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6Jun

Van ‘t Hoff symposium on chirality

Chirality from molecule to material

During this symposium, distinguished chemists from around the globe will discuss the latest developments in chirality in all its forms. The symposium is suitable for anyone with an interest in the molecular aspects of chirality in all its scope.

  • 6 June 2024
  • 10:30 - 17:30
  • KNAW Trippenhuis - Kloveniersburgwal 29, AmsterdamTravel directions
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Chirality is an essential aspect of life, revealing itself on both a macroscopic and molecular level. For example, our hands are mirror images of each other, the DNA double helix is right-rotating and molecules that are each other's mirror image often have different biological functions.
 
This fascinating molecular property was first explained by the Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852-1911). Following his pioneering work, the chemistry community has contributed significantly to the development of the field of stereochemistry. This knowledge is of major importance: both from an application perspective, e.g. for the development of new drugs and dynamic materials, and from a fundamental perspective, e.g. for a better understanding of the origins of life.
 
During this symposium, top international scientists will discuss the latest developments in chirality in all its forms. The symposium is suitable for anyone with an interest in the molecular aspects of chirality in all its scope.

With

  • Makoto Fujita, University Distinguished Professor, The University of Tokyo - Coordination Self-Assembly: from Origins to the Latest Advances
     
  • Nathalie Katsonis, Professor of Chemistry, University of Groningen - Chiral morphogenesis: from elastic spheres to dendritic cells 
     
  • Cornelia Meinert, CNRS Research Director at the Université Côte d’Azur, Nice - Why Nature Never Uses Chiral Twins – Insights from Asymmetric Photochemical Processes in Solar System Ices and Beyond
     
  • John Hartwig, Professor of Chemistry andThe Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley - Stereoselective transformations of C-H and C=C bonds with artificial metalloenzymes in a flask, a cell, and within biosynthesis
     
  • Silvia Vignolini, Director of the Sustainable and Bio-inspired Materials Department at the Max Plank for Colloid and Interfaces in Potsdam and a University Professor in Sustainability and Bio-inspired materials at the Chemistry Department in Cambridge, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces - Colours with a twist: bio-inspired self-assembled chiral architecture 
     
  • Dame Carol Robinson, director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford - Protein lipid interactions in the gas phase - diversity, selectivity and functional regulation 

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Chemists and other scientists with a fundamental understanding of chirality are welcome to join this one-day symposium. You can register free of charge via our registration form. The main language during the symposium is English.

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