Tsuneo Imamoto, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, Chiba University, Japan

12:10-12:35

Title: Optimized Ligands for Industrial Rh- & Ru-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation
Dr. Michel Stephan, Senior Researcher, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia

Track 2-3: Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Reductions ( part two)
Time: 13:30-16:45, May 20, 2010, Thursday         Place: 311B, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Ming Lei, Associate Professor; Deputy Director, International Exchanges&Cooperation Department; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering; Institute of Materia Medica, College of Science; Beijing Univ. of Chem. Tech., China
Co-Chair: Dr. Eric Manoury, Permanent Researcher, National Center for Scientific Research(CNRS), France

13:30-13:35

Chair’s Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Generation of Chiral Alcohols by Ru(II)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation: A Mechanistic Perspective
Dr. Christian A. Sandoval, Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

14:00-14:25

Title: Probing the Nature of Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by Bifunctional Transitional Metal Catalysts
Dr. Ming Lei, Associate Professor; Deputy Director, International Exchanges&Cooperation Department; State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering; Institute of Materia Medica, College of Science; Beijing Univ. of Chem. Tech., China

14:25-14:50

Title: P-OP Ligands in Asymmetric Hydrogenation
Dr. Anton Vidal-Ferran, ICREA Research Professor; Research group leader at ICIQ, Spain

14:50-15:15

Title：Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by Chiral Ru(II) Complexes
Dr. Takeshi Ohkuma, Professor, Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Hokkaido University, Japan

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: In Situ Reaction Analysis for Understanding Organic Reaction Mechanisms and Kinetics using Mid-IR Spectroscopy
Dr. Huimin Liu, Senior Technology Application Consultant, METTLER TOLEDO AutoChem, China

15:55-16:20

Title: Asymmetric Hydrogenations Mediated by Cu(I)–chiral Diphosphine Catalysts
Dr. Hideo Shimizu, Researcher, Takasago International Corporation, Japan

16:20-16:45

Title: New Chiral Ferrocene Ligands for Enantioselective Catalysis
Dr. Eric Manoury, Permanent Researcher, National Center for Scientific Research(CNRS), France

Track 2-4: Catalytic Asymmetric Oxygenation
Time: 15:30-17:15, May 20, 2010, Thursday         Place: 311A, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Feyissa G. Gelalcha, 4900 East University Boulevard, USA
Co-Chair: Dr. Konstantin Volcho, Professor, Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russia

15:30-15:35

Chair's Introduction

15:35-16:00

Title: Recent Advances in Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation using Fe-complexes
Dr. Feyissa G. Gelalcha, 4900 East University Boulevard, USA

16:00-16:25

Title: Monoterpenes as a Source for New Chiral Ligands for Asymmetric Sulfoxidation
Dr. Konstantin Volcho, Professor, Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russia

16:25-16:50

Title: Directed Evolution of C4-Symmetric Metal Vanadate-Centered Helical Quadruplexes: Synergistic Ion-specific Transport and Asymmetric Catalysis
Dr. Chien-Tien Chen, Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

16:50-17:15

Title: New Chiral Ligands for Enantioselective Nozaki-Hiyama Allylation
Dr. Chinpiao Chen, Associate Professor, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan

Chair: Dr. Olivier Riant, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Co-Chair: Dr. Jacek Skarzewski, Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

08:30-08:35

Chair's Introduction

08:35-09:00

Title: New Chiral Copper (I)-Bonded Nucleophile Complexes for Enantioselective Catalysis
Dr. Olivier Riant, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

09:00-09:25

Title: Novel Chiral Ligands for Asymmetric Nitroaldol Reaction Catalyzed by CuII Complexes
Dr. Jacek Skarzewski, Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

09:25-09:50

Title：Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions Using Chiral Schiff Base-metal Complexes
Dr. Masahiko Hayashi, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Japan

09:50-10:15

Title: Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Multicyclic Compounds by Catalytic Cycloaddition
Dr. Takanori Shibata, Professor, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: Hiral Phosphine Ligands with Fluoro Alcohol Moieties for Rh-catalyzed Asymmetric Arylation of Aldehydes
Dr. Hideki Amii, Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Technology, Gunma University, Japan

10:55-11:20

Title: Development of Asymmetric Reactions Using Catalysts, which are Composed of Elements of a High Clarke Number
Dr. Kazuhiro Kondo, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical  Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan

11:20-11:45

Title: Acid-base Catalysis with Transition Metal Complexes in Asymmetric C–C Bond-forming Reactions
Dr. Yoshitaka Hamashima, Senior Researcher, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan

