醫化系博三Balaji Brave出國研習心得分享

研習時間：1020405~1020413

研習地點：New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A
研習名稱：245^th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
研習類型：國際會議(發表論文)

1.About the meeting and host

 

ACS annual meetings organized by the American Chemical Society twice a year (spring and fall) and about 12,000 chemical professionals attend each of these national meetings. The 245^th ACS National Meeting & Exposition was organized by American Chemical Society (ACS) which is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. ACS currently has more than 164,000 members at all degree-levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical engineering and related fields. It is the world's largest scientific society and one of the leading sources of authoritative scientific information.

It also has a great scientific contribution to all the new inventions of the world. The publications division of the American Chemical Society provides the worldwide scientific community with a comprehensive collection of the most-cited, peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences.

ACS Publications publishes more than 40 journals, Chemical and Engineering News, ACS Legacy Archives and the ACS symposium series via its award-winning web-based platform. ACS journals are #1 in citations or Impact Factor in the seven chemistry categories as well as nine additional categories.

 

2. Official program

 

2.1 Sunday, April 7

 

The theme of the meeting was ‘chemistry of energy and food’ the meeting officially began with a plenary session by professors: Peter Schieberle (Technical University of Munich), Walter G. Rakitsky (Solazyme, Inc.) John Floros (Kansas State University), Cesar Vega (Mars Botanical). All presenters delivered excellent presentations in the field of food chemistry, future of food technologies and new sources of renewable oils for energy and food system.

 

2.2 Monday, April 8

 

Oral session started at 08:00 am, on enantioselective catalysis and through the whole day different professors and researchers give oral presentations on recent advances in heterocyclic and aromatics chemistry, development of new reactions methodologies, organic synthesis, green chemistry, and metal mediated reactions. In the evening from 07:00–10:00 pm poster presentation started focusing on organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

2.3 Tuesday, April 9

 

Morning session started (08:00 am) with metal mediated reaction and I was the first presenter in this session. I presented our recent study under the title “Efficient approach for the synthesis of γ-benzopyranones as natural product intermediates utilizing Sonogashira coupling and 18-crown-6 ether mediated cyclization”

 

Fig. 1 Synthesis of γ-benzopyranones

During this presentation I interacted with the audience by answering their questions and commenting on their remarks. After finishing my presentation, I attended the several presentations on biologically related molecules and process, asymmetric reactions and synthesis, total synthesis of complex molecules.

In the afternoon I got an invitation for lunch with the editors of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters where I shared my ideas with professors: Dennis C. Liotta, Maurizio Botta, Bruce E. Maryanoff and Peter Wipf. This lunch was a great experience for me, because the editors discussed with us how to write an ideal manuscript, select most suitable reviewers, reviewing procedures and the expected time period for publications. I will be sharing all these ideas with our group members in the Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, in the next group meeting aiming to transfer such updated information to all new researchers in our group. 

In the evening from 08:00-10:00 pm, I joined the poster session in which different posters in field of organic chemistry were presented.

 

2.4 Wednesday, April 10

 

I attended several presentations on peptides, proteins and amino acids chemistry, recent advances in chemical methodology and library development strategies.

Also I joined the poster sessions in the evening from 08:00-10:00 pm which was focused on recent advances in organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

 

2.5 Thursday, April 11

 

I attended poster session on industrial and engineering chemistry and this was the last session of 245^th ACS National Meeting & Exposition.

 

3. Participant’s experience

 

I am fortunate to have this great opportunity to the world-renowned city of New Orleans to participate in such a prestigious international meeting. New Orleans, with its richly mottled old buildings, its sly, sophisticated - sometimes almost disreputable - air, and its Hispanic-Gallic traditions, has more the flavor of an old European capital than an American city such as a French Quarter. The venue is quite special, Morial Convention Center with all facilities, stylish and luxury.

In this five-day meeting I attended many world class presentations and I learned lot of things from these presentations such as how people present their ideas, presentation styles and different presentation techniques. Also I participated several times in the questions and answers sessions, where I learned how to develop new creative ideas and how people are using new techniques for their research.

Moreover, I got new ideas from different research areas like organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, enantioselective catalysis, new reactions and methodology, green chemistry and metal mediated reactions which will lead to new projects and prestigious publications.

 

4. Summary and future perspectives

 

Through attending the 245^th ACS annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, I come to know the atmosphere of the international conferences, meetings and seminars. These meetings represent an excellent opportunity to expand researcher horizon where he or she can see the latest and the most advanced ideas, research, concepts and techniques which will be useful for his or her study.

Due to this meeting, I got the chance to represent our school globally, to discover new research and publish our work, learn new technologies which will help me to advance my career. I also shared ideas, knowledge and interact with famous professors and researchers in my research area from all over the world. This will definitely help in future for collaboration of Kaohsiung Medical University and other schools from different parts of the world.

 

5. Acknowledgments

 

I would like to express my sincere thanks for the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan and Center for International Affairs, Kaohsiung Medical University for the financial support and giving me the opportunity to attend the 245^th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (7-11, April 2013).

I am also thankful for professors Fang-Rong Chang and Jeh-Jeng Wang for their continuous support and inspiration to attend this meeting. I would like also to thank my colleagues for their kind help and guidance to prepare the NSC grant application as well as for their valuable suggestions and comments during the preparation of my presentation.