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Section Editorial Boards

Medicinal Chemistry

Molecular Diversity

Natural Products

Organic Synthesis

Editorial Office

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Derek J. McPhee
Director of Chemistry, Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc., 5885 Hollis St, Suite 100, Emeryville CA 94608 USA
Tel. +1 510 450 0761 xt 718; Fax: +1 510 225 2645
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Managing Editor
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
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Assistant Editor
Ms. Felicity Wright
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 7734; Fax: +41 61 302 8918
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Assistant Editor
Ms. Jely He
MDPI, Beijing Branch Office, Tong Zhou District, Beijing, P. R. China
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General Editorial Board

Dr. Kamyar Afarinkia
Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK
Tel. (01274) 235831; Fax: (01274) 233234
Website: http://www.cancer.brad.ac.uk
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Interests: synthetic organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, organophosphorus chemistry

Prof. Dr. Roman Dembinski
Department of Chemistry, 2200 N. Squirrel Rd. Rochester, Michigan 48309-4477, USA
Tel. (248) 370-2248; Fax: (248) 370-2321
Website: http://www2.oakland.edu/chemistry/faculty.cfm?ID=4580
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Interests: Organic Synthesis, Alkynes, Fluorous, Nucleosides, Organometallic, Cycloisomerizations, Cyclizations

Prof. Dr. James C. Fishbein
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, BaltimoreCounty, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA
Tel. 410-455-2190; Fax: 410-455-2608
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Interests: Compounds:antitumor compounds, carcinogens, mutagens, N-nitroso compounds, nucleic acids, nucleosides, nucleotides, prodrugs, reactive intermediates, sulfur-containing compounds, toxins, reactions and methods:additions, aliphatic substitution, aromatic substitution, carbonyl reactions, catalytic methods, eliminations,immonium (iminium) ion reactions, mutagenesis, solvolysis, thermal rearrangements, dissociations, analytical and physical methods: chromatography, mass spectrometry,NMR, phenomena: acidity, basicity, catalysis, drug metabolism, hydrogen bonding, hyperconjugation, ion pairing, isotope effects, kinetics, linear free energy relationships, nucleophilicity, QSAR, rotation barriers, solvent effects, substituent effects

Dr. Peter M. Gannett
West Virginia University, School of Pharmacy, Department of Basic, Pharmaceutical Sciences, PO Box 9530, Morgantown, WV 26501-9530, USA
Tel. 304-293-1480; Fax: 304-293-2576
Website: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/sop/bps/pgannett.html
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Interests: EPR, ESR, EMR, NMR, DNA, RNA, Spin Labels, Spin Probes, Molecular Modeling, SAR, Structure-Activity Relationships, Aryl Hydrazines, DNA Adducts, Chemical Carcinogenesis

Prof. Dr. Ramachandra S. Hosmane
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Chemistry& Biochemistry, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Tel. (410)-455-2520 (Lab Phones: x 3844; x2562, and x 3717); Fax: (410)-455-1148
Website: http://research.umbc.edu/~hosmane
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Interests: Heterocycles, Nucleosides, Nucleotides, Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Purines, Pyrimidines, Enzymes of Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism, Bioorganic Synthesis

Prof. Dr. Narayan S. Hosmane
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Michael Faraday Laboratories, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115-2862, USA
Tel. (815) 753-3556; Fax: (815) 753-4802
Website: http://www.chembio.niu.edu/hosmane/hosmane.html
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Interests: Heteroatom (Groups III and IV) Compounds: Organometallic Complexes, Antitumor Compounds

Prof. Dr. Thomas Wirth
Cardiff University, Department of Chemistry, Cardiff CF10 3TB, UK
Tel. +44 29 2087 6968; Fax: +44 29 2087 6968
Website: http://www.cf.ac.uk/chemy/wirth
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Interests: Asymmetric Synthesis, Stereoselective Synthesis, Enantioselective Catalysis, Organoselenium Chemistry, Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry, Addition Reactions, Alkane Activation, Computational Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Hussein F. Zohdi
Professor of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt
Tel. +9713 765 6641; Fax: (9713) 671291
Website: http://chem05.cu.edu.eg/chemdept/
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Interests: Green chemistry, Renewable Energy Resources, Synthesis of Fluorinated Heterocyclic Compounds and trifluoromethyl-substituted nucleosides

Dr. Werner Bonrath
DSM Nutritional Products, Research and Development, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. (41) 616886517; Fax: (41) 616872117
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Interests: Catalysis (general), vitamins (general), chemistry under non-classical conditions (ionic liquids, supercritical fluids, ultrasound, and microwaves)
Contribution:
Special Issue: Sonochemistry-organic synthesis
Special Issue: Ionic liquids

Prof. Dr. Norbert Haider
Department of Drug and Natural Product Synthesis, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Tel. +43-1-4277-55624; Fax: +43-1-4277-9551
Website: http://merian.pch.univie.ac.at/
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Interests: medicinal heterocyclic chemistry, pyridazines, carbazoles, nitrogen hetarenes

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zanariah Abdullah
Department of Chemsitry, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel. 03 759 4269; Fax: 03 759 4193
Website: http://www.um.edu.my/
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Interests: Fluorescence, Sorbitol, Polyethyleneglycol, Oleic Acid, Purine, Pyrimidine

Dr. Geo Adam
Head Non-Clinical tr&d, F. Hoffmann-LaRoche AG, Non-Clinical Development Basel, Pharmaceuticals Division, Bldg. 65-217, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 688 9588; Fax: +41 61 688 8714
Website: http://www.roche.com/
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Interests: Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Lead Generation, Lead Optimization

Prof. Dr. Stig Allenmark
Department of Chemistry, Goteborg University, SE-41296 Goteborg, Sweden
Tel. +46-317723841; Fax: +46-317723840
Website: http://www.organic.gu.se/personal/s_alle.html
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Interests: Enantioselectivity in chromatography and in catalytic reactions, Chiroptical methods for solving stereochemical problems

Prof. Dr. Yitzhak Apeloig
President (and Professor of Chemistry) Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 32000 Haifa, Israel
Tel. 972-4-8292595/7; Fax: 972-4-8292000,(confidential): 972-4-8112530
Website: http://www.technion.ac.il/technion/chemistry/staff/apeloig
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Interests: organosilicon chemistry-in particular compounds with multiple bonds, organic reaction mechanisms, computational chemistry

Prof. Dr. David Avnir
Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Tel. +972 2 658 5332; Fax: +972 2 652 0099
Website: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/avnir/
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Interests: Materials science, chirality, symmetry, catalysis, composite materials

Prof. Dr. Jan Becher
Department of Chemistry, Odense University, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
Tel. +45 6615 86 00, direct +45 65 57 2554; Fax: +45 66 15 87 80
Website: http://www.ou.dk/Nat/Chem/staff/sci/JbeE.html
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Interests: Supramolecular chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, especially sulfur-containing heterocycles, tetrathiafulvalene chemistry, macrocyclic chemistry, macrocyclic ligands, cyclophanes, rotaxanes and catenanes of donor-acceptor type

Dr. John A. Beutler
Assay Development, Screening & Dereplication Group, Molecular Targets Development Program, Bldg.560-15 NCI at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702-1201
Tel. +1 (301) 846-1942; Fax: +1 (301)846-6177
Website: http://home.ncifcrf.gov/mtdp/index.html
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Interests: natural products, cancer, HIV, plants, molecular targets
Contribution:
Special Issue: Natural Product Pre-fractionation

Prof. Dr. Stefan Bienz
Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +1-6354245; Fax: +1-6356812
Website: http://www.oci.uzh.ch/group/about.php?g=15
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Interests: polyamines, polyamine derivatives, polyamine alkaloids, organosilicon chemistry, stereoselective synthesis, stereochemistry mass spectrometry, MS fragmentation

Prof. Dariusz Bogdal
Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology Politechnika Krakowska ul. Warszawska 24, 31-155 Krakow, Poland
Tel. +48 12 6282572; Fax: +48 12 6282038
Website: http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/~pcbogdal
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Interests: organic synthesis, phase-transfer catalysis, microwave-assisted synthesis, nitrenium ions, polymer chemistry, fotoluminescence, electroluminescence

Prof. Dr. Margaret A. Brimble
The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand
Tel. 64-9-3737599, ext 8259/8280; Fax: 64-9-3737422
Website: http://www.che.auckland.ac.nz/staffsites/BrimbleM/
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Interests: Asymmetric Synthesis, Spiroketals, Quinones, Ring Closing Metathesis, Alkaloids

Prof. Dr. Per H.J. Carlsen
Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel. +47 73 59 39 68; Fax: + 47 73 59 39 85
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Interests: Organic synthesis, total synthesis, new syntheic methods and reagents, polymer- and surface chemistry, electroactive materials, heterocyclic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, mechanistic organic chemistry, photochemistry
Contribution:
Special Issue: Nucleic Acid Derivatives in Emerging Technologies
Special Issue: Nucleic Acids

Prof. Dr. S. Chandrasekaran
Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India
Tel. +91-80-2293 2404/ 2360 2423; Fax: + 91-80-2360 0529
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Interests: organic synthesis, new synthetic methods, catalysis, organic materials

Prof. Dr. Qing-Yun Chen
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Fenglin Lu, Shanghai 200032, China
Tel. +86 21 5492 5196; Fax: +86 21 6416 6128
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Interests: Fluorine Organic Chemistry and its Applications, Single Electron- Transfer Chemistry, Chemistry of Porphyrins

Dr. Bjorn Classon
Medivir AB, Lunastigen 7, SE-141 44 HUDDINGE, Sweden
Tel. +46 8 6083133
Website: http://www.medivir.se/
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Interests: Parallel Synthesis, solid supported reagents, solid supported chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceuticals, inhibitors, proteases, polymerases

Prof. Dr. Mauricio Gomes Constantino
FFCLRP - USP - Departamento de Quimica, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14040-901- Ribeirao Preto - SP, Brazil
Tel. 0055-16-602-3747; Fax: 0055-16-633-8151
Website: http://artemis.ffclrp.usp.br/constant.htm
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Interests: Synthesis of Natural Products (mainly sesquiterpenes), and to development of new synthetic methods and reagents

Prof. Dr. James M. Coxon
Chemistry Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel. +64 3 364 2872; Fax: +64 3 364 2110
Website: http://www.chem.canterbury.ac.nz/people/academics/jmc.htm
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Interests: Compounds: cyclopropanes, cyclobutanes enzyme inhibitors epoxides, reactive intermediates. Reactions and Methods: pericyclic reactions, cycloadditions 4+2 (Diels-Alder, etc.), stereoselective processes. Analytical and Physical Methods: conformational analysis. Phenomena: stereochemistry, configuration, conformational analysis

Prof. Dr. Wim Dehaen
Department of Chemistry, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Heverlee (Leuven), Belgium
Tel. +32 16 32 74 39 (office) or 74 26 (lab); Fax: ++32 16 32 79 90
Website: http://pcqc5.quantchem.kuleuven.ac.be/research/organ/losa/losa_en.html
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Interests: organic synthesis, heterocycles, supramolecular chemistry

Prof. Dr. Ulf Diederichsen
Institut fuer Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie der Universitaet Goettingen, Tammannstrasse 2, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany
Tel. +49 551 393221; Fax: +49 551 3922944
Website: http://www.diederichsen.chemie.uni-goettingen.de/
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Interests: Peptides, Proteins, Peptide Nucleic Acids, Nucleic Acids, Conformation, Molecular Architecture, Electron Transfer

Prof. Dr. Richard R. Ernst *
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zentrum, CHN, CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland
Tel. +41-1-632 4368; Fax: +41-1-632 1257
Website: http://www.chem.ethz.ch/D-CHEM-Prof/ernst/ernst.html
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Interests: NMR, physical chemistry
* Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Dr. Peter Ertl
Novartis Pharma AG, RIM / Cheminformatics, WSJ-87.303, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 32 40685; Fax: +41 61 32 43357
Website: http://peter-ertl.com
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Interests: cheminformatics, property prediction, virtual screening, drug design, molecular diversity, web-based chemistry tools

Dr. Eduard Felder
Department of Chemistry, Discovery Research Oncology, Nerviano Medical Sciences S.p.A. Viale Pasteur 10, I-20014 Nerviano (MI), Italy
Tel. 0039-02-48385233; Fax: 0039-02-48383937
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Interests: Combinatorial Chemistry, Parallel synthesis, Solid-phase Synthesis, Medicinal Chemistry, Molecular Diversity

Prof. Dr. Torbjörn Frejd
Organic chemistry 1, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, P.O.Box 124, S-221 00, Lund, Sweden
Tel. +46+46+2228125; Fax: +46+462224119
Website: http://www.orgk1.lu.se/Forskning/GroupTF.html
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Interests: Asymmetric Catalysis Including Enzymatic and Microbial Transformations, Metal Coordination to Ligands, Ligand Synthesis, Organosilicon Chemistry, New Amino Acids and Peptide Synthesis, Synthesis and Applications of Small Bicyclic Systems, Dendrimers

Prof. Dr. Andrea Goti
Dipartimento di Chimica Organica "Ugo Schiff", Università di Firenze - Polo Scientifico, via della Lastruccia 13, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino - Firenze, Italy
Tel. +39-055-4573505; Fax: +39-055-4573531
Website: http://www.chimorg.unifi.it/staffcesce.html
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Interests: stereoselective synthesis, natural products, nitrones, oxidation, green chemistry

Dr. W. Luis Angel Maldonado Graniel
Instituto de Quimica, UNAM, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria Coyoacan, 04510 Mexico D.F., Mexico
Tel. (52) 56224449; Fax: (52) 56162217
Website: http://www.iquimica.unam.mx/people/ilmg.html
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Interests: synthetic organic reactions, total synthesis, natural products

Dr. Andrey V. Gutnov
Head of Chemistry, Chiroblock GmbH, Andresenstrasse 1a, 06766 Wolfen, Germany
Tel. (+7)-095-135-5047; Fax: (+7)-095-135-5085
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Interests: asymmetric synthesis, homogeneous catalysis, heterocyclic compounds, organometallic chemistry

Prof. Dr. Henk Hiemstra
Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31205255941; Fax: +31205255670
Website: http://www.science.uva.nl/hims-bms/
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Interests: alkaloids, amino acids, allenes, nitrogen heterocycles, plant natural products iminium ion reactions, photochemical cycloaddition, stereochemistry, organocatalysis

Prof. Dr. Ad P. Ijzerman
Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 71 5274651; Fax: +31 71 5274565
Website: http://www.medchem.leidenuniv.nl
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Interests: chemo-informatics, medicinal chemistry, G protein-coupled receptors, adenosine receptors, agonist, antagonist, allosteric modulation, nucleosides, xanthines, heterocyclic chemistry

Prof. Dr. Ivo C. Ivanov
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Sofia, Dunav 2, BG-1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel. (+359-2) 9236-533; Fax: (+359-2) 987-9874
Website: http://pharmfac.net/orgchem/orgchem.htm
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Interests: Synthesis of N-heterocycles, Polyfunctional Enamines, Coumarin Chemistry, Reaction Mechanisms, Biologically Active Compounds, tert-Amino Effect, Mannich Reaction, Michael Addition

Assoc. Prof. Jindrich Jindrich
Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Charles University , Albertov 2030, 128 40 Prague, Czech Republic
Tel. +42 2 2195 2313; Fax: +42 2 291958
Website: http://portal.jindrich.org
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Interests: Synthesis, Carbohydrates, Cyclodextrins, Chemosensors, Porous Silicon

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Jordis
Institut fuer Organische Chemie, Technische Universitaet Wien, Getreidemarkt 9/154, A-1060 Wien / Oesterreich
Tel. +43 (1) 58801.15460; Fax: +43 (1) 58801.15499
Website: http://phoenix.tuwien.ac.at/
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Interests: Antivirals, Alzheimer, Quinolones, Combinatorial Chemistry, Labelled Compounds, Natural Products (Alkaloids, Triterpenes), Custom Synthesis, Chemistry Software and Databases

Prof. Dr. Günther Jung
Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Tel. +49 (7071)29-76925; Fax: +49 (7071) 29-5560
Website: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/jung/
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Interests: Compounds: affinity labels, amino acids, antibiotics, antifungal compounds, bioconjugates, peptide mimics, peptides, photoaffinity labels, polymer-supported reagents. Reactions and Methods: combinatorial chemistry, analytical methods, spatially separate methods, split methods, protein modification, solid and polymer-supported synthesis. Phenomena: molecular recognition

Dr. Ishenkumba A. Kahwa
Professort of Supramolecular Chemistry, Chemistry Department, University of the West Indies, Mona, Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica
Tel. 001 876-927-1910; Fax: 001 876-977-1835
Website: http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/
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Interests: Compounds: Rare earths and actinides, supramolecular assemblies. Reactions: complexion -transition metals, carbonyl condensation. Analytical physical: Fluorescence methods. Phenomenon: Physical properties of materials - optical, host-guest chemistry

Prof. Dr. Ivars Kalvinsh
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkrauklesstr. 21, Riga LV-1006, Latvia
Tel. +371-7- 553233; Fax: +371-7- 828114
Website: http://www.lza.lv/scientists/KALVINSI.HTM
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Interests: New Physiologically Active Substances for CNS, Cardiovascular and Malignant Diseases, Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds and Amino Acid Analogues, Action of New Medicines: Biochemical Mechanisms, Immunochemistry

Dr. Jerome Karle *
Laboratory for the Structure of Matter, CODE 6030, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375-5341, USA
Tel. +1 202-767-2665; Fax: +1 202-767-0953
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Interests: X-Ray crystallography, structural chemistry
* Winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Dr. Peter Karuso
Department of Chemistry, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, Australia
Tel. 612 9850 8290; Fax: 612 9850 8313
Website: http://www.chem.mq.edu.au/~vislab/karuso.html
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Interests: natural products, chemical biology, chemical proteomics, fluorescence

Prof. Dr. Yoshito Kishi
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Tel. (617) 495-4679; Fax: (617)495-5150
Website: http://www-chem.harvard.edu/YoshitoKishi.html
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Interests: total syntheses of various complex natural products

Prof. Dr. Miroslav Koóš
Vice-director, Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, SK-845 38 Bratislava, Slovakia
Tel. +421-2-59410254; Fax: +421-2-59410222
Website: http://www.chem.sk/people/koosmiroslav/
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Interests: Carbohydrate Chemistry, Glycoconjugates, N,O-Heterocycles, Organic Synthesis, Structure Determination

Prof. Dr. Jun'ichi Kobayashi
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
Tel. 011-706-4985 ; Fax: 011-706-4989
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Interests: bioactive marine natural products, structure elucidation, mecanism of action, drug leads, bioprobes, biogenesis

Dr. George Kokotos
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University ofAthens, Panepistimiopolis, Athens 15771, Greece
Tel. 7274462; Fax: 7249101
Website: http://www.chem.uoa.gr/personel/Laboratories/OrganicChem/CVS/kokotos.htm
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Interests: Development of new methods for the synthesis of unnatural amino acids and derivatives, Synthesis and study of inhibitors for lipolytic enzymes, Synthesis of fluorogenic substrates for the determination and study of proteases, Synthesis of organic compounds exhibiting biological activity (e.g. anti-inflammatory, cytotoxic activity), Biotransformations in organic sysnthesis

Prof. Dr. Lajos Kovacs
Department of Medicinal Chemistry , Universtiy of Szeged, Dom ter 8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
Tel. +36 62 54 51 45; Fax: +36-62-42 59 71
Website: http://www.mdche.u-szeged.hu/~kovacs/nal.html
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Interests: preparative organic chemistry of carbohydrates, nucleobases, nucleosides,C-nucleosides, peptide nucleic acids, indoles, alkaloids, polyamines, heterocycles, protecting groups; chemical information management

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kraus
Institut für Chemie, Universität Hohenheim, Garbenstr.30, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel. +49-711-459-2171; Fax: +49-711-459-2951
Website: http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/
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Interests: Natural Products Isolation, Structure Determination, Bioassays, Structure-Activity Relationships

Prof. Sir. Harold Kroto *
The Chemical Laboratories, CPES, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK
Tel. 1 850 644 8274; Fax: 1 850 644 8274
Website: http://www.kroto.info/
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Interests: C60 fullerene science: chemistry, physics, materials science and astrophysics
* Winnerof the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Dr. S. Anand Kumar
Directorm, Astra Zeneca Research Foundation India, Bellary Road (Kirloskar Business Park) Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024
Tel. +91-80-2362 2010; Fax: +91-80-2362-2011
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Interests: Microwave assisted (or enhanced) Organic Synthesis, Enzyme catalyzed Organic Syntheses in Non-aqueous media

