EuChemS Division of Organometallic Chemistry

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Mission statement

Being an active, trusted, and sustainable voice of EuChemS on any matters relating to the large and interdisciplinary field of fundamental and applied organometallic chemistry, providing and coordinating activities such as congresses, schools and workshops of interest for students, researchers and others interested in or actively employing organometallic chemistry

Division History

Following the founding of the Federation of European Chemical Societies in 1970, it was decided to establish a Working Party on Organometallic Chemistry at the General Assembly in 1972.

The Polish Chemical Society organized the inaugural meeting which was held in April 1974 in Nieborów in Poland. This first group represented 11 Societies from 10 countries (names of delegates in parentheses): Austria (K. Schlögl), Belgium (M. Gielen), Czechoslovakia (V. Chvalovský), Federal Republic of Germany (H. Lehmkuhl), France (J. Tirouflet and J. Deschamps), Ireland (D. A. Brown), Italy (G. Costa), Poland (S. Pasynkiewicz), Sweden (M. Nilsson), Switzerland (L. Venanzi). Two additional Societies were represented by observers: The Netherlands (J. G. Noltes) and United Kingdom (E. Abel, K. Wade).

Professor Stanislav Pasynkiewicz was elected as the Chaiman.

The 1st European Conference on Organometallic Chemistry was held in September 1976 in Jabłonna near Warsaw, Poland.

The Working Party has published six editions of the booklet “Organometallic Research Centres in Europe”. The printing of the first four editions was financed by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker. The last edition was published in 1995.

Notes based on the recollections and records of Prof. Antoni Pietrzykowski (second secretary of the Working Party) and Prof. Jan Čermák (former president of the Division).

Former Chairs

Stanislav Pasynkiewicz	April 1974 – September 2001 (since 2001 Honorary Chairman)
Peter Kündig	September 2001 – September 2007
Helena Grennberg	September 2007 – September 2014
Jan Čermák	September 2014 – November 2020
Martin Albrecht	November 2020 –

Division Board (2021-2023)

Chair		Martin Albrecht Departement für Chemie, Biochemie und Pharmazie, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Secretary		Beatriz Royo ITBQ, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Treasurer		Montserrat Diéguez inNCAT, Facultat de Química, Universitata Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Website-Editor		Rinaldo Poli Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France

Delegates

Ana C. Albéniz Centro de Innovación en Química y Materiales Avanzados Universidad de Valladolid		Real Sociedad Española de Química
Martin Albrecht Departement für Chemie & Biochemie Universität Bern		Société Suisse de Chemie – Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft
Jan Čermák Department of Bioorganic Compounds and Nanocomposites Czech Academy of Sciences		Česká společnost chemická
Montserrat Diéguez Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica Universitat Rovira i Virgili.		Societat Catalana de Química
Vladimir Dimitrov (Observer) Institute of Organic Chemistry, Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences		Съюз на химиците в България
Kees Elsevier Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences University of Amsterdam		Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging
Helena Grennberg Department of Chemistry Uppsala University		Svenska Kemisamfundet
Marko Hapke Institute of Catalysis Johannes Kepler University Linz		Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker
Vidar Jensen Department of Chemistry University of Bergen		Norsk Kjemisk Selskap
Janusz Lewinski Faculty of Chemistry Warsaw University of Technology		Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne
Alceo Macchioni Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie Università di Perugia		Società Chimica Italiana
Uno Mäeorg Institute of Chemistry University of Tartu		Eesti Keemiaselts
David Milstein Department of Organic Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science		האגודה הכימית בישראל
Steven Nolan Department of Chemistry Ghent University		Koninklijke Vlaamse Chemische Vereniging
Jun Okuda Institute of Inorganic Chemistry RWTH Aachen University		Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
Stanislav Pasynkiewicz (Honorary Chair) Faculty of Chemistry Warsaw University of Technology
Rinaldo Poli Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS Toulouse		Societé Chimique de France
Martin Putala Faculty of Natural Sciences Comenius University, Bratislava		Slovenská chemická spoločnosť
Gerasimos Rassias Department of Chemistry University of Patras		Ένωση Ελλήνων Χημικών
Timo Repo Department of Chemistry University of Helsinki		Suomalaisten Kemistien Seura
Beatriz Royo Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier Universidade Nova de Lisboa		Sociedade Portuguesa de Química
Elena Shubina A.N.Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compound Russian Academy of Sciences		Российское химическое общество им. Д.И. Менделеева
Cristian Silvestru Department of Chemistry Babes-Bolyai University		Societatea de Chimie din Romania
Rita Skoda Földes Institute of Chemistry University of Pannonia		Magyar Kémikusok Egyesülete
Troels Skrydstrup Department of Chemistry University of Aarhus		Kemisk Forening
Allan J. B. Watson School of Chemistry University of St. Andrews		Royal Society of Chemistry
Vacant		Türkiye Kimya Dernegi