11:45-12:10

Title: Hard Anion-Conjugated Cu-Catalyzed Asymmetric C-C Bond-Formation
Dr. Motomu Kanai, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Track 2-5: Catalytic Asymmetric Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation (part two)
Time: 13:30-16:20, May 21, 2010, Friday         Place: 310, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Andreas Gansäuer, Professor, Kekulé-Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bonn, Germany
Co-Chair: Dr. Hsien-Jen Wu, Professor, National Chiao Tung (Jiaotong) University, Taiwan

13:30-13:35

Chair's Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Titanocene-Catalyzed Enantioselective Radical Cyclizations
Dr. Andreas Gansäuer, Professor, Kekulé-Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bonn, Germany

14:00-14:25

Title: Synthetic Applications of Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reactions in Water
Dr. Jacek Mlynarski, Professor, Institute of Organic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) and Faculty of Chemistry Jagiellonian University (Krakow), Poland

14:25-14:50

Title: Asymmetric Autocatalysis with Amplification of Chirality
Dr. Kenso Soai, Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science, Japan

14:50-15:15

Title: Iron-catalyzed Enantioselective Carbometalation/Ring-opening Reaction of Oxabicycloalkenes
Dr. Masaharu Nakamura, Professor, International Research Center for Elements Science (IRCELS), Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Rare Earth Metal/Amide-Based Ligand Complexes: Structural Dynamics, Functional Diversity, And Asymmetric Catalysis
Dr. Naoya Kumagai, Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan

15:55-16:20

Title: Asymmetric Synthesis Based on C-C Bond Formation Utilizing 1,3-Dipoles
Dr. Yutaka Ukaji, Professor, Kanazawa University, Japan

Track 2-6: Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination, Cyclopropanation and Diels-Alder Reaction
Time: 08:30-10:15, May 21, 2010, Friday         Place: 311B, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Jaehong Lim, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN),Singapore

08:30-08:35

Chair's Introduction

08:35-09:00

Title: Asymmetric Cyclopropanation in Continuous Flow Processes: Pybox-Ru vs Pyox-Cu Catalysts
Dr. Alfonso Cornejo, Assistant Professor, Dept of Applied Chemistry, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain

09:00-09:25

Title: Optimization of Asymmetric Cyclopropanation for Silica-Supported Chiral Bisoxazoline-Copper(I) Catalysts
Dr. Jaehong Lim, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN),Singapore

09:25-09:50

Title: The Amine Interrupted Homo-Nazarov Cyclization
Dr. Stefan France, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Sciences, Georgia Tech, USA

09:50-10:15

Title: Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions Using Chiral Rh(II) Complexes
Dr. Shunichi Hashimoto, Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

Track 2-7: Catalytic Asymmetric Amination and Introduction of Other Hetero Atoms
Time:10:30-12:15,  May 21, 2010, Friday         Place: 311B, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Hajime Ito, Associate Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

10:30-10:35

Chair's Introduction

10:35-11:00

Title: Catalytic Stereoselective C-H Amination with Nitrenes
Dr. Philippe Dauban, CNRS Research Director, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, France

11:00-11:25

Title: New Catalysts for Enantionselective Intramolecular Hydroamination
Dr. Schulz Emma, Directrice de Recherches, CNRS, Équipe de Catalyse Moléculaire, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, Université Paris Sud 11, France

11:25-11:50

Title: Enantioselective Construction of Fluorinated Chiral Carbon Centers
Dr. Kazutaka Shibatomi, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

11:50-12:15

Title: Cu(I)-catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of Organoboron Compounds
Dr. Hajime Ito, Associate Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

Track 3-1: Chiral Lewis Base Organocatalysts
Time:13:30-17:35, May 19, 2010, Wednesday         Place: 311A, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Ana Maria Faísca Phillips, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal
Co-Chair: Dr. Thomas Nugent, Professor, Member of ACS and GDCh, Germany

13:30-13:35

Chair's Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Recent Advances in Organocatalyzed Asymmetric Decarboxylation
Dr. Jacques Rouden, Professor, Laboratory of Molecular chemistry, ENSICAEN(School of Engineering) - University of Caen, France

14:00-14:25

Title: Asymmetric synthesis of chiral phosphonic acid derivatives
Dr. Ana Maria Faísca Phillips, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal

14:25-14:50

Title: On the Boarder of Catalysis – Cchirality Transfer from Solvents into Transition States
Dr. Stefan Hüttenhain, Professor, Hochschule Darmstadt, Fachbereich Chemie und Biotechnologie, Germany

14:50-15:15

Title: A New Organocatalyst Template: Highly Modular Pyridine Catalysts for Aldol Reactions in Water
Dr. Thomas Nugent, Professor, Member of ACS and GDCh, Germany

