Scientific Committee

Prof. Anthony Burke University of Evora, Portugal site
Prof. Artur Silva University of Aveiro, Portugal site
Prof. Narcisso Garrido University of Salamanca, Spain site
Prof. Janine Cossy ESPCI ParisTech, France site
Dr. Martin Ernst BASF, Germany site
Prof. Francisco Alonso Universidade de Alicante, Spain site
Prof. Paula Branco Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal site
Prof. Maria Manuel Marques Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal site
Prof. Alex Szpilman Ariel University, Israel site
Dr. Stefan Mix Almac, Northern Ireland site
Dr. Hans-Jurgen Federsel (ex-AstraZeneca, UK), Sweden site

Organizing Committee

Prof. Anthony Burke, University of Evora, Portugal
Prof. António Teixeira, University of Evora, Portugal
Prof. Paulo Mendes, University of Evora, Portugal
Prof. José Eduardo Castanheiro, University of Evora, Portugal
Dr. Elisabete Carreiro, University of Evora, Portugal
Dr. Carolina Marques, University of Evora, Portugal
Pedro Brandão, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr. Gonzalo Mármol, University of Evora, Portugal

The conference will be organized into 14 plenary lectures (45 min. each), delivered by a series of internationally recognized speakers from academia and industry (at the conference venue and via zoom), over 25 short talks (selected from the submitted abstracts by the scientific committee and given at the venue and via zoom), multiple flash talks (each selected from the submitted abstracts by the scientific committee, given at the venue and via zoom) and two poster sessions (at the venue and transmitted via zoom). There will be prizes for the best communications.

The poster sessions will be divided into three distinct categories; Synthetic Methodology, Catalysis, total or target based synthesis. The scientific committee will select the best posters from each category, and a prize will be awarded to the first author.
For the in person poster presenters, they will be expected to place their poster in their attributed space by lunch-time on the 31st of August and remove them by the coffee break on the last day (3rd of September).

Those who will be presenting oral communications should send their power-point presentations to the organizing committee via email about 3-4 days from the start of the conference.

On-line participants can present oral, flash and poster presentations. More information will be given shortly on the on-line poster presentation format and procedure.

For the on-line poster presentations, the presenter will need to record a short 2 minute video (Max) with their poster presentation (ideally using powerpoint) which will be uploaded to YouTube. Only one poster presentation per participant will be allowed.

Those who arrive on the 30th of August can register in the evening of the 30th of August from around 4 pm onwards (till about 7 pm). We recommend this to avoid queuing on the following day.
The venue will be clearly sign-posted. When at the conference venue, all in person participants will be expected to follow the health and safety guidelines (based on the most updated information issued by the General Directorate for Health -Portugal) that we will be sent to all in person participants before the start of the conference.

Key areas

The conference will focus on the following key areas:

• Total synthesis.
• Synthesis in Medicinal chemistry, chemical biology and materials science.
• New reagents, catalysts, strategies and concepts for organic synthesis.
• Biocatalysis in synthesis.
• Organocatalysis.
• Flow-chemistry approaches to the synthesis of key targets.
• Applications of organometallic compounds in synthesis and catalysis.
• Stereoselective synthesis.
• Synthesis and property of functional molecules and organic materials.
• Sustainable and Green synthetic and catalytic methods.
• Process development of key pharmaceutical targets.
• Computational tools for synthesis and catalysis.
• Polymer synthesis.