Announce­ment

The 21^st Con­fer­ence on the Catal­y­sis of Organ­ic Reac­tions will be held April 2–6, 2006 in Orlan­do, Flori­da. The meet­ing will fea­ture oral and poster pre­sen­ta­tions involv­ing the appli­ca­tion of homo­ge­neous and het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts in the syn­the­sis of organ­ic com­pounds. Paul N. Rylan­der Awards will be pre­sent­ed to Prof. Jean-Marie Bas­set, CNRS, and Prof. Gadi Rothen­berg, Uni­ver­si­ty of Ams­ter­dam. The Mur­ray Raney Award will be pre­sent­ed to Prof. Isamu Yamauchi, Uni­ver­si­ty of Osa­ka. The dead­line for pre-reg­is­tra­tion is Feb­ru­ary 28, 2006. Online reg­is­tra­tion will be avail­able at ORCS​.org. Con­tact Stephen R. Schmidt, W.R. Grace & Co., or 410–531-4040 for fur­ther infor­ma­tion.