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Asymmetric Catalysis Using a Primary Amino Acid Salt
Dr. Masanori Yoshida, Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

15:55-16:20

Title：The Crystal Structure of Chiral N-metal Complexes Involving α-ethylphenyl amine and Application to the Henry Reaction
Dr. Luo Mei, Associate Professor, Member of CAS, China

16:20-16:45

Title: Highly Efficient Asymmetric Aldol Processes Using a Benzoimidazole-Pyrrolydine (BIP) Organocatalyst
Dr. Jean-Marc Vincent, Permanent Researcher, CNRS – University Bordeaux 1, France

16:45-17:10

Title: Aminocatalysis with Cyclic Amines
Dr. Tõnis Kanger, Professor, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

17:10-17:35

Title: Organocatalytic Synthesis of Chiral Benzopyrans
Dr. Yifeng Wang, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry-Synthesis Technology, Zhejiang University of technology, China

Track 3-2: Chiral Bronsted Acid Organocatalysts
Time:10:30-12:15,  May 20, 2010,Thursday         Place: 311C, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Yi Hsiao, Principal Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb, USA
Co-Chair: Dr. Jan van Maarseveen, Associate Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

10:30-10:35

Chair's Introduction

10:35-11:00

Title: Organochiral Catalysis by Aminoacid Functionalized Mesoporous Materials
Dr. Sang-Eon Park, Professor, Inha University, Korea

11:00-11:25

Title: Chiral Guanidine Catalyzed Enantioselective Reactions
Dr. Choon-Hong Tan, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore

11:25-11:50

Title: Chiral Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective  Organocatalytic Three-Component Reaction for the Construction of α-Chiral Amines Molecules
Dr. Géraldine Masson, Assitant Professor, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS, France

11:50-12:15

Title: Catalytic Asymmetric Pictet-Spengler Condensations
Dr. Jan van Maarseveen, Associate Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Track 3-3: Other Organocatalysis in C-N, C-O and C-C Bond formations
Time: 13:30-17:10, May 21, 2010, Friday         Place: 311A, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Phil Page, Professor, University of East Anglia, UK
Co-Chair: Dr. Wolf-D. Woggon, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland

13:30-13:35

Chair's Introduction

13:35-13:55

Keynote Speaker:
Title: Clean, Green And Asymmetric: New Bifunctional Catalysts Based on Amino-boronic Acid Derivatives
Dr. Andy Whiting, Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Durham, UK

13:55-14:15

Title: New Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Epoxidation 
Dr. Phil Page, Professor, University of East Anglia, UK 

14:15-14:35

Title: Biomimetic and Organocatalytic Approaches to Alpha-tocopherol
Dr. Wolf-D. Woggon, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland

14:35-14:55

Title: Enantioselective Oxidative Cyclization Reactions Catalyzed by Chiral Hypervalent Iodines
Dr. Kazuaki Ishihara, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan

  14:55-15:15

Title: Catalytic C-C and C-N Bond Cleavage Promoted by a Transition Metal Complex
Dr. Hiroshi Nakazawa, Professor, Osaka City University, Japan

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:50

Title: Studies on Cyclopalladated Ferrocenylimines Catalyst Self-Assembly Films for C-C Coupling Reaction
Dr. Tiesheng Li, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Key Lab of Chemical Biology and Organic Chemistry of Henan Province, Key Lab of Advanced Nano-information Materials of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou University, China

15:50-16:10

Title: Synthesis of All-Carbon, Quaternary Center-Containing Building Blocks through an Organocatalyzed, Multi-Component Coupling
Dr. Hua Yang, Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, USA

16:10-16:30

Title: Efficient Asymmetric Sulfoxidation of Prochiral Sulfide over Novel Cholesterol-derived Oxaziridine
Dr. Bo Wang, Institute of Biomass Chemistry and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, China

16:30 -16:50

Title: Ruthenium-catalyzed Selective Co-oligomerization of Different Alkenes with High Atom-Efficiency
Dr. Teruyuki Kondo, Professor,Advanced Biomedical Engineering Research Unit, Kyoto University, Japan

16:50-17:10

Title: Supramolecular Organo-Catalysis for the Controlled Ring Opening Polymerization of L-Lactide
Dr. Brigitte Bibal, Assistant Professor, Université de Bordeaux, France

Track 4-1: Asymmetric Synthesis in Drug Discovery and Processing
Time: 13:30-16:45, May 19, 2010, Wednesday         Place: 311B, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Jos Brands, St. Director, Merck Research Laboratories, USA
Co-Chair: Dr. Cheanyeh Cheng, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

