Eschenmoser Symposium 2025

Organic Chemistry Frontiers: A Celebration of Albert Eschenmoser's 100th Birthday

Albert Eschenmoser (1925-2023) shaped organic chemistry as did few others. A brilliant mind gave rise to masterpieces of total synthesis – Vitamin B12 as a particular landmark – hand in hand with the development of synthetic methods, the unraveling of fundamental mechanistic problems in biosynthesis and organic chemistry, and forays into prebiotic chemistry. To celebrate Albert Eschenmoser's 100th birthday, the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry hosted a one-day symposium on June 6, 2025.

Eschenmoser Symposium 2025

The symposium has been recorded.
The recordings of the talks can be found on the ETH video platform.

Autobiography


ALBERT ESCHENMOSER
Prizes are good but
discoveries are better

published in 2025

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PROGRAM

09:30-09:45
Opening by Prof. Helma Wennemers
video Opening

09:45-10:35
Prof. Alois Fürstner
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany
«Rather not too much about Natural Product Chemistry today…»
video Fürstner

10:35-11:05
coffee break

11:05-11:55
Prof. Véronique Gouverneur
University of Oxford, UK
«Fluorine Chemistry with Global Challenges in Mind»

11:55-12:45
Prof. Stefan Matile
University of Geneva, Switzerland
«The Eschenmoser-Dunitz-Baldwin Rules at High Voltage»

12:45-13:45
lunch break

13:45-14:35
Prof. Yamuna Krishnan
University of Chicago, USA
«Intracellular Electrophysiology»
video Krishnan

14:35-15:25
Prof. Philipp Holliger
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
«Synthetic genetics: beyond DNA and RNA»
video Holliger

15:25-15:55
coffee break

15:55-16:45
Prof. Jack Szostak
University of Chicago, USA
«Potentially Primordial Genetic Alphabets»
video Szostak

16:45-17:00
Reflections by Prof. Andreas Pfaltz and Prof. Scott Denmark
video Pfaltz | video Denmark

17:00-17:15
Presentation of Albert Eschenmoser's autobiography

17:15
Closing by Prof. Helma Wennemers
video Closing