The 5th Heron Island Conference on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules: Synthesis and Mechanism (Heron5) was held on Heron Island (off Gladstone), Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia, July 10-16, 2010.
Heron 6 is planned for 2013.
POSTERS are ACCEPTED. ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS are ACCEPTED. NO BOOKING are ACCEPTED WITHOUT PRIOR FULL PAYMENT OF THE REGISTRATION FEE AND ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSFER COSTS.
ABSTRACTS are required by 15 April
Go to Registration,
and please give the full names of any accompanying partner and children (with birth dates) when registering.
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Participants should plan to arrive in Gladstone in time for the boat or helicopter transfer in the morning of July 10. The catamaran departs the marina at 11.00. A bus departs Gladstone airport for the marina at 10.30 am.
Stay overnight in a Gladstone motel if necessary.
The catamaran departs the island on 16 July immediately after lunch (1.30-2 pm) and arrives at Gladstone marina at ca. 3.45 pm with an immediate courtesy coach connection to the airport. Flights departing Gladstone no earlier than 5 pm may be reached. People with tight flight connections are advised to take the helicopter to Gladstone. Changes to transfer bookings can be made on site.
The conference
The 5th Heron Island Conference, organized by Curt Wentrup and Craig Williams (The University of Queensland), was held at the Heron Island Resort as part of the "ISRIUM" or "CORIUM" series of international symposia or conferences on reactive intermediates and unusual molecules. The series started in 1978 in Geneva (EUCHEM conference on electron deficient reactive intermediates (Jefford, Wentrup). Recent successor events were at Vienna 2000 (Brinker), Nara 2001 (Tomioka), Ascona 2002 (Bally, Chen), Reykjavik 2003 (Gudmundsdottir), Edinburgh 2005 (McNab), Honolulu 2005 (Moss, Tomioka, Warmuth, Wentrup), Porquerolles, France 2006 (Aycard, Borget), Heron Island 2007 (Wentrup, Williams), Ascona 2007 (Bally, Chem), and Liblice near Prague 2009 (Michl). Previous Heron Island Conferfences were in 1991, 1994, 2004, and 2007(see full list of previous conferences under the 'Participants' tab). The next ISRIUM conference will be at Pacifichem, Honolulu December 17-18, 2010 (Abe, Leigh, Platz). The next Heron Island Conference (Heron6) is planned for 2013.
We thank The University of Queensland Professors Al McEwan (Head, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences), Stephen Walker (Dean of Science), Max Lu (DVC Research), Mick McManus and Anna Ciccarelli (DVCs International), DKSH Australia Pty Ltd, Sigma-Aldrich Australia Pty Ltd, the RACI Organic Division, the CSIRO, and the Australian Journal of Chemistry for their support of the Heron5 conference.
Prizes for the best student poster presentations, sponsored by the Australian Journal of Chemistry. were awarded to Mie Højer Vilhelmsen (University of Copenhagen) and Jonathan Faber (University of Queensland).