Looking forward: A glance into the future of organic chemistry

New Journal of Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 823-831

  Compain, Philippe ^a   Desvergnes, Valérie ^a   Ollivier, Cyril ^b   Robert, Frédéric ^c   Suzenet, Franck ^a   Barboiu, Mihail ^d   Belmont, Philippe ^e   Blériot, Yves ^f   Bolze, Frédéric ^g   Bouquillon, Sandrine ^h   Bourguet, Erika ^h   Braida, Benoît ⁱ   Constantieux, Thierry ^b   Désaubry, Laurent ^j   Dupont, Delphine ^k   Gastaldi, Stéphane ^b   Jérome, François ^l   Legoupy, Stéphanie ^m   Marat, Xavier ⁿ   Migaud, Marie ^o   Moitessier, Nicolas ^p   Papot, Sébastien ^q   Peri, Francesco ^r   Petit, Marc ^s   Py, Sandrine ^t   Schulz, Emmanuelle ^u   Tranoy Opalinski, Isabelle ^q   Vauzeilles, Boris ^u   Vayron, Philippe ^v   Vergnes, Laurent ^w   Vidal, Sébastien ^e   Wilmouth, Serge ^x   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e CPE LYON   (France)

^f Group for Neural Theory   (France)

^g INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

ⁱ LABORATOIRE DE CHIMIE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^j CENTRE DE NEUROCHIMIE   (France)

^k Parfums Christian Dior   (France)

^l UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^m UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

ⁿ L'Oréal Recherche Department of Analytical Chemistry   (France)

^o QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^p MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^q UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^r UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^t UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^u UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^v SANOFI   (France)

^w INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE PIERRE FABRE   (France)

^x Organon   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33744967305     PISSN: 11440546     EISSN: 13699261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b601837h     Document Type: Review

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3. The number of participants has been chosen to cover a wide range of expertise, themes and scientific backgrounds while facilitating small group workshops. Thirty two scientists were present at the meeting. The average age of the participants was 34, providing an interesting combination of youth and expertise. Amongst these scientists were fifteen CNRS researchers "chargés de recherche", twelve lecturers and five industrial researchers, coming from seventeen French research centres and three non-French based universities. The most represented research areas were the synthesis of biologically active molecules and the development of synthetic methodologies. The following themes were represented by at least one participant: catalysis, supramolecular chemistry, green chemistry, renewable resources and synthesis of molecules used in theoretical chemistry and physics research
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5. Think-tank sessions and debates were orchestrated by two professional facilitators (Sud Performance company). The brainstorming sessions were achieved through two phases. The first stage was conducted in groups of 10-11 and called upon discussing freely diverging and contentious ideas while the second stage, conducted in smaller groups (3-4) was to promote convergent thinking. The first step's objective was to identify as many ideas as possible in a non-judgemental manner. Four main categories of thoughts were thus identified: utopia, knowledge, creation de novo and society's needs. Each participant was then asked to choose amongst one of these themes before the second step was initiated. This second stage, carried out in small group, aimed to focus the thoughts of each group on a specific and group-identified challenge. The workshop was then concluded by each group presenting their challenge to the remainder of the participants. This presentation followed a specific pro-forma where answers to the following questions were given: why, how, pros and cons. Following the conclusion of the conference, these challenges were organized in a written format by each group and restructured by the organizers to provide the core of the present manuscript
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