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Editor-in-Chief *

International Advisory Board

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

Prof. Dr. Atta-Ur-Rahman
H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical
Sciences, University of
Karachi, Pakistan. hej@cyber.net.pk, chairman@hec.gov.pk
Keywords: natural product chemistry, organic synthesis

Dr. Jeremy M. Rawson
The Department of Chemistry, The University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
Fax: (+44)1223-336-362
E-mail: jmr31@cus.cam.ac.uk
Keywords: molecular magnetism, organic magnet, ferromagnet, antiferromagnet, ferrimagnet, Density Functional Theory, exchange interaction
Contribution: Edit a special issue in 2004
Special Issue:  Ferromagnetic Organic Radicals

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
E-mail: chrapel@techunix.technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/technion/chemistry/staff/apeloig
Keywords: organosilicon chemistry-in particular compounds with multiple bonds, organic reaction mechanisms, computational chemistry

Prof. Dr. David Avnir
Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Tel: +972 2 658 5332, Fax: +972 2 652 0099
E-mail: david@chem.ch.huji.ac.il
http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~david/index.html
Keywords: Chirality, symmetry, catalysis, composite materials, solid-state synthesis

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
E-mail: beutler@ncifcrf.gov,  jb123w@nih.gov
http://home.ncifcrf.gov/mtdp/index.html
Keywords: Natural products, Isolation, Structure elucidation, Cancer, HIV, High throughput screening

Prof. Dr. Alexander V. Butin
Director of Research Institute of Heterocyclic Compounds Chemistry, Kuban State University of Technology, Moskovskaya st. 2, Krasnodar 350072 Russian Federation
E-mail: alexander_butin@mail.ru
Keywords: Furan, benzylfurans, furan ring transformation and recyclyzation reactions, furan as a latent 1,4-dicarbonyl compound, fused heterocycles syntheses

Prof. Dr. S. Chandrasekaran
Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India
Tel. +91-80-2293 2404/ 2360 2423(office), Tel. +91-80-2360 1269 (Res.), Fax: + 91-80-2360 0529
E-mail: scn@orgchem.iisc.ernet.in or scn@hamsadvani.serc.iisc.ernet.in
Keywords: 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 6416 3300-3601, +86 216436 9333 (home), Fax: +86 21 6416 6128
E-mail: chenqy@pub.sioc.ac.cn
Keywords: Fluorine Organic Chemistry and its Applications, Single Electron- Transfer Chemistry, Chemistry of Porphyrins

Prof. Dr. James M. Coxon
Chemistry Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel. 64 3 3642872; Fax: 64 3 3642110 or 64 03 3642110
E-mail: jim.coxon@canterbury.ac.nz
http://www.chem.canterbury.ac.nz/people/academics/jmc.htm
Keywords: 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. Wei-Min Dai
Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Tel: +852-2358-7365, Fax: +852-2358-1594
E-mail: chdai@ust.hk
http://ihome.ust.hk/~chdai/
Keywords: asymmetric catalysis and synthesis, and synthetic studies on bioactive natural products and designed molecules including combinatorial synthesis

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
E-mail: wim.dehaen@chem.kuleuven.ac.be
http://pcqc5.quantchem.kuleuven.ac.be/research/organ/losa/losa_en.html
Keywords: medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis

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 392944
E-mail: udieder@gwdg.de
http://www.diederichsen.chemie.uni-goettingen.de/
Keywords: Peptides, Proteins, Peptide Nucleic Acids, Nucleic Acids, Conformation, Molecular Architecture, Electron Transfer

Prof. Dr. El-Sayed H. El-Ashry
Head of the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Tel: +20-3-4246601, Fax&Tel.: +20-3-4271360
E-mail: eelashry@link.net
Keywords: Carbohydrates, Nucleosides, Methodsologies on Organic Synthesis, Ologosaccharides, Microwave in Organic Synthesis

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
E-mail: ernst@phys.chem.ethz.ch
http://www.chem.ethz.ch/D-CHEM-Prof/ernst/ernst.html
Keywords: NMR, physical chemistry

