Fees
- The course fee is £1295
- Lunch & Refreshment each day
- Course Dinner on 2 December 2008
- The comprehensive course manual
General Information
The course begins with registration at 8.45am on Tuesday 2 December and finishes at approximately 5pm on Thursday 4 December.
Organic Synthesis
A Toolkit for the Industrial Chemist
2 - 4 December 2008, Florence, Italy
A 3 day course given by Dr Will Watson, Technical Director of Scientific Update, Dr Trevor Laird, Founder of Scientific Update
Organic synthesis is a discipline which has been in existence for more than a century, but despite this longevity, it is, in many ways, a young science with many challenges still to be met and yet to be overcome. It is a major facilitator for the chemical industry and a significant contributor to society, applications being found in the pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, agrochemicals, speciality chemicals, electronics and other related industries. There is a plethora of synthetic techniques and technologies, old and new, available to the organic chemist, and this can be somewhat bewildering.
This three-day course, written and presented by highly experienced chemists from the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry, provides a modular overview of the most important tools available for the organic chemist working in industry. The concepts are illustrated with an abundance of industrial and academic case studies from literature, conferences and private communications. The lectures are interspersed with interactive problems sessions, enabling participants to share in the problem solving and troubleshooting typically experienced when practising organic chemistry in an industrial environment.
Course Outline
Catalytic Hydrogenation
Other Reduction Methods (hydride reductions)
Industrially Useful C-C Bond Forming Reactions
Selected Aspects of Oxidation
Asymmetric Synthesis & Catalysis
Biocatalysis
Resolution Methods
Phase Transfer Catalysis
Green Chemistry Approaches to Industrial Synthesis
Case Studies in Industrial Synthesis
Organic Reactions in Water
Hazardous Chemical Reactions
Plus Tutorials
Who Should Attend?
- Process Chemists wishing to maximise their knowledge and understanding of the chemical technology being applied in industrial organic synthesis
- Medicinal Chemists wishing to keep their industrial synthetic chemistry know-how at the cutting edge
- Production Chemists wishing to maintain their awareness of emerging industrial chemical technologies
- Analytical Chemists who wish to gain a broader appreciation of organic chemistry used in industry
- Chemical Engineers wishing to maintain their awareness of emerging industrial chemical technologies
- Experienced Chemists looking to refresh and/or augment their knowledge of industrial organic synthesis
- Students who are about to enter industry and can obtain company sponsorship
- Young Chemists who have just started work in industry as organic chemists
- Managers who might benefit from an overview of the chemical technology available for use in the pharmaceutical, fine chemical and allied industries today
The organisers reserve the right to change the published programme of events and course content as circumstances dictate.