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FACS Newsletter 1/2000
8ACC Special Report
With theme of "Entering the New Century with Innovative
Chemistry", the 8th Asian Chemical Congress (8ACC '99) was held successfully on November 21~24, 1999
at Taipei. Nearly 1,600 participants from thirty countries attended the Congress,
including Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Iran, Iraq,
Israel, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, the
Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the United
States. Three Nobel laureates (Elias J. Corey, Yuan T. Lee, Rudolph a. Marcus), three
FACS awardees, 123 invited speakers, and 646 outstanding submitted papers greatly contributed
to the success of the Congress.
The Congress comprised a Scientific Program , a Chemical Industry &
Instrument
Exhibition and a FACS Official Meetings as follows.
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Scientific Program
13 Sessions and 4 Special Symposia
3 Plenary Lectures, 3 FACS Award Lectures
123 Invited Lectures, 646 Contributed Papers
Nov. 22~24, 1999
Taipei International Convention Center |
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FACS
Official Meetings
General Assembly
09:00~17:00, Sunday, Nov. 21, 1999
EXCO Council Meeting
17:00~18:00, Sunday, Nov. 21, 1999
Taipei International Convention Center |
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Chemical Industry &
Instrument
Exhibition
Chemicals, Chemical Instruments &
Equipments, and Products
09:00~17:00, Nov. 19~22, 1999
Taipei World Trade Center |
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13 Concurrent Sessions:
- Analytical Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Catalysis and Zeolitic Materials
- Chemical Dynamics
- Chemistry of New Materials
- Environmental Chemistry and Cleaner Production
- Food Chemistry
- Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Pharmaceutical, Medicinal, and Natural Product Chemistry
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Polymer Chemistry
4 Special Symposia:
- Chemical Education
- Chemical Industry Development in Asia
- Future Prospects in Biotechnology
- Chemistry for Electronics and Optoelectronics
Three Plenary Lectures:
Rudolph A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology, USA
Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry and Biology: History and Future
Elias J. Corey, Harvard University, USA
Adventures in Enantioselective Synthesis
Yuan-Tseh Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Recent Advances in the Investigation of Elementary Chemical Reactions
by Lasers and Molecular Beams
Three FACS Award Lectures:
FACS Foundation Lectureship Award and Citation
Akira Fujishima, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Interfacial Photochemistry: Water Photolysis and Environmental
Applications of TiO2 Photoelectrochemistry
FACS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Economic Advancement
Abdul Razak Mohd. Ali, Forest Research Institute Malaysia
R&D Activities of the Forestry and Forest-Based Industry for Enhancing
the Economic Advancement of Malaysia
FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award
Chung-Shi Yang, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Monitoring of Brain Extracellular Neurochemicals: A Microdialysis Application in Oxygen Radical Study
Three plenary lectures and lectures of chemical industry development in
Asia are featured on
the following pages.
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Welcome Address by Dr. Johnsee Lee, FACS President
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Present and Past Presidents
(Dr.
Johnsee Lee and Prof. Hitoshi Ohtaki)
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Guest
（Prof.
Upendra K. Pandit, Delegate, IUPAC）
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Nobel Laureates
(Dr. Johnsee
Lee, Prof. E.J. Corey, Prof. R.A. Marcus,
Dr. Yuan T. Lee)
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A
total number of 354 posters were presented
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Reception
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Banquette
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Taipei City
Mayor Ying-Jeou Ma
Presented
City Key to Nobel Laureate,
Prof. Elias James Corey
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Taipei City
Mayor Ying-Jeou Ma
Presented
City Key to Nobel Laureate,
Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus
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