Sunday, August 25, 2024

14:00 – 14:30

Opening ceremony

14:30 – 15:30

Plenary Lecture

Electrocatalyzed C-H Activation with Potential
Lutz Ackermann (Georg-August-University Göttingen)

15:30 – 16:15

Coffee break

Chair:

Miroslav Soural

16:15 – 16:45

Blue Danube Senior

Design of Oligothienyl Acenes with Electron Withdrawing Groups as n-type Semiconductors
Martin Putala

16:45 – 17:00

Oral communication 1

Aleš Růžička – The Lightest Metal in Action; Novel Heterocycles, Associates and Clusters of Organolithiums

17:00 – 17:15

Oral communication 2

Sergio Armantia Matheu – Development of Novel Fluorescent Dyes and Their Application as Probes to Study Biological Processes

17:15 – 17:30

Oral communication 3

Petra Sőregi – High density information storage through isotope ratio encoding

17:30 – 17:45

Oral communication 4

Kiryl Vasiutovich – The use of palladium-catalyzed tandem reactions in the synthesis of poly(hetero)cyclic and spirocyclic compounds

17:45 – 18:00

Oral communication 5

Stanislav Kukla – Merck Lecture – Synple, Safe and Sustainable SnAP Synthesis of Saturated N-Heterocycles

18:00 – 20:00

Welcome reception

Monday, August 26, 2024

Chair:

Martin Putala

9:00 – 9:45

Invited Lecture

Modifications of Heterocyclic Nucleobases in Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids for Applications in Chemical Biology

Michal Hocek (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of The CAS)

9:45 – 10:05

Blue Danube Junior

Light-Mediated Nickel Catalysis Enabled by Donor-Acceptor Ligands

Bartholomäus Pieber (Institute of Science and Technology Austria – ISTA)

10:05 – 10:20

Oral communication 6

Ines Kulašić – Visible-light-induced transformations of pyrazolo[1,2-a]pyrazolones

10:20 – 10:35

Oral communication 7

Ivana Weisheitelová – 5-Aryldeazaalloxazine radicals as a new efficient tool in photoreductions

10:35 – 11:00

Coffee break

Chair:

Marko D. Mihovilovic

11:00 – 11:30

Blue Danube Senior

Bioorthogonal Modulation of Photoresponsivity and Vice Versa

Péter Kele (Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungary)

11:30 – 11:45

Oral communication 8

Jure Gregorc – Trifluoromethylthiolation of aromatic amino acids: Peptide late-stage functionalization, local hydrophobicity modulation and selective post-oxidation

11:45 – 12:00

Oral communication 9

Grisa Princic – Advanced Reagent for Nucleophilic Fluorination

12:00 – 12:15

Oral communication 10

Antonio Massa – Organocascade reactions of functionalized α-amidosulfones in the asymmetric synthesis of bioactive γ-lactams

12:15 – 12:30

Oral communication 11

Paulo Paioti – Rapid Synthesis of Diverse Heterocyclic C‒N Atropisomers

12:30 – 12:50

Blue Danube Junior

Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of Vinyl Sulfones and Sulfonamides under Visible Light

Nejc Petek (University of Ljubljana)

12:50 – 14:00

Lunch

13:40 – 14:40

Steering Committee meeting

14:00 – 16:00

Excursion to Chlupáč Anthropological Museum and Minaralogical Museum

16:00 – 18:00

Boat Cruise at Vltava River

19:00 – 21:00

Speakers Dinner

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Chair:

Péter Kele

9:00 – 9:45

Invited Lecture

Innovation in Reagents and Catalysts. From Fundamentals to Immediate Application

Josep Cornella (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung)

9:45 – 10:05

Blue Danube Junior

Catalytic Enantioselective Nucleophilic Desymmetrization at P(V)

Branislav Ferko (Slovak University of Technology)

10:05 – 10:20

Oral communication 12

Rafael Navrátil – Multimetallic Pd- and Ni-Catalyzed C(sp2)–P Cross-Coupling under Aqueous Micellar Conditions

