KCS

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome all my fellow chemists and participants to the 133^rd General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society (KCS) to be held at the Suwon Convention Center from April 24 (Wed) to 26 (Fri), 2024. 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.

As the plenary lecturer, we have invited Professor Michael J. Krische at the University of Texas at Austin, who has made a great contribution to the organic synthesis and synthetic methodology. He will give a lecture on “Catalytic C–C Coupling of Alcohols via Hydrogen Auto-Transfer: Reinventing Carbonyl Addition”. I am pleased to announce that KCS-ACS Publications Summit will be given by the Editors-in-Chief of three journals, Professor Erick M. Carreira (J. Am. Chem. Soc.), Professor Christopher W. Jones (J. Am. Chem. Soc. Au), and Professor Wonwoo Nam (Bull. Korean Chem. Soc.) and Executive Editor of Nano Letters, Professor Jwa-Min Nam, at the 133^rd General Meeting of the KCS. They will discuss “The Future of Transformative Molecules”, entitled “Design, Synthesis, and Implementation of Novel Tools to Probe Biological Questions”, “Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO₂ with Porous Sorbent Materials Coupled with Scalable Processes”, “Metal-Oxygen Intermediates in Dioxygen Activation and Formation Reactions”, and “Chemical Plasmonics with Metal Nanoparticles”, respectively.

In addition, Professor Young Soo Kang of Korea Institute of Energy Technology will give an award lecture, entitled “Carbon Neutrality Climate Technology Based on Nanotechnology”, as the recipient of this year’s KCS Academic Excellence Award. In addition, Kyungwon Kwak of Korea University will give an award lecture, entitled “In-Operando Time-resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy”, as the recipient of Man Jung Han Academic Excellence Award. In this KCS meeting, we have prepared BKCS Symposium, entitled “The Cornerstone of Korean Basic Science” and Women's Committee Special Symposium, entitled “Mentor-Mentee Meeting for Students and Early-Career Researchers”.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Bioneer, Dongwoo Fine-Chem, Shimadzu Scientific Korea, and i-SENS, who have been a sponsor of the KCS. Finally, I extend my gratitude to all KCS members and participants of this KCS meeting. I look forward to welcoming you all in Suwon!