RSC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY MIDLANDS MEETING
Friday 5th April 2013
The Newton Building, Nottingham Trent University
There will be six 30 minute lectures by speakers from Warwick, Loughborough,
Sheffield, Leicester, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent Universities followed
by a lecture by Professor John Murphy from The University of Strathclyde.
We thank the Royal Society of Chemistry for their financial support.
Programme
10.00-11.00 Welcome, refreshments and poster set up
Session 1
11.00-11.30 Dr Andrew Jamieson, University of Leicester
Design and Synthesis of Peptidomimetic HDAC Inhibitors
11.30-12.00 Dr Graham Pattison, University of Warwick
Aromatic Heterocycles as Activating Groups for Asymmetric Catalysis
12.00-12.30 Dr Russell Kitson, University of Nottingham
Flicking the Conformational Switch: 19-Substituted Benzoquinone Ansamycins as Novel
Hsp90 Inhibitors with Reduced Toxicity
12.30-14.00 Buffet lunch (served in lecture theatre 6) and Poster Viewing
Session 2
14.00-14.30 Dr L David Finger, University of Sheffield
Unpair to repair at DNA and RNA Duplex Termini
14.30-15.00 Dr Gareth Pritchard of Loughborough University
New Routes to Heterocyclic Compunds
15.00-15.30 Dr Christopher Garner, Nottingham Trent University
Lecture title TBC
15.30-16.00 Refreshments
Session 3
16.00-16.20 Presentations
16.20-17.20 Professor John Murphy, University of Strathclyde
Highly Reactive Nitrogen Heterocycles- Synthesis and Properties
17.20 Wine reception