Heilbronner-Hückel Lecture Tour of Prof. Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus in Switzerland Oct 26-29, 2021

Heilbronner- Hückel Lectures 2021
The Swiss Chemical Society is happy to announce the Heilbronner- Hückel Lectures 2021. In collaboration with the GDCh this series is provided on a yearly basis alternately in Switzerland and Germany.

The 2021 series is given by Professor Dr. Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus from the Universität Bielefeld(Germany)

The series is named after the chemists Edgar Heilbronner, born in Munich in 1921 and passed away in Herrliberg in 2006, and Erich Hückel, born in Berlin 1896 and died in Marburg in 1980.

Edgar Heilbronner emigrated together with his wife to Switzerland because of the Nazi regimes and studied chemistry in Zurich at the ETH where he also habilitated later on. In 1968 we changed to University of Basel.
Erich Hückel studied physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen and habilitated at ETH Zurich as well. 

Past Lecture Tours

Céline Wittwer, SCS
07.10.2021

Preview to CHIMIA 10/2021: Photochemistry

Fiat Lux!
Edwin C. Constable

Photochemistry of Rhenium(I) Diimine Complexes in Biological Applications
Kevin Schindler und Fabio Zobi

Recent Approaches towards the Development of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes for Anticancer Photodynamic Therapy
Albert Gandioso, Kallol Purkait, and Gilles Gasser

Excited-state Dynamics of Radical Ions in Liquids
Jakob Grilja,b, Joseph S. Beckwitha,c and Eric Vauthey

Photophysics and Charge Generation in Low Energy-Offset Blends for Organic Solar Cells
Rishi Shivhare and Natalie Banerji

Spin Photochemistry: Electron Spin Multiplicity as a Tool for Reactivity and Selectivity Control
Axel G. Griesbeck* and Seyma Bozkus

Photoremovable Protecting Groups: Across the Light Spectrum to Near-Infrared Absorbing Photocages
Peter Štackoa*, Tomáš Šolomek

Photolatent Bases: A New Opportunity in Radiation Curing
Kurt Dietliker

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David Lim, Pablo Diaz Kruik, Lucia Robustini, Stefania Gianolio, and Francesca Paradisi

HIGHLIGHTS OF ANALYTICAL SCIENCES IN SWITZERLAND

Vacuum and Headspace - An Efficient and Fast Combination for the Extraction of Volatile Compounds
Pascal Fuchsmann

POLYMER AND COLLOID HIGHLIGHTS

When Photoswitches Meet 3D-printing
Luciano F. Boesela, Sebastian Ulrich, Xiaopu Wang, and Xiao-Hua Qinb

FLOW CHEMISTRY HIGHLIGHTS

Selected Topic: Photochemistry
Agnieszka Ladosz, Benjamin Martin

CHEMICAL EDUCATION

What Goes In Must Come Out: The Story of Uric Acid
Catherine E. Housecroft

A PERSPECTIVE ON CHEMISTRY AND SOCIETY

Society and Chemistry They Are a-Changin'
Nicolai Cramer, Paul J. Dyson

Swiss Women in Chemistry
Maud Reiter, Rachel Hevey, Rebecca Buller

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Review Swiss Chemistry Science Night 2021 - A Celebration of Chemical Research

On September 9, 2021 the first Swiss Chemistry Science Night took place at Casino Bern! More than eighty award winners and invited guests followed the invitation and enjoyed the first real on-site event of the SCS since March 2020. Leslie Fendt, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, and Martin Vollmer, Clariant, guided through the evening as moderators and presented the guests and awardees in dialogue with the SCS president, Alain De Mesmaeker, in a competent and highly entertaining manner. Andrea Gmür, Die Mitte (LU), and Stephan Mumenthaler, director of scienceindustries, opened the evening with their welcome messages before no less than 32 winners for 17 prizes were honored.

The event honored the winners of the 2020 and 2021 Swiss Chemical Society Awards in front of distinguished leaders from industry and academia as well as representatives from politics and was a celebration of discovery and innovation in the chemical sciences. The gala was very much appreciated by the community and provided a networking platform for industry and academic members. 

Some of the award winners gave their award lecture at the online SCS Fall Meeting the following day. 

After six years of service, Alain De Mesmaeker will step down as SCS President at the end of 2021 and was honored for his impact and achievements. Next year Prof. Christian Bochet will take over the mandate and will be the host of the 2^nd Swiss Chemistry Science Night. Also Hans Peter Lüthi was honored for his service of nine years as SCS treasurer. He already handed over the mandate to Maud Reiter in August 2021.

Links

• News message SCS Award Winners 2020 and SCS Industrials Science Award Winners 2020
• News message SCS Award Winners 2021
• SCS Partnership Program
• SCS Fall Meeting 2021

Céline Wittwer, SCS
13.09.2021 

SCS Fall Meeting 2021: Again a successful online event with more than 400 participants

The SCS Fall Meeting 2021, one of the largest annual research conferences was held in Switzerland. For generations of young chemists educated in Switzerland, the Fall Meeting has been a great platform to present their research – often for the first time ever at a major conference - and to be inspired by the people one gets to meet. After a successful event last year, we were using the same platform again for this edition due to the uncertain situation with the ongoing pandemic. For the second time the Fall Meeting took place as an online conference to fulfill the regulations of the government and to facilitate safe exchange of scientific information. 

SCS Fall Meeting 2021
Online Conference
Friday, 10. September 2021, 09:15 – 18:30
fm21.scg.ch

Despite the special circumstances we received about 422 contributions from all over the globe for a talk or poster presentation in one of the 9 parallel sessions:

Analytical Sciences 40
Catalysis Science & Engineering 56
Chemistry and the Environment 31
Computational Chemistry 40
Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry 56
Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology 44
Organic Chemistry 67
Physical Chemistry 44
Polymers, Colloids & Interfaces 44

Instead of displaying a (static) image of a classical poster, we decided to grant the presenters a three-minute slot to showcase their research in the form of a video. These videos were on display for the entire week. For the Commercial Exhibition we also created a virtual room through which the participants could enter and view the online booths of the exhibitors. Interactivity, i.e. the exchange between presenter and viewer, was granted through Gather.Town, a virtual platform where you could move around with your avatar and get in 1:1 interaction with other conference participants, the speakers and exhibitors.

The attendance, in terms of sessions established, was very good. Peak attendance was reached with more than 400 participants. The actual number of participants will be higher (estimated over 500 participants)  as some shared the screen with their research group or institute, . 

Program Highlights:

• Two plenary sessions with lectures of SCS price winners 2021
• Virtual Poster Session during the whole week
• Nine thematic parallel sessions with key note lectures and 15min PhD presentations
• Best oral and best virtual poster presentation award ceremony

Topics of the parallel sessions were

• Analytical Sciences
• Catalysis Science & Engineering
• Computational Chemistry
• Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry
• Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology
• Organic Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry
• Polymers, Colloids & Interfaces
• Chemistry and the Environment 

Céline Wittwer, SCS
13.09.2021