2nd International Collaborative and Cooperative Chemistry Symposium

Abstract

The last time I wrote a foreword was on the occasion of the University of Queensland (UQ)–National University of Singapore (NUS) joint symposium (SAuCCCS-2) held at UQ in December 2008. It is with immense pleasure, through this month’s special issue of the Australian Journal of Chemistry, that I herein provide an update on the evolution that this event has undergone in the last four years and thank Professor Curt Wentrup for the enjoyable task of broadcasting this resulting research front. The historical beginnings of the UQ Chemistry relationship with our Asian partners formed over five years ago through a wonderful leadership initiative taken by NUS to strengthen regional cooperation in the discipline of chemistry. This initiative, driven under the guidance of Professor Andy Hor, was commemorated with the Singapore-Australia Chemistry Symposium held at NUS in 2006, which was followed in 2008 by a UQ-NUS Chemistry meeting (SAuCCCS-2), held on the St Lucia campus. In November 2010, UQChemistry was invited to participate in the two-day inaugural International Collaborative and Cooperative Chemistry Symposium (ICCCS), led by Professor Guo Qin Xu and Professor Hian Kee Lee, which brought together leading universities from the Asia-Oceania region: NUS; University of Hyderabad; Seoul National University; Zhejiang University; Kyoto University; Indian Institute of