August 2004
Issue No. 15

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IN THIS ISSUE...

Highlights from Chiral Europe 2004
Hilton Hotel, Mainz, Germany, June 14th - 16th 2004

This latest meeting in the long running series was attended by 78 people, with 16 nationalities represented.  There were 17 presentations including a Keynote presentation by Professor Dieter Seebach of ETH-Zürich, and the Degussa Fine Chemicals Prize Lecture by Professor Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute.  The conference was sponsored by Degussa.

Copies of the full conference proceedings can be purchased from Scientific Update upon request.

30 Years of Amino Acid and Peptide Chemistry – Summary and Outlook

New Applications of Ylide Technology in Asymmetric Synthesis

Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Pharmaceutically Important Diols

Scalable Methods for Functionalised Chiral Alcohols

Novel Stationary Phases for Analytical and Preparative Separation of Drug Enantiomers

Asymmetric Catalysis using Amino-Acid-Derived Ligands

Asymmetric Catalysis Utilising Alkaloid-Derived Quaternary Ammonium Salts

Oxidoreductases – Catalysed Syntheses of Chiral Building Blocks

Degussa Fine Chemicals Prize Lecture
Amines and Amino Acids are Efficient Asymmetric Catalysts

Synthesis of New Phosphines and their Applications in Asymmetric Hydrogenations

Bringing Biocatalysis to First Generation Processes

The Challenge of Chirality in Process Research

A Practical Asymmetric Synthesis of the Cardiovascular Agent UK-350,926 via a Dynamic Resolution Process

Evolution of New Bioprocesses for the Deracemisation of Amines and Unnatural Amino Acids

The Synthesis of Omapatrilat: Issues and Challenges During Process Development

Discovery and Applications of Enzymes for the Preparation of Enantiomerically Pure Non-Proteinogenic Amino Acids

Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesis as Platform for Drug Discovery