Dr. Peter Ertl
Novartis Pharma AG, RIM / Cheminformatics, WSJ-87.303, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 696 7413, Fax. +41 61 324 9786
E-mail: peter.ertl@pharma.Novartis.com
Keywords: cheminformatics, property prediction, virtual screening, drug design, molecular diversity, web-based chemistry tools

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
E-mail: jjvde@umh.ac.be, jjvandeneynde@yahoo.com
Ph: + 32 65 373337 (office); + 32 65 373338 (lab); Fax: + 32 65 373515
http://w3.umh.ac.be/~jjvde/lso.htm
Keywords: Heterocycles, Microwave-Induced Synthesis, Solvent-Free Reactions, Polymer (Insoluble and Soluble)-Assisted Syntheses, Combinatorial Chemistry; Prodrugs

Dr. Eduard Felder
Department of Chemistry, Discovery Research Oncology, Pharmacia & Upjohn S.p.A. Viale Pasteur 10, I-20014 Nerviano (MI), Italy.
Tel. 0039-02-48385233, fax 0039-02-48383937
E-mail: Eduard.Felder@nervianoms.com
Keywords: Combinatorial Chemistry, Parallel synthesis, Solid-phase Synthesis, Medicinal Chemistry, Molecular Diversity

Prof. Dr. Arturo San Feliciano
Depart of Pharmaceutical Chem., Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Salamanca, Av. Campo Charro s/n 37007-Salamanca, Spain
Tel. 4-923-294528, Fax 34-923-294515
E-mail asf@gugu.usal.es
Keywords: Compounds: alicyclics, polycyclics, alkaloids, alkenes, aromatics, coumarins, flavonoids, heterocycles, lignans, multiple heteroatoms, natural products, plant, nitrogen-containing compounds, amines, quinones, stilbenoids, terpenes, terpenoids, mono, sesqui-,  di-,  tri-. Reactions: asymmetric synthesis, other condensations, hydroboration, hydrolysis, oxidation, cycloadditions, 4+2 (Diels-Alder, etc.), additions, cycloadditions, cleavages, eliminations, substitutions, isomerizations, rearrangements, oxidation, reduction, protection-deprotection, reduction, catalytic hydrogenation, heterogeneous, hydride, stereoselective processes. Analytical and Physical Methods: chromatography, infrared, mass spectrometry, small molecules NMR, conformational analysis, UV/visible, X-ray crystallography, Phenomena, molecular structure, stereochemistry, configuration, conformational analysis, resolution, chemical.Bioactivity: Cytotoxicity, antineoplastic, antiplasmodial, antitrypanosoma, antileishmanial, antimycobacterial, anti-HIV

Prof. Dr. Miroslav Gasic
SrpskoHemijsko Drustvo (The Serbian Chemical Society), Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, PO Box 158, YU-11001 Belgrade,Yugoslavia
Tel: (++381 11) 183460, Fax: (++381 11) 636061
E-mail: mjgasic@chem.bg.ac.yu
http://ihtmceh4.tmf.bg.ac.yu/
Keywords: Compounds: alicyclics, antitumor, antiviral compounds, natural products (marine, plant), quinones, reactive intermediates, steroids, terpenes, terpenoids, Reactions: redox reactions, solvolysis, stereoselective processes, Phenomena: electron transfer, substituent effects

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
E-mail: norbert.haider@univie.ac.at
http://merian.pch.univie.ac.at/
Keywords: medicinal heterocyclic chemistry, pyridazines, carbazoles, nitrogen hetarenes

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
E-mail: guenther.jung@uni-tuebingen.de,
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/jung/
Keywords: 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

Prof. Dr. J. B. Hendrickson
Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham MA 02254-9110, U.S.A.
Tel. 781-736-2520, Fax: 781-736-2516
E-mail: jbh@jbh.chem.brandeis.edu
http://syngen2.chem.brandeis.edu/
Keywords: WebReactions, Theory and computerization of organic synthesis design, Synthesis of natural and bio-active molecules, New synthetic methods

