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Pure Appl. Chem. Vol. 74, No. 8, pp. iv (2002)

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Vol. 74, Issue 8

3rd Florida Heterocyclic Conference*

Preface

The 3rd Florida Heterocyclic Conference was held at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA from 6—8 March 2002. Some 100 out-of-town guests were treated to a feast of heterocyclic chemistry from 12 plenary lecturers. Extensive industrial participation was recognized with four of the lectures by Peter Wuts of Pharmacia (Kalamazoo, Michigan), Graham Johnson of Bristol-Myers Squibb (Wallingford, Connecticut), Joseph Sisko of GlaxoSmithKline (Philadelphia), and Nicolas Bodor of Ivax Corporation, the University of Florida, dealing with industrial themes. These topics included the discovery and development of new drugs for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, HIV treatment, and dopamine agonists.

Other lecturers included Ronald Grigg (Leeds University, UK) on cascade reactions for heterocyclic synthesis, William Pearson (University of Michigan) on alkaloid synthesis, José Barluenga (University of Oviedo, Spain) on heterocyclic synthesis using metal carbene complexes, Dennis Curran (University of Pittsburgh) on fluorous techniques in organic synthesis, Ernst Anders (University of Jena, Germany) on synthesis of novel heterocycles, Joachim Schantl (University of Innsbruck, Austria) on synthesis of cyclic azomethine imines, and Nicos Petasis (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) on heterocyclic synthesis using organoboron compounds.

The conference also included an initial full-day short course on the fundamentals of heterocyclic chemistry and a poster session with 30 contributions. The Florida Heterocyclic Conference supports Arkivoc (Arkive for Organic Chemistry), a free online refereed journal covering all aspects of organic chemistry, which is available at http://www.arkat-usa.org.

The 4th Florida Heterocyclic Conference will be held in Gainesville, Florida from 10-12 March 2003.

Alan Katritzky
Organizer

* Plenary lecture presented at the 3rd Florida Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry (FloHet-III), Gainesville, Florida, USA, 6-8 March 2002. Other lectures are published in this issue, pp. 1317-1368.


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