Guy Ourisson

MONDAY Morning Session – Moderator: H Ringsdorf

The forces of protein folding and inverse folding

NMR studies of protein structure and folding

Non-coded residues as building blocks in the design of specific secondary structures of bioactive peptides

MONDAY Evening Session

Conformation and packing of simple macromolecules

TUESDAY Morning Session – Moderator: W Oppolzer

Trasition metals and their π-ligands:
how either one gives rise to novel arrays of the other

Gem bis metallic reagents in acyclic stereocontrol

Chemical analogies between P=C and C=C π-bonds: the case of concerted reactions

TUESDAY Evening Session – Moderator: A Shanzer

On the allotropy of carbon: from fullerenes to network polymers

WEDNESDAY Morning Session – Moderator: R Scheffold

Reagent- and catalyst-controlled asymmetric syntheses of β-aminols and secondary allyl alcohols

Novel electrophilic reagents and reactions

THURSDAY Morning Session – Moderator: J Retey

How nature synthesizes vitamin B₁₂:
a survey of the last 4 billion years

Origin and long-term fate of molecular fossils:
steroids and polyterpenoids in the subsurface

THURSDAY Evening Session – Moderator: D Moras

On the structure of the ribosome

FRIDAY Morning Session – Moderator: H Schwarz

Real-time biospecific interaction analysis

Synthetic fragments of bio-macromolecules:
an avenue to new therapeutic applications

Mass spectrometry of large molecules:
new possibilities and new rules

FRIDAY Evening Session – Moderator: J Reisse

Chemical evolution of interstellar dust:
a possible source of life’s origin