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The 17th Annual Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Conference, University of Florida in Gainesville, February 28 to March 2. FloHet-2016. Eleven plenary lectures, a short course, 50 invited lectures, 50 poster presentations, and an exposition are planned.

Plenary Lectures
Steven Ley, Cambridge University, UK Katritzky Memorial Lecture
Martin Burke, University of Illinois, USA
Naoto Chatani, Osaka University, Japan
Abigail Doyle, Princeton University, USA
Sabine Flitsch, University of Manchester, UK
Peer Kirsch, Merck KGaA, Germany
Nicholas Meanwell, Bristol-Myers Squibb, USA
John Porco, Boston University, USA
Kai Rossen, Sanofi, Germany
Richmond Sarpong, UC Berkeley, USA
Tony Zhang, Eli Lilly, USA

Short Course
Gordon Gribble, Dartmouth College, USA
A Cook’s Tour of Lithium, Palladium, Magnesium, Gold, and Copper in Heterocyclic Chemistry

The Florida Heterocyclic & Synthetic IUPAC-Sponsored Conference took place at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, March 1-4, 2015 with the first Katritzky Lecture delivered by Professor Al Padwa, ten plenary lectures, one short course, 52 invited lectures, 50 posters, and a small exposition. A feature of FloHet-2015 was a series of plenary, invited lectures and a short course on fluorine chemistry and flow technology with new examples from academia and the fine chemicals industry.

Plenary Lectures
Albert Padwa, Emory University, US Katritzky Memorial Lecture
A 50 Year Infatuation/Obsession with 1,3-Dipoles
Huw Davies, Emory University, US
N-Sulfonyltriazoles as Useful Precursors to Donor/Acceptor Carbenes
Veronique Gouverneur, Oxford University, UK
Fluorine Chemistry: from Basic to Clinic
Timothy Jamison, MIT, US
Continuous Flow Multistep Synthesis
Peter Maienfisch, Syngenta, Switzerland
Design and Synthesis of Novel Heterocyclic Compounds with Insecticidal Activity
Christel Menet, Galapagos, Belgium
Triazolopyridines as Selective JAK1 Inhibitors: from Hit Identification to GLPG0634
Tobias Ritter, Harvard University, US
Late-Stage Fluorination for PET Imaging
Paul Scola, BMS, US
Discovery of Asunaprevir (BMS-650032): An Approved NS3 Protease Inhibitor for the Treatment of HCV
Jay Siegel, Tianjin University, PRC
Aromatic Heterocyclic Compounds and Their Metal Complexes
Oliver Thiel, Amgen, US
Chemical Adventures with Small and Large Molecules
Yoshinori Yamamoto, Tohoku University, Japan
p-Conjugated Polycycles and Heterocycles through C-H and X-H Activation across Alkynes

Short Course
Graham Sandford, U. of Durham, UK
Selective Direct Fluorination Strategies: Batch and Flow

Invited Lecturers
David Ager, Stellios Arseniyadis, Natarajan Arumugam, Steven Ballet, Uwe Beifuss, Uli Bernier, Manfred Braun, Juan R. Del Valle, Adrian Dobbs, Tom Driver, Laurent El Kaim, Craig Francis, Pedro Gois, Uros Groselj, Phil Harris, Malcolm Huestis, Zlatko Janeba, Oleksandr Kanishchev, Marijan Kocevar, Kenneth Laali, M. Lakshman, Irina Lebedyeva, Sven Mangelinckx, Vakhid A. Mamedov, Viktor Milata, Ana Minatti, JC. Monbaliu, Thomas J.J. Muller, Alex Oliferenko, Till Opatz, Xavier Pannecoucke, Norton Peet, Zhonghua Pei, Reuben D. Rieke, Floris Rutjes, Jack Ryan, Benjamin Sherry, Kourosch Abbaspour Tehrani, Johan Van der Eycken, Erik Van der Eycken, Daniel Vegh, Stephane Vincent, Mary Watson, Craig M. Williams, Gary Williams, Chris Willis, and Larry Yet

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Bioheterocycles 2015
XVI International Conference on Heterocycles in Bioorganic Chemistry
Metz, France - June 7-11, 2015
The XVI Conference of this series will gather chemists from over the world, involved in the chemistry of heterocycles. The heterocycles in this case will generally be submitted to biological tests, both in medicine as in agriculture. The scientific program will include plenary and invited lectures by top chemists in the field and will be completed by oral communications and poster presentations.

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25th ISHC Congress, August 23-28, 2015
UCSB, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Major Topics:
Synthesis of Heterocyclic Natural Products
Synthesis and Synthetic Utility of Heterocycles
Bioactive and Functional Heterocycles
ISHC President, Dan Comins; Congress Chair, Tom Pettus
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