13:30-13:35

Chair's Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Biotransformation of Estrone and Androstenedione by Continuous Cell Culture of Dual Stirred Tank System
Dr.  Cheanyeh Cheng, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

14:00-14:25

Title: High-Throughput Experimentation in Process Research at Merck
Dr. Jos Brands, St. Director, Merck Research Laboratories, USA

14:25-14:50

Title: Heterogeneous Multifunctional Material: Chiral Separation and Asymmetric Catalysis
Dr. Vishal J. Mayani, Department of Chemical Engineering, Hoseo University, Republic of Korea

14:50-15:15

Title: Efficient Synthesis of Chiral Trifluoromethyl-Containing Molecules
Dr. Jeff Song, Senior Principal Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.USA

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Enantiocontrolled Synthesis of Fluoro-organic Compounds
Dr. Norio Shibata, Professor, Department of Frontier Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagare College, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

15:55-16:20

Title: Synthesis of Tamiflu via Metal-Mediated Domino Reaction and Ring Closing Metathesis
Dr. Boonsong Kongkathip, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Thailand

16:20-16:45

Title：Synthesis of Selected Active Heterocylic Deivatives with Potent Activity Against HIV and Cancer Cells
Dr. Magdy Abdel-Hamid Zahran, Professor, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Menoufiya University, Egypt

Track 4-2: Synthesis of Chiral Unnatural Amino Acids and other Natural Products
Time: 13:30-16:45, May 20, 2010,Thursday         Place: 311C, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Guijun Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans, USA
Co-Chair: Dr. Martin J. Lear, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

13:30-13:35

Chair's Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Selectivity and Specificity: Catalysis and Chiral Pool Hand in Hand
Dr. Ari M. P. Koskinen, Professor, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

14:00-14:25

Title: Generation of D-Amino Acid during Biosynthesis of The Cyclic Lipopeptide Arthrofactin by Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases
Dr. Kenji WASHIO, Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

14:25-14:50

Title： Hydroformylation Reaction as Basic Tool for the Synthesis of Unnatural  -amino Acids
Dr. Andreia Peixoto, Chemistry Department, University of Coimbra, Portugal

14:50-15:15

Title: Synthesis of conformationally constrained chiral bicyclic amino acids
Dr. Guijun Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Orieans, USA

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Conformationally Controllable Molecules from Natural and Semi-Natural Building Blocks
Dr. Yan Zhao, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, USA

15:55-16:20

Title: One Catalytic Step for Synthesis; One Giant Leap for Total Synthesis
Dr. Martin J. Lear,Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Track 5-1: Mild to Extremophilic Enzymatic Catalyzed Transformations
Time: 13:30-17:35, May 19, 2010, Wednesday         Place: 311C, 3F, BICC, China

Chair: Dr. Janina E. Kaminska, Professor, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Co-Chair: Dr. Junhua Tao, Professor, Institute of Sustainability, Hangzhou Normal University and CEO, Syncore Labs, China

13:30-13:35

Chair's Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Quantum Chemical Studies on the Asymmetric Catalysis of Mono-Manganese-Tri-Manganese Cluster for Water-Splitting and Oxygen-Evolving Reaction in Plant Photosystem II: Mechanistic Insight
Dr. Masami Kusunoki, Professor, Department of Physics, School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Japan

14:00-14:25

Title: Chemo- and Enantio-Selectivity in the Preparation of Aldehydic Fragrances
Dr. Piccolo Oreste, Studio Consulenza Scientifica, Italy

14:25-14:50

Title: Access to Enantiomers of Non-Protein Hydroxy Amino Acids by Biocatalysis
Dr. Janina E. Kaminska, Professor, Technical University of Lodz, Poland

14:50-15:15

Title：Recent Advances in Biocatalysis for Synthesis of Chiral Drug Molecules
Dr. Junhua Tao, Professor, Institute of Sustainability, Hangzhou Normal University and CEO, Syncore Labs, China

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Screening of High Active Biocatalysts used for Enantioselective Benzylic Hydroxylation
Dr. Chen Yongzheng, Research Fellow, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

15:55-16:20

Title: Extending Traditional Area of Lipases Application for Prostanoid and Hemiacetal Chemistry
Dr. Omar Parve, Senior Researcher, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

16:20-16:45

Title: The Biocatalytic Potential of Modular Polyketide Synthase Ketoreductases in the Economic and Green Production of Chiral Building Blocks
Dr. Adrian Keatinge-Clay, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, USA

16:45-17:10

Title: Subtle Conformational Change Altering Absolute Enantioselectivity of Tryptophanase
Dr. Akihiko Shimada, University of Tsukuba, Japan