HISTORICAL BACKGROUND and the Aim of the Eurasia Conference

Around 1985-86, Prof. Bernd M. Rode from the University of Innsbruck, Austria suggested with Prof. Hitoshi Ohtaki (an International Steering Committee Member of the International Conference on Solution Chemistry (ICSC)) to organize an international conference concerning solution chemistry in Thailand. However, ICSC was scheduled until 1991, and thus, it was not possible to organize the new conference in Thailand before that year. Upon invitation of Profs. Rode and Ohtaki to Prof. Ivano Bertini of Florence University, Italy, to join this first committee, the three founders discussed the matter and changed Prof. Rode's original idea, to the creation of an international conference called Eurasia Conference on Chemistry of Solutions (EuAsC₂S) with the aim to deepening friendship among chemists in the Eurasian supercontinent, and supporting them with the help of chemists in other continents such as America, Canada, and Australia. This could be achieved with the organization of the international eurasia series of conferences of world-top quality and class, mainly in developing Asian countries with the participation of a world-wide friendship network. Through this conference world-leading scientists were invited, with whom scientists, especially young ones from developing countries, could exchange scientific chemical information to emphasize scientific activities in their countries. Under such a vision of the three founders, Profs. Rode, Ohtaki and Bertini, the First Eurasia Conference on Chemistry of Solutions (1st EuAsC2S) was held in Bangkok in 1988.

Eurasia Conference on Chemistry of Solutions changed its name to Eurasia Conference of Chemistry in Seoul in 1990, and then, again to Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences in 1992 in Guangzou due to its expansion to all areas of chemistry, now involved in the conference.

All previous conferences in this series were organized in Asiatic countries; the first to be organized in Europe was the 12th in Greece. This one is the second conference of the series to be organized in Europe, in Rome-Italy.