Speakers

The FACS XIV program includes invited lectures by:

Antoine Baceiredo LHFA Université Paul Sabatier Group Site "New Silicon Compounds with Transition-Metal-Like Behavior"
Phil S. Baran The Scripps Research Institute Department of Chemistry Group Site "Studies in Natural Product Synthesis"
Fabrice Chemla UPMC Paris VI Synthèses Selectives et Organometalliques (SSO) Group Site "Organozinc Compounds : New Reactivity Patterns"
Thomas Colacot Johnson-Matthey Catalysis and Chiral Technologies (CCT) Company Site "New Trends in Cross Coupling"
Janine Cossy Laboratoire de Chimie Organique ESPCI ParisTech Group Site "Complex Molecules and Development of Methods"
Vy Dong University of Toronto Group Site "A Few of My Favorite Rings: Catalysis Inspired by Lactones and Lactams"
Pascal Dumy Grenoble University Departement de Chimie Moleculaire Group Site "Oxime Chemistry for Biomolecules Engineering: a Toolbox for Molecular Imaging and Tailor-Made Therapy"
Elisabet Dunach Institut de Chimie de Nice University Nice-Sophia Antipolis Group Site "Catalysis by Lewis Superacids: C-C and C-O bond formation; applications to fragrance chemistry"
Xiaoyi Gong Merck Company Site "The Use of Platform Chemical Technologies in Pharmaceutical Discovery and Development at Merck"
Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology Group Site "Olefin Metathesis Catalysts forSselective Organic Transformations"
Jeffrey Johnson University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Group Site "Complexity and Simplicity in Organic Synthesis: Some Recent Case Studies"
Laura Kiessling University of Wisconsin Group Site "Building the Cell’s Sugar Coat"
Yannick Landais University of Bordeaux Group Site "Olefin Functionnalization: Some Recent Developments"
Angela Marinetti ICSN Gif-sur-Yvette Group Site "Cyclization Reactions Under Phosphine Catalysis"
Jean Rodriguez Aix-Marseille University (AMU) Group Site "Recent Developments of New Stereoselective Multiple Bond-Forming Transformations"
Emmanuelle Schulz Université Paris Sud XI Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay Group Site "New Catalysts for Asymmetric Intramolecular Hydroamination"
Matthieu Sollogoub UPMC, Sorbonne Universités Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire Group Site “Cyclodextrins, Selective Modifications & Applications”
Chris Vanderwal Department of Chemistry University of California Irvine Group Site "Synthesis of Polycyclic Natural Products"
Jin-Quan Yu Department of Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute Group Site "Accelerated C-H Activation Reactions: A Shortcut to Drug Molecules from Chemical Feedstock "
Liming Zhang Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara Group Site "Gold Catalysis: Reactivity Discovery and Methodology Development"