www.iupac2017.org Adriano D. Andricopulo Chairman of the IUPAC-2017 Organizing Committee Brazil: Key Figures and Facts • Brazil is Latin America's largest country (47% of the South America Continent) and the fifth largest country in the world • Population: 204 million people (the fifth most populous in the world ) • Language: Portuguese . Official currency: Brazilian Real (1.00 USD = R$ 3.12) • Brazil has the world’s ninth-largest economy and the largest in Latin America Brazil: Key Figures and Facts . São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in Brazil . Population: 12 million people (45 million in SP state) . It is the largest city in South America, and the fifth largest in the world . São Paulo State is responsible for 40% of the Brazilian GDP . Climate: humid subtropical, temperatures in July: 12 and 22°C (54°F and 72°F) . Number of tourists in 2016: > 18 million WTC Events Center and Sheraton WTC Hotel are the most complete complex for events in Latin America Approximately 12,000 m² are available and divided into 60 flexible spaces Services: Parking Restaurants Banks Currency exchange Travel agency Pharmacies Hairdresser’s Stationery General Aspects - 9 Plenary Lectures, including 4 Noble Laureates - About 120 Sessions in 12 major themes - Several Keynote, Invited, Oral and Young Scientists Opening Ceremony Special Symposia Welcome Reception 3 Poster Sessions Half-day Social Program Gala Dinner Exhibition Plenary Lectures Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (Nobel Prize 2016) Department of Chemistry - Northwestern University (USA) Ada E. Yonath (Nobel Prize 2009) Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) Kurt Wüthrich (Nobel Prize 2002) The Scripps Research Institute (USA) Robert Huber (Nobel Prize 1988) Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Germany) Plenary Lectures David MacMillan Princeton University, USA Clare Grey Department of Chemistry - University of Cambridge, UK Katharina Landfester Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research- Munich, Germany Mei-Hung Chiu National Taiwan Normal University, China/Taipei Special Symposia Commemorative Symposium th 40 Anniversary SBQ ►Research Data, Big Data, and Chemistry Symposium Organizers: David Martinsen, ACS ▪ Leah McEwen, Chemistry Librarian ► Women in Chemistry Symposium Organizers: Carolyn Ribes, Dow Benelux BV​ ▪ ​ Fabienne Meyers, Associate Director of IUPAC ▪ Vanderlan da S. Bolzani, SBQ counselor Member ► Young Researchers in Chemistry Keynote Speakers: Cristiano Funari, UNESP ▪ Xavier Pillai, Leydig LTD Invited Speaker: Csaba Janáky, ELI-ALPS Symposia ► Analytical & Food Chemistry (AC) Keynote Lectures • Nicolo Omenetto – Lasers in Analytical Chemistry University of Florida, Gainesville (USA) • Purnendu K. Dasgupta – Flow Analysis University of Texas, Arlington (USA) • Frank Vanhaecke - Mass Spectrometry Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) • Marcos N. Eberlin – Mass Spectrometry Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, Campinas (Brazil) • Maria Montes-Bayón - Chemical Speciation Analysis University of Oviedo, Oviedo (Spain) ► Chemistry Education (CE) Keynote Lectures • David Waddington - Chemical Education for Sustainability Department of Chemistry - University of York, York (UK) Symposia ► Chemistry for Industry Innovation (CI) Keynote Lectures • Camila Cruz Durlacher - Innovation Management 3M, Sumaré (Brazil) • Marcelo Prim - Industry-University Relationship SENAI-DN, Brasília (Brazil) • Luuk van der Wielen - Sustainable Chemistry BE-Basic, Delft University of Technology, Delf (The Netherlands) • Mateus Lopes - Biorefinery Braskem, São Paulo (Brazil) ► Green Chemistry and Biotechnology (GB) Keynote Lectures • Pietro Tundo - Green chemistry methods in organic synthesis, use of organic carbonates as alkylating agents, chlorine-free synthesis. University of Venice (Italy) • Kazunari Domen - Renewable Energies. University of Tokyo (Japan) • Alírio Rodrigues - An integrated process for Lignin valorization to produce vanillin, syringaldheide and poliurethanes. University of Porto (Portugal) • Javier Perez Ramirez - Design of heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable technologies ETH, Zuritch (Switzerland) • Tian Tan - Biomass processing. University of Chemical Technology, Beijing (China) Symposia ► Chemical Synthesis (CS) Keynote Lectures • Karl-Anker Jorgesen – organocatalysis Aarhus University (Denmark) • Ilan Marek - Stereo and enantioselective strategies for organic synthesis Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) • Mike Krische - Synthetic Methods & Natural Products Synthesis University of Textas at Austin (USA) • Carsten Bolm - Synthesis, Asymmetric metal catalysis, Organocatalysis RWTH Aachen University (Germany) • Matthew Sigman - Organic Synthesis & Asymmetric Catalysis The University of