Prague—Setting the Scene for the 4th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress
2012; Wiley; Volume: 18; Issue: 33 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1002/chem.201202546
ISSN1521-3765
Autores Tópico(s)History and advancements in chemistry
ResumoAll eyes on Prague: This special issue of Chemistry—A European Journal marks the 4th European Chemistry Congress, co-organised by the European Association of Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) and the Czech Chemical Society. The conference will take place from August 26–30, 2012 in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic.1 1 Prague lies in the heart of Europe and the historic centre of the city was distinguished in 1992 by being placed in the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Register. It is built along the banks of the Vltava River and presents a rich mixture of architecture from Roman to Baroque, from Gothic to Art Nouveau and from Renaissance to Cubist. From the point of view of its cultural heritage it has been the home to the writers Franz Kafka, Bohumil Hrabal, and Milan Kundera and the composer Antonín Dvořák to name but a few. From the science front, both Johannes Kepler and Albert Einstein resided in Prague for a while. The Prague Conference Centre itself, at which the Congress will take place, lies on a hill giving a wonderful panoramic view of Prague. Prague is also home to the Charles University, one of the oldest European Universities, founded in 1348 and its ties to chemistry can be highlighted by Prof. Jaroslav Heyrovský, a famous electrochemist and inventor of the polarographic method, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959. The scientific organising committee, which is headed by Josef Michl (Congress Chairman), has put together an exciting program presenting a broad spectrum of chemistry. According to Josef Michl the congress will “provide participants with academic, industrial, and government laboratories with a unique opportunity to familiarise themselves with the cutting edge of current chemistry in Europe, to renew old acquaintances, and to establish new contacts.” In a recent communication with Pavel Drašar (Chair of the Local Organising Committee) he commented “The 4th European Chemistry Congress of EuCheMS will present lectures of six Nobel prize winners, of over 200 prominent speakers from Europe and the World and almost 1700 oral and poster communications. By far it is the largest meeting of chemists organized in the country for decades. We, as the organisers, are very much honoured that the congress will be held under the auspices of the President of the Czech Republic Prof. Ing. Vaclav Klaus, CSc. We are also very happy that we have been able able to help several hundreds of students, young scientists, and pensioners, so they are able to take part in the meeting. Thanks should be given to all sponsors and partners as they helped to achieve this difficult goal. The congress will also provide a place for many special meetings, round tables, and a summer school. It is expected that a white paper on ethics in chemistry will be formulated and signed. Carl Djerassi will launch the continental premiere of his new play ‘Insufficiency’ … and much much more. We trust that the Congress will promote the knowledge about EuCheMS in the world and help international contacts, not to mention the exchange of chemical knowledge, information, and hand-craft.” The congress will focus on ten main topics: 1) Analytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, 2) Education and History 3) Food Chemistry, 4) Environment and Green Chemistry, 5) Inorganic Chemistry, 6) Life Sciences, 7) Nanochemistry and Nanotechnology, 8) Organic Chemistry and Polymers, 9) Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and 10) Solid-State Chemistry. There will be nine plenary lectures highlighting diverse areas of chemistry. Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Laureate and the first Chairman of the Editorial Board of Chemistry—A European Journal and one of the Chairman of the Editorial Board of ChemistryOpen) will give the first plenary lecture, immediately after the opening ceremony on “Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry”. On the Monday Gerhard Ertl (Nobel Laureate, Member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry—A European Journal and Member of the Honorary Board of ChemCatChem) will talk on “Catalysis at surfaces: From atoms to complexity”, while Manfred T. Reetz will give a lecture entitled “Directed Evolution of Stereoselective Monooxygenases as Catalysts in Organic Chemistry”. Tuesday brings talks by Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký and Kurt Wüthrich (Nobel Laureate) on “Simulation and Control of Photochemistry” and “NMR Spectroscopy—A Chemist’s Tool for Studies of the Protein Universe”, respectively. On Wednesday Roger Y. Tsien (Nobel Laureate) will speak on “Breeding and Building Molecules to Image Cells, Electric Fields, and Disease Processes” and Helmut Schwarz on “Chemistry with Methane: Concepts Rather than Recipes”. Finally on Thursday the plenary lectures will be given by the Nobel Laureates Ada Yonath (Member of the Editorial Board of ChemBioChem) and Robert H. Grubbs (Member of the Honorary Board of ChemCatChem) on “Can Structure Lead to Better Antibiotics?” and “Design and Applications of Selective Reactions of Olefins”, respectively. Conference issue of Chemistry—A European Journal: 1 As part of our continued commitment to raise