Program

Conference Schedule 

Sunday, June 14, 2026   

 12:00-               Registration

 15:00-15:10     Opening Remarks

  Session Ⅰ

 - Chair : Eunsung Lee

 15:10-15:50   [PL-1] Mark Lautens (University of Toronto)

                         "Making and Breaking Heterocycles Using Catalysis"

 15:50-16:15   [IL-1]  Hao Wei (Northwest University)

                         "Direct Transformation of Heterocyclic Skeletons"

 16:15-16:40   [IL-2]  Yi Wang (Nanjing University)

                         "Bench-stable azidodifluoromethyl imidazolium reagents for carbonimidic difluoride chemistry"

 16:40-17:05    [IL-3]  Sunwoo Lee (Chonnam National University)

                         "Transformation and Construction of Amide Bonds"

 17:05-             Welcoming Reception 

Monday, June 15, 2026

Session Ⅱ

 - Chair : Mark Biscoe

  08:30-09:10   [PL-2] Casterm Bolm (RWTH Aachen University)

                         "Mechanochemistry in Synthesis and Catalysis"

  09:10-09:35   [IL-4]  Seung Youn Hong (Seoul National University)

                         "Homologative Synthetic Logic for Alkene Functionalization"

  09:35-10:00   [IL-5]  Ken Tanaka  (Inst. of Science Tokyo)

                         "Enantioselective Organometallic Synthesis of 3D π-Extended Helicenes"

  10:00-10:25  [IL-6] Nicolai Cramer (EPFL)

                         "Efficiency in Catalyst Design for Asymmetric Catalysis: Rationality, Diversity, Predictability…Luck?"

        10:25-10:45    (Coffee Break)

Session Ⅲ

 - Chair : Kwangmin Shin

  10:45-11:10   [IL-7] Han-Yong Bae  (Sungkyunkwan University)

                         "Synergistic Organo–Bismuth Binary Catalysis for Asymmetric Allylation"

  11:10-11:35   [IL-8]  Wei Shu (SUSTech)

                         "Catalytic Asymmetric Cross-Hydrodimerization of Hydrocarbons"

  11:35-12:00   [IL-9]  Ramesh Giri (Pennsylvania State University)

                         "Development of Alkene Difunctionalization Reactions

  12:00-12:00   [IL-10]  Xi Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)

                         "Hydroalkylation of Purely Aliphatic Alkenes"

  12:25-13:50    (Lunch)

Session Ⅳ

  - Chair : Hao Wei

  13:50-14:30   [PL-3] Ilan Marek   (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

                         "Stereoselective SN1 at Non-Classical Carbocation"

  14:30-14:55   [IL-11]  Seung Hwan Cho (POSTECH)

                         "1,1-Diborylalkanes: Versatile Reagents for Selective Bond Formation"

  14:55-15:20   [IL-12]  Fuk Yee Kwong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

                         "Synchronous Aromatic C–O Bond Cleavage Enables Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Unreactive Aryl Acetates"

  15:20-15:45   [IL-13]  Yoshiaki Nakao  (Kyoto University)

                         "Catalytic Denitrative Transformations"

 15:45-17:45  Poster Session

   15:45-16:45  Board meeting (for IAB members)

   18:00-            Conference Dinner (for Speakers) 

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Session Ⅴ

  - Chair : Sarah Yunmi Lee

  08:30-09:10   [PL-4] Hajime Ito  (Hokkaido University)

                         "Mechanochemical Organometallic Synthesis:New Reactivity and New Opportunities"

  09:10-09:35   [IL-14]  Shigeki Matsunaga (Kyoto University)

                         "Development of Chiral Catalysts for Asymmetric C-H Functionalization"

  09:35-10:00   [IL-15]  Mark Biscoe  (City College of New York)

                         "Enantiodivergent Approaches to Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions"

  10:00-10:25   [IL-16] Lei Gong  (Xiamen University)

                         "Photoinduced Asymmetric Catalysis with 3d Transition-Metal Chiral Complexes"

  10:25-10:45    (Coffee Break)

 Session Ⅵ

 - Chair : Gavin Chit Tsui

  10:45-11:10   [IL-17] Debabrata Maiti (IIT Bombay)

                         "Unlocking new chemical space via selective catalysis"

  11:10-11:35   [IL-18]  Liu Leo Liu (SUSTech)

                         "Stable Carbene of Inverted Electronic Configuration"

  11:35-12:00   [IL-19]  Indrajeet SHarma (University of Oklahoma)

                         "Skeletal Editing with Sulfenylcarbenes and Sulfenylnitrenes"

  12:00-12:25   [IL-20]  Bill Morandi (ETH Zürich)

                         "NEW CONCEPTS FOR ATOM AND FUNCTIONAL GROUP TRANSFER"

Industrial Session 

               "to be updated"

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

 Session Ⅶ

  - Chair : Yoshiaki Nakao

  08:30-09:10   [PL-5] Darren Dixon (University of Oxford)

                         "Catalyst Control in Complex Molecule Synthesis"

  09:10-09:35   [IL-20]  Andy McNally (Colorado State University)

                         "Chemistry for Medicinal Chemistry"

  09:35-10:00   [IL-21]  Jun Wang (Hong Kong Baptist University)

                          "Exploration of C-P Bond Formation for the Assembly of Chiral Phosphorus Compounds"

  10:00-10:25   [IL-22] Yong Ho Rhee  (POSTECH)

                         "Pd-catalyzed Asymmetric hydrofunctionalization of Alkoxyallenes: Development of De Novo Glycochemistry"

  10:25-10:45    (Coffee Break)

Session Ⅷ

- Chair : Hong Geun Lee

  10:45-11:10   [IL-23]  Sophie Rousseaux  (University of Toronto)

                         "New Developments in Ni-Catalyzed Transnitrilation"

  11:10-11:35   [IL-25]  Igor Larrosa (University of Manchester)

                         "Mechanistic understanding-led transition metal catalyzed C-H functionalization"

  11:35-12:00  [IL-26]  Shaolin Zhu (Nanjing University)

                         "Nickel-Catalyzed Migratory Cross-Coupling Reactions"

 12:00-12:20  Poster Awards & Closing Remarks