MS in Hand Jul 1^st, 2011: 138. Received 65; Published 15; Rejected 68. In Hand End of Jul 120;
Manuscripts in Hand Jan 1^st, 2011: 178; Received 571; Published 141; Rejected 488.

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The 12th Annual Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Conference (FloHet-12) took place at the University of Florida in Gainesville, March 6-9. There were 11 plenary lectures, 50 invited lectures, 50 posters, 3 courses, and an exposition that attracted 12 exhibitors.

We are most grateful for the generous support of our sponsors, exhibitors, and advertisers – AlfaAesar, BioTools, Elsevier, Georg Thieme Verlag KG, IUPAC, MolCode, Oakwood Products, Royal Society of Chemistry, SigmaAldrich, Strem, Synthonix, The Alachua County Visitors and Convention Bureau, and Wiley.

The next Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Conference, FloHet 2012, will take place at the University of Florida, Gainesville, March 4-7, 2012. Plenary lecturers will include, Phil Baran; Ian Baxendale; Pat Confalone; Laurence Harwood; Oliver Kappe; David Kingston; Herbert Mayr; Eckhard Ottow; Andreas Pfaltz; Brian Stoltz; and Peter Wuts.

XIVth Conference on Heterocycles in Bio-organic Chemistry
Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
September 4 – 8, 2011
Information and registration: http://bioheterocycles.chemi.muni.cz

Summer school on ‘Homogeneous Catalysis and Fine Chemicals’ the University of Antwerp from September 12th to September 14th 2011. Organized in the framework of the Scientific Research Community (FWO WOG) "Heterocyclic Synthesis in Medicinal and Supramolecular Chemistry", sponsored by the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders. More information on the summer school can be found on the following website: http://aether.cmi.ua.ac.be/catalysis/

2nd International Conference on Organic Chemistry: "Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry" Tbilisi, Georgia, September 25-27, 2011
The conference will comprise plenary lectures (invited), selected oral presentations and a poster session dealing with any aspect of organic chemistry with emphasis on heterocyclic chemistry. Abstracts for oral presentations or posters should be submitted by July 30, 2011. For further details please go to http://chemistry.ge/conference/geohet-2011/index.php

11th Latin-American Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry
November 20 – 24, 2011, Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Organized by Sociedad Quimica de Mexico, A.C.
For further information: recepiontrabajosclafqo11@relaq.mx

The 1st Conference on Science Diplomacy and Developments in Chemistry
Alexandria - Egypt
Organized by Alexandria University and Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Chairman of the conference - Prof. El Sayed El Ashry
Conference e-mail: eelashry60@gmail.com
POSTPONED UNTIL NOVEMBER 24-26,2012

For details of opportunities on web site, or in Arkivoc, this newsletter, or our conference manual, contact Eric Scriven - Efvs1@aol.com.

We welcome Professors Asiri, Abdulrahman O. Al-Youbi, and Mohamad S. I. T. Makki (Saudi Arabia) to the Control Board as partner representatives; and Professor Beckert (Germany) as a referee assigner.