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Tag: ICOS

International Conference on Organic Synthesis

Asymmetric Organocatalysis – a game changer

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. IUPAC congratulates the laureates for their achievements. Read the full...

22nd International Conference on Organic Synthesis (22-ICOS)

This conference is the last event of a series of prestigious IUPAC Conferences held every two years in different parts of the world. Just to mention the last three, 21-ICOS...

21st IUPAC International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS 21)

The International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS), a biennial event, initiated in 1976 by IUPAC as a platform for the exhibition of new and upcoming topics in the field of...

Thieme–IUPAC Prize 2016 Call for Nominations

Thieme Chemistry, IUPAC, and the Editors of SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT, SYNFACTS, and Science of Synthesis announce the Thieme–IUPAC Prize for 2016.