Conference report BOSS12 Siti Aishah Hasbullah

1. CONFERENCE REPORT BOSS 12 Siti Aishah Hasbullah 20 th October 2010

2. Prof. Eric JACOBSEN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, United States) Prof. David MACMILLAN (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, United States)

3. Tetrahedron Lecture Prof. David MacMillan Princeton University

7. MacMillan: The Advent of Iminium Catalysis and the Field of Organocatalysis New Strategies for Organic Catalysis: The First Highly Enantioselective Organocatalytic Diels - Alder Reaction

9. Tetrahedron Lecture 2: Enamine Catalysis: Teaching and Old Dog Some Tricks Enamine Catalysis : Early Adoption in Catalysis - Woodward-Wieland-Miescher enamine cyclization for steroid synthesis JACS , 1952, 74 , 4223 Helv. Chim. Acta , 1950, 33 , 2215

10. Bifunctional Enamine Catalysis: Generic Induction Platform Use of proline or proline-type activation a widely exploited mode of ketone activation

11. Unconventional Reactivity Profiles Induced by Chiral Primary Amines Catalysis Paolo Melchiorre, Inst. Chem Research of Catalonia

13. Recent Advances in Stereoselectives Synthesis Ilan Marek Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

15. Directed Evolution of Enzymes: New Biocatalysts for Organic Synthesis Nicholas J. Turner, University of Manchester Enantioselective Biocatalytic Oxidative Desymmetrization of Substituted Pyrrolidines

17. Seeking Fundamental Insights and Practical Reaction: Asymmetric Catalysis as a Synthetic and Mechanistic Tool Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University Enantioselective Thiourea-Catalyzed Cationic Polycyclizations

19. Ruthenium Catalyzed Directing Group-Free C2-Selective Carbenoid Functionalization of Indoles by α -Aryldiazoesters Org. Lett, 2010, 12, 604

20. Ruthenium Diversity: Alkynes, Carbenes and C-H Bonds Pierre H. Dixneuf, Rennes, Frances

22. Sequential Synthesis of Furans from Alkynes

24. National University of Malaysia

25. Welcome to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia