UK Automated Synthesis Forum 2017 Agenda
Tuesday, 7th November 2017
| 10:00am | Introductory Remarks |
| Jason Tierney, Charles River, Chair UKASF | |
| 10:10am | Welcome Remarks |
| Paul Kendall, Festo | |
| 10:20am | Plenary Lecture: Earth, Wind, Fire and Light – New Technologies Enabling Chemical Innovation |
| Ian W Davies, Princeton | |
| 11:20am | Coffee & Networking |
| Metabolite Synthesis and purification | |
| Chair: Andrew Ledgard (Lilly) / Paul Blaney (Concept Life Sciences) | |
| 11:40am | The Generation and Identification of Biosynthetic Metabolites |
| Dr. Scott Martin and Dr. Eva Lenz, AstraZeneca | |
| 12:00pm | Metabolite Generation under Continuous Electrochemical Methods |
| Andrew Mansfield, Syrris | |
| 12:20pm | Reaction Screening Tools for Medicinal Chemistry |
| Marc Bazin, Hepatochem | |
| 12.40pm | Challenges associated with small scale purification of metabolites and impurities |
| Ronan Cleary, Waters | |
| 10.00pm | Lunch, Exhibition & Networking |
| Flow Chemistry I | |
| Chair: Paul Turner (AZ) / John Taylor (Beatson Institute) | |
| 2:30pm | Using Open-Source Hardware and Software Technologies to Automate Chemical Synthesis |
| Dr. Matthew O’Brien, University of Keele. | |
| 2:50pm | Practical Organic Electrosynthesis in Laboratory Flow Electrolysis Cell with Extended Channels: Milligrammes to Multigrammes/Hour |
| Prof. Richard Brown, University of Southampton | |
| 3:10pm | Research towards Automated Continuous Flow Peptide Synthesis (Vapourtec) |
| Dr. Nikzad Nikbin, New Path Molecular | |
| 3:30pm | Photochemical reactors for both batch and flow |
| Martyn Fordham, Asynt/Uniqsis | |
| 3.50pm | Break |
| New Technologies I | |
| Jason Tierney (Charles River) / Tobias Mochel (Sygnature) | |
| 4:10pm | What could be driving the lab of the future and is the ‘Smart Lab’ really a thing? |
| Paul Kendall, Festo | |
| 4:30pm | ElectraSyn 2.0: Facilitating the mass adoption of electrochemistry for preparative organic synthesis |
| Kevin Mann, IKA | |
| 4:50pm | Mya 4, the new Reaction Station from Radleys |
| Dr. Keren Abecassis, Radleys | |
| 5:10pm | Continuous reactor solutions, scalable SpinPro reactor applications |
| Jeoffrey van den Berg, Flow ID | |
| 5:40pm | Close of day |
| Symposium Dinner | |
| Marriott Hotel, Northampton |
Wednesday, 8th November 2017
| Flow Chemistry II | |
| Chair: Batool Ahmed-Omer (GSK) / Steve Brough (Key Organics) | |
| 9:00am | The Use of Optimization Algorithms in Flow for Palladium-catalyzed Reactions |
| Prof. Francois-Xavier Felpin, University of Nantes | |
| 9:20am | Expanding chemistry’s horizon with continuous-flow reactors |
| Dr. Jean-Christophe Monbaliu, University of Liege | |
| 9:40am | Flow Chemistry for Gas-liquid Transformations |
| Dr. Christopher Hone, CC Flow, University of Graz | |
| 10:10am | Packed Bed Reactors as Tools in R&D Flow Chemistry |
| Dr. Anders Lindhardt, Aarhus University | |
| 10:30am | Break |
| Bespoke Automated Technologies | |
| Chair: Jenny Kingston (AstraZeneca) / Dave Pearce (Syngenta) | |
| 11:00am | Applications for the Advion mini MS within a Synthetic Environment |
| Andrew Baker, Advion | |
| 11:20am | Synthesis to Data: Automation on Sub mg scale |
| Richard Robinson, Novartis | |
| 11:40am | Data Flows – accessible automation in the connected laboratory |
| Richard Ingham, Base4 Innovation Ltd. | |
| 12:05pm | Prep SFC using a standard prep HPLC – a new conversion system |
| Alex Bozic, ABSYS. | |
| 12:25pm | Lunch & Networking |
| New Technologies II | |
| Chair: Melanie Bayford, (Domainex) / Maninder Panesar (Vertex) | |
| 1:15pm | NanoMIPs: Chemistry’s answer to antibodies and their automated synthesis |
| Adrian Kinkaid, MIP-Dx | |
| 1:35pm | 3D Printing in Organic Synthesis: The Transition from Impregnated Catalysis in Batch to Continuous Flow |
| Dr. Stephen Hilton, UCL | |
| 1:55pm | Training the next generation: Introducing flow and reaction design in academia |
| Dr. Steve Christie, University of Loughborough | |
| 2:15pm | A General Small-Scale Reactor to Enable Standardization and Acceleration of Photocatalytic Reactions |
| Ian Davies, Princeton | |
| 2:30pm | Centre for Rapid online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR): The Dial-a-Molecule Institute@Imperial |
| Dr. Gill Smith, Dial-a-Molecule | |
| 2:50pm | Final Remarks and Close of Meeting |