Conference Schedule
Sunday, June 14, 2026
12:00- Registration
15:00-15:10 Opening Remarks
Session Ⅰ
- Chair :
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 :
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)
"To be updated"
10:00-10:25 [IL-6] Nicolai Cramer (EPFL)
"Efficiency in Catalyst Design for Asymmetric Catalysis: Rationality, Diversity, Predictability…Luck?"
10:00-10:45 (Coffee Break)
Session Ⅲ
- Chair :
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 :
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)
"To be updated"
15:20-15:45 [IL-13] Yoshiaki Nakao (Kyoto University)
"Catalytic Denitrative Transformations"
15:45- Poster Session
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Session Ⅴ
- Chair :
08:30-09:10 [PL-4] Qi-Lin Zhou (Nankai University)
"Asymmetric Carbene Insertion into N−H Bonds"
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 (Coty 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"
10:00-10:45 (Coffee Break)
Session Ⅵ
- Chair :
10:45-11:25 [PL-5] Hajime Ito (Hokkaido University)
"Mechanochemical Organometallic Synthesis:New Reactivity and New Opportunities"
11:25-11:50 [IL-17] Liu Leo Liu (SUSTech)
"Stable Carbene of Inverted Electronic Configuration"
11:50-12:15 [IL-18] Indrajeet SHarma (University of Oklahoma)
"Skeletal Editing with Sulfenylcarbenes and Sulfenylnitrenes"
12:15-12:40 [IL-19] Bill Morandi (ETH Zürich)
"to be updated"
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Session Ⅶ
- Chair :
08:30-09:10 [PL-6] 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)
"To be updated"
10:25-10:45 (Coffee Break)
Session Ⅷ
- Chair :
10:45-11:25 [IL-23] Sophie Rousseaux (University of Toronto)
"To be updated"
11:25-11:50 [IL-24] Debabrata Maiti (IIT Bombay)
"To be updated"
11:50-12:15 [IL-25] Igor Larrosa (University of Manchester)
"Mechanistic understanding-led transition metal catalyzed C-H functionalization"
12:15-12:40 [IL-26] Shaolin Zhu (Nanjing University)
"Nickel-Catalyzed Migratory Cross-Coupling Reactions"
12:40-13:00 Poster Awards & Closing Remarks