List of Speakers (Alphabetical order, revised on November 24, 2004)
Plenary Lectures
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Blaser
Switzerland
“Developing enantioselective catalytic processes: Approaches and results”
Dr. Hardy Chan
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer, Scino Pharm. Taiwan Limited
“Anticipating the future needs of the active pharmaceutical ingredient industry”
Prof. William T. H. Chan
Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
“The story of green tea: chemical and biological studies of green tea polyphenols”
Prof. Chi-Ming Che
Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong
“Ruthenium porphyrin catalysts for organic synthesis”
Dr. Terunori Fujita
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Catalysis Science Laboratory R&D Center, Japan
“Development of FI Catalysts and their applications to value-added polymers”
Prof. John A. Gladysz
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
“Alkene metathesis in metal coordination spheres: from insulated molecular wires to molecular gyroscopes”
Prof. Tamio Hayashi
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
“Chiral diene ligands for transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions”
Prof. Richard Haynes
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
“New drugs based on the Chinese drug Qinghaosu: Rational design, mechanism of action, and potential for new targets”
Prof. Chul-Ho Jun
Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Korea
“Transition metal catalyzed C-H and C-C bond cleavage in organic synthesis”
Prof. Pak-Hing Leung
National University of Singapore
“Asymmetric synthesis of functionalized P-chiral phosphines and development of gold anti-cancer drugs”
Prof. Can Li
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
“Heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis on surface/ in nanopores of solid materials”
Dr. Gerhard Penn
Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland
“Process development for a chiral 3-amino-2-hydroxy-phosphinic acid. - A case study in asymmetric synthesis -“
Prof. Tamotsu Takahashi
Catalysis Research Center and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan
“Development of catalytic reactions in organic synthesis using early transition metal compounds - From stoichiometric to catalytic reactions-”
Invited Lectures
Prof. Qing Hua Fan
Institute of Chemistry, Beijing
“Synthesis and application of chiral dendritic catalysts”
Prof. Masafumi Hirano
Department of Applied Chemisty, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
“Catalytic allylation reactions by allylic alcohols in biphasic organic solvent/water medium”
Dr. Fethi Kooli
Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore
“Isomerization of n-heptane on different catalyst supports”
Dr. Ilya M. Lyapkalo
Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore
“A new general one-step method for synthesis of alkynes from enolizable carbonyl compounds”
Dr. Tomoo Mizugaki
Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
“Development of highly functionalized dendrimer-bound metal catalysts for organic syntheses”
Dr. Takashiro Muroi
Vice President & General Manager, Business Development, N.E.Chemcat Corporation, Japan
“Advanced catalysts for fine chemical”
Dr. Mayumi Nishida
Senior Research Associate, Koei Chemical Co., Ltd., Japan
“Palladium charcoal-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling and iridium-catalyzed aromatic C-H borylation”
Prof. Makoto Onaka
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
“Olefin metathesis over mesoporous alumina-supported rhenium oxide catalyst”
Prof. Jaiwook Park
Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
“Enzyme-metal combo catalysis for preparing chiral compounds”
Prof. Sang -Eon Park
Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Science, Inha University, Korea
“Oxidative dehydrogenation of alkylaromatics with CO2 as soft oxidant”
Prof. Satoshi Sato
Department of Applied Chemistry, Chiba University
“Dehydration of diols into unsaturated alcohols”
Prof. Takanori Shibata
Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
“Iridium complex-catalyzed [2+2+2] cycloaddition for the synthesis of axially chiral compounds”
Dr. Hisao Urata
General Manager, Organic Synthesis and Molecular Catalysis Laboratory,
Mitsubishi Chemical Group Science and Technology Research Center, Inc., Japan
"Homogeneous catalysis in Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation"
Prof. Kwok-Yin Wong
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
“Electrochemical generation of hydrogen peroxide for in-situ alkene epoxidation”
Prof. Tohru Yamada
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan
“Optically Active Ketoiminatocobalt Complexes: Novel Chiral Lewis Acid for Enantioselective Catalysis”