Highlighting organic chemistry in Greece

10.00 am

Opening Remarks - Prof. Adri Minnaard, President of the Division of Organic Chemistry, EuChemS

10.00 am – 10.05 am

Greeting – Prof. Athanasios Papadopoulos, President of the Greek Chemical Society (Department of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, International Hellenic University)

10.05am – 10.15 am

Introduction – Prof. Ioannis Lykakis, Representative of the Greek Chemical Society in the EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry (Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

10.15 am – 10.45 am

Prof. George Vassilikogiannakis (Department of Chemistry, University of Crete); Title: “Development of sustainable photocatalytic transformations for organic synthesis”

10.45 am – 11.15 am

Prof. Christoforos Kokotos (Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Title: “Eleven years of research in Athens: Organocatalysis, Photochemistry and other relevant tales”

11.15 am – 11.45 am

Prof. Vassiliki Sarli (Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); Title: “Design, preparation and screening of TTK and AURK degraders for cancer therapy”

11.45 am – 12.15 pm

Assoc. Prof. Gerasimos Rassias (Department of Chemistry, University of Patras); Title: “A New and Scalable Synthesis of Sitagliptin”

12.15 pm – 12.45 pm

Prof. Alexandros Zografos (Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki); Title: “Simplifying Biosynthesis: How to access the natural complexity following easy steps”

12.45 pm – 13.15 pm

Prof. Dimitris Georgiadis (Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Title: “Recent advances in the synthetic and medicinal chemistry of phosphorus-containing peptidomimetics”

13.15 pm – 13.45 pm

Assoc. Prof. Constantinos Neochoritis (Department of Chemistry, University of Crete); Title: “The rise of atropisomers via MCRs”

13.45 pm

Closing Remarks - Prof. Adri Minnaard, President of the Division of Organic Chemistry, EuChemS