ESOR-VI - 6th Euro Symp. on Organic React



 ESOR-VI
 6th European Symposium on Organic reactivity
 Louvain-la-Neuve      24 - 29 July 1997
 _______________________________________First Circular
 The Catholic University of Louvain, located in the Belgian city of
 Louvain-la-Neuve, will host the next conference entitled "European
 Symposium on Organic Reactivity". This will be the sixth edition of
 a series of successful meetings held in Paris (1987), Padova (1989),
 Goteborg (1991), Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1993) and  Santiago de
 Compostela  (1995).
 The conference will be held during the period Thursday 24 to Tuesday 29
 July 1997. The scientific sessions will start on Thursday
 afternoon and the meeting will end at lunchtime on Tuesday.
 Location
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 Louvain-la-Neuve is located about 30 km South of Brussels in the
 french-speaking part of Belgium. The city is connected with Brussels
 by rail and is readily accessible by road (Motorway E411) from everywhere
 in Europe. Brussels National Airport is linked to all major
 and most medium-size European cities.
 The Conference site will be part of the academic facilities of the Catholic
 University of Louvain (U.C.L.). This University was founded in the old
 Belgian city of Leuven in 1425 as one of the oldest universities in Europe.
 In the early 1970's, the french-speaking part of the University moved to
 a completely new city which was called Louvain-la-Neuve, on the territory
 of a town named Ottignies. The University population amounts to more than
 20,000 students.  Courses are organized in all disciplines of human knowledge
 by ten Faculties : Theology, Philosophy, Law, Economic and Social Sciences,
 Philology and Arts, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Sciences, Applied
 Sciences, Medicine and Agronomy.
 Scientific Programme
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 The meeting will be devoted to all aspects of physical organic chemistry.
 The conference programme will focus on three main topics :
 1. Mechanisms and reactivity in organic, bioorganic and organometallic
    chemistry, including theoretical approaches
 2. Photochemical and electron transfer activation processes
 3. Molecular recognition and enzyme mechanism.
 The programme will include 12 plenary lectures, two parallel sessions with
 their own invited lectures. A limited number of oral presentations will be
 selected among the submitted contributions.
 Two separate poster sessions are planned on Friday afternoon and Monday
 afternoon with comfortable discussion times. Persons wishing to present
 an oral or poster contribution should submit a one-page abstract according
 to the format detailed below not later than  February 15, 1997 and send it to
   Prof. M. Devillers
   ESOR-VI Conference Secretary
   Catholic University of Louvain
   Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
   1 place Louis Pasteur
   B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium
   Tel. : 32-10 47 28 27
   Fax :  32-10 47 28 36
   e-mail : devillers -AatT- inan.ucl.ac.be
 Plenary lectures
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 Twelve recognized experts have already agreed to give Plenary Lectures
 on the following topics :
 V. Balzani,University of Bologna, Italy,
   Supramolecular photochemistry.
 S.J. Benkovic,The Pennsylvania State University, USA,
   Perspective on biocatalysis.
 F. Diederich,Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,
   From supramolecular chemistry to medicinal chemistry.
 J.B. Engberts,University of Groningen, The Netherlands,
   Vesicles formed from synthetic amphiphiles.
   Fusogenic behavior and applications as drug carrier systems.
 J. Frechet,Cornell University, USA,
   Designing for novel macromolecular architectures:from concept to
   applications.
 B.Giese,University of Basel, Switzerland,
   Reactivity of DNA radicals.
 Y. Kishi,Harvard University, USA,
   Synthetic studies in the field of natural product chemistry.
 H. Mayr,Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany,
   Linear free enthalpy relationship : a powerful tool for  the design
   of organic or organometallic syntheses.
 R. Noyori,Nagoya University, Japan,
   Asymmetric hydrogenation : mechanistic aspects.
 M. Poliakoff,University of Nottingham, U.K.,
   Intermediates in organometallic chemistry.
 P. von Rague Schleyer,University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany,
   Organic reactivity and computational chemistry.
 I. Willner,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel,
   Electroenzymes, photoenzymes and command surfaces - Tailored assemblies
   for optobioelectronic devices.
