Welcome to the ICHAC-10
10th International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to cordially invite you to attend the 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HETEROATOM CHEMISTRY (ICHAC‐10), which will be held in The Uji Ohbaku Plaza on Kyoto University's campus, Uji City, JAPAN during the period of May 20th(Sun) to May 25th(Fri), 2012.
Although ICHAC-10 was originally planned for the summer of 2011, we have decided to postpone it in light of the disaster, that happened in the north-eastern Tohoku area of Japan. As many of you will know, this disaster was caused by an extremely strong earthquake and the subsequent tsunami, which caused the severe accident in the Fukushima power plant. Even though the Tohoku area has not fully recovered yet, the situation in the rest of Japan can be considered fairly stable and safe by now.
Please allow me to use this occasion to express our sincere gratitude to all of you. We are very grateful for your sympathy with the victims of this unprecedented disaster, and also for your patience and kind cooperation regarding the postponing of ICHAC-10.
As we are expecting the situation to have stabilized even further in the early summer of 2012, we have decided to hold ICHAC-10 from May 20th(Sun) to May 25th(Fri) 2012. The new schedule for the planned events of ICHAC-10 will be almost identical to the one previously announced, however please note that the new schedule will now start on Sunday 20th (as opposed to Monday 19th). In the afternoon of May 20th, the registration and welcome reception will be held at the conference venue. We would like to apologize in advance to all of you, who will be presented with any inconveniences arising from these changes in schedule.
The International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry (ICHAC-10) is a well-established international forum for the presentation and the discussion of research results obtained from the diverse fields of Heteroatom Chemistry. Previous ICHAC meetings have been held in several countries: 1987 (Kobe, Japan); 1989 (Albany, New York, USA); 1992 (Riccione, Italy); 1995 (Seoul, Korea); 1998 (London, Ontario, Canada); 2001 (Lodz, Poland); 2004 (Shanghai, China); 2007 (Riverside, USA) and 2009 (Oviedo, Spain). The ICHAC series has been organized mostly every three years, but is a biennial event since ICHAC-9 in Spain. We are very proud that ICHAC will return in 2012 to its first host country Japan, in order to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
Continuing the successful ICHAC series, ICHAC-10 will cover many areas around the central topic of the Heteroatom
Chemistry. Following the long standing tradition of these conferences, ICHAC-10 will be a major scientific event. It will bring organic and inorganic chemists from all over the world together and allow them to share their interests on the diverse areas of Heteroatom Chemistry. As usual, this conference will serve as a professional forum to disseminate scientific knowledge on all areas relevant to Heteroatom Chemistry. Major themes of ICHAC-10 will focus especially on synthesis, structure and reactivity, catalysis, theoretical methods and material aspects.
The conference program will consist of plenary and invited lectures, short oral communications and poster presentations complemented by the memorial session lectures for the 10th anniversary of ICHAC.
We hope that all participants will find a pleasant environment at ICHAC-10 to establish and maintain both personal contacts and scientific exchange with chemists from different areas. Hosted by the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, we would like to welcome all participants from academia and industry to share six outstanding days in our beautiful city full of culture and history.
We are looking forward to welcome you in Kyoto, Japan.
Norihiro Tokitoh
Chairman, ICHAC-10
Prof. Takeshi Akasaka (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Prof. Kim Baines (Western Ontario, Canada)
Prof. Jose Barluenga (Oviedo, Spain)
Prof. Eric Block (SUNY Albany, USA)
Prof. Carsten Bolm (Aachen University, Germany)
Prof. Richard S. Glass (University of Arizona, USA)
Prof. Yong Hae Kim (KAIST, Daejon, Korea)
Prof. Marian Mikolajczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland)
Prof. Christopher A. Reed (University of California, USA)
Prof. Alfredo Ricci (Bologna, Italy)
Prof. Oleg Sinyashin (Arbuzov Institute, Kazan, Russia)
Prof. Yong Tang (Shanghai, China)
Prof. Norihiro Tokitoh (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Binne Zwanenburg (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Domestic Committee
Takeshi Akasaka (University of Tsukuba)
Yoshio Aso (Osaka University)
Hiroshi Ikeda (Osaka Prefecture University)
Akihiko Ishii (Saitama University)
Hiroyuki Ishibashi (Kanazawa University)
Toshiyuki Itoh (Tottori University)
Masahiko Iyoda (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Michio Iwaoka (Tokai University)
Takeaki Iwamoto (Tohoku University)
Masafumi Unno (Gunma University)
Kentaro Okuma (Fukuoka University)
Joji Ohshita (Hiroshima University)
Hideji Osuga (Wakayama University)
Makoto Oba (Tokai University)
Akiya Ogawa (Osaka Prefecture University)
Satoshi Ogawa (Iwate University)
Fumiyuki Ozawa (Kyoto University)
Masahito Ochiai (University of Tokushima)
Naokazu Kano (The University of Tokyo)
Yoshio Kabe (Kanagawa University)
Akio Kamimura (Yamaguchi University)
Takayuki Kawashima (Gakushuin University)
Takeo Kawabata (Kyoto University)
Nobuaki Kambe (Osaka University)
Tsugio Kitamura (Saga University)
Soichiro Kyushin (Gunma University)
Joji Kurita (Hokuriku University)
Kei Goto (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Masaichi Saito (Saitama University)
Kazuhiko Sato (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Toshio Shimizu (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Michinori Suginome (Kyoto University)
Yoshiaki Sugihara (Saitama University)
Masahito Segi (Kanazawa University)
Akira Sekiguchi (University of Tsukuba)
Yutaka Takaguchi (Okayama University)
Toshikazu Takata (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Kazuo Takimiya (Hiroshima University)
Hiroshi Nakazawa (Osaka City University)
Waro Nakanishi (Wakayama University)
Masaharu Nakamura (Kyoto University)
Tatsuya Nabeshima (University of Tsukuba)
Yoshiaki Nishibayashi (The University of Tokyo)
Yutaka Nishiyama (Kansai University)
Takayoshi Fujii (Nihon University)
Hisashi Fujihara (Kinki University)
Yoshihiro Matano (Kyoto University)
Tsukasa Matsuo (RIKEN Advanced Science Institute)
Haruo Matsuyama (Muroran Institute of Technology)
Kazuhiko Mizuno (Osaka Prefecture University)
Mao Minoura (Kitasato University)
Toshiaki Murai (Gifu University)
Yasujiro Murata (Kyoto University)
Shinro Yasui (Tezukayama University)
Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Nagoya University)
Shigeru Yamago (Kyoto University)
Mitsuji Yamashita (Shizuoka University)
Yoshiro Yamashita (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Yohsuke Yamamoto (Hiroshima University)
Toshiaki Yoshimura (Toyama University)
Honorary Domestic Committee
Kinya Akiba, Wataru Ando, Renji Okazaki, Shinzi Kato, Nobumasa Kamigata, Ryu Sato, Hitomi Suzuki, Kohei Tamao, Juzo Nakayama, Naomichi Furukawa