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The 16th Annual Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Conference, University of Florida in Gainesville, March 1-4. FloHet-2015. Eleven plenary lectures, a short course, 50 invited lectures, 50 poster presentations, and an exposition are planned.

Plenary lectures
Albert Padwa, Emory University, US Katritzky Memorial Lecture
Huw Davies, Emory University, US
Veronique Gouverneur, Oxford University, UK
Timothy Jamison, MIT, US
Peter Maienfisch, Syngenta, Switzerland
Christel Menet, Galapagos, Belgium
Tobias Ritter, Harvard University, US
Paul Scola, BMS, US
Jay Siegel, Tianjin University, PRC
Oliver Thiel, Amgen, US
Yoshiri Yamamoto, Tohoku University, Japan

Short Course
Graham Sandford, U. of Durham, UK
Direct fluorination and flow chemistry

Florida Heterocyclic & Synthetic IUPAC-Sponsored Conference took place at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, March 2-5 2014, with eleven plenary lectures, one short course, 52 invited lectures, 60 posters, and a small exposition. A feature of FloHet-2014 was a series of plenary, invited lectures and a short course on catalysis in synthetic organic chemistry with new examples from the fine chemicals industry.

Plenary lectures
Mathias Beller, University of Rostock, Germany
Carolyn Bertozzi, UC Berkeley, US
Jonathan Clayden, University of Manchester, UK
Peter Dunn, Pfizer, UK
Paul Feldman, GlaxoSmithKline, US
Stephen Hanessian, University of Montreal, PQ, Canada
Sebastien Lemaire, J&J, Belgium
Erik Sorensen, Princeton University, US
Jim Thomas, University of Manchester, UK
Christina White, University of Illinois, US
Tony Wood, Pfizer, US

Short Course
B. U. W. Maes, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Pd-catalyzed Cross-coupling Reactions: From Fundamental Steps to Catalytic Cycles

Invited Lectures
Acceptances to date: D. Ager (US), F. Allais (France), M. Al-Masum (US), H. Amri (Tunisia), M. Azam (Saudi Arabia), P. Belmonte (France), R. Bhavantula (India), E. Biehl (US), U. Braendli (Switzerland), A. Campbell (US), J. Christensen (Denmark), C. Chung (US), F. Cossio (Spain), N. Downer-Riley (Jamaica), J. Drabowicz (Poland), G. Dudley (US), P. Erhardt (US), S. Florio (Italy), M. Francisco (US), I. Gillaizeau (France), R. Hanes (US), F. Hansen (Germany), H. Ihmels (Germany), Y. Iwabuchi (Japan), A. Jayashree (India), R. Kargbo (US), D. Ketcha (US), S. Kotha (India), S. Kumar (India), M. Laksman (US), J. Madelengoita (US), V. Mamedov (Russia), A. Mattson (US), C. Meyer (France), V. Milata (Slovakia), T. Moss (UK), A. Nefzi (US), R. Nikolova (Bulgaria), D. Oniciu (France), T. Opatz (Germany), R. Orru (Netherlands), D. Ott (Germany), V. Patil (India), Z. Pei (US), N. Petkova (Bulgaria), V. Pike (US), G. Poda (Canada), H. Sintim (US), J. Soloducho (Poland), J. Svete (Czech. Republic), K. Tanaka (Japan), W. van Otterlo (South Africa), A. Verma (India). D. Virieux (France), B. Zajc (US).

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Source: Web of Science, April 1, 2014

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