Dr. Ana María López-Colomé
Instituto de Fisiologia Celular, U.N.A.M., Departamento de Neurociencias, Apartado postal 70-253, 04510, Mexico, D. F., Mexico
Tel. (525)622-5617, (525)622-5615 (Secretary); Fax: (525)622-5607
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Interests: Retina, Retinal Pigment Epithelium, Glutamate receptors, Glutamate transporters, Nitric oxide, Vitreoretinopathy

Prof. Dr. Albert W. M. Lee
Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel. (852)3411-7064
Website: http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~chem/staff_wmlee.htm
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Interests: Alkaloid Synthesis, chiral auxiliary, Phase transfer catalysis, Diels Alder reactions

Prof. Dr. Guigen Li
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA
Tel. 806-742-3015; Fax: 806-742-1289
Website: http://www.ttu.edu/~chem/faculty/li/li.html
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Interests: Halo Aldol Reaction, Alkene Additions, Aminohalogenation, Diamination, Baylis-Hillman Reaction
Contribution:
Special Issue: Baylis-Hillman Reaction and Related Processes

Dr. Hai-yang Liu
Department of Applied Chemistry, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
Tel. 86-020-87112991; Fax: 86-020-85511266
Website: http://www.scut.edu.cn/chemistry/
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Interests: Porphyrin, Corrole, Coordination Chemistry, Nonlinear Optical Property, Molecular Modeling, Catalytic Oxidation

Dr. Dusan Loos
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynska dolinaCH-2, SK-842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
Tel. +421 7 60296342; Fax: +421 760296690
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Interests: heterocyclic compounds, aromaticity, binding, structure, organic compounds with NLO properties, conformational analysis, steric effects

Prof. Dr. E. Lukevics
Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles str. 21, Riga LV-1006 Latvia
Tel. +371-7-551822; Fax: +371-7-821038
Website: http://www.lza.lv/scientists/Lukevics.htm
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Interests: heteroatom(main group) compounds, group IV : Si, Ge, Pb, Sn, heterocycles, oxygen, sulfur

Prof. Dr. Bang Luu
Chimie Organique des Substances Naturelles, Centre de Neurochimie, 5 rue Blaise Pascal, F-67084 Strasbourg, France
Tel. (33)-03 88 41 16 72; Fax: (33)-03 88 60 74 64
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Interests: interface chemistry/biology, medicinal chemistry, natural products chemistry

Dr. Stefan Matile
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Department of Organic Chemistry, 30, quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Tel. (+41 22) 702 6085 (office assistant: 702 6519); Fax: (+41 22) 3287396 (office: 702 6085)
Website: http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chiorg/Matile/
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Interests: membranes, liposomes, vesicles, supramolecular assemblies, peptide mimics, peptides, host-guest compounds, host-guest chemistry, binding, transport, molecular recognition, enzyme models

Prof. Dr. Dariusz Matosiuk
Chair & Department of Synthesis and Technology of Pharmaceutical Substances (Head of the Chair), Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University, 6 Staszica Str., PL-20081 Lublin, Poland
Tel. 048-81-532 29 10; Fax: 048-81-532 89 03
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Interests: Heterocycles containing nitrogen, simple and fused heterocycles; Nitrogen containing compounds, amines, poliamines, isocyanates and hydrazines; Addition reaction, pseudo-Michael condensation; Carbonyl compounds reactions, acylation, nucleophylic addition and other condensations; Synthesis of biologically (especially CNS) active compounds, opioid, serotonergic, glutaminergic, nicotinic receptors, molecular modeling of small drug-like molecules, identification of their physical properties affecting pharmacological activity

Dr. Pedro Merino
Departamentode Quimica Organica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Plza.San Francisco s/n E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tel. + 34 976 762075; Fax: + 34 976 762075
Website: http://wzar.unizar.es/acad/fac/cie/quiorg/asimetrica/staff/merino.html
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Interests: asymmetric synthesis, organometallics, nitrones, imines, carbohydrates, nucleosides, aminoacids

Prof. Dr. Viktor Milata
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Slovak Universitryof Technology, Radlinskeho 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Tel. 00421-7-5296 8560, 5249 5410 ext. 109, 5932 5149, 5932 5747; Fax: 00421-7-52968560
Website: http://www.chtf.stuba.sk/koch/och_doc_sk.html
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Interests: polycyclic aromatics, enolethers, alkoxymethylene derivatives, amines, nitrocompounds, benzimidazoles, benzotriazoles, selenous chemistry, azoloquinolines, 4-quinolones, antibacterials, etc.

Dr. A. Monge
CIFA - Universidadde Navarra, Irunlarrea, s/n, 31080 Pamplona (Navarra), Spain
Tel. 948 42 56 53; Fax: 948 42 56 52
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Interests: Antitumor, antituberculosis, antimalarial compounds, Heterocycles, nitrogen, N-nitroso compounds, N-oxides

Dr. Gerardo Alberto Mora
Centro de Investigaciones en Productos Naturales, (CIPRONA), Universidad de Costa Rica. 2060 San Jose, Costa Rica
Tel. (506) 22450755; Fax: (506) 22450755
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Interests: Natural Products, Plants, Bioactivity, Insect-related activity

Dr. Patrick Moyna
Missisipi 1634 Apto.104, Montevideo, 11400, Uruguay
Tel. +55 (54)222 61 73; Fax: +55 (54) 218 21 49
Website: http://mail.fq.edu.uy/~planta/
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Interests: Natural Products, Green chemistry, Biomimetics

