Note: This message is being sent to multiple lists; my apologies if you receive it more than once. 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), Göteborg (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 ________ 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 ____________________ 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@inan.ucl.ac.be Plenary lectures ________________ 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. Fréchet,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. Schleyer,University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 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 _________ 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 _____________ 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 _________________ -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 _____________________ Local Organizing committee -------------------------- 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 -------------------------------- Prof. P. Ahlberg (Chairman, Göteborg, 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. Müller (Genève, 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@inan.ucl.ac.be or get a moment to see our page: 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). DO NOT SEND YOUR REPLY TO THE LIST ! _______________________________________________________________ Title : Prof. - Dr. - Mr. - Mrs. (circle when applicable) Name : ____________________________________________________________ First Name : ____________________________________________________________ Institution : ____________________________________________________________ Address : ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ tel:_________________ fax:_____________________ e-mail:__________________________________________ I intend to present a short contribution preferably as oral presentation preferably as a poster I have no preference between oral and poster presentation Avec les meilleurs sentiments du laboratoire Chop, Universite catholique de Louvain-CICO-Chop 1, place Pasteur, 1348-Louvain la Neuve (Wallonie-Belgique) tel: 32-10-472713/ fax: 32-10-473074