15th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 15), Dublin, Ireland

✍ Scribed by Guy C. Lloyd-Jones; M. Paz Muñoz; Gareth Owen-Smith

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 205 KB
• Volume: 2007
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-193X
• DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200790065

✦ Synopsis

The 15 th conference in the highly successful biennial ESOC series was held in Dublin in July (8 th Ϫ13 th ) 2007 under the Chairmanship of Professor P. J. Guiry (University College Dublin) and proved to be an outstanding week, offering some of the very best in organic chemistry from across Europe and further afield. A rather unique characteristic of the ESOC series is the broad range of organic chemistry that is covered, from supramolecular chemistry, through materials, synthesis, synthetic methodology, chirality, biological systems, structural and physical organic chemistry to computation. With a pervading theme of catalysis, in all its manifold guises: enzymic, organo-, organometallic, ionic, Brønsted, this meeting was no exception.

Chirality is ubiquitous in chemistry, but it is most commonly encountered as central chirality, where it is the spatial arrangement about one or more atomic centres that is of interest. Despite numerous advances in asymmetric synthesis, many motifs still present significant challenges.