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Sunday (May 10th)
16:30-18:00RegistrationForum, Groningen
18:00-19:30Welcome receptionForum, Groningen

Monday (May 11th)
Morning SessionForum, Groningen
8:30-8:40Opening remarks
8:40-9:20 PL 1 Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo
Molecular Confinement Effects by Self-Assembled Coordination Cages
9:20-9:55 Selected talks (17 min each + 1)
SL 1 Tessel Bouwens, Delft University of Technology
Supramolecular Approaches to Enhance the Power Conversion Efficiency in Artificial Photosynthetic Devices
SL 2 Franco King-Chi Leung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Photoresponsive Molecular Machine-Based Amphiphiles as Cell-Material Interfaces and Supramolecular Robotics
9:55-10:35 PL 2 Cathleen Crudden, Queen's University
Organometallic Chemistry of NHCs Applied to the Preparation of Atomically Precise Metal Nano Cluster Synthesis
10:35-10:55Coffee break
10:55-11:35 PL 3 Jordi Burés, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
Better Understanding for Better Reactions
11:35-12:10 Selected talks (17 min each + 1)
SL 3 Adriana Kovalcik, Brno University of Technology
Molecular Engineering of Polyhydroxyalkanoate-Based Hydrated Networks with Tunable Mechanical and Transport Properties
SL 4 Johannes de Vries, Leibniz Institut für Katalyse e.V.
Biobased Monomers for Adhesives and Coatings
12:10-12:50 PL 4 Rafaella Buonsanti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Colloidal Nanocrystals to Advance Catalysis and Energy Technologies
12:50-14:10Lunch 
Afternoon SessionForum, Groningen
14:10-14:50 PL 5 Per-Ola Norrby, AstraZeneca
Predicting Reactivity, Forwards and Backwards
14:50-15:25 Selected talks (17 min each + 1)
SL 5 Vyshnavi Vennelakanti, MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion
Computational Investigation of the Catalytic Intermediates of Vanadium Nitrogenase
SL 6 Vittorio Pace, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
Designing New Synthetic Concepts in Homologation Chemistry
15:25-16:05 PL 6 Paul Chirik, Princeton University
Catalysis with Iron and Cobalt for Sustainable Organic Synthesis
16:05-16:25Coffee break
16:25-17:05 PL 7 Jason Hein, University of British Columbia
Dynamic Parameter Scanning for Mechanistic Fingerprinting
17:05-17:10Stratingh Award ceremony
17:10-17:50 Stratingh Award lectures
AL 1 Kira Podolsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

AL 2 Patricia Izquierdo Garcia, University of Groningen
18:00-19:30Poster SessionForum, Groningen

Tuesday (May 12th)
9:00-14:45Wadlopen (incl. lunch) to Schiermonnikoog
Afternoon SessionStag, Schiermonnikoog
14:45-15:00Coffee and Cake
15:00-15:40 PL 8 Sarah O'Connor, MPI for Chemical Ecology
How Nature Synthesizes Complex Natural Products
15:40-16:15 Selected talks (17 min each + 1)
SL 7 Tomáš Šolomek, University of Amsterdam
Photochemical Fe2+ Uncaging in Ferrocene-[n]Cycloparaphenylenes: A Photomechanophore Paradigm
SL 8 Tom Keijer, Leiden University
Integrating Supramolecular Strategies for Intracellular Bio-Orthogonal Catalysis
16:15-16:55 PL 9 Shu-Li You, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Developing New Synthetic Methodologies of Dearomatization Reactions
16:55-17:15Coffee break
17:15-17:50 Selected talks (17 min each + 1)
SL 9 Shaozhong Ge, National University of Singapore
Copper-Catalyzed Multiple Silylation Reactions of Terminal Alkynes
SL 10 Joseph Woods, ETH Zurich
Functional Self-Assembled Systems from Oligoproline-Chromophore Conjugates
17:50-18:30 PL 10 Ben Feringa, University of Groningen
The Art of Building Small
18:45-20:30DinnerSchiermonnikoog
21:00Departure to Groningen 

Wednesday (May 13th)
Morning SessionForum, Groningen
8:45-9:25 PL 11 Robert Knowles, Princeton University
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis
9:25-10:00 Selected talks (17 min each + 1)
SL 11 Wojciech Plazinski, Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry
From Local Conformational Landscapes to Polymer Architecture: Multiscale Modeling of Saccharides
SL 12 Pawel Dydio, University of Cambridge
Unlocking Chemical Innovation Through Mechanistic Design and Multicatalysis
10:00-10:40 PL 12 Heather Kulik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adventures in Machine Learning for Accelerated Transition Metal Complex, MOF, and Polymer Discovery
10:40-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:40 PL 13 Stefan Mecking, University of Konstanz
Catalysis to Control and Monitor the Environmental Fate of Polyolefins
11:40-12:15 Selected talks (17 min each + 1)
SL 13 Kristina Plevova, Université Côte d'Azur
Small Gold Nanoparticles as the Key Players in Organic Synthesis
SL 14 Christian Blanco, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
Dissecting N2O Activation in Organonickel Chemistry
12:15-12:55 PL 14 Tati Fernández Ibáñez, University of Amsterdam
Catalyst-Controlled Regioselective Functionalization of Aromatic Compounds
12:55-14:10Lunch 
Afternoon SessionForum, Groningen
14:10-14:50 PL 15 Siegfried Waldvogel, MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion
Electrifying Organic Synthesis
14:50-15:25 Selected talks (17 min each + 1)
SL 15 Anthony Burke, University of Coimbra
Development of New Functional Small Molecules for Light-Emitting Devices
SL 16 Chao Zheng, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Mechanism-based Regulation of Asymmetric Tsuji–Trost Reactions
15:25-16:05 PL 16 Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University
Mixed Ion-Electron Conduction in Organic Battery Materials
16:05-16:25Coffee break
16:25-17:00 Selected talks (17 min each + 1)
SL 17 Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
Iron Age 2.0 – Selective C(sp3)-H Amination Catalysis
SL 18 Rosa López, University of the Basque Country
Inducing Planar Chirality in Cyclophanes
17:00-17:40 PL 17 Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology
The Emergence of Homochirality in Space and Time
17:40-17:50Closing of the symposium