Sunday, October 23, 2022 (Day 1)
16:45-17:15
Opening remarks
Doron Pappo, BGU
Ehud Keinan, Technion, President of the Israel Chemical Society
Chairperson: Moshe Portnoy, TAU
17:15-17:55
David Milstein, Weizmann
Recent advances in bond activation and sustainable catalysis by pincer complexes
17:55-18:35
Anat Milo, BGU
Learning from nature the hard way: Secondary-sphere modification in organocatalysis
18:35-19:15
Jin-Quan Yu, Scripps
20-Year Dancing with Palladium and C−H bonds:
From Curiosity to Industrialization
19:15-20:30
Dinner
Monday, October 24, 2022 (Day 2)
6:30-8:00
Breakfast
Chairperson: Ilan Marek, Technion
8:00-8:40
Michael Krische, UT Austin
Hydrogen-Mediated C−C Bond Formation
8:40-9:20
David Margulies, Weizmann
Fluorescence Labeling of Cancer Cells Using Chemically Modified Bacteria
9:20-10:00
Roman Dobrovetsky, TAU
Geometrically constrained P (III) cations
10:00-10:25
Coffee break
Chairperson: Doron Shabat, TAU
10:25-11:05
Eva Hevia, Bern
Exploiting Chemical Cooperativity for Arene Functionalisation
11:05-11:45
Ahmad Masarwa, HUJI
Sequential Stereoselective C−B and C−H Bonds Functionalization
11:45-12:25
Varinder Aggarwal, Bristol
New Methods in Borylation
12:25-13:05
Renana Poranne, Technion
Breaking it Down: Characterization of Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons Using Their Subunits
13:05-14:30
Lunch
15:00-18:00
Relaxing afternoon in the Dead Sea (optional)
18:30-19:45
Dinner
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 (Day 3)
6:30-8:00
Breakfast
Chairperson: Zackaria Nairoukh, HUJI
8:00-8:40
Mark Gandelman, Technion
Fundamental Chemistry of Nitrenium Ions
8:40-9:20
Gabriel Lemcoff, BGU
Changing the Ligand Sphere in Ruthenium Benzylidenes or How Small Changes Can Lead to Radically Different Results
9:20-10:00
Mariola Tortosa, U. Autónoma of Madrid
Increasing complexity through B−B and C−N bond activation
10:00-10:25
Coffee break
Chairperson: Michael Meijler, BGU
10:25-11:05
Cris Nevado, Zurich
Pyridine-aided cleavage of C−C bonds: a golden team
11:05-11:45
Alex Szpilman, Ariel
Enolonium Species - a Strategy for New Reactivity
11:45-12:25
Vladimir Gevorgyan, UT Dallas
Aliphatic C–H Functionalization via Hybrid Pd-Radical Chemistry
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-17:00
Relaxing afternoon in the Kibutz
Chairperson: Dmitri Gelman, HUJI
17:00-17:40
Matthew Sigman, Utah
Data Science Sciences Tools for Reaction Development
17:40-18:20
Berit Olofsson, Stockholm
Atom-efficient diarylations through metal-free cascade reactions
18:20-19:00
Ori Gidron, HUJI
Adventures with Curved Aromatic Molecules
19:00-20:30
Dinner
21:00-23:00
Social event (music and drinks)
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 (Day 4)
6:30-8:00
Breakfast
Chairperson: Alexandra Tsybizova, ETH
8:00-8:40
Peter Schreiner, Justus Liebig U. Giessen
Extreme Bond Activation
8:40-9:20
Graham de-Ruiter, Technion
Building Molecular Complexity with Iron: Towards New Advances in Catalysis
9:20-10:00
Micha Fridman, TAU
The Role of Synthetic Chemistry in Deciphering the Biological Activities of Antifungal Drugs and Improving their Performance
10:00-10:25
Coffee break
Chairperson: Roman Dobrovetsky, TAU
10:25-11:05
Yuri Tulchinsky, HUJI
Sulfonium complexes: a new player on the π-acid catalysis scene
11:05-11:45
Doug Stephan, Toronto
New Applications of FLP Chemistry
11:45-11:55
Closing remarks, Ilan Marek, Technion
12:00-13:30
Transportation to Ben-Gurion airport