Aisha Kassymbek from the Nikonov group won the 1st Place for Oral Presentations and John Lortie, also from the Nikonov group, won the 2nd Place for Poster Presentations. Interestingly, a former Brock graduate (again from the Nikonov group), Jan-Willem Lamberink won the 3d place for Poster Presentations. Brock rules!
Professor Georgii Nikonov gave talks at the Université de Strasbourg and at the 9th European Silicon Days symposium (Saarbruecken, Germany)
A study by Brock chemist Prof. Travis Dudding and Prof. Andrei Yudin from the University of Toronto examining how boron can mechanistically resemble either a hydride or a proton has been published in Nature Chemistry.
Professor Georgii Nikonov gave a talk at the 15th International Symposium on Inorganic Ring Systems, on June 25, 2018
Professor Tomas Hudlicky gave one lecture at Charles University, Prague, at the occasion of receiving a silver medal form the University, titled “Unconventional methods” in organic synthesis: contributions of flash vacuum thermolysis, organic electrochemistry, and biocatalysis with oxidoreductase enzymes to natural product synthesis. The “Unconventional Methods” talk will also be given on May 31 at the CSC in Edmonton, invited talk at the symposium on Innovative Methods in Organic Synthesis.
The European itinerary also included two lectures at Seneca Pharma, Slovakia: “Chemoenzymatic Total Synthesis of Natural Products: Recent Progress in Approaches to Morphine and Other Complex Targets” and “Recent advances in process development for opiate-derived pharmaceutical agents and progress in total synthesis of morphine”