Dr. Gerald Anthony Murphy
Technical Fellow, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 636 8374; Fax: +41 61 636 6651
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Interests: Synthesis of dyes and pigments, Anthraquinone,cyanine, azo, and cationic dyes,Electronic materials, Process Development and Process Safety

Dr. Carl David Nager
ECBI, Basel, Switzerland
Tel. ++41 76 515 5046; Fax: ++1 815 846 3827
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/mdpiboard.htm
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Interests: chemoinformatics, bioinformatics, IT application and integration to pharmaceutical R&D

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Neier
Institut de Chimie, Université de Neuchâtel, Av. Bellevaux 51, CH-2007 Neuchatel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 32 718 2428; Fax: +41 32718 2511
Website: http://www.unine.ch/chim/neier/welcome.html
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Interests: Organic synthesis -Tandem reactions - Biomimetic chemistry - Biosynthesis of the pigments of life - Photodynamic therapy

Dr. John Nielsen
Department of Chemistry, Department of Natural Sciences, Bioorganic Chemistry Division, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Tel. +45 3528 2436; Fax: +45 3528 2398
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Interests: combinatorial chemistry, natural products, antibiotics, bioconjugates, bioorganic chemistry, synthesis

Prof. Dr. Lajos Novak
Institute for Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Budapest, 1111 Budapest, Gellert ter 4, Hungary
Tel. (36-1)-463 2207; Fax: (36-1)-4633297
Website: http://www.och.bme.hu/org/novak.htm
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Interests: Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Rearrangement Reactions, Enzyme-Catalyzed Reaction, Insect Pheromone, Insect Growth Regulators, Lipoxygenase Enzyme Inhibitors, Tryptamine Derivatives

Dr. Alessandro Pedretti
Istituto di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica "Pietro Pratesi", Via Mangiagalli 25, I-20133 Milano - Italy
Tel. +39 02 503 19332; Fax: +39 02 502 19359
Website: http://www.ddl.unimi.it
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Interests: molecular modelling, molecular docking, QSAR, computer programming, virtual screening, homology modelling

Dr. Alice L. Perez
Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Quimica, 2060 San Pedro, San Jose, Costa Rica
Tel. (506)-2207-4091; Fax: (506)-2253-5020
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Interests: Organic Synthesis, 1,4-naphthoquinones, antitumoral, alkylation, lawsone, antiparasite

Prof. Dr. Charles L. Perrin
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
Tel. 858-534-2164; Fax: 858-822-0386
Website: http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/research/profile.cfm?cid=C00389
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Interests: Physical-organic chemistry: stereoelectronic and anomeric effects; hydrogen bonding; isotope effects; ionic solvation, structural effects on organic reactivity

Dr. Esteban Pombo-Villar
C.Chem FRSC, Head of Strategic Alliance Management Europe, WSJ-386.13.46, Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research CH4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0)61 3249865; Fax: +41 (0)61 3243811
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Interests: Medicinal chemistry, Use of microwaves in synthesis, Research Alliances

Prof. Dr. Milan Potacek
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, CZ - 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
Tel. 420-5-41129306; Fax: 420-5-41211214
Website: http://www.muni.cz/sci/structure/313040.html
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Interests: heterocycles, fused rings, multiple heteroatoms, nitrogen, ylides, microwave, pericyclic reactions, cycloadditions, 1, 3-dipolar, sigmatropic rearrangements, [3,3] (Claisen, Cope, etc.), thermal rearrangements, dissociations

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Daniel Preite
Facultad de Quimica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, VicuñaMackenna 4860, Casilla 306, 6904411 Santiago, Chile
Tel. +56-2-354-4436; Fax: +56-2-354-4744
Website: http://www.uc.cl
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Interests: Total synthesis, stereoselective synthesis, asymmetric synthesis, chiral auxiliaries and catalysts, main-group in synthesis

Dr. Francesco Puoci
Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università della Calabria, Edificio Polifunzionale, Arcavacata di Rende (CS) 87036, Italy
Tel. (+39) 0984493151; Fax: (+39) 0984 493298
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Contribution:
Special Issue: 5-Fluorouracil

Prof. Dr. Peter Rüedi
Institute of Organic Chemistry, University ofZurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0)1 635 42 41
Website: http://www.oci.unizh.ch/groups/ruedi.html
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Interests: Organophosphorous Chemistry: Stereochemistry of the inhibition of serine hydrolases by organophosphorous acetylcholine mimetics. Synthesis, enzyme kinetics, 31P-NMR investigations Phytochemistry: Physiologically active secondary metabolites from medicinal plants.Isolation, synthesis, broad band screening. Biomimetic transformations

Prof. Dr. Andrzej Rajca
Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, USA
Tel. (402)472-9196; Fax: (402)472-9402
Website: http://www.chem.unl.edu/rajca/rajca.html
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Interests: asymmetric synthesis, coupling reactions (transition metal mediated), metallations, polymerization, stereoselective processes, chirooptical methods, ESR, aromaticity, physical properties of materials (magnetic, polymer)

Dr. Jeremy M. Rawson
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1223 336 323; Fax: +44 1223 336 362
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Interests: molecular magnetism, organic magnet, ferromagnet, antiferromagnet, ferrimagnet, Density Functional Theory, exchange interaction
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ferromagnetic Organic Radicals

