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