Prof. Dr. Henk Hiemstra
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31205255941, Fax: +31205255670
E-mail: hiemstra@science.uva.nl
http://orgwww.chem.uva.nl/synth/index.html
Keywords: alkaloids, amino acids, allenes, nitrogen heterocycles, plant natural products iminium ion reactions, photochemical cycloaddition, stereochemistry

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Jordis
Institut fuer Organische Chemie, Technische Universitaet Wien, Getreidemarkt 9/154, A-1060 Wien / Oesterreich
Tel: +43 (1) 58801.15460 , Fax Office: +43 (1) 58801.15496, Fax Home: +43 1 36811645
E-mail: ujordis@ioc.tuwien.ac.at, ujordis@pop.tuwien.ac.at
http://phoenix.tuwien.ac.at/
Keywords: Antivirals, Alzheimer, Quinolones, Combinatorial Chemistry, deuterated compounds, Galanthamine type natural products

Prof. Dr. Henri Kagan
Laboratory of Asymmetric Synthesis, Universite Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Tel: 33-1-69-15-78-95, Fax: 33-1-69-15-45-80
E-mail: kagan@icmo.u-psud.fr
Keywords: Asymmetric catalysis, asymmetric hydrogenation, asymmetric synthesis, chiral ligands, planar chirality, non-linear effects, diodosamarium chemistry

Prof. Dr. C. Oliver Kappe
Institute of Chemistry, Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse28, A-8010 Graz, Austria
Tel: +43-316-380-5352; Fax: +43-316-380-9840
E-mail: oliver.kappe@uni-graz.at
http://www-ang.uni-graz.at/~kappeco
Keywords: Microwave-Assisted Synthesis, Combinatorial Chemistry, Solid-Phase Synthesis, Multicomponent Reactions, Polymer-Supported Reagents

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
E-mail: williams@harker.nrl.navy.mil
Keywords: X-Ray crystallography, structural chemistry

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
E-mail: kishi@chemistry.harvard.edu
http://www-chem.harvard.edu/YoshitoKishi.html
Keywords: total syntheses of various complex natural products

Prof. Dr. Jun'ichi Kobayashi
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
Phone & Fax: 011-706-4985  Fax: 011-706-4989
E-mail: jkobay@pharm.hokudai.ac.jp
Keywords: strucure elucidation of marine natural products

Professor Sir Harold Kroto  ****
The Chemical Laboratories, CPES, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK
E-mail: H.W.Kroto@sussex.ac.uk
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/kroto/FullereneCentre/people/kroto.html
Keywords: C60 fullerene science: chemistry, physics, materials science and astrophysics

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
E-mail: anand.kumar@astrazeneca.com
Keywords: Microwave assisted (or enhanced) Organic Synthesis, Enzyme catalyzed Organic Syntheses in Non-aqueous media

Prof. Dr. Eun Lee
Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Tel: +82-2-880-6646, Fax: +82-2-889-1568
E-mail: eunlee@snu.ac.kr
Keywords: natural products, oxygen heterocycles, free radical reactions, asymmetric synthesis, macrolides, antitumor compounds

Prof. Dr. E. Lukevics
Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles str. 21, Riga LV-1006 LATVIA
Tel: +371-7-551822, Fax: +371-7-821038
E-mail: lukevics@osi.lanet.lv, sinta@osi.lv
http://www.lza.lv/scientists/Lukevics.htm
Keywords: 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
E-mail: luu@chimie.u-strasbg.fr
Keywords: interface chemistry/biology, medicinal chemistry, natural products chemistry

Dr John B.O. Mitchell
Lecturerin Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW
Tel. 01223 762983, Fax. 01223 763076
E-mail: jbom1@cam.ac.uk 
http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/CUCL/staff/jbom.html
Keywords: hydrogen bonding, molecular recognition, QSAR, physical properties of materials, solvent effects, tautomerism, thermochemistry, thermodynamics

Dr.Gerald Anthony Murphy
Dyestuffs Division, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 636 8374, Fax. +41 61 636 6651
E-mail: gerald_anthony.murphy@cibasc.com
Keywords: Synthesis of dyes and pigments, Anthraquinone,cyanine, azo, and cationic dyes, Process Development and Process Safety

