Program
April 4 (Monday)
8:30 – Registration and coffee
9:00 – Opening
Dr. Joao M. Batista Jr. (UFSCar, Brazil)
9:30 – Vibrational Optical Activity: Introduction to Measurements and Calculations
Prof. Laurence A. Nafie (Syracuse University, USA)
11:00 – Vibrational Optical Activity in Drug Discovery
Prof. Wouter Herrebout (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
12:30 – Lunch
14:00 – From Absolute Configurations to Intermolecular Interactions: VCD Spectroscopic Studies in Solution and Cryo Matrices
Dr. Christian Merten (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
15:30 – Coffee Break
16:00 – Vibrational Optical Activity in Carbohydrate and Lipid Chemistry
Prof. Tohru Taniguchi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
17:30 – End of day 1
April 5 (Tuesday)
9:00 - Chiral Chromatography
Prof. Quezia B. Cass (UFSCar, Brazil)
10:00 – Coffee Break
10:30 – Chiroptical Spectroscopy in Natural Product Chemistry
Dr. Joao M. Batista Jr. (UFSCar, Brazil)
12:00 – Lunch
14:00 – Vibrational Optical Activity in Protein Chemistry
Prof. Christian Johannessen (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
15:30 – Coffee Break
16:00 - ESR talk - Absolute Configuration of a Rare Sesquiterpene: 3-ishwarone
MS. Fernando Martins (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
16:20 – Vibrational Optical Activity in Pharmaceutical Industry
Dr. Rina K. Dukor (BioTools, Inc., USA)
17:30 – Closing