Vol. 43 (2014): Bulletin of the Chemists and Technologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Congress of Chemists and Chemical Engineers of Bosnia and Herzegovina with International participation, organized by Society of Chemists and Technologists of Canton Sarajevo and the Faculty of Science in Sarajevo was held on October 10th-12th, 2014 in Sarajevo. There were approximately 160 delegates from academic, government and industrial environments in attendance, five invited speakers and close to 140 posters presented at this event.
The main objectives of the meeting were to foster and increase communication between scientists in academia and industry, to present emerging areas of research and to initiate new regional research collaborations. The scientific program can be viewed at http://www.pmf.unsa.ba/hemija/glasnik/index.php/current-issue
Plenary speaker, Dr. Marina Cindric from University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia presented a talk on Solvent-induced transformations in feromagnetically coupled (Ni4L4) clusters. She focused on research showing synthetic procedures, interconversion scenarios of reabsorption and exchanging solvent molecules, structural and magnetic studies of a new family of Ni(II) compounds based on cubane–like clusters.
Next plenary speaker was Dr. Miloš Mladen from University of Split, Croatia. His speech focused on Investigation of antioxidative and cell signaling properties of bioactive compounds from aromatic herbs. Different methods of the isolation, fractionation and identification of chemical compounds and testing of their biological activity such as antioxidant effect and inhibition of the enzyme activity of the selected enzyme were presented.
Dr. Jaćimović Željko from University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro presented talk titled “Complexes of transition metals with pyrazole derived ligands: synthesis, physico-chemical characterization and potential application” He pointed out the importance of metal complexes with pyrazolone ligands that can act as a potential anticancer agents. The second selected group of compounds was investigated in relation to the potential biological activity (fungicidal activity) on pathogenic fungi Phomopsis viticola Sacc, which is the cause of leaf spot disease of grapevine and Botryosphaeria dothidea that causes fruit rot of olives.
Plenary lecture titled Conducting polymers and their applications was presented by Dr. Toparre Levent from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey/ He presented his research o conducting polymer based electrochromic devices, solar cells, organic light emitting diodes and biosensors. Also, recent developments in The Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications, METU on the OPVs and OLEDs were discussed.
Dr. Bates W. Roderick from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore talked about Catalysis: "Awakening Affinities" for Organic Synthesis . He presented catalytic methods using a wide variety of metals to achieve mild and selective bond formation. This includes palladium, rhodium, osmium, iridium, platinum, silver and gold. In addition, methods using Lewis acidic main group metal catalysts are describe in his talk. Aselection of catalytic reactions and their applications were presented.
At the end, Congress of Chemists and Chemical Engineers of Bosnia and Herzegovina with International participation truly achieved set goals. Our next meeting, we hope, will be even better ad bigger with participants all over the world discussing ideas and new research.
