XIII Spring Meeting

Monday, 24 June, 2013

10:00 am to 12:30 pm Registration

Opening Ceremonies 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm Pekka Joensuu, Chairman of the Finnish Society for Synthetic Chemistry Ari Koskinen, Aalto University

Chairperson: Pekka Joensuu, Aalto University

Keynote Address 1: Olivier Riant, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm New Chiral Copper (I)-Bonded Nucleophile Complexes for Enantioselective Catalysis

Presentation 1: Nuno Candeias, Tampere University of Technology 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm Enantioselective modification of oxindole derivatives: aminooxygenation and syntheses of spirooxindoles

2:30 pm to 3:00 pm Coffee break

Keynote Address 2: Tomas Hudlicky, Brock University, Canada 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Recent progress in the chemoenzymatic synthesis of natural products. Constraints in total synthesis: How to combine the best of academic and industrial principles to achieve efficiency.

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm AGM of the FSSC

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Get together

Tuesday, 25 June, 2013

Chairperson: Reija Jokela, Aalto University

Keynote Address 3: Pher Andersson, Stockholm University, Sweden 9:00 am to 10:00 am Turning Dihydrogen into a Highly Versatile Reagent in Enantioselective Synthesis

Presentation 2: 10:00 am to 10:30 am Andrejs Pelss, Aalto University Short and modular approach to lepadin alkaloids

10:30 am to 11:00 am Coffee Break

Keynote Address 4: 11:00 am to 12:00 am David MacMillan, Princeton University, U.S.A. The use of Photoredox Catalysis in Organic Chemistry

12:00 am to 1:30 pm Lunch

Chairperson: Petri Pihko, University of Jyväskylä

Keynote Address 5: 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Varinder Aggarwal, Bristol University Assembly line synthesis 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm Coffee break

Keynote Address 6: Victor Snieckus, Queen’s University, Canada 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Partnering Aromatic/Heteroaromatic Lithium – Transition Metal Catalyzed Chemistries

Chairperson: Pekka Joensuu, Aalto University

4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Publication prize ceremonies

Presentation 3: Mikko Leskinen, University of Jyväskylä 4:30 pm to 5:00 pm Cross-Dehydrogenative Couplings between Indoles and β-Keto Esters: Mechanistic Evidence from Kinetic Isotope Effects

Presentation 4: 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm Oskari Karjalainen, Aalto University Allylative 5-endo-trig cyclization: mechanistic insights and applications

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Poster Session and Evening Reception / Speakers’ Dinner

Wednesday, 26 June, 2013

Chairperson: Ari Koskinen, Aalto University

Keynote Address 7: Karl Gademann, University of Basel, Switzerland 9:00 am to 10:00 am Copy and Paste with Natural Products - from Total Synthesis to Functionalized Surfaces Directing Biological Response

10:00 am to 10:30 am Coffee Break

Keynote Address 8: Paul Wender, Stanford University, U.S.A. 10:30 am to 12:00 am The Ideal Synthesis, Step Economy And Function Oriented Synthesis: First-In- Class Strategies For Treating AIDS, Resistant Cancer And Alzheimer's Disease

12:00 pm to 12:30 pm Closing Ceremonies