2022 Organic 91AV poster symposium
On 5 December 2022, the Organic 91AV Community flagship event for early career researchers welcomed 40 outstanding PhD students to Burlington House, London to present their research to leading representatives from across industry and academia.
The day’ presenters were selected by the Scientific Organising Committee from some extremely competitive abstract submissions, and as a result, the day saw some excellent science on display with hours of interesting discussions being had. After 2 years of being held online, the event returned to being in person.
I really enjoyed being back in person at the annual Organic 91AV Community (OCC) Poster Symposium after two years of being online for this event. The Scientific Organising Committee felt privileged to be given this insight into the breadth and depth of high-quality, innovative organic chemistry taking place across the UK and Ireland. It was a lively, interactive event and it was great to see the detailed face-to-face discussions on all the posters. We are grateful for the ongoing support of the RSC and industrial sponsors for this flagship OCC event.”
Congratulations to the winners
The judging panel had a challenging time selecting the poster prize winners from the array of excellent science presented, and our congratulations go to:
First Prize
Stuart Astle, University of Oxford
Poster title: The enantioselective total synthesis of sealutomicin C
Industry Prize
Milly Stoneley, University of Nottingham
Poster title: Metal-free reductive amination of carboxylic acids by brønsted acid activation
Runner up
Aron Peter, The University of Manchester
Poster title: Asymmetric total synthesis of (–)-phaeocaulisin A
Runner up
Luke Britton, University of Edinburgh
Poster title: Mechanism-driven, divergent iron-catalysed C-H functionalisation
Delegates' choice
Alexandra Hindle, University of Leeds
Poster title: Enecarbamates as platforms for the synthesis of diverse polycyclic scaffolds
Our thanks to...
We would like to thank all who participated on the day that made it such an enjoyable event.
The OCC Council and Scientific Organising Committee would like to thank this year’s judging panel for their time: Prof. Ross Denton, Dr Kenny Lin, Dr Louis Morril, Dr Katherine Whitehouse, Dr Rebecca Harvey, Dr Damien Vallette.
We are also very grateful to the organising Scientific Organising Committee for their time and dedication throughout: Prof. AnnMarie C. O'Donoghue (Chair), Prof. Stephen Clark, Dr Martin Eastgate, Dr Amelie Joffrin, Prof. Eoghan McGarrigle, and Dr Darren Stead.
Thanks to the journals Organic Biomolecular 91AV and RSC Chemical Biology for sponsoring the Delegates' choice prize.
And last, but not least, to all of our industry sponsors for their generous support of this year’s event: Syngenta, AstraZeneca, Evotec, Pharmaron UK Ltd, Roche, Astex Therapeutics, Charnwood Molecular, Charles River Laboratories International Inc, GSK, UCB.
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