A report on the 22nd symposium on Heteroatom Chemistry of the Chemical Society of Japan

✍ Scribed by Shigeru Oae; Hideo Togo

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 490 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1042-7163
• DOI: 10.1002/hc.520060604

✦ Synopsis

The 22nd Symposium on Heteroatom Chemistry of the Chemical Society of Japan was held at Nagoya and was productive, despite the big earthquake in the Kobe area that disrupted all traffic west of Kobe. The famous super express train, Shinkansen, did not function between Kyoto and Kobe, because of the destruction of the tracks. The meeting was organized by Professor Takashi Toru of Nagoya Institute of Technology, and it took place on the 19th to 21st of January on rather cold days but in a well-heated auditorium of Nagoya University. Amazingly, the symposium attracted nearly 250 people from throughout the country. Many participants came from Fukuoka, Matsuyama, Ube, and other places. Many of the attendees had to spend many extra hours detouring via long routes, but they nevertheless came to the meeting. Unfortunately, nobody in Kobe, which was devastated on the morning of the 17th of January, was able to attend. Kobe University alone suffered the loss of more than 40 people, including many faculty members. Fortunately, the Kintetsu Railway was running to Nagoya, and many came to the meeting from the Osaka area by this railway. Professor T. Toru arranged for four plenary lectures each of fifty minutes duration and for 55 oral presentations each *To whom correspondence should be addressed.