Program Thursday March 12th 2026
| 09:00 | Welcome & Coffee in FIRE |
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| 10:00 | Opening by Eelco Ruijter | |
| Keynote I in AIR | ||
| 10:05 | Varinder Aggarwal (University of Bristol, UK) Synthesis in a Boron World |
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| Parallel session I in AIR Chair: Eelco Ruijter |
Parallel session II in WATER Chair: Kim Bonger |
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| 10:55 | Ivo Kruisheer (VU) Prize-Winning Route to IschnocybineA |
Wiert Kolkman (RU)
Targeted photodynamic therapy for the treatment of congenital hyperinsulinism
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| 11:15 | Jonas Djossou (UvA) Radical Disconnection as Gateway to Diverse Aminomethylation Reactivity |
Dominik Schauenburg (UM)
Dynamic Covalent Chemistry for Life-Like Materials: From Reversible Bonds to Regenerative Function
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| 11:35 | Job Gieling (UCLouvain, BE) Scalable and Sustainable Mechanochemical Deracemisation by Resonant Acoustic Mixing |
Paul Wienecke (RUG)
SAR and Target Identification Studies on 1-TbAd - a Nucleosidic Virulence Factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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| 11:55 | Lunch in FIRE & ALV (ALV in WATER; starts at 12:30) | |
| Keynote II in AIR Chair: Kim Bonger |
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| 13:00 | Danila Branca (IRBM, IT) Evolution Towards Clinical Candidate MK-0616: Next Generation Oral Tricyclic Peptide PCSK9 Inhibitors for LDL-Lowering and Coronary Heart Diseases |
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| Parallel session III in AIR Chair: Fedor Miloserdov |
Parallel session IV in WATER Chair: Leendert van den Bos |
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| 13:50 |
Frank de Kleijne (RU)
Anchimeric assistance of acyl neighboring groups as stereodirecting strategy in synthesis: What can we learn from glycoscience?
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Dmitrii Nagornîi (UvA)
Flow-Enabled, Modular Access to α,α-Difluoromethylene Amines
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| 14:10 | Zezhong Dong (UvA) Macrocycle quinone rotaxanes as integrated proton-coupled electron transfer platforms |
Giulia Brioschi (UNMI, IT)
Synthesis of bioactive stilbenoid metabolites and derivatives as potential antimicrobial agents
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| 14:30 | Baptiste Roure (RUG) A Strongly Oxidizing Dicationic Photocatalyst for the Direct Amination of Arenes |
R. Okawa (VU)
Application of the Ugi reaction to post-translational modifications in the mRNA display
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| 14:50 | Coffee/Tea | |
| Keynote III & IV in AIR Chair: Cati Ferrer |
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| 15:20 | Antonio Echavarren (ICIQ, ES) Molecular Gymnastics through Gold–Carbene Chemistry |
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| 16:05 | Junior PI Lecture: Mathijs F.J. Mabesoone (RU) Data-driven Discovery of General Design-Rules for Peptide Surfactants |
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| 16:25 |
Géraldine Masson (CNRS, F)
Chiral Brønsted Acid–Driven Enantio- and Regioselective Transformations of Polyunsaturated Systems toward Complex Molecular Architectures
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| 17:00 | Posters & Drinks in FIRE | |
| 18:30 | Dinner in the Restaurant | |
| 20:30 | Socialising & Borrel in FIRE | |
Program Friday March 13th 2026
| Keynote V in AIR Chair: Fedor Miloserdov |
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| 09:00 |
Alois Fürstner (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, DE)
On the Pluripotent Triple Bond
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| Parallel session V in AIR Chair: Fedor Miloserdov |
Parallel session VI in WATER Chair: Kevin Neumann |
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| 09:50 | Daan Hoogers (UL) How Electronic and Steric Effects in Acceptor Alcohols Shape SN1- and SN2-type Glycosylation Reactions |
Brendan Horst (VU) Efficient Synthesis of the Novel Anti-Malarial Drug Ganaplacide |
| 10:10 |
Soma P. Rudi (UvA)
S,O-ligand enabled meta C-H halogenation of anisole derivatives via palladium/norbornene catalysis
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Phillip Yesley (RU) Site-Selective Ligand Selection by Mutational Profiling for Covalent RNA Targeting |
| 10:30 |
Diego Meneses (UM)
Dual Nickel/Photoredox Catalysis Enables Isocyanide Insertion Chemistry
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Peter Fodran (RUG)
A Two-Step Photocatalytic Platform for Rapid Access to sp³‑Rich Spirocyclic Scaffolds in Drug Discovery
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| 10:50 | Coffee / Tea | |
| Keynote VI in AIR Chair: Jordy Saya |
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| 11:20 | Rienk Eelkema (TUD) Ionising radiation generated reaction networks can activate chemotherapeutic drugs |
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| 11:50 | Lecture “EurJOC Best Research Article by Early Career Researcher” Lecture by the winner |
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| 12:10 | Junior PI Lecture: Eva J. Meeus (WUR) Late-Stage Diversification of Native Tryptophan-containing Peptides and Peptide Drugs through Nitrogen Atom Insertion |
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| 12:30 | Lunch in FIRE | |
| Keynote VII – IX in AIR Chair: Kevin Neumann |
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| 13:30 | Jeffrey Bode (ETH Zürich, CH) Synthetic Organic Chemistry for Biologics |
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| 14:15 | Junior PI Lecture: Danny Broere (UU) Old Dogs with New Metal-Ligand Cooperative Tricks |
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| 14:35 | Dirk Trauner (University of Pennsylvania, US) The Art of Picking a Target Molecule |
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| 15:20 |
SOC Prizes for best oral and poster presentations | |
| 15:30 | Closing followed by drinks | |