10:20 – 10:35

Oral communication 13

Luka Jedlovčnik – Towards Selective Deuteration of Diazine Carboxamides via Directed Ortho Metalation

10:35 – 11:00

Coffee break

Chair:

Radek Cibulka

11:00 – 11:30

Blue Danube Senior

Weakly interacting heterocyclic motifs as the basis of highly selective inhibitors of underexplored protein kinases

Kamil Paruch (Masaryk University, Brno)

11:30 – 11:45

Oral communication 14

Ondřej Baszczyňski – Phosphorus Self-Immolative Linkers in Prodrug Design

11:45 – 12:00

Oral communication 15

Jan Chasák – Squaramides as Mycobacterial ATP synthase Inhibitors: Synthetic Pathways, Biological Evaluation & Mechanism of Action

12:00 – 12:15

Oral communication 16

Jerneja Kladnik – Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Fluorescent Probes for Amyloid β Plaques Imaging

12:15 – 12:30

Oral communication 17

Andras Kotschy – Induced proximity by heterocycles: molecular glues and beyond

12:30 – 13:45

Lunch

Chair:

Kamil Paruch

13:45 – 14:05

Blue Danube Junior

Utilization of Conventional Lewis Acids as Bases: Complexes of Carboranes with N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Catalysts

Jan Vrána (University of Pardubice)

14:05 – 14:20

Oral communication 18

Florian Rudroff – A concurrent cascade towards unsymmetric pyrazines – a hell of a smell

14:20 – 14:35

Oral communication 19

Viktor Iaroshenko – Mechanochemical synthesis of 3-substituted chromones

14:35 – 14:50

Oral communication 20

Nina Biedermann – A solvent-free ultra-fast Wittig olefination – Diels Alder reaction sequence in one-pot under mechanochemical conditions

14:50 – 15:35

Invited Lecture

Chiral Trityls as Versatile Property and Reactivity Platforms

Jérôme Lacour (University of Geneva)

15:35 – 16:05

Coffee break

Chair:

Ondřej Baszczyňski

16:05 – 16:35

Blue Danube Senior

Triggering Formation of Heterocycles Using Biocatalysis

Wolfgang Kroutil (University of Gratz)

16:35 – 16:50

Oral communication 21

Márton Ferenc Szlávik – Synthesis of electron deficient alkenes: useful building blocks for heterocycle formation

16:50 – 17:20

Invited Lecture of the Serbian Representative

Case studies in the chemistry of heterocyclic compounds:
1H-tetrazol-5-amine, pyrazole, pyrimidine and thiophene derivatives

Igor Opsenica (University of Belgrade)

17:20 – 19:00

Poster session

19:30 – 23:00

Conference dinner

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Chair:

Wolfgang Kroutil

9:00 – 9:45

Invited Lecture

Biomimetic Spirocyclizations for the Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids

Romano Orru (Maastricht University)

9:45 – 10:05

Blue Danube Junior

From Monoterpene Indole Alkaloids to Thianthrenium Salts: A Bioinspired Journey in Organic Synthesis

Szilárd Varga (Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungary)

10:05 – 10:20

Oral communication 22

Peter Gabko – Concise stereoselective synthesis of 5-substituted 1,2-dihydroxyindolizidines
and -pyrrolizidines related to natural alkaloids

10:20 – 10:35

Oral communication 23

Raju Hazra – Total Synthesis of the Cryptic Secondary Metabolites Acybolins

10:35 – 11:00

Coffee break

Chair:

Martin Kotora

11:00 – 11:30

Blue Danube Senior

From Lignocellulosic Biomass to Vanillin and Cellulose Hydrogels

Jernej Iskra (University of Ljubljana)

11:30 – 11:45

Oral communication 24

Wim Dehaen – New efficient methods for the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles

11:45 – 12:00

Oral communication 25

Sándor Balázs Király – Preparation of bridged- and spirocyclic O,N-heterocycles using domino reactions

12:00 – 12:15

Oral communication 26

Marko D. Mihovilovic – Employing Heterocycles for Quantification and as Redox-Mediators
in Laccase-Catalyzed Starch Oxidation

Closing Remarks