On behalf of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) and the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the 2012 Fall Meeting. After hosting the event in 2010 for the first time, the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences of ETH Zürich is looking forward to welcome you again at the Science City (Hönggerberg) Campus.

The Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting is the largest annual scientific congress organized in Switzerland. Last year, more than 500 scientific contributions were presented at the 2011 Fall Meeting held at the EPF in Lausanne. This event offers a unique opportunity for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and senior scientists from both, academia and industry, to share and exchange the results of their research. It also allows chemists to exchange ideas, often creating the seeds for new projects and collaborations.

We invite you to submit scientific contributions in the fields of Analytical Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Inorganic and Coordination Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry as well as Polymers and Colloids.

This year, for the first time, we will have a session on Catalysis Science and Engineering. The session will offer a platform for research in catalysis in all its forms and expressions (homo-, hetero-, bio-, electro-), aiming at promoting trans-disciplinary approaches for the design of new generations of catalytic processes. For more details see Scientific Program.

The abstracts of both the oral and of the poster presentations will be published in CHIMIA, the journal of the Swiss Chemical Society. As in past meetings, the best poster and oral presentations in each session will be awarded a prize. There will also be commercial exhibitors presenting their products and services.

We hope that this opportunity to present and discuss science will interest you, and we welcome your participation, making the 2012 Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society a success. We look forward to seeing you in Zürich!

Organic synthesis reaching the length-scale of biology: A gian cylindrical polymer "embracing" a single tobacco mosaic virus or lying on top of an ordered arry of viruses. AFM height and phase contrast images. Credit: A. Dieter Schlüter Group, ETH Zürich. Image: Courtesy of Wiley-VCH