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10th International Conference on Polymers and Organic Chemistry The 10th International Conference on Polymers and Organic Chemistry (POC ’02) was held during the period July 14-18, 2002, at the La Jolla campus of the University of California, San Diego. This conference, like those that went before it, focused on areas that bridge the gap between organic and polymer chemistry. These areas include combinatorial chemistry, nanotechnology, catalysis, and solid-phase synthesis, and they were strongly represented at POC ’02. The program included 35 invited lectures and 2 poster sessions. POC ’02 was the latest in a biannual series of international conferences that began in 1982 and have been held all over the world: Lyon, France (1982), Lancaster, U.K. (1984), Jerusalem, Israel (1986), Barcelona, Spain (1988), Kyoto, Japan (1990), Venice, Italy (1994), Wroclaw, Poland (1996), Jerusalem, Israel (1998), and Tianjin, China (2000). This was the first conference in this series to be held in the United States. It was sponsored by the American Chemical Society Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., and by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The sessions held at POC ’02 were Polymers in Combinatorial Chemistry, Polymers in Organic Synthesis, Polymeric Catalysts, Polymers in Separations, Polymers in Nanotechnology, Polymers in Biotechnology, and Polymers & Sensors. The banquet presentation was graciously given by Dr. Elsa Reichmanis (Lucent Technologies), president of the American Chemical Society. The collected papers in this special issue of
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research provide a flavor of the high-quality presentations enjoyed by the participants; the topics include immobilized phasetransfer catalysts (Ohtani), chitosan-supported catalysts (Guibal), reaction kinetics on resin beads (Yan), parallel synthesis (Luis), sulfonamide-substituted polymers (Emerson), polyurethane antimicrobial composites (Nascimento), and porphyrin-substituted membranes (Nishide). Additional papers from the conference will be published in future issues of the journal and will be identified as originating at POC ’02. The 11th International Conference on Polymers and Organic Chemistry 2004 (POC ’04) will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, July 18-23, 2004, under the chairmanship of Dr. Karel Jerabek (Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czech Republic;
[email protected]). Spiro D. Alexandratos* Hunter College of the City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, Department of Chemistry, New York, New York 10021 Warren T. Ford Oklahoma State University, Department of Chemistry, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 IE030639M
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