Prof. Dr. Oliver Reiser
Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
Tel. Int-49-(0)941-943-4631(4630); Fax: Int-49-(0)941-943-4121
Website: http://www-oc.chemie.uni-regensburg.de/reiser/index.html
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Interests: Asymmetric Catalysis, Stereoselective Synthesis, Natural Product, Synthesis, Unnatural Amino Acids, Foldamers

Prof. Dr. René Roy
Departement of Chemistry, Université du Quebéc à Montréal, P. O. Box 8888, Succ. centre-Ville, Montral (QC), Canada H3C 3P8
Tel. 514-987-3000 ext 2546; Fax: 514-987-4054
Website: http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r25431/
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Interests: Carbohydrate, Dendrimers, Polymers, Olefin Metathesis, Cross-Coupling

Dr. Claudio J. Salomon
Departamento Farmacia Facultad de Cs. Bioquimicas y Farmaceuticas Universidad Nacional de Rosario Suipacha 531, 2000. Rosario
Tel. 54-341-4370477; Fax: 54-341-4370477
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Contribution:
Special Issue: Macromolecules Applied to Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Arturo San Feliciano
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Salamanca, Av. Campo Charro s/n 37007-Salamanca, Spain
Tel. 4-923-294528; Fax: 34-923-294515
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Interests: Compounds: alicyclics, polycyclics, alkaloids, aromatics, coumarins, flavonoids, heterocycles, lignans, natural products, plant, nitrogen-containing compounds, amines, quinones, stilbenoids, terpenes, terpenoids, Reactions: asymmetric synthesis, other condensations, hydroboration, hydrolysis, oxidation, cycloadditions, cleavages, eliminations, substitutions, isomerizations, Analytical and Physical Methods: chromatography, infrared, mass spectrometry, small molecules NMR, conformational analysis, UV/visible

Dr. Milos Sedlak
Institute of Organic Chemistry & Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, nam, Cs.legii 565, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic
Tel. +420 466 037 015; Fax: +420 466 037 068
Website: http://www.upce.cz/
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Interests: Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds, Studies of Kinetics and Mechanism of their Formation, Decomposition or Transformations, Modification of Ligands by Polymeric Carriers

Prof. Dr. Masakatsu Shibasaki
Laboratry of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Graduate School of PharmaceuticalSciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Tel. +81-(0)3-5841-4830 / +81-(0)3-5684-0651; Fax: +81-(0)3-5684-5206
Website: http://www.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kanai/prof-e.html
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Interests: Chiral auxiliaries and catalysts, Lewis acids and bases, Asymmetric synthesis, Catalysis

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stadlbauer
Institute of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 28, A-8010 Graz (Austria/Europe)
Tel. +43 (0)316380 5334; Fax: +43 (0)316 380 9840
Website: http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~stadlbau
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Interests: heterocycles, natural products, fluorescence labeling, organic synthesis, thermal analysis, calorimetry

Prof. Dr. Branko Stanovnik
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Askerceva 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel. +386 1 241 92 38 ; Fax: +386 1 241 92 72
Website: http://rcul.uni-lj.si/kem/or
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Interests: Organic Chemistry, Heterocyclic Chemistry Synthesis, New Reagents in Organic Synthesis, New Synthetic Methodologies, Natural Products Structural Elucidation of Organic Compounds

Prof. Dr. Steven L. Suib
Unit 3060, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N. Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06269-3060,USA
Tel. +1 (860)-486-2797; Fax: +1 (860)-486-2981
Website: http://web.uconn.edu/chemistry/SuibGroup/suibg.htm
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Interests: Manganese Oxides, Catalysis, Ceramics, Nanotech, Microwaves

Prof. Dr. Gabriel J. Summers
Department of Chemistry, University of South Africa, P.O.Box 392, Pretoria 0003, Republic of South Africa
Tel. +27 12 429 8020; Fax: +27 12 429 8549
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Interests: organic polymer chemistry, polymers, polymer synthesis and mechanism: free radical poymerization, ionic polymerization, polymerization kinetics, polymerization processes, functionalized polymers, polymers for industrial applications

Prof. Dr. H. Timmerman
VU-University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +020 444 7580; Fax: +020 444 7610
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Interests: Medicinal Chemistry. Receptor: Receptor agonists, receptor antagonists, receptor inverse agonists. Histaminergic systems

Prof. Dr. Motoo Tori
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Yamashiro-cho, Tokushima 770-8514, Japan
Tel. +81-88-622-9611(ext.5631); Fax: +81-88-655-3051
Website: http://p.bunri-u.ac.jp/~tori/english/e-tori.html
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Interests: synthetic methodology using samarium diiodide. Application of ring closing metathesis reactions to natural product synthesis, Studies on stereochemistries of natural products based on chiral synthesis, Synthetic study of natural and nonnatural biologically active compounds, Isolation and structure determination of natural products (especially Compositae), Spectroscopic method for the determination of conformations and absolute configurations

Prof. Dr. Francisco Torrens
Departamentde Quimica Fisica, Universitat de Valencia, Dr. Moliner-50, E-46100-Burjassot (Valencia), Spain
Tel. 34.963544431; Fax: 34.963543274
Website: http://www.uv.es/~anton/inicio.html
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Interests: Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular Science, Molecular Simulation, Intermolecular Interaction, Electric Polarizability, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Fullerene, Nanotube

