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11th Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Conference March 7-10 2010, University of Florida, Gainesville.

Plenary lecturers:
Ramon Bacardit (Henkel AG), "Chemistry & Bonding – Meeting the Challenges of the Future"
Ronald Breslow (Columbia University), "Heterocyclic Coenzyme Analogs in Artificial Enzyme Systems"
Michael Collins (CEM, Corporation), "The Microwave Revolution: Recent Advances in Applications and Fundamentals"
Berndt Giese (University of Basel), "Electron Relay Race in Peptides – The Influence of Heterocyclic Amino Acids"
Richard Houghten (Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies), "High through-put In Vivo Screening of Heterocyclic Compounds"
Henri Kagan (University of Paris), "Nonlinear effects in asymmetric catalysis"
Oleg Kulinkovitch (Belarussian State University), "Stereoselective synthesis with dicarbanionic reagents"
William Murray (Johnson & Johnson), "C-OH Bond Activation of Tautomerizable Heterocycles in Palladium Catalyzed Coupling Reactions"
William Roush (The Scripps Research Institute), "Recent Studies in the Synthesis of Natural Products and Proof-of-Concept Chemical Probes"
Amos Smith, III (University of Pensylvania), "Advances in Architecturally Complex Natural and Unnatural Products Synthesis Exploiting ARC"
Malcolm Stevens (University of Nottingham), "Chemical whispering and the search for heterocyclic antitumor drugs"
Special lecturer: Koji Nakanishi (Columbia University), "Chemistry & Magic"

Short Courses:
John A. Joule, University of Manchester, UK, "Azines – Reactions and Ring Synthesis;"
Gordon W. Gribble, Dartmouth College, "Applications of Lithium, Magnesium, Gold, Copper, and Palladium in Heterocyclic Chemistry;"
Girolamo Cirrincione, University of Palermo, Italy, "Eight Membered Rings with Two Heteroatoms: Chemistry and Ring Synthesis;"
Ronald K. Castellano, University of Florida, "Noncovalent Interactions of Aromatics and Heteroaromatics in Chemical and Biological Recognition;"
Viktor Zhdankin, University of Minnesota, Duluth, "Hypervalent Iodine Reagents in Organic Synthesis."

We have changed the arrangements for the printed edition of Arkivoc. Limited numbers of printed copies of all 88 issues covering 2000 – 2007 are still available from Amazon.com. For 2008 issues, printed copies have been produced for Commemorative issues only.

45th Congress of the Mexican Chemical Society
29th National Congress of Chemical Education, September 18-22, 2010
Information: www.sqm.org.mx Registration: soquimex@prodigy.net.mx

We regret to report the passing of Professor Gabor Bernath of the University of Szeged in Hungary October 1, 2009. The society of organic chemists has lost one of its outstanding characters. He was a true school founder. He was honored with an Arkivoc commemorative issue in 2003.

The 11th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences will be held at The King Hussain Conference Centre, Dead Sea, Jordan, October, 6 to 10, 2010. Information and registration http://www.euasc2s-11.ju.edu.jo/

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