The 1st Chinese Conference on Hypervalent Iodine was held at Nankai University from March 9th-10th of 2019. This conference was jointly organized by Prof. Gong Chen and Prof. Chi Zhang and sponsored by the SKLEOC. The symposium invited globally well-established chemists in the field of hypervalent iodine chemistry, featuring a total of 29 high-quality lectures.
The event was at the year of the 100
th
anniversary of Nankai University. On the opening ceremony, Prof. Gong Chen showed warm welcome to all the attendees.
The theme of the conference was hypervalent iodine chemistry, in particular the development of novel hypervalent iodine reagents and the discovery of novel reactivities, the application of hypervalent iodine reagents in asymmetric synthesis and natural product synthesis. The conference demonstrated the cutting-edge science of modern hypervalent iodine chemistry. Invited speakers fully exchanged their ideas on the future development of the field.
The conference served to strengthen collaborations among chemists of the hypervalent iodine field. We believe this conference would benefit the future advances of the field in terms of academic achievements as well as industrial utilizations.
On the closing ceremony, Prof. Chi Zhang briefly reviewed the history of hypervalent iodine chemistry in China. He then showed gratitude to all invited speakers of the symposium, the support of the SKLEOC and the college of chemistry. He concluded by looking forward to the 2
nd
Chinese Conference on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry.
