12th Paul Walden Symposium Plenary Speakers

Dr. chem. Pavel Arsenyan (Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis)
“Selenium in medicinal and material chemistry: a blessing and a curse”

Professor Robert Francke (University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany)
The Synergistic Interplay between Catalysis and Electrosynthesis

Professor Veronique Gouverneur (University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.)
Late Stage Fluorination with Metal Alkali Fluoride

Professor Paul Knochel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany)
Stereoselective reactions of lithium organometallics – recent applications in flow organometallic chemistry

Professor Daniele Leonori (University of Manchester, Mancheser, U.K.)
Photoinduced assembly of C–N and C–B Bonds

Professor Martin Oestreich (Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany)
Boring Silicon Chemistry Made Interesting

Professor Troels Skrydstrup (Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark)
Recent Developments in Low Pressure Carbonylation Reactions

Professor Alan C. Spivey (Imperial College, London, U.K.)
Catalytic Asymmetric Group Transfer, Boronate Directed C-H activation & Protein Structure Mimicry

PhD student Sindija Lapčinska (Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, Latvia)
Light-driven modifications of Cys and Sec containing peptides

PhD student Lūkass Lukaševics (Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, Latvia)
Cobalt catalyzed C-H bond functionalization