This is a 10-hour program adapted to master students, PhD and post-doc researchers.

Monday February 9^th 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 10^th: 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 11^th: 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 12^th: Room CH22 (Prof. Sami Lakhdar and Guillaume Berionni)

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