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FloHet-2012: the 13th Annual Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Conference will take place at the University of Florida in Gainesville, March 4-7.

Eleven plenary lectures, four short courses, 48 invited lectures, 50 posters, and an exposition are planned.

Plenary lectures
Phil Baran, Scripps, La Jolla, USA
Studies in Natural Product Synthesis
Ian Baxendale, Cambridge University, UK
Charting New Courses within the Flow of Synthesis
Pat Confalone, DuPont Crop Protection, USA
Topics in Discovery and Process Chemistry from Pharma and Crop Protection R&D
Laurence Harwood, University of Reading, UK
TBA
Oliver Kappe, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria
Translating Microwave Chemistry to Scalable Flow Processes
David Kingston, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA
Adventures in the Chemistry and Biology of Taxol, a Famous Heterocyclic Natural Product
Herbert Mayr, University of Munich, Germany
Scales for Nucleophilicity and Electrophilicity: A Semiquantitative Approach to Heterocyclic Reactivity
Eckhard Ottow, Bayer Schering, Germany
From the clinic to the lab and back - Discovery of pan CDK Inhibitors
Andreas Pfaltz, University of Basel, Switzerland
Asymmetric hydrogenation with iridium catalysts derived from chiral heterocyclic ligands
Brian Stoltz, California Institute of Technology, USA
TBA
Peter Wuts, Kalexsyn, USA
Approaches to the Large Scale Synthesis of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors

Short courses
Christian V. Stevens, Ghent University, Belgium
Opportunities for Microflow Technology
Pierre Woehl, Corning European Technology Center, France
Physico-chemical / Engineering Aspects of Flow Chemistry
John A. Joule, The University of Manchester, UK
Indoles - New Reactions and Synthesis
Gordon W. Gribble, Dartmouth College, US
Applications of Lithium, Palladium, Magnesium, Gold, and Copper in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Invited Lectures
Names of speakers who have confirmed invitations to speak are listed on the conference website http://www.arkat-usa.org/conferences-flohet-others/courses-lectures-posters/ and lecture titles will be added when received.

Posters
Abstracts of these should be submitted to Eric Scriven - Efvs1@aol.com by January 6, 2012.

For further information and to register: http://www.arkat-usa.org/conferences-flohet-others/

BOSS XIII
13th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium
July 15 - 20, 2012, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
www.BOSS13.org
Brochure

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