Monday February 9th at 3.00 pm / Academic seminar room (5th floor of the UNamur chemistry department)
  • inaugural lecture: Prof. Ryan Gilmour (Institute for Organic Chemistry University of Münster, Germany): "Generalizing Stereoselective (photo)Catalysis"
  • Dr. Romain Losa (University of Namur, Belgium): "short talk on selected photochemical reactions"

  • inaugural lecture: Prof. Sami Lakhdar (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France): "Constrained Phosphorous Compounds Under Visible Light: Challenges and Opportunities"

     

Tuesday February 10th: Room CH22 (Prof. Sami Lakhdar)

10h30 : Class 1 - Basic principles of photochemistry

13h00 : Class 2 - Principles of photo-induced electron transfer:

  • redox properties of excited states
  • thermodynamics of photo-redox reactions
  • modern kinetic theories of electron transfer

 

Wednesday February 11th: Room CH22 (Prof. Sami Lakhdar)

10h30 : Class 3 - Introduction to photoredox catalysis: applications in organic synthesis (formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, dual catalysis...)

13h00 : Class 4 - Mechanistic aspects of photocatalytic reactions

 

Thursday 12th: Room CH22 (Prof. Sami Lakhdar and Guillaume Berionni)

10h30 : Class 5 - Photoreactivity and applications of molecular switches in organic synthesis

visuel organic photochemistry week 2026