 Abstracts
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 Full one-page abstracts will be reproduced directly from authors'original
 documents. They should be typed or printed in English using double line
 spacing on A4 formatted white paper. The whole of the abstract must be
 contained within a rectangle of size 242 x 165 mm.
 It will be reduced to 79%. The headings should be presented in the format
 given below, including the full line separating text and heading.
 References should be indicated within square brackets in the text and listed
 at the bottom of the abstract using standard Chemical Abstracts Source Service
 Index terminology followed by volume,(year within brackets) , first page.
 Example:
 DECOMPOSITION OF NITROSOUREAS IN THE PRESENCE OF DIFFERENT NUCLEOPHILES
 S. Amado*, A. Andrade, L. Garcia-Rio, J.R. Leis and A.M. Rios,
 Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Facultad de Quimica, Universidad de Santiago,
  15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
   The reactivity of different nucleophiles toward the ambident electrophile
   N-nitroso-N,N'-dimethylurea (NDMU) has been
 investigated. The experimental results...
 The Book of Abstracts including all lectures and oral or poster contributions
 will be handed out to all registered participants upon arrival.
 Social Events
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 The provisional social programme for Conference participants includes the
 following events :
 Thursday :    Welcome drink and get-together sandwich buffet at lunchtime
 Thursday evening :  Concert
 Friday evening :  Belgian Cheese and Beer party at the end of the poster
                   session
 Sunday afternoon :  Excursion
 Monday evening :  Conference Dinner
 An Accompanying Persons' Programme will be arranged for the whole conference
 period. Further details will be included in the Second Circular.
 Registration fees
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 -Normal pre-registration fee before March 31, 1997       BEF 10 000
   Registration fee after March 31, 1997                  BEF 12 500
 -Students  before March 31, 1997                         BEF  5 000
          after March 31, 1997                            BEF  6 000
 -Participants from Industry
   before March 31, 1997                                  BEF 15 000
   after March 31, 1997                                   BEF 18 000
 -Accompanying Persons                                    BEF  2 000
 Organizing Committees
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 Local Organizing committee
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 Chairmen :Prof. J. Fastrez and Prof. L. Ghosez (U.C.L., Louvain-la-Neuve)
 Conference Secretary :Prof. M. Devillers (U.C.L., Louvain-la-Neuve)
 Members :
 Dr.   O. B Nagy (U.C.L., Louvain-la-Neuve)
 Prof. P. De Clercq (R.U.G., Gent)
 Prof. F. De Schrijver (K.U.L., Leuven)
 Prof. L. Hevesi, (F.U.N.D.P., Namur)
 Prof. F. Kirsch-Demesmaeker (U.L.B., Brussels)
 Prof. A. Laschewsky (U.C.L., Louvain-la-Neuve)
 Prof. J. Marchand-Brynaert (U.C.L., Louvain-la-Neuve)
 Prof. J.-P. Soumillion (U.C.L., Louvain-la-Neuve)
 International Advisory Committee
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 Prof. P. Ahlberg (Chairman, Goteborg, Sweden)
 Dr.   M. Eckert-Maksic (Zagreb, Croatia)
 Prof. J. Engberts (Groningen, Netherlands)
 Dr.   R. Leis (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
 Dr.   H. Maskill (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England)
 Prof. R. More O'Ferrall (Dublin, Ireland)
 Prof. P. Mueller (Geneve, Switzerland)
 Prof. M. Page (Huddersfield, England)
 Prof. Z. Rappoport (Jerusalem, Israel)
 Prof. M.-F. Ruasse (Paris, France)
 Prof. G. Scorrano (Padova, Italy)
 Prof. U. Siehl (Ulm, Germany)
 For further information, please refer to the Scientific Secretariat of the
 Conference :
   Prof. M. Devillers
   ESOR-VI Conference Secretary
   Catholic University of Louvain
   Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
   1 place Louis Pasteur
   B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium
   Tel. : 32-10 47 28 27
   Fax :  32-10 47 28 36
   e-mail : devillers -AatT- inan.ucl.ac.be
   or get a moment to see our page maintained by Claude Drossart at:
     http://www.chim.ucl.ac.be/CHIM/esor.html
 To receive the Second Circular/Application Form for this Symposium
 (January 1997), please print and fill in the following form, send it to
 the Conference Secretary ( or an Email with the same information).
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