the profile of chemistry in Europe, we invited various speakers at the Congress to contribute an article to Chemistry—A European Journal. All papers were peer-reviewed and the result is this issue, which contains three Concept Articles [Ulrich Scherf (p. 10074) from the symposium Polymer Chemistry, Mikiji Miyata (p. 10066) from the symposium Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanostructured Materials, and Michael Mastalerz (p. 10082) from the symposium Molecular and Hybrid Porous Crystals], four Minireviews [Manfred T. Reetz, (p. 10160) Plenary Lecture, Dieter Enders (p. 10212) from the symposium General Synthetic Methods, Valerio Zanotti (p. 10174) from the symposium New trends in Organometallic Chemistry, and Maya Kiskinova (p. 10196) from the symposium Structural Research for Tomorrow] and two Reviews [Gianfranco Pacchioni (p. 10144) from the symposium Computational Chemistry and Bert Maes (p. 10092) from the symposium Medicinal Chemistry]. In addition, there are seven Communications and 19 Full Papers from invited speakers in the following symposia: Medicinal Chemistry (Thorsten Bach (p. 10382), Bert Maes (p. 10393)) and General Synthetic Methods (Dieter Enders (p. 10226)), Biocatalysis (Kurt Faber (p. 10362) and Sergio Riva (p. 10355)), Theoretical Chemistry (Walter Thiel (p. 10408)), Frontiers and Advances of Organic Chemistry (Stefan Matile (p. 10436), Karl Anker Jørgensen (p. 10348) and Dirk Guldi (p. 10427)), Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis and New Frontiers (Vincent Gandon (p. 10239), Paul Knochel (p. 10234) and Alois Fürstner (p. 10281)), Polymer Chemistry (Yusuf Yagci (p. 10254)), Young Inorganic Chemistry Day (Lutz Ackermann (p. 10230), Sylvestre Bonnet (p. 10271) and Umberto Piarulli (p. 10368)), Inorganic/Bioinorganic Reaction Mechanisms (Alexander Ryabov (p. 10244) and Wonwoo Nam (p. 10444)), Symposium on CO2 Chemistry (Angela Dibenedetto (p. 10324)), Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanostructured Materials (Jerry Atwood (p. 10258) and Mir Wais Hosseini (p. 10419)), Nanoporous Materials (Teng Ben (p. 10250) and Osamu Terasaki (p. 10300)), Self-assembly, Molecular Recognition and Biomaterials (Lia Addadi (p. 10262)), Nanoscale Particles, Cages, Sheets and Tubes (Francisco Raymo (p. 10399) and Andreas Hirsch (p. 10427), Nanochemistry, Nanotechnology and Nanostructured Materials (Paulo Samori (p. 10335)) and Molecular Devices and Machines (J. Fraser Stoddart (p. 10312)). Awards: During the opening ceremony of the conference The European Sustainable Chemistry Award, 1 sponsored by EuCheMS, will be presented for the second time. This award was created in order to “1) recognise individuals or small research groups which make an outstanding contribution to sustainable development by applying green and sustainable chemistry, 2) promote innovation in chemistry and chemicals that will deliver clear improvements in the sustainable production and use of chemicals and chemical products, and 3) demonstrate that chemistry and chemicals can play a central role in delivering society’s needs, while minimising and solving environmental problems.” This year’s winner is Marc Taillefer, from the Institut Charles Gerhardt (ICG) in Montpellier (France). He is being recognised for his pioneering work on the use of iron and copper catalysts, instead of more expensive catalysts based on palladium, for homogeneously catalysed coupling reactions leading to the formation to CC, CN, CO, and CP bonds. In addition, the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze (Gold Medal, see picture), the prestigious award of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), will also be awarded during the opening ceremony to Prof. Sason Shaik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Member of the Editorial Board of the Israel Journal of Chemistry) und Prof. Martin Quack (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) for their outstanding service to chemistry.1 1 1 1 Last, but by no means least, the competition for the European Young Chemist Award (EYCA) 1 2012, sponsored by the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and the Italian National Council of Chemistry (CNC), will take place once again at this congress. It is intended to showcase and recognise the excellent research being carried out by young scientists, whether Ph.D. student, postdoc, or researcher, working in the chemical sciences. Latest news from the ChemPubSoc Europe family of journals: At the beginning of this year Wiley-VCH and ChemPubSoc Europe, an alliance of 16 European Chemical Societies, launched two new journals: ChemPlusChem and ChemistryOpen.1 ChemPlusChem is a multidisciplinary journal centring on chemistry. Original papers published cover at least two different aspects (subfields) of chemistry or one of chemistry and one of another scientific discipline (one chemistry topic plus another one, hence the title ChemPlusChem). ChemPlusChem, in this new exciting form, succeeded the Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications which ceased publication at the end of 2011. For a short history of the Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications and how the collaboration with ChemPubSoc Europe came into being I refer you to the inaugural editorial in ChemPlusChem (Neville Compton, Marisa Spinello, ChemPlusChem 2012, 77, 3). Fittingly, ChemPlusChem will be also publishing a special issue to coincide with the congress in Prague. It will contain contributions from the three chairmen and