Preface*
The 11th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry
Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS-11) was held in Taipei from
22-26 July 2001.There were over 800 participants coming from more than
30 different countries and regions to attend this event. This conference
marked the first OMCOS meeting in this new millennium and commemorated
the 50th anniversary of the discovery of ferrocene, laying the cornerstone
for the field of organometallic chemistry. We were honored to have keynote
lectures delivered by Profs.F.Albert Cotton and Akio Yamamoto, who both
have witnessed and extensively contributed to the rapid evolution of
this field for half a century. The lecture by Prof.Cotton highlighted
the history of the discovery of ferrocene and the birth of organometallic
chemistry. Prof.Yamamoto, in his lecture, covered not only some historical
notes of his own contributions, but also shared his more recent insight
toward environmentally benign processes catalyzed by transition-metal
complexes.
The plenary lectures, delivered by Ben L.Feringa, Robert H.Grubbs,
Paul Knochel, Shun-ichi Murahashi, and Paul A.Wender, focused on control
and amplication of chirality by transition-metal catalysis, olefin metathesis
catalysts for the rapid synthesis of olefins, stereoselective reactions
using functionalized organometallics, and ruthenium catalysis in organic
synthesis, respectively. The recipient of the Third Springer Award for
Organometallic Chemistry this year is Gregory C. Fu. In his award lecture,
he described an overview of tin hydride-catalyzed processes and asymmetric
catalysis with "planar-chiral "catalysts.
Along with the above-mentioned lectures, invited lectures also featured
recent advances in this ever-burgeoning field by 19 distinguished organometallic
chemists.The sharing of their recent research also has enriched the
topics of OMCOS. The themes of their lectures involved asymmetric synthesis
via organometallics, structural and mechanistic aspects related to synthesis,
catalytic processes involving organometallics,new C-C and C-heteroatom
bond-forming processes, organometallics in materials research, and environmentally
benign chemistry. In addition, there were 24 short lectures and about
400 contributed papers presented at the poster sessions.
Tien-Yau Luh
Chairman, OMCOS-11
*Lecture presented at the 11th IUPAC International
Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis
(OMCOS-11), Taipei, Taiwan, 22-26 July 2001. Other presentations are
presented in this issue, pp.1-186.
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