3rd Florida
Heterocyclic Conference*
Preface
The 3rd Florida Heterocyclic Conference was held at the University
of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA from 68 March 2002. Some
100 out-of-town guests were treated to a feast of heterocyclic chemistry
from 12 plenary lecturers. Extensive industrial participation was recognized
with four of the lectures by Peter Wuts of Pharmacia (Kalamazoo, Michigan),
Graham Johnson of Bristol-Myers Squibb (Wallingford, Connecticut), Joseph
Sisko of GlaxoSmithKline (Philadelphia), and Nicolas Bodor of Ivax Corporation,
the University of Florida, dealing with industrial themes. These topics
included the discovery and development of new drugs for the treatment
of Parkinsons disease, HIV treatment, and dopamine agonists.
Other lecturers included Ronald Grigg (Leeds University, UK) on cascade
reactions for heterocyclic synthesis, William Pearson (University of
Michigan) on alkaloid synthesis, José Barluenga (University of
Oviedo, Spain) on heterocyclic synthesis using metal carbene complexes,
Dennis Curran (University of Pittsburgh) on fluorous techniques in organic
synthesis, Ernst Anders (University of Jena, Germany) on synthesis of
novel heterocycles, Joachim Schantl (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
on synthesis of cyclic azomethine imines, and Nicos Petasis (University
of Southern California, Los Angeles) on heterocyclic synthesis using
organoboron compounds.
The conference also included an initial full-day short course on the
fundamentals of heterocyclic chemistry and a poster session with 30
contributions. The Florida Heterocyclic Conference supports Arkivoc
(Arkive for Organic Chemistry), a free online refereed journal covering
all aspects of organic chemistry, which is available at http://www.arkat-usa.org.
The 4th Florida Heterocyclic Conference will be held in Gainesville,
Florida from 10-12 March 2003.
Alan Katritzky
Organizer
* Plenary lecture presented at the 3rd Florida Conference
on Heterocyclic Chemistry (FloHet-III), Gainesville, Florida, USA, 6-8
March 2002. Other lectures are published in this
issue, pp. 1317-1368.