Adriano D. Andricopulo Chairman of the IUPAC-2017 Organizing Committee

www.iupac2017.org

Brazil: Key Figures and Facts

• Brazil is Latin America's largest country (47% of the South America Continent)

and the fifth largest country in the world

• Population: 204 million people (the fifth most populous in the world )

• Language: Portuguese

Official currency: Brazilian Real (1.00 USD = R$ 3.12)

• Brazil has the world’s ninth-largest economy and the

largest in Latin America

São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex,

and economic production in Brazil

Population: 12 million people (45 million in SP state)

It is the largest city in South America, and the fifth largest

in the world

São Paulo State is responsible for 40% of the Brazilian GDP

Climate: humid subtropical, temperatures in July: 12 and 22°C

(54°F and 72°F)

Number of tourists in 2016: > 18 million

Brazil: Key Figures and Facts

WTC Events Center and Sheraton WTC Hotel are the most complete complex for events in Latin America Approximately 12,000 m² are available and divided into 60 flexible spaces

Services: Parking Restaurants Banks Currency exchange Travel agency Pharmacies Hairdresser’s Stationery

- 9 Plenary Lectures, including 4 Noble Laureates

- About 120 Sessions in 12 major themes

- Several Keynote, Invited, Oral and Young Scientists

Opening Ceremony

Special Symposia

Welcome Reception

3 Poster Sessions

Half-day Social Program

Gala Dinner

Exhibition

General Aspects

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (Nobel Prize 2016) Department of Chemistry - Northwestern University (USA)

Plenary Lectures

Ada E. Yonath (Nobel Prize 2009) Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Kurt Wüthrich (Nobel Prize 2002) The Scripps Research Institute (USA)

Robert Huber (Nobel Prize 1988) Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Germany)

Clare Grey Department of Chemistry - University of Cambridge, UK

David MacMillan Princeton University, USA

Plenary Lectures

Katharina Landfester Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research- Munich, Germany

Mei-Hung Chiu National Taiwan Normal University, China/Taipei

Special Symposia

Commemorative Symposium 40th Anniversary SBQ

►Research Data, Big Data, and Chemistry Symposium Organizers: David Martinsen, ACS ▪ Leah McEwen, Chemistry Librarian

► Women in Chemistry Symposium Organizers: Carolyn Ribes, Dow Benelux BV ▪ Fabienne Meyers, Associate Director of IUPAC ▪ Vanderlan da S. Bolzani, SBQ counselor Member

► Young Researchers in Chemistry Keynote Speakers: Cristiano Funari, UNESP ▪ Xavier Pillai, Leydig LTD Invited Speaker: Csaba Janáky, ELI-ALPS

Symposia

► Analytical & Food Chemistry (AC) Keynote Lectures • Nicolo Omenetto – Lasers in Analytical Chemistry

University of Florida, Gainesville (USA) • Purnendu K. Dasgupta – Flow Analysis

University of Texas, Arlington (USA) • Frank Vanhaecke - Mass Spectrometry

Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) • Marcos N. Eberlin – Mass Spectrometry

Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, Campinas (Brazil) • Maria Montes-Bayón - Chemical Speciation Analysis

University of Oviedo, Oviedo (Spain)

► Chemistry Education (CE) Keynote Lectures • David Waddington - Chemical Education for Sustainability

Department of Chemistry - University of York, York (UK)

Symposia

► Chemistry for Industry Innovation (CI) Keynote Lectures • Camila Cruz Durlacher - Innovation Management

3M, Sumaré (Brazil) • Marcelo Prim - Industry-University Relationship

SENAI-DN, Brasília (Brazil) • Luuk van der Wielen - Sustainable Chemistry

BE-Basic, Delft University of Technology, Delf (The Netherlands) • Mateus Lopes - Biorefinery

Braskem, São Paulo (Brazil)

► Green Chemistry and Biotechnology (GB) Keynote Lectures • Pietro Tundo - Green chemistry methods in organic synthesis, use of organic

carbonates as alkylating agents, chlorine-free synthesis. University of Venice (Italy) • Kazunari Domen - Renewable Energies. University of Tokyo (Japan) • Alírio Rodrigues - An integrated process for Lignin valorization to produce vanillin,

syringaldheide and poliurethanes. University of Porto (Portugal) • Javier Perez Ramirez - Design of heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable technologies