Dr. Carl David Nager
ECBI, Basel, Switzerland
Phone Office: ++41 76 515 5046, E-fax: ++1 815 846 3827
E-mail: nager@mdpi.org
http://www.mdpi.org/mdpiboard.htm
Keywords: 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
E-mail: reinhard.neier@ich.unine.ch
http://www.unine.ch/chim/neier/welcome.html
Keywords: Organic synthesis -Tandem reactions - Biomimetic chemistry - Biosynthesis of the pigments of life - Photodynamic therapy
Contribution: former Editor-in-Chief (January-April 2000)

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
E-mail: cperrin@chem.ucsd.edu
http://chem.ucsd.edu/Faculty/Research_text/perrin.html
Keywords: 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 61 3249865, Fax: 41-61-3243811
E-mail: esteban.pombo@pharma.novartis.com
Keywords: Medicinal chemistry, Use of microwaves in synthesis, Research Alliances
Contribution: former Editor-in-Chief

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
E-mail: potacek@chemi.muni.cz  
http://www.muni.cz/sci/structure/313040.html
Keywords: heterocycles, fused rings, multiple heteroatoms, nitrogen, ylides, microwave, pericyclic reactions, cycloadditions, 1, 3-dipolar, sigmatropic rearrangements, [3,3] (Claisen, Cope, etc.), thermal rearrangements, dissociations

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
E-mail: francesco.puoci@unical.it
Keywords:

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
E-mail: Oliver.Reiser@chemie.uni-regensburg.de
http://www-oc.chemie.uni-regensburg.de/reiser/index.html
Keywords: Asymmetric Catalysis, Stereoselective Synthesis, Natural Product, Synthesis, Unnatural Amino Acids, Foldamers

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Riguera
Departamento de Quimica Organica. Facultad de Quimica, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Avenida de las Ciencias sn, 15706 Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Fax: int+34-81-591091
E-mail:  ricardo@usc.es
http://qoweb.usc.es/Riguera/index.html
Keywords: Bioactive Marine Natural Products, Methods for the Determination of Absolute Configuration by NMR, Solid Phase Synthesis of Depsides and Depsipeptides, Medicinal Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Peter Rüedi
Institute of Organic Chemistry, University ofZurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: ++41 (0)1 635 42 41
E-mail: peru@oci.unizh.ch
http://www.oci.unizh.ch/groups/ruedi.html
Keywords: 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. Urszula Rychlewska
Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Grunwaldzka 6, 60-780 POZNAN, Poland
Tel: 48(61) 699-181 ext. 489, Fax: 48 (61) 658-008
E-mail: urszular@amu.edu.pl
Keywords: Crystallography, X-ray structure determination, crystal engineering, chirality, natural products, tartaric acid derivatives, coordination compounds

Prof. Dr. Urs Séquin
Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Basel, St.-Johanns-Ring 19, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 267 1110, Fax: +41 61 267 1103
E-mail: Urs.Sequin@unibas.ch
http://www.chemie.unibas.ch/~sequin/
Keywords: Organic chemistry, NMR, natural product chemistry

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
E-mail:  mshibasa@mol.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp 
http://www.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kanai/prof-e.html
Keywords: Chiral auxiliaries and catalysts, Lewis acids and bases, Asymmetric synthesis, Catalysis

Prof. Dr. Michael B. Smith
Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 55 N. Eagleville Road, U-60, Storrs, CT 06269-3060, USA
Tel: 860-486-2881, Fax: 860-486-2981
E-mail:  smith@nucleus.chem.uconn.edu 
http://orgchem.chem.uconn.edu/home/mbs-home.html
Keywords: compounds: alkaloids, anti-tumor compounds, antiviral compounds, chiral auxiliaries, N-heterocyclics, lactams, natural products, polymers, reactions - methods: asymmetric synthesis, carbonyl reactions, green chemistry, metathesis, pericyclic reactions (Diels-Alder), reduction, diasteroselectivity, enantioselectivity

