RSC Perkin Meeting 2021

Date: January 7, 2021


49th RSC Scottish Regional Organic Division meeting 2021

The 49th Annual RSC Scottish Regional Organic Division Meeting will be hosted virtually by Heriot-Watt University on 7th January 2021.

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Talk abstracts for the day include:

  • Heterogeneous Photocatalysis in Flow: Technologies for Accelerating Sustainable Synthesis (C. G. Thomson, A.-L. Lee and F. Vilela.)
  • Fluorescent probes for diagnosis of lung disease (Alicia Megia-Fernandez)
  • In vitro biosynthesis of the bottromycin core scaffold (L. Franz, S. Adam, A. Sikandar, J. Koehnke)
  • Chiral Ion Phase-Transfer Catalysis for Enantioselective Radical Reactions (Dr Craig P. Johnston)
  • Selectivity in Anti-Infective Strathclyde Minor Groove Binders (F. Scott)
  • Plate Based Approaches to Drug Discovery at the DDU (Gary Tarver)
  • Remarkable chemistry during the biosynthesis of natural products (A. Wilfred van der Donk)

Poster abstracts for the day include:

  • Application of a 1,5-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole disulfide bridge surrogate in bioactive peptidomimetics (Damon Allan Caroline Morris and Andrew G. Jamieson)
  • PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF 2-THIOOXAZOLE: A PREBIOTICALLY PLAUSIBLE PRECURSOR TO RNA NUCLEOSIDES (L. Bertram and R. Szabla)
  • STEREORETENTIVE ENANTIOCONVERGENT MULTICOMPONENT REACTIONS (Jacob S. Bestwick, Andrew L. Lawrence)
  • STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF BUMPED BET INHIBITORS (Adam Bond, Andrea Testa, Alessio Ciulli)
  • PREPARATION OF ALL-CIS-PENTAFLUOROCYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVES (J. Clarka, A. Taylorb, S. Guldinb and D. O’Hagana)
  • MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS INTO PHASE-TRANSFER CATALYSED ASYMMETRIC FLUORINATION (Yuan Gao and G. C. Lloyd-Jones)
  • Reaction Mechanism and Unexpected Nickel Complex Speciation in the Reactions of Alkyl Halides with dppf-Nickel(0) (Megan E. Greaves,a Thomas O. Ronson,b Guy C. Lloyd-Jones,c Feliu Maseras,d Stephen Sproules,e and David J. Nelsona)
  • KINETICS AND MECHANISM OF Pd(II) X→OH ANION METATHESIS IN THE
    SUZUKI-MIYAURA REACTION (M. Kucharski, A. Watson, G. Lloyd-Jones)
  • Development of Potent PfCLK3 Inhibitors Based on TCMDC-135051 as a New Class of Antimalarials (Amit Mahindra, Omar Janha, Kopano Mapesa, Ana Sanchez-Azqueta, Mahmood M Alam, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Davis C. Nwakanma, Andrew B. Tobin and Andrew G. Jamieson)
  • Stapled peptide ACE2 peptidomimetics designed to target the SARS-CoV-2 spike
    protein (Danielle C. Morgan, Caroline Morris, Amit Mahindra, Connor M. Blair, Gonzalo Tejeda, Imogen Herbert, Matthew L. Turnbull, Gauthier Lieber, Brian J. Willett, Nicola Logan, Brian Smith, Andrew B. Tobin, David Bhella, George Baillie and Andrew G. Jamieson)
  • Development of Small Molecule EPAC1 and EPAC2 Activity Regulators (David Morgan, Urszula Luchowska, Padraic Whelan, Graeme Barker)
  • DEVELOPMENT OF YNAMINES AS NEXT-GENERATION BIOORTHOGONAL TAGGING REAGENTS (Frederik Peschke, Dr. Allan J.B. Watson, Prof. Glenn A. Burley)
  • SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL FLUORESCENT BENZOTRIAZOLE-DERIVED
    AMINO ACIDS (L. Riley and A. Sutherland)
  • A FLUOROGENIC PEPTIDE-BASED SMARTPROBE FOR THE DETECTION OF
    NEUTROPHIL EXTRACELLULAR TRAPS AND INFLAMMATION (M. R. Riosa, G. Garoffolob , G. Rinaldic, A. Megia-Fernandeza , S. Ferrarib, C. T. Robbc, A. G.
    Rossic , M. Pesceb , and M. Bradley)
  • BIFUNCTIONAL PROBES TARGETING THIOESTER DOMAINS FROM
    GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIA (C. Turner, U. Schwarz-Linek, G. Florence)
  • 1-SULFONYL-TRIAZOLES FOR THE FUNCTIONALISATION OF SIMPLE
    BUILDING BLOCKS TO CREATE VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS (Matthew B. Williams, Alistair Boyer)
  • CYTOKYNE AND MITOKYNE: NOVEL SMALL MOLECULE pH SENSORS
    FOR RAMAN CELL IMAGING (Liam T. Wilson, William J. Tipping, Lauren E. Jamieson, Corinna Wetherill, Karen Faulds, Duncan Graham, Zoë Henley, Simon P. Mackay┴ and Nicholas C. O. Tomkinson)
  • HETEROBENZYLIC C-H FUNCTIONALISATION OF ALKYLAZOLES (Jeff Y. F. Wong, Agnieszka Lewandowska, Benjamin R. Trowse and Graeme Barker)
  • JANUS FACE ALL-CIS 1,2,4,5-TETRAKIS(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)- AND ALLCIS
    1,2,3,4,5,6-HEXAKIS(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)- CYCLOHEXANES (Cihang Yu, Agnes Kütt, Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler, Tomas Lebl, David B. Cordes,Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Michael Bűhl, David O’Hagan)

View the programme in PDF format here: Perkin 2021 Short Programme

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