A report of the 21st Symposium on Heteroatom Chemistry of the Chemical Society of Japan

✍ Scribed by Shigeru Oae; Hideo Togo

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 597 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1042-7163
• DOI: 10.1002/hc.520050213

✦ Synopsis

The 2 1st Symposium on Heteroatom Chemistry of the Chemical Society of Japan was held at Kuroda Hall in Toyama University, located on the Japan Sea side, i.e., Ettyu in the Hokuriku area of Japan, during the period of December 9-1 1, 1993, and it was an excellently organized meeting. It was the first one to be held in the area on the Japan Sea side. This time, Prof. Tom Koizumi of Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University organized the symposium, and it was based on four plenary lectures, each of SO minutes, one invited lecture, and 56 oral presentations, each of 20 minutes duration. On the first day, a beautiful Tateyama mountain range topped with snow could be seen, which is a part of the Japan Alps. The number of participants was over 250, the people coming mainly from universities and industries located in all parts of Japan. Here we had one plenary lecture by Prof. Y. H. Kim of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology in Korea and one foreign invited lecture by Prof. M. G. Voronkov at the Irkutsk Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Rus- sian Academy of Sciences. There were also three plenary lectures by Japanese chemists, Prof. Juzo