Symposium Site

Key Dates

The scientific activities of the symposium will be held at
TKP Garden City Shinagawa, which is in front of Shinagawa Station in Tokyo. This area has good access to Narita
International Airport (total time: 70~80 min.) and Haneda
Airport (Tokyo International airport) (total time: 15~20 min.).
There are many first-class and affordable hotels in thisarea.

Start of abstract submission
Deadline for abstract submission
Notification of acceptance of papers
ABC-7

Sep. 10, 2012
Nov. 16, 2012
Dec. 14, 2012
May 12-15, 2013

ABC-7

Correspondence
General Secretary, Professor Michikazu HaraMaterials & Structures Laboratory
Tokyo Institute of Technology
E-mail: abc-7@shokubai.org
Phone: +81-45-924-5311
Fax: +81-45-924-5381

Detailed Information
http://www.shokubai.org/abc/

7th International Symposium on
Acid-Base Catalysis
May 12-15, 2013
Tokyo, Japan

Registration
Early-Bird Registration (by February 28, 2013)
Participant
JPY 50,000
Student
JPY 20,000
Regular Registration (by April 20, 2013)
Participant
JPY 55,000
Student
JPY 30,000
On-site Registration
Participant
JPY 60,000
Student
JPY 30,000
Banquet Fee
by April 20, 2013
On-siteAccompanying person(including Banquet Fee)

Call for papers
http://www.shokubai.org/abc/

JPY 5,000
JPY 7,000
JPY 15,000
TOKYO SKYTREEABC-7, Tokyo

Scientific Program

Organizing Committee

The ABC is a successful series of symposia. The 7th ABCwill provide a forum for scientists and engineers from bothacademia and industry to discuss most recent developments and technological opportunities in this vibrant area ofresearch as well as the past ABC symposia, promoting a
global and interdisciplinary approach towards both fundamental science and industrial applications of acid-basecatalysis. We hope many people engaging in the acid-basecatalysis field participate in ABC-7.

The scientific program will consist of plenary and keynote
lectures, and oral and poster presentations.

Chair, Takashi Tatsumi (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
General Secretary, Michikazu Hara (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
Treasurer, Tohru Setoyama (Mitsubishi Chemical Co.)
Program Chair, Naonobu Katada (Tottori Univ.)

Scope
The scope of ABC-7 is to cover the most advanced
research topics in acid-base catalysis. The major topics ofthe symposium will be•Fundamental Science on Acid-Base Catalysis•Novel Applications of Acid-Base Catalysis•Materials for Acid-Base Catalysis•Engineering of Acid-Base Catalysis•Biomass Conversion with Acid-Base catalysis•Acid-Base Catalysis for Green Chemistry

Abstracts
Those who wish to present a paper are requested to submit
an extended abstract (A4 size, 2 pages). The format of theabstracts will be shown on our website in due course.
Selection of papers and the mode of presentation will bedecided by the Organizing Committee, based on theextended abstracts. The abstract (pdf file) in a cameraready form must be received on our website by November
16, 2012. Notice of acceptance will be sent to the authorsby December 14, 2012.

Plenary lecturers:
・Guido Busca (Universita degli Studi di Genova, Italy)"Surface acid and basic sites on aluminas and silicaaluminas"
・Kazuaki Ishihara (Nagoya University, Japan) “Rational
design of supramolecular catalysts based on acid-basecombination chemistry”
・Johannes Lercher (Technische Universitat Munchen,Germany) “Understanding zeolite activity in acid-basecatalyzed reactions - From the gas phase to an aqueousenvironment”
・Unni Olsbye (Oslo University, Norway) "On the acidcatalyzed conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons"
・Bert Weckhuysen (Universitat Utrecht, The Netherlands) “Nanoscale imaging of acidity, porosity andreactivity within molecular sieves”

Keynote lecturers:
・Enrique Iglesia (University of California at Berkeley,USA)・Yuichi Kamiya (Hokkaido University, Japan)
・Naonobu Katada (Tottori University, Japan)
・Shang-Bin Liu (Institute of Atomic and MolecularSciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
・Zhongmin Liu (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,China)
・Barbara Onida (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
・Yong-Ki Park (Korea Research Institute of Chemical
Technology, Korea)
・Benjaram M. Reddy (Indian Institute of Chemical
Technology, India)
・German Sastre (Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica, UPVCSIC, Spain)・Bert F. Sels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

T. Baba (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), K. Ebitani (JAIST), Y. Kamiya(Hokkaido Univ.), Y. Kubota (Yokohama National Univ.), H.
Matsuhashi (Hokkaido Univ. Edu.), S. Sato (Chiba Univ.), T.
Sano (Hiroshima Univ.), T. Tanaka (Kyoto Univ.), H. Tsuneki(Nippon Shokubai Co.,Ltd.)

National Advisory Board
T. Aoki (Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp.), T. Fujikawa (CosmoOil Co., Ltd.), T. Fujita (Mitsui Chemicals Singapore R&DCenter, Pte. Ltd.), T. Fukunaga (Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.),
H. Funabashi (Evonik Industries), S. Hosoda (SumitomoChemical Co., Ltd.), M. Inomata (JGC Corp.), E. Kikuchi(Waseda Univ.), M. Niwa (Tottori Univ.), Y. Okada (ChiyodaCorp.), H. Okazaki (JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp.), K.
Segawa (Sophia Univ.), K. Tsuji (Syowa Denko K.K.), T.
Yashima (Nippon Univ.)

International Advisory Board
C.R. Apesteguía (Argentina), G. Busca (Italy), A. Corma(Spain), R. Davis (USA), K.P. de Jong (The Netherlands),
N. Essayem (France), H. Hattori (Japan), W.F. Hoelderich,(Germany), E. Iglesia (USA), I.I. Ivanova (Rossia), S. David
Jackson (UK), F.C. Jentoft (USA), J.A. Lercher (Germany),
G.R. Meima (The Netherlands), C.J.A. Mota (Brazil), U.
Olsbye (Norway), Y. Ono (Japan), S.-E. Park (Korea), R.
Psaro (Italy), S. Rossini (Italy), S.L. Soled (USA), J.C.
Vedrine (France), B.-Q. Xu (China)

Publication
Selected contributors will be invited to submit a paper toCatalysis Today appearing in a special issue devoted to thesymposium. The manuscripts should be submitted on line
through the website. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed
following a standard procedure and the acceptance will bedecided by the editors.

Kaminarimon Gate, Asakusa Kannon Temple

Kikyo-mon Gate, The Imperial Palace