Virtual environment brings renowned organic chemists live from Paris to your desk top

As part of the Tenth Tetrahedron Symposium in Paris, France, 24-26 June 2009, Elsevier will host the Tetrahedron Virtual Conference – a real-time virtual platform offering low cost online access to the Symposium’s high quality content.

Virtual delegates will have access to real-time video webcasts of selected presentations during the three days of the Symposium and to the archived content for three months after the event.

Topics to be addressed span the full range of organic chemistry, including new developments in synthetic methodology, objectives in total synthesis, functional and mechanistic studies of biological systems, and advances in new materials.

As well as access to world-renowned speakers, including a chemistry Nobel Laureate, virtual delegates have access to selected posters presented at the conference, the opportunity to visit virtual exhibitor booths, take part in scheduled chat sessions with selected speakers and network with other online delegates.

Online delegates can watch real-time presentations detailing the latest research by the following top speakers:

• Carlos Barbas - The Scripps Research Institute, USA,

• Thomas Carell - University of Munich, Germany,

• Jean-Marie Lehn - University of Strasbourg, France,

• Steve Ley - University of Cambridge, UK,

• Kim Janda - The Scripps Research Institute, USA,

• Richard Schrock - MIT, USA,

• Masakatsu Shibasaki - University of Tokyo, Japan,

• Barry M. Trost - Stanford University, USA and

• George Whitesides - University of Harvard, USA

Access to the Virtual Conference costs €99 before Friday 26 June and €149 for access after the event.

Full information on both the live and virtual conference is available at www.tetrahedron-symposium.elsevier.com