Workshop Recent Advances on the Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Metabolites

• Grant number: 15/11894-8
• Support Opportunities: Organization Grants - Organization of Scientific Meeting
• Start date: November 12, 2015
• End date: December 11, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Organic Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck
• Grantee: Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química de São Carlos (IQSC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Carlos

Abstract

12 de abril, 20158:30 - 9:00 h Inscrição dos participantes 9:00 h Cerimônia de aberturaDr. Carlos Joly (Coordenador do Programa Biota da FAPESP) ou Dr. Roberto Berlinck (Chairman do Workshop)9:10 - 9:40 Dr. Luiz Carlos Dias: Palestra de Abertura e Considerações Sobre o Desenvolvimento da Síntese Orgânica de Moléculas Biológicas Bioativas no Brasil.9:40 - 10:30 Dr. Catalytic Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products. James Morken (Boston College, Department of Chemistry, Merkert Chemistry Center)10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break10:45 - 11:35 The search for new synthetic methodologies and strategies in the construction of pharmacologically active natural and unnatural compounds. The case of palladium-catalyzed Heck reactions. Dr. Carlos Roque Duarte Correia (Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas)11:35 - 12:00 Discussion12:00 - 13:30 Lunch13:30 - 14:20 Design and Evolution of New Biocatalysts for Organic Synthesis. Dr. Nicholas Turner (School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology)14:20 - 15:10 ±,²-Unsaturated Diazoketones as Useful Platforms in the Synthesis of Heterocycles. Dr. Antonio Carlos B. Burtoloso (Instituto de Química de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo)15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break15:30 - 16:20 Lessons Learnt from MMV Collaboration and Natural Product-Driven Drug Discovery. Dr. Kelly Chibale (Department of Chemistry and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town).16:20 - 16:45 Discussion and final considerations (AU)