ETH, Zuritch (Switzerland) • Tian Tan - Biomass processing. University of Chemical Technology, Beijing (China)

Symposia

► Chemical Synthesis (CS) Keynote Lectures • Karl-Anker Jorgesen – organocatalysis Aarhus University (Denmark) • Ilan Marek - Stereo and enantioselective strategies for organic synthesis

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) • Mike Krische - Synthetic Methods & Natural Products Synthesis

University of Textas at Austin (USA) • Carsten Bolm - Synthesis, Asymmetric metal catalysis, Organocatalysis

RWTH Aachen University (Germany) • Matthew Sigman - Organic Synthesis & Asymmetric Catalysis

The University of Utah (USA) • André Charette - Synthetic Organic Chemistry,

University of Montreal (Canada) • Gary A. Molander - Synthetic Methods Development

University of Pennsylvania (USA) • Ronaldo Pilli - Organic & Natural Products Synthesis

University of Campinas (Brazil) • Magnus Rueping - Organocatalysis, Metal Catalysis, Synthesis of Natural Products

and Analogues Institute of Organic Chemistry - RWTH Aachen University - Aachen (Germany)

Symposia

► Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (EE) Keynote Lectures • James Durrant - Solar Cells

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London (UK) • Deborah Jones - Fuel Cells

Institut Charles Gerhardt, Université Montpellier, Montpellier (France) • Juan Feliu - Electrocatalysis

University of Alicante (Spain) • Thierry Brousse - Electrochemical Capacitors

University of Nantes (France) • Mario Leclerc - Electroactive and photoactive polymers

Université Laval, Québec (Canada) • Catherine Jeandel - Flux and processes of trace elements and their isotopes in the ocean

LEGOS - Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse (France) • Peter Croot - Biogeochemistry of trace elements, speciation, and redox behaviour

School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway (Ireland) • Nathan S. Lewis - solar fuels/solar chemical

Caltech - Pasadena (USA) • Christer Forsgren - Metal recycling

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden) • Michael Bau - Anthropogenic REE

Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen (Germany) • Daniel Scherson - Energy conversion

Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences - Cleveland (USA)

Symposia

► Inorganic and Structural Chemistry (IC) Keynote Lectures • Chris Orvig - Medicinal inorganic chemistry and radiopharmaceutical chemistry. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) • Deryn E. Fogg – Organometallic chemistry and catalysis for applications ranging from

pharmaceutical synthesis to tissue engineering. Uottawa (Canada)

• Pierre Dixneuf - Organometallic catalysis University of Rennes (France)

• Hermenegildo Garcia – Catalysis, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry Technical University of Valencia (Spain)

• Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier - Synthesis and characterization of metal oxides for materials and catalysis applications Northwestern University (USA)

• Nitin P. Padture - Advanced Ceramics and Nanomaterials Brown University (USA)

• Miguel Julve - Organometallic Chemistry: Metallosupramolecular Chemistry Departamento de Química Inorgànica, Universidad de Valencia (Spain)

• Prof. F. Ekkehardt Hahn - Coordination chemistry Universität Münster (Germany)

• Hong-Cai Zhou - Material Engineering and MOF Department of Chemistry - Texas A&M University (USA)

Symposia

► Macromolecules and Materials (MM) Keynote Lectures • Bernabe L. Rivas - Functional Polymers and Composites

Faculty of Chemistry, University of Concepción, Concepción (Chile) • Jean-François Lutz - Polymer Synthesis

Precision Macromolecular Chemistry Group, Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg (France)

• Molly Shoichet – Hydrogels and Biomaterials Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada)

• Rudolf Zentel - Polymer Synthesis Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Mainz (Germany)

• Volker Abetz – Physical Chemistry of Polymers Institute for Polymer Research - Center for Material and Coastal Research, Geesthacht (Germany)

• Xavier Crispin - Functional Polymers Department of Science and Technology, Linköpings Universitet, Linköping (Sweden)

Symposia ► Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (MB) Keynote Lectures • Stefan Laufer - Small Molecule Drug Discovery

Universitat Tubigen (Germany) • Tom Blundell - Structural Biology on Multiprotein Assemblies

University of Cambridge (UK) • Rafael Radi - Peroxynitrite-induced Damage to Cells and Therapeutic Implications

Universitad de la Republica (Uruguay) • Daniel Rauh - Selective p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitor

Technische Universität Dortmund (Germany) • Etsuo Niki - Oxidative Stress or Eustress?

Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Japan)

Symposia

► Physical, Biophysical and Computational Chemistry (PC) Keynote Lectures • Ludwik Leibler - Self-Assembling. • Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (France) • Paulo Artaxo - Atmospheric Chemistry. • University of São Paulo (Brazil) • Paul L. Dubin - Self-Assembly • University of Massachussets (USA) • Michelle Parrinello - Theoretical Chemistry

ETH (Switzerland ) • Tim Wallington - Environmental Sciences

Ford Motor Co. (USA)

Symposia

► Natural Products and Biodiversity (NB) Keynote Lectures • Christopher S. Jeffrey – Chemical Ecology

University of Nevada (USA) • Jean Luc Wolfender - Metabolômics in Natural Products

University of Genève (Switzerland) • John Pickett - Natural Products in Agriculture

Rothamsted Research (UK) • Pieter Dorrestein – Mass Spectrometry Imaging in Natural Products

University of California (USA) • Raymond J Andersen- Marine Natural Products

University of British Columbia (CAN)

► Nano Science and Technology (NT) Keynote Lectures • Younan Xia - Nanocrystal synthesis, nanomedicine, catalysis Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) • Sumio Iijima - Carbon Nanotubes

Meijo University (Japan)

Symposia

► Natural Products and Biodiversity (NB) Keynote Lectures • Christopher S. Jeffrey – Chemical Ecology

University of Nevada (USA) • Jean Luc Wolfender - Metabolômics in Natural Products

University of Genève (Switzerland) • John Pickett - Natural Products in Agriculture

Rothamsted Research (UK) • Pieter Dorrestein – Mass Spectrometry Imaging in Natural Products

University of California (USA) • Raymond J Andersen- Marine Natural Products

University of British Columbia (Can)

► Nano Science and Technology (NT) Keynote Lectures • Younan Xia - Nanocrystal synthesis, nanomedicine, catalysis Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (USA) • Sumio Iijima - Carbon Nanotubes

Meijo University (Japan)

Abstracts

Analytical & Food Chemistry (AC) 268 abstracts Chemistry Education (CE) 128 abstracts Chemistry for Industry Innovation (CI) 45 abstracts Chemical Synthesis (CS) 265 abstracts

Abstracts

Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (EE) 237 abstracts Green Chemistry and Biotechnology (GB) 170 abstracts Inorganic and Structural Chemistry (IC) 179 abstracts Macromolecules and Materials (MM) 195 abstracts

Abstracts

Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (MB) 210 abstracts Nano Science and Technology (NT) 238 abstracts Natural Products and Biodiversity (NB) 190 abstracts Physical, Biophysical and Computational Chemistry (PC) 99 abstracts

Total of abstracts: 2,224

Accomodation – Hotels

Sheraton São Paulo WTC Hotel Official Hotel

Hilton São Paulo Morumbi Distance to venue: 150 m / 3 min

Accomodation – Hotels

Gran Estanplaza São Paulo Distance to venue: 200 m / 4 min

Whynham São Paulo Berrini Distance to venue: 350 m / 5 min

Accomodation – Hotels

The Time Othon Suites Distance to venue: 400 m / 6 min

Estanplaza Nações Unidas Distance to venue: 1,100 m / 14 min

Accomodation – Hotels

Estanplaza Berrini Distance to venue: 900 m / 10 min

Estanplaza International Distance to venue: 3,400 m /12 min

Accomodation – Hotels

Intercity Berrini Hotel Distance to venue: 1,000 m / 5 min

Quality Suites Vila Olímpia Distance to venue: 3,000 m /15 min

Accomodation – Hotels

Blue Tree Premium Morumbi Distance to venue: 2,000 m / 9 min

Estanplaza Funchal Distance to venue: 2,300 m / 10 min

Public Transportation Around

Berrini Station is 3 blocks

from the Convention

Center