Calendar 2000–01

(A) Analytical Chemistry 1. Trace Analysis Using Atom-absorption, UV-VIS Absorption, Gas- chromatography, High-performance Liquid Chromatography, and Polarographic Methods 2. X-ray Fluorescence Methods in Chemical Analysis 3. Surface Characterizations of Electronic Packaging Materials 4. Development of New Surface Analysis Techniques (B) Inorganic Chemistry 1. Syntheses, Properties and Structures of Organometallic Compounds of Main Groups and Transition Metals 2. Metalloporphyrin and Biometallic Complexes 3. Syntheses and Properties of Metallo-phthalocyanines and Naphthalocyanines 4. Use of Organometallics in Organic Synthesis 5. Syntheses, Structure and Catalytic Properties of Early Transition and Lanthanide Metal Compounds 6. Metallacarboranes and Carboranes 7. Inorganic Polymer 8. Syntheses and Structures of Transition Metal Complexes as Models to the Active Site of Metalloenzymes (C) Organic Chemistry 1. Synthesis and Property Investigations of Macromolecules 2. New Synthetic Methodologies 3. Nonlinear Optical Materials 4. Total Synthesis of Natural Molecules and Analogues with Pharmaceutical Implications 5. Asymmetric Catalysis 6. Carbohydrate Chemistry 7. Synthesis of Non-natural Molecules with Theoretical and Practical Importance 8. Use of Organoboron and Organosilicon Compounds in Organic Synthesis 9. Asymmetric Synthesis 10. Green Chemistry (D) Physical Chemistry 1. Modifications of Semiconductors and Related Materials 2. Gas Chromatographic Studies of Molecules 3. Molecular Orbital Studies of Molecules and Ions 4. Intelligent Gels, Nanoparticles and Dynamics of Macromolecules in Solution 5. Solid State and High Resolution NMR Study of Biopolymers, e.g. DNA and RNA 6. Molecular Dynamics 7. Development of Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation and Applications in the Study of Biomolecules