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stadlbauer
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 28, A-8010 Graz (Austria/Europe)
Tel: +43 (0)316380 5334, Fax: +43 (0)316 380 9840
E-Mail: wolfgang.stadlbauer@uni-graz.at
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~stadlbau
Keywords: alkaloids, antibiotics, antifungal compounds, antitumor compounds, antiviral compounds, heterocycles, nitrogen, natural products, aromatic substitution, electrophilic, nucleophilic, carbonyl reactions, acylation, other condensations, electrocyclic reactions, halogenation, chlorination, bromination, fluorination, thermal rearrangements, calorimetry, fluorescence methods, thermal analysis

Prof. Dr. Branko Stanovnik
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Askerceva 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel: +386 1 241 92 38 (Office), Tel/Fax:+386 1 241 92 72 (Office)
E-mail:  Branko.Stanovnik@uni-lj.si
http://rcul.uni-lj.si/kem/or
Keywords: 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
Fax: +1 (860)-486-2797, 2981
E-mail:  Steven.Suib@Uconn.edu
http://web.uconn.edu/chemistry/SuibGroup/suibg.htm
Keywords: Manganese Oxides, Catalysis, Ceramics, Nanotech, Microwaves

Prof. Dr. H. Timmerman
Center for Drug Research, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmacochemistry, Leiden University, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Phone: +020 444 7580, Fax: +020 444 7610
E-mail: far@chem.vu.nl
Keywords: Medicinal Chemistry. Receptor: Receptor agonists, receptor antagonists, receptor inverse agonists. Histaminergic systems

Prof. Dr. Francisco Torrens
Departamentde Quimica Fisica, Universitat de Valencia, Dr. Moliner-50, E-46100-Burjassot (Valencia), Spain
Tel: 34 963983182, Fax: 34.963983156
E-mail: Francisco. Torrens@uv.es
http://www.uv.es/~anton/inicio.html
Keywords: Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular Science, Molecular Simulation, Intermolecular Interaction, Electric Polarizability, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Fullerene, Nanotube

Prof. Dr. Jesper Wengel
Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
Tel: +45 6550 1000 ext. 2510 Direct phone: +45 6550 2510, Fax: +45 66 15 87 80
E-mail: jwe@chem.sdu.dk
http://www.sdu.dk/Nat/Chem/staff/sci/Jwee.html
Keywords: nucleic acids, nucleosides, nucleotides, nanochemistry

Dr. Werner Bonrath
DSM Nutritional Products, Research and Development, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: (41) 616886517, Fax: (41) 616872117
E-mail: werner.bonrath@dsm.com
Keywords: Catalysis (general), vitamins (general), chemistry under non-classical conditions (ionic liquids, supercritical fluids, ultrasound, and microwaves)

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
E-mail: pwipf@pitt.edu
http://ccc.chem.pitt.edu/wipf/index.html
Keywords: Natural Product total Synthesis, Organometallic Chemistry, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Combinatorial Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry

Dr. Janusz L. Wisniewski
MDL Information Systems GmbH, Germany
Tel. +49-69-5050 4276, Fax +49-69-50504284
E-mail: J.Wisniewski@mdl.com,
http://www.mdl.com/
Keywords: chemical nomenclature, AutoNom, algorithmic nomenclature conversion, Connection Tables, chemical databases, structure searching, Beilstein, structure representations, stereochemical representations, IUPAC, chemical structure identifiers, structural diagrams

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 / Home (852) 2650 5565/ Mobile 9120 6538 Fax: (852) 2603 5057
E-mail: hncwong@cuhk.edu.hk
http://www.chem.cuhk.edu.hk/hncwong.html
Keywords: 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
E-mail: junxu109@yahoo.com
Keywords: 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
E-mail: yoshi@yamamoto1.chem.tohoku.ac.jp 
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Keywords: organometallic compounds, organocopper, organopalladium, transition metals, catalytic reaction, asymmetric synthesis, stereoselective synthesis, aldol reaction michael addition, heterocycles, marine natural products