selected board members and gives an excellent reflection of the truly multidisciplinary flavour of ChemPlusChem. For more details see the journal homepage under www.chempluschem.org. ChemistryOpen is a multidisciplinary, gold-road open-access, international forum for the publication of outstanding Full Papers and Communications from all areas of chemistry and related fields. As some of the governments of the countries represented in ChemPubSoc Europe have strongly recommended that the research conducted with their funding is freely accessible for all readers (Open Access), ChemPubSoc Europe was concerned that no journal for which the ethical standards were monitored by a chemical society was available for such papers. ChemistryOpen fills this gap. An additional “Thesis Treasury” section provides rapid tracking of successful PhD theses passed by a recognised university through the DOI in the journal with a link to the electronic archive. The first three issues of ChemistryOpen are available online (see the journal homepage under www.chemistryopen.org. The rest of the ChemPubSoc Europe family have not been resting on their laurels either and have published a variety of special issues so far this year on various current hot topics; for example, neuroscience drug discovery (ChemMedChem: issue 3), organocatalysis (ChemCatChem: issue 7), flow chemistry and microbial fuel cells (ChemSusChem, issues 2 and 6, respectively), ionic liquids and nanobubbles (ChemPhysChem, issues 7 and 8, respectively), organometallic chemistry and metal-based MRI probes (EurJIC, issues 7 and 12, respectively), and coming soon a special issue of EurJOC, celebrating the centenary of the Portuguese Chemical Society, with papers from speakers from the 6th Spanish–Portuguese–Japanese Organic Chemistry Symposium. ChemistryViews has also added a new theme to the website on Catalysis and you can now customise your ChemistryViews EarlyView choices to meet your own particular needs through a careful choice of themes, journals, keywords and so forth. ChemPubSoc Europe at the 4th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress: 1 ChemPubSoc Europe will have its own stand in the exhibition hall at the conference in Prague at which you can pick up a printed copy of this special issue of Chemistry—A European Journal and well as that of ChemPlusChem.1 In addition you can try out our new online browsing experience for both of these issues, as well as Angewandte Chemie International Edition (issue 33) and the inaugural issue of the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry (AsianJOC)—a new journal published under the auspices of ACES, an alliance of 13 chemical societies from Asia and the Pacific. There will also be a meet the Editors session on Tuesday afternoon during the coffee break, where you can meet both Neville Compton and myself.1 We would be pleased to discuss any matters concerning the journal and how we can further optimise our services to meet your needs. At the same time you can pick up a ChemPubSoc Europe lapel pin, and sign up for ChemistryViews (if you have not yet done so) and receive a free gift.1 1 Other events at the congress: At the Wiley-VCH booth exciting new electronic products will be available for demonstration. You are also cordially invited to a joint American Chemical Society (ACS), German Chemical Society (GDCh) and Wiley-VCH reception on the Monday evening 19:00–20:30 in the Forum Hall Foyer. Impact factors: The impact factors for 2011 were released in June. The exciting mix of ground-breaking Communications, Full Papers, Concepts, and Reviews from all fields of chemistry offered by Chemistry—A European Journal is clearly evident in its new impact factor which has reached its highest ever value of 5.925—the sixth consecutive year that the value has been above 5; its five-year impact factor also increased to 5.866. The impact factor news from our sister journals in the ChemPubSoc Europe family is also excellent.1 EurJOC’s impact factor increased to 3.329 and is the only organic chemistry journal whose impact factor has been constantly increasing for more than 10 years. EurJIC’s impact factor has reached new heights with an all-time-high impact factor of 3.049. ChemSusChem′s impact factor has also increased to 6.827, its five-year impact factor even to 7.171. ChemCatChem’s impact factor jumped by 56% to 5.207 and that of ChemPhysChem increased to 3.412. ChemMedChem’s impact factor is 3.151 and keeps the journal in the top ten medicinal chemistry journals and ChemBioChem remained steady at 3.944. Finally, the impact factor of the parent journal of several of these products, Angewandte Chemie, the flagship journal of the German Chemical Society, is at an all-time high of 13.455, well above its direct competitors. Thank you: We would like to thank all those authors who have contributed to this issue for the 4th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Prague and also to the referees without whose help we would not be able to ensure the high-standard of chemistry that we publish. Also, we would like to wish the organisers of the event every success. To sum up, a comment from Pavel Drašar “All the conveners and organisers are doing their best to make the 4th European Chemistry Congress a successful meeting, full of inspiring and exciting new chemistry, motivating meetings, personal discussions, enjoyment, and fun.” In this spirit we look forward to seeing you in Prague. Anne Deveson Deputy Editor 1
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