The field of "Cooperative Catalysis" is creating breakthrough innovations that have the potential to revolutionize chemical processes, particularly in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries. The objective of this symposium is to bring together experts from academia and industry to consider recent developments and to share knowledge and challenges with regard to new catalytic reactions and systems promoted by the "double-activation" pathway. Double-activation strategies to be discussed include acid-base cooperation, hetero multi-metallic cooperation, substrate-media cooperation as well as mechanistic aspects of these processes. The symposium will also be concerned with new applications of cooperative catalysis, novel preparations and reactions of catalysts, and ingenious and improved methods for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and materials using the cooperative concept.
To fulfill the aim of this symposium, six outstanding experts in their respective fields will give an invited lecture. They are:
- Prof. Masakatsu Shibasaki (Microbial Chemistry Research Center)
- Prof. Kyriacos C. Nicolaou (The Scripps Research Institute)
- Prof. Barry M. Trost (C, Stanford University)
- Prof. Eric N. Jacobsen (Harvard University)
- Prof. Scott E. Denmark (University of Illinois)
- Prof. Mikiko Sodeoka (RIKEN)
