KCS

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome all my fellow chemists and participants to the 132nd General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society (KCS) held at the Gwangju Kimdaejung Convention Center in Oct 25 (Wed) – 27 (Fri), 2023. As we are well into the postpandemic era, I believe this KCS meeting will serve as a great opportunity for Korean and international scholars from all branches of chemistry to gather and discuss new advances and innovations made in the field of chemistry.

I am pleased to announce Professor Sukbok Chang’s plenary lecture at the 132nd General Meeting of the KCS, entitled “Catalytic C-H Amination Reactions: Scope and Intermediacy of Metal Nitrenoids”. In this lecture, I believe Professor Chang would share insights he attained serving as the Director of the IBS Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization for the last 10 years. In addition, Professor Cheol Ho Choi of Kyungpook National University will give an award lecture, entitled “MR-SF-TDDFT: A Breakthrough in the Study of Strongly Correlated Systems”, as the recipient of this year’s Ree Taikyue academic excellence award, the most prestigious award in the KCS.

In this KCS meeting, we have prepared five Chemistry Symposium for Future Innovation supported by Dongjin Semichem Co. These symposiums are our new attempts to foster cross-disciplinary research on convergence topics. There will also be a variety of special programs and social activities, which include KCS Special Symposium for Young Chemists and the IBS Symposium organized by the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials. In the KCS-ACS Applied Bio-Materials Research Publications Summit, 7 distinguished editors of ACS journals will give lectures and interact with participants of this meeting. Collaboration between KCS and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will be emphasized in the joint symposium entitled “Multidisciplinary Approach to Energy Science”. I hope all participants get the most out of the fall KCS meeting.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dongwoo Fine-Chem, who has been a sponsor of the KCS for 12 years, and Bioneer, who has become a new official partner this year. I would also like to thank Shimadzu Scientific Korea and the Gwangju Tourism Organization for their financial support.

Finally, I would like to extend my gratitude to all KCS members and participants to this KCS meeting. I look forward to welcoming you all in Gwangju!