Utah (USA) • André Charette - Synthetic Organic Chemistry, University of Montreal (Canada) • Gary A. Molander - Synthetic Methods Development University of Pennsylvania (USA) • Ronaldo Pilli - Organic & Natural Products Synthesis University of Campinas (Brazil) • Magnus Rueping - Organocatalysis, Metal Catalysis, Synthesis of Natural Products and Analogues Institute of Organic Chemistry - RWTH Aachen University - Aachen (Germany) Symposia ► Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (EE) Keynote Lectures • James Durrant - Solar Cells Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London (UK) • Deborah Jones - Fuel Cells Institut Charles Gerhardt, Université Montpellier, Montpellier (France) • Juan Feliu - Electrocatalysis University of Alicante (Spain) • Thierry Brousse - Electrochemical Capacitors University of Nantes (France) • Mario Leclerc - Electroactive and photoactive polymers Université Laval, Québec (Canada) • Catherine Jeandel - Flux and processes of trace elements and their isotopes in the ocean LEGOS - Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse (France) • Peter Croot - Biogeochemistry of trace elements, speciation, and redox behaviour School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway (Ireland) • Nathan S. Lewis - solar fuels/solar chemical Caltech - Pasadena (USA) • Christer Forsgren - Metal recycling Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden) • Michael Bau​​ - ​Anthropogenic REE Jacobs University Bremen​, Bremen (Germany)​ • Daniel Scherson - Energy conversion Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences - Cleveland (USA) Symposia ► Inorganic and Structural Chemistry (IC) Keynote Lectures • Chris Orvig - Medicinal inorganic chemistry and radiopharmaceutical chemistry. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) • Deryn E. Fogg – Organometallic chemistry and catalysis for applications ranging from pharmaceutical synthesis to tissue engineering. Uottawa (Canada) • Pierre Dixneuf - Organometallic catalysis University of Rennes (France) • Hermenegildo Garcia – Catalysis, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry Technical University of Valencia (Spain) • Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier - Synthesis and characterization of metal oxides for materials and catalysis applications Northwestern University (USA) • Nitin P. Padture - Advanced Ceramics and Nanomaterials Brown University (USA) • Miguel Julve - Organometallic Chemistry: Metallosupramolecular Chemistry Departamento de Química Inorgànica, Universidad de Valencia (Spain) • Prof. F. Ekkehardt Hahn - Coordination chemistry Universität Münster (Germany) • Hong-Cai Zhou - Material Engineering and MOF Department of Chemistry - Texas A&M University (USA) Symposia ► Macromolecules and Materials (MM) Keynote Lectures • Bernabe L. Rivas - Functional Polymers and Composites Faculty of Chemistry, University of Concepción, Concepción (Chile) • Jean-François Lutz - Polymer Synthesis Precision Macromolecular Chemistry Group, Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg (France) • Molly Shoichet – Hydrogels and Biomaterials Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada) • Rudolf Zentel - Polymer Synthesis Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Mainz (Germany) • Volker Abetz – Physical Chemistry of Polymers Institute for Polymer Research - Center for Material and Coastal Research, Geesthacht (Germany) • Xavier Crispin - Functional Polymers Department of Science and Technology, Linköpings Universitet, Linköping (Sweden) Symposia ► Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (MB) Keynote Lectures • Stefan Laufer - Small Molecule Drug Discovery Universitat Tubigen (Germany) • Tom Blundell - Structural Biology on Multiprotein Assemblies University of Cambridge (UK) • Rafael Radi - Peroxynitrite-induced Damage to Cells and Therapeutic Implications Universitad de la Republica (Uruguay) • Daniel Rauh - Selective p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitor Technische Universität Dortmund (Germany) • Etsuo Niki - Oxidative Stress or Eustress? Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Japan) Symposia ► Physical, Biophysical and Computational Chemistry (PC) Keynote Lectures • Ludwik Leibler - Self-Assembling. • Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (France) • Paulo Artaxo - Atmospheric Chemistry. • University of São Paulo (Brazil) • Paul L. Dubin - Self-Assembly • University of Massachussets (USA) • Michelle Parrinello​ - ​Theoretical Chemistry ETH (​Switzerland​) • ​Tim Wallington - Environmental Sciences Ford Motor Co. (USA) Symposia ► Natural Products and Biodiversity (NB) Keynote Lectures • Christopher S. Jeffrey – Chemical Ecology University of Nevada (USA) • Jean Luc Wolfender - Metabolômics in Natural Products University of Genève (Switzerland) • John Pickett