Prof. Dr. Iztok Turel
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chem. Technology, Askerceva 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel. +386 1 2419124; Fax: +386 1 2419220
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Interests: Bioinorganic Chemistry, Metal Ions, Biologically Active Compounds, Quinolones, Guanine Derivatives, Ruthenium chemistry

Prof. Dr. Atta Ur-Rahman
H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical Sciences, University of Karachi, Pakistan
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Interests: natural product chemistry, organic synthesis

Dr. Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde
Académie Universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles,University of Mons-Hainaut, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Unit of Organic Synthesis, Faculty of Sciences, 20 Place du Parc,B-7000,Mons,Belgium
Tel. + 32 65 373337 (office); + 32 65 373338 (lab); Fax: + 32 65 373515
Website: http://w3.umh.ac.be/~jjvde/lso.htm
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Interests: Heterocycles, Microwave-Induced Synthesis, Solvent-Free Reactions, Polymer (Insoluble and Soluble)-Assisted Syntheses, Combinatorial Chemistry; Prodrugs
Contribution:
Special Issue: Prodrugs: from Design to Applications

Prof. Dr. Didier Villemin
ENSICAEN, Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Thioorganique (LCMT), Laboratoire associé au CNRS, UMR6507, 6 Boulevard du Maréchal Juin, 14000 Caen-France
Tel. (33)2 31 45 28 40; Fax: (33) 2 31 45 28 77
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Interests: biomimetic synthesis (catalytic methods, acid-base, alumina, clays, silica, asymmetric, crowns, cryptandsenzymatic, heterogeneous, homogeneous, phase-transfer, polyethers, polyamines( including macrocyclic), solid-supported zeolites), combinatorial chemistry, spatially separate methods, coupling reactions, transition metal mediated, green chemistry ,metathesis (alkene and alkyne), microwave, phosphorylation, QSAR, sonochemistry/ultrasound

Prof. Dr. Christian Vogel
Fachbereich Chemie, Universität Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)381/4986430
Website: http://www.fb-chemie.uni-rostock.de/organik/vogel/index.html
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Interests: Heterocycles, Organic Synthesis, Natural Products, Carbohydrates, Stereochemistry

Prof. Dr. Itamar Willner
Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Tel. 972-2-6585272; Fax: 972-2-6527715
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Interests: Sensors ; Molecular recognition; Monolayers; Electrochemistry; Photochemistry; Phptochromism

Prof. Dr. Peter Wipf
1301 Chevron Hall, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Tel. 412-624-8606; Fax: 412-624-0787
Website: http://ccc.chem.pitt.edu/wipf/index.html
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Interests: Natural Product total Synthesis, Organometallic Chemistry, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Combinatorial Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Henry N. C. Wong
Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
Tel. Office (852) 2609 6329/ Mobile 9120 6538; Fax: (852) 2603 5057
Website: http://www.chem.cuhk.edu.hk/hncwong.html
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Interests: Organosilicon Chemistry, Natural Products Synthesis, Non-Natural Molecules, Aromatic Compounds

Dr. Jun Xu
Director of Chemoinformatics, Discovery Partners International, Inc., 9640 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
Tel. (858)-228-4171; Fax: (858)-362-0199
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Interests: structure-based and ligand-based virtual high throughput screening, ADMET prediction and compound profiling, structure databases, molecular recognition, data mining and multiple variables statistical analysis (clustering and classification), and systems of chemical biology

Prof. Dr. Yoshinori Yamamoto
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
Tel. +81-22-217-6581; Fax: +81-22-217-6784
Website: http://www.chem.tohoku.ac.jp/labo/hannouyuuki/e.html
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Interests: organometallic compounds, organocopper, organopalladium, transition metals, catalytic reaction, asymmetric synthesis, stereoselective synthesis, aldol reaction michael addition, heterocycles, marine natural products

Prof. Dr. Zoran Zdravkovski
Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, P.O. Box 162, 91001 Skopje, Macedonia
Tel. +(389-2) 324-9926; Fax: +(389-2) 322-6865
Website: http://www.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/PMF/Chemistry/teachers/zdraz.htm
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Interests: pericyclic reactions, cycloadditions, 1, 3-dipolar, 2+2, 4+2 (Diels-Alder, etc.), molecular structure, conformational analysis

Dr. Peter Zhu
Principal Scientist & Adj. Professor of Chemistry, ASP, Biocides, Johnson & Johnson,33 Technology Drive, Irvine, California 92618, USA
Tel. (949)789-3848
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Interests: cyclic ketene acetals (synthesis and polymerization), process organic synthesis, natural product chemistry, fluorescent sensor chemistry (of potassium, sodium, glucose, oxygen, carbon dioxide and pH sensors), DNA separation, lab-on-chip and DNA chip chemistry, bioconjugation chemistry, fast assays, nanochemistry and dendrimer chemistry application, disinfection chemistry and biocide formulation

Prof. Dr. Jiaxi Xu
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing100871, P. R. China
Tel. +86-(0)10-62751497; Fax: +86-(0)10-62751708
Website: http://www.chem.pku.edu.cn/xujx/
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Interests: Organic synthesis, Heterocyclic chemistry, Asymmetric catalysis, Asymmetric synthesis, Peptide Chemistry and Combinatorial Chemistry