• Name of the conference: International Conference on Fluorine Chemistry ’09 Kyoto (ICFC’09KYOTO)
• Term: May 20th (Wednesday) – 22nd (Friday), 2009
• Place: Kyoto Terrsa (Kyoto, Japan)
• Number of participants: 216 (overseas 35, domestic 181)
• Invited lectures: 22, general contributions: 88
  Invited speakers: Bruno Ameduri (University of Montpellier, France), Thierry Brigaud (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France), Alan K. Brisdon (University of Manchester, UK), Darryl D. DesMarteau (Clemson University, USA), Alain Demourgues (ICMCB, University of Bordeaux 1, France), Santos Fuestero (University of Valencia, Spain), Veronique Gouverneur (University of Oxford, UK), Henri Groult (CNRS, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, France), Jin-Bo Hu (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China), Nikolai V. Ignatiev (Merck KGaA, Germany), Toshiyuki Itoh (Tottori University, Japan), Krisha Kumar (Tufts University, USA), Young-Seak Lee (Chungnam National University, Korea), Vincent Maisonneuve (University of Maine, France), Giuseppe Resnati (University of Milan, Italy), Norio Shibata (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), Robert G. Syvret (Fluorine Chemistry & Technology, LLC, USA), Tomaž Skapin (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia), Melita Tramšek (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia), Dennis W. Smith, Jr. (Clemson University, USA), John M. Winfield (University of Glasgow, UK), Masamichi Morita (Daikin Industries, Ltd., Japan)
• Budget: 12,990,000 Jpn including 2,500,000 Jpn supported by JSPS

Fluorine compounds are currently used in many fields such as inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, materials science, pharmaceutical science and environmental chemistry as energy materials, polymers, medicines, various kinds of functional materials and so on. The conference was organized for the exchange of new information and discussion on recent progress of fluorine chemistry in the above fields. The conference has been organized every 5 years by JSPS 155th Committee on Fluorine Chemistry, being the fourth one since 1994. The topics of the conference are (1) New Reactions and New Materials, (2) New Functions and Structures, (3) Bioactive Substances, (4) Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and (5) Environment and Recycle Technology.

Registration started in the afternoon of 20th of May, 2009, followed by welcome reception in the restaurant in Kyoto Terrsa. On 21st of May, 11 invited lectures were delivered in the oral session (one paper was cancelled due to influenza). The 88 general contributions were presented in the poster session in the late afternoon on the same day. On 22nd of May, more 11 invited lectures were presented in the oral session (one paper was cancelled due to influenza). Banquet was held in Kyoto Century Hotel in the evening of 22nd of May.

In the conference, recent progresses and new aspects of fluorine chemistry were presented and discussed. New topics giving a strong impression to audience are “syntheses and functions of new inorganic catalysts”, “new fluoro-polymers for lithium ion batteries and fuel cells”, “application of fluorine isotope to life science”, “syntheses of new fluorine-containing sensors”, “syntheses and applications of new ionic liquids” and so on. Abstract books containing the invited and general papers were delivered to all participants and invited lectures were published as review articles in a special issue of Journal of Fluorine Chemistry by Elsevier in December of 2009.

Invited lecture		Poster session
Banquet

It was found from the conference that the role of fluorine chemistry is rapidly increasing in many fields, particularly in energy, environment, life science etc. Fluorine forms strong chemical bonds with other elements, yielding many stable compounds with various functions. Applications utilizing fluorine compounds would increase more and more in a near future in many fields. Contribution of the 155th Committee on Fluorine Chemistry is quite important to the progress and spread of fundamentals and applications of fluorine chemistry and technology.

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