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Introduction

The 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 21) will be organised by the RSC Physical Organic Chemistry Group. ICPOC is the leading international conference on Physical Organic Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity. The conference will consist of plenary, invited and contributed lectures, as well as poster sessions.

ICPOC-21 will bring together the organic chemistry, catalysis and physical chemistry communities from academia and industry to discuss the current state of the art, the development and future of physical organic chemistry.

Although traditionally considered as the study of mechanism, reactivity, structure and binding in organic systems,  especially leading to the quantitative, molecular level  understanding of their properties, physical organic chemistry nowadays also encompasses a wider range of contexts (such as biology and materials) than ever before.

If you would like to receive further information about ICPOC 21 when it is available, please email RSC Events.

Themes

• Physical Underpinnings 
  - dynamics in solution 
  - scope and limitations of transition state theory
  - advances in reaction monitoring
  - new approaches to aromaticity
  
• Mechanisms and Catalysis
  - homogenous - including organo- and organometallic
  - heterogenous - including nanoparticles
  - mechanistic enzymology
  
• Supramolecular / Systems / Non-covalent interactions 
  - non-covalent interactions 
  - molecular self-assembly
  - gel-forming materials        

Scientific Committee

Professor Ian Williams, University of Bath, UK (Chair)
Dr Craig Butts, Bristol University, UK
Dr Niklaas Buurma, Cardiff University, UK
Dr Anna Croft, Bangor University, UK
Dr David Hodgson, Durham University, UK
Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones, Bristol University, UK
Dr Ann-Marie O'Donoghue, Durham University, UK

Scientific Advisory Board

Professor François Diederich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Professor Jan Engberts, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor Eduardo Humeres, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
Professor Tony Kirby, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Herbert Mayr, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
Professor Masaaki Mishima, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Professor Rory More O’Ferrall, University College Dublin, Ireland
Professor Leo Radom, University of Sydney, Australia
Professor John Richard, University of Buffalo, USA
Professor Einar Uggerud, University of Oslo, Norway

Bronze Sponsor

We would like to thank Syngenta for their generous support of this event.

Sponsors

We would like to thank the following companies for their support of this event:

Past Editions of ICPOC

For further information on past editions of ICPOC, click on the links on this page.