Un symposium en mémoire de Wolfgang Oppolzer a été organisé annuellement entre 1996 et 2011.
 

• Oppolzer Lectures 1996

Friday, October 18, 1996

Tomas Hudlicky - University of Florida, Gainesville
Synthesis of Complex Molecules by the Best Means Available

Steven V. Ley - University of Cambridge
Synthesis and Chemistry with Dispiroketals and other 1,2 Diacetals

Jean-F. Normant - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Allyl-(or Propargyl-)Metallation of Vinyl Metals: a Way to Stereoselectively Substituted Linear Skeletons

Gernot Boche - Universität Marburg
Carbenoids, Nitrenoids, Oxenoids: Why are these Anions Electrophiles?

Ei-ichi Negishi - Purdue University
Cyclic Carbopalladation and Acylpalladation: a New Selective and Versatile Synthetic Methodology

Andrea Vasella - ETH Zürich
An Approach to the Synthesis of Polysaccharide Analogues

Philip Magnus - University of Texas at Austin
Synthesis, a Vehicle for Discovery

• Oppolzer Lectures 1997

Friday, October 10, 1997

Prof. Albert I. Meyers - Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins
Asymmetric C–C Bond Forming Reactions - Synthesis and Mechanisms

Prof. Manfred T. Reetz - Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr
New Approaches to the Fabrication of Biocatalysts for Organic Chemistry

• Oppolzer Lectures 1998

Friday, September 11, 1998

Anthony G. M. Barrett - Imperial College, London
Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Antiinfective Agents

Alexandre Alexakis - University of Geneva
From Chiral Acetals to Chiral Aminals

Shu Kobayashi - University of Tokyo
New Dimension of Lewis Acid Catalysis in Organic Synthesis

Elias J. Corey - Harvard University, Cambridge
Recent Advances in Catalytic Enantioselective Methodology

• Oppolzer Lectures 1999

Friday, October 8, 1999

Louis S. Hegedus - Colorado State University, Ft. Collins
Small Ring Chemistry: Cyclobutanones, Butenolides, Nucleosides and Aminocyclitols

Bernd Giese - University of Basel
Long Range Electron Transfer through DNA

Reinhard W. Hoffmann - Philipps-University, Marburg
Properties of Molecular Backbones - Flexible with Defined Shape

Erick Carreira - ETH-Zürich
Studies in Catalytic Organic Synthesis

• Oppolzer Lectures 2000

Friday, October 6, 2000

Ryoji Noyori - Nagoya University
Asymmetric Hydrogenation

Andreas Pfaltz - University of Basel
Design of Chiral Ligands for Asymmetric Catalysis

Paul Knochel - Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Chemoselective and Stereoselective Reactions Mediated by Main-Group Organometallics

Larry Overman - University of California, Irvine
New Strategies for Ring Construction. Applications in Natural Products Total Synthesis

• Oppolzer Lectures 2001

Friday, October 5, 2001

Yoshinori Yamamoto - Tohoku University, Sendai
Diversity in Palladium Catalyzed Organic Reactions

Antonio Togni - ETH Zürich
Catalytic Enantioselective Fluorination

Jérôme Lacour - University of Geneva
Chiral Anion Mediated Asymmetric Chemistry

Ian Paterson - University of Cambridge
Total Synthesis of Spongistatin 1 (Altohyrtin A): A Tale of Ten Aldols

• Oppolzer Lectures 2002

Friday, October 4, 2002

François Diederich - ETH Zurich
Advanced Materials by Acetylenic Scaffolding

Victor Snieckus - Queens University, Kingston
The Directed ortho-Metalation Reaction: Perspectives and Prospectives

Jan Erling Bäckvall - University of Stockholm
Combination of Enzymes and Metal Catalysts. A Powerful Approach in Asymmetric Catalysis

Hisashi Yamamoto - University of Chicago
Super Acid Catalysis in Organic Synthesis

• Oppolzer Lectures 2003

Friday, October 3, 2003

Prof. Dieter Seebach - ETH Zurich
Preparation of β- and γ-Amino Acids - Tickets for the Trip into the New World of Peptides Consisting of Homologated Proteinogenic Amino Acids

Prof. Karl Anker Jorgensen - University of Aarhus
From Chiral Lewis Acids to Chiral Amines as Asymmetric Catalysts for Organic Reactions

Prof. Tamio Hayashi - University of Kyoto
Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions

Prof. William R. Roush - University of Michigan
Recent Studies in the Development of New Synthetic Methodology and Applications in Natural Products Synthesis

• Oppolzer Lectures 2004

Monday, October 18, 2004

Takashi Kato - University of Tokyo
Functional Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Assemblies

John L. Wood - Yale University
Bridged Polycyclic Natural Products: Inspirational Targets for Total Synthesis

Bernhard Breit - University of Freiburg
Controlling Selectivity in Metal-Catalyzed and Metal-Mediated Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation

Scott E. Denmark - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
New Concepts in Catalysis in the Main Group

• Oppolzer Lectures 2005

Friday, October 7, 2005

Koichi Narasaka - University of Tokyo
Amination with Oximes

Philip Kocienski - University of Leeds
Three Short Stories about Carbohydrates

Janine Cossy - ESPCI, Paris
Synthesis of Biologically Active Complex Natural and non-Natural Products

Gary Molander - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Organotrifluoroborates: Expanding Organoboron Chemistry

• Oppolzer Lectures 2006

Friday, October 6, 2006

Masakatsu Shibasaki - University of Tokyo
Catalytic Asymmetric Construction of Tetrasubstituted Carbons through Asymmetric Two-Center Catalysis

Amir Hoveyda - Boston College
Asymmetric Catalysis Inspired by the Chemistry of Silicon

Henk Hiemstra - University of Amsterdam
Recent Adventures in Enantioselective Organocatalysis

Klaus Müllen - Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
Putting the Molecules into Molecular Electronics

• Oppolzer Lectures 2007

Friday, September 14, 2007

Goverdhan Mehta - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products: Complex Targets - Simple Solutions

Peter Wipf - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Synthesis and Biological Analysis of Natural and Unnatural Products

Tsutomu Katsuki - Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Asymmetric Oxidation with Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide

Javier De Mendoza - Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Tarragona, Spain
Molecular Cavities Based on Calixarenes for Recognition and Separations

• Oppolzer Lectures 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009

Donald Hilvert - ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
Teaching Enzymes New Tricks

Keisuke Suzuki - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Pericyclic Routes to Polycyclic Natural Products

Gerhard Erker - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany
Metal-free Catalytic Dihydrogen Activation

Gregory C. Fu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions

• Oppolzer Lectures 2010 - photos

Friday, January 29, 2010

Roeland Nolte - Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Chemical Virology

Naoto Chatani - University of Osaka, Japan
Catalytic Reactions Involving Activation of Unreactive Bonds

Philippe Renaud - University of Bern, Switzerland
New Synthetic Tools Involving Boron and Azide Chemistry

Richard Taylor - University of York, UK
Serendipity in Natural Product Synthesis: Tales of the Unexpected

• Oppolzer Lectures 2011 - photos

Friday, January 28, 2011

Alois Fürstner - MPI Mülheim, Germany
Mainly Alkyne Metathesis

Yujiro Hayashi - Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Organocatalyst and Two “one-pot” Syntheses of Tamiflu

Jeffrey Bode - ETHZ, Switzerland
New Reactions for Amide and Ether Formation

Gregory Verdine - Harvard University, USA
Cancer Chemical Biology