15th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences (EuAsC2S-15) - 5th-8th September 2018, Rome, Italy
Pure Appl. Chem. 2019; 91(10): 1549–1552 Preface Luciana Dini*, Daniele Passeri, Cristian Vergallo and Marco Rossi 15th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences (EuAsC2S-15) – 5th–8th September 2018, Rome, Italy https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0904 Keywords: 15th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences; EuAsC2S-15; Eurasia 2018. Around 1985–1986, Prof. Bernd M. Rode from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) suggested with Prof. Hitoshi Ohtaki (an International Steering Committee Member of the International Conference on Solution Chemistry, ICSC) to organize an international conference on solution chemistry in Thailand. ICSC was scheduled in 1988 and, thus, it was not possible to organize the new conference in Thailand before that year. Upon invitation of Prof. Ivano Bertini of Florence University (Italy) by Profs. Rode and Ohtaki to join this first committee, the three founders discussed the proposal and changed Prof. Rode’s original idea to the creation of an international conference called Eurasia Conference on Chemistry of Solutions (EuAsC2S) aimed at deepening friendship among chemists in the Eurasian supercontinent, and supporting them with the help of chemists from Countries in other continents, such as USA, Canada, and Australia. This could be achieved with the organization of the international Eurasia series of conferences of world-top quality and class, mainly in developing Asian countries with the participation of a world-wide friendship network. Through this conference Worldleading researchers were invited, with whom scientists, especially young ones from developing countries, could exchange information, opinions, results, and visions to emphasize scientific activities in their countries. Under such a vision of the three founders, Profs. Rode, Ohtaki and Bertini, the First Eurasia Conference on Chemistry of Solutions (1st EuAsC2S) was held in Bangkok in 1988 (http://xray.kaist.ac.kr/euasc2s/). In the same year, the logo of the conference (EuAsC2S) was proposed by Dr. Sunt Techakumpuch of Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). Eurasia Conference on Chemistry of Solutions changed its name to Eurasia Conference of Chemistry in Seoul (Korea) in 1990, and then, again to Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences in 1992 in Guangzou (China), due to its expansion to all areas of chemistry, now involved in the conference. All previous conferences of this series had been organized in Asiatic countries, while the first to be organized in Europe was the 12th in Greece. Chairman of 12th Eurasia was Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Nick Hadjiliadis. Every Chairman of Eurasia Conferences on Chemical Sciences is a member of the International Organizing Committee (IOC) at each conference and has a general supervision of the organization. The Chairman of the National Organizing Committee (NOC) is responsible for the organization of the conference with the cooperation of the National Article note: A collection of invited papers based on presentations at the 15th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences (EuAsC 2S-15) held at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 5–8 September 2018. *Corresponding author: Luciana Dini, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin” (BBCD), Piazzale Aldo Moro n. 5, 00185 Rome, Italy; and CNR Nanotec, 73100 Lecce, Italy, e-mail: luciana.dini@uniroma1.it Daniele Passeri and Marco Rossi: Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering (SBAI), Via Antonio Scarpa n. 14 00161, Rome, Italy Cristian Vergallo: University of Chieti-Pescara “G. d’Annunzio”, Department of Pharmacy, Via dei Vestini n. 31, 63100 Chieti, Italy © 2019 IUPAC & De Gruyter. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information, please visit: http://creativecommons.org/liceBnroseusg/hbty t-on cy-onud /b4y. 0| /Universita Studi di Torino Au