This conference has been designed to provide discovery, medicinal and process chemists with a forum to meet with academia to discuss novel organic synthetic methods useful in research and development. The focus is on key transformations such as carbon-carbon bond forming reactions, oxidation and reduction, formation and reactions of heterocyclic molecules, biotransformations and bioprocessing technologies etc. There will also be one day devoted to chiral technology, focusing on new science and the latest developments in chiral chemistry. Topics include: asymmetric chemocatalysis, biocatalysis, new analytical and separation techniques and the development of important chiral pharmaceuticals.