All colloquia will be held in the Dyson Perrins Lecture Theatre, Thursday at 2 pm, unless otherwise stated. All visitors are welcome. Convenors: Dr. James Thomson and Dr. Paul Roberts Week 0 3rd & 4th October AstraZeneca Final Year Graduate Symposium Wolfson Seminar Room , CRL Week 1 11 October Professor Brad Carrow, Princeton University https://chemistry.princeton.edu/faculty/carrow "Mechanism-driven catalyst design for sustainable chemistry" Week 2 18 October Pfizer Symposium and Poster Session - (2:15 start in ICL Lecture Theatre) Dr Chris Bray, Queen Mary University of London http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/staff/christopherbray.html "The utility of the Wadsworth-Emmons cyclopropanation" Dr David Blakemore, Pfizer "The challenges of fluorinated aliphatic hets in drug discovery" Professor David Procter, University of Manchester https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/david.j.procter.html "New cross-couplings mediated by sulfoxides" Week 3 25 October No Colloquium Week 4 1 November Professor John Fossey, University of Birmingham https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/chemistry/fossey-john.aspx "Not Another Click Talk" Week 5 8 November Professor Peter O’Brien, University of York https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/o-s/pobrien/ " New routes to nitrogen, oxygen, and sulphur heterocycles: exploring 3D pharmaceutical space" Week 6 12 November MONDAY Pharmaron Lecture – Professor Frank Glorius, WWU Münster https://www.uni-muenster.de/Chemie.oc/glorius/glorius.html " On discovery in catalysis" Week 7 22 November Professor Helen Hailes, UCL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/people/professor-helen-c-hailes " The use of enzymes for C-C bond formation and amine synthesis" Week 8 29 November No Colloquium