Russian-Korean Seminar on Catalysis, Novosibirsk, May 16-19, 1995:Abstracts
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It is generally recognized that catalysis is one of the top research frontiers in chemistry. There is always a pressing need to develop new catalytic technologies and to improve the available ones. One may expect that, as going to the future, the solution of specific problems, currently made by local research teams, companies, and countries will require joint efforts in order to promote the fastest accomplishing of the problems.
The international cooperation in science plays the important (and in the future may appear to play the dominant) role in the information exchange that is fundamental to the success in handling the emerging problems. International congresses, symposia, conferences, and seminars are habitual to familiarize scientists with innovations outside their own research and to disseminate the information about the results achieved to a wider audience. However conferences and seminars, owing to their non pompous and non immense characters and to more confined scopes, seem most productive to treat specific tasks.
We have no long history of the Russian-Korean Seminar on Catalysis. The urgency of such a periodic event was realized no long ago, and since 1991 we have made two attempts to hold the meeting of Korean and Russian chemists; our efforts happened to be unsuccessful for a number of uncontrollable reasons (in commercial practice they would be referred to as the "force majeure circumstances").
The 1995 Russian-Korean Seminar will focus on four basic problems of catalysis and catalytic technologies. They are:
• Zeolite catalysis
• Catalysis for fine synthesis. Development of catalysts and catalytic processes for production of vitamins, medicines, biologically active substances
• Catalysis for environmental protection: DENOX processes, treatment of wastes and soil containing organic chlorides and pesticides
• Catalysis for oil refining and petrochemistry
These topics reflect the most pressing demands in catalysis and catalytic technologies of today. Whatever research institution or company is engaged in at least one of these areas that, evidently, makes it important for a scientist to become acquainted with the relevant “catalytic schools".
The Seminar encompasses a wide range of research activities: from studies of the nature of catalyst’s active sites and the mechanisms of their actions on atomic and molecular levels through the molecular design of catalysts towards the descriptions and presentations of commercial catalysts and catalytic technologies.
The Program of the Seminar involves not only the contributions by Russian and Korean scientists. The topics appeared attractive to the scientists from foreign countries, first of all the republics of the former USSR. We are waiting for visitors from Beloru.ssia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine.
The Organizing Committee do hopes that the Seminar will encourage the actual scientific cooperation in understanding the mechanisms of catalytic acts and processes of fine “tailoring” the pathways for chemical processes, in development of fundamentals for prognosis of catalytic action, in promotion of solutions for sustainable progress of human society.
I wish you a good seminar. Enjoy the meeting and your stay in Akadcmgarodok.