27 February 2015
2nd National Retrosynthesis Competition
Organised by:
SCI's Young Chemists' Panel, SCI’s Fine Chemicals Group, RSC's Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group and RSC’s Organic Division Council
RSC, London, UK
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Prizes
1st prize: Huber Unichiller 003-MPC (donated by Huber)
2nd prize: Da Vinci 1.0 Desktop 3D Printer (donated by Chemglass)
3rd prize: JYoung 5 port Vacuum Manifold (donated by GPE)
Trophies have been designed and supplied by Chemglass. Also each member of the winning team has also been promised a year’s subscription to OBC (Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry) by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Copyright
- The submitted reaction schemes will not be kept confidential, and in entering the competition and accepting the T&C, the group submitting the scheme agrees and consent to the same
- Any IP rights that subsist in the submitted materials must not infringe the rights of any third parties
- Both SCI and RSC own a worldwide, non-exclusive right to:
- Publish any reaction schemes submitted to SCI in any medium whatsoever;
- Modify and publish any reaction schemes submitted to SCI in any medium whatsoever.
- Publish any presentations submitted to SCI in any medium whatsoever; - Any other specific items or documents submitted to SCI for the purpose of the competition may also be published, these items should be treated in the same way
- Unless formally agreed with the SCI or the Competition Organising Committee, the details of the authors and their affiliations (as the authors) shall be published
Programme
Day 1
- 09:00
- Registration and refreshments
- 10:00
- Evovation (Evotec)
- 10:30
- The Round Bottoms (ICR)
- 11:00
- Orange Team (GSK)
- 11:30
- Team Dalton Towers (Manchester University)
- 12:00
- Lunch and networking
- 13:00
- Team Discovery Park (Pfizer)
- 13:30
- Oxford SBM Team (Oxford University)
- 14:00
- Team Syngenta (Syngenta)
- 14:30
- Refreshments
- 15:00
- Who said total synthesis was dead? (Bristol University)
- 15:30
- One ED (CRL)
- 16:00
- You've never Hud it so good (Huddersfield University)
- 16:30
- Wine reception and networking followed by announcement of winner and presentation of prizes
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Fees
To allow as many people as possible to attend the live final, the Organising Committee are pleased to announce a number of free tickets to the 2015 Retrosynthesis Competition event, which includes lunch and a wine reception. We are expecting places at this event to be popular so spaces will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, with a maximum of two tickets per applicant.
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Exhibition and Sponsorship
An exhibition will take place alongside the conference for companies and related organisations who may wish to exhibit. Please email conferences@soci.org for further information and prices. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.