2026 Organic Chemistry Community Midlands Regional Meeting
The RSC Organic Chemistry Community Midlands Regional Meeting 2026 will be showcasing synthetic chemistry.
The RSC Organic Chemistry Community Midlands Regional Meeting 2026 will be held in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Chemistry) at the University of Sheffield onÌýTuesday 14th April 2026. The meeting will showcase synthetic chemistry (organic, chemical biology, medicinal) from across the Midlands region.
The meeting is free to attend, but registration is required. To register, please click "Book Now" on the top right of this page.
The meeting will include a poster session, with entries encouraged from PhD students, postdocs and early career researchers. If you would like to present a poster, please submit a short abstract (1 page maximum including a graphical abstract) by 23rd March. Prizes will be awarded for the best posters.
Programme:
9.30 - 10.25: Registration and Coffee
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10.25 - 10.30: Welcome
10.30 - 11.05: Dr Denis Hartmann - University of Sheffield - “Perylene Diimide-based Macrocycles for Chiroptical Applicationsâ€
11.05 - 11.40: Dr Sebastian Cosgrove - Keele University - “Enabling efficient biocatalytic cascades in continuous flowâ€
11.40 - 12.15: Dr Izzy Wood - University of Nottingham - “Stereospecific C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond formation from alcoholsâ€
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12.15 - 13.45: Lunch and Poster Session
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13.45 - 14.45: RSC 2025 Bader Prize Winner - Prof. Anita Maguire - University College Cork.
14.45 - 15.20: Dr Frederik Schaufelberger - University of Warwick - “Putting Mechanical Bonds around Biomolecules – Towards Interlocked Carbohydrates and Peptidesâ€
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15.20 - 15.50: Coffee Break and Poster session.
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15.50 - 16.25: Dr Oliver Maguire - University of Birmingham - “Systems Chemistry: developing Life-like Chemical Reaction Networksâ€
16.25 - 17.00: Dr Maryia Barysevich - University of Leicester - “Functionalisation of amines via in situ generation of iminium ionsâ€
17.00: Closing remarks + poster prize winner
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17.00 - 18.00: Networking reception.
Speakers
Prof Anita Maguire
University of Cork
Ireland
Dr Maryia Barysevich
University of Leicester
UK
Dr Sebastian Cosgrove
Keele University
UK
Dr Denis Hartmann
University of Sheffield
UK
Dr Oliver Maguire
University of Birmingham
UK
Dr Fredrik Schaufelberger
University of Warwick
UK
Dr Izzy Wood
University of Nottingham
UK
Event details
University of Sheffield
Richard Roberts Auditorium, University of Sheffield, Richard Roberts Auditorium, 13 Brook Hill, Sheffield, S3 7HF, UK
Dr Ben Partridge