<bold><color><param>FFFF,0000,0000</param>ECHET98: Electronic Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry. </color></bold>An Electronic conference for discussing Heterocyclic Chemistry will be held from 29 June - 24 July 1998, Both the World-Wide Web and electronic mail will serve as delivery mechanisms. The meeting is organized by the International Society for Heterocyclic Chemistry and supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry Perkin Division Heterocyclic Group. The latter two groups normally organize an international conference every two years. In 1996, it was decided to sponsor an electronic conference in the alternate year between face-to-face meetings, following the success of the ECTOC (Electronic Trends in Organic Chemistry) conferences in previous years. We suspect you will find this format both chemically compelling and surprisingly easy to use. Perhaps, collaborations that result from participating in ECHET98 can be followed up at the face-to-face 1999 meeting! With the exception that reported work is expected to have some relationship to heterocyclic chemistry, no limitations are placed on the scientific content of accepted papers. Special emphasis will be given to the following areas: (i) new synthetic methodology; ii) target-oriented synthesis; (iii) biologically active heterocycles; and (iv) computational heterocyclic chemistry. In a continuation of the ECTOC spirit, a "best-poster" prize will be awarded. Please encourage graduate students and all co-workers to contribute to this conference in order to make it a success we can build on. Keynote Plenary Contributions will include work from the following Research Groups: Hannes Froehlich (Vienna) Shuji Kanemasa (Kasuga) Alan Katritzky (Gainesville) Yasuyuki Kita (Osaka) Peter Kuendig (Geneva) Al Padwa (Atlanta) Will Pearson (Ann Arbor) Ron Warrener (Rockhampton) ECHET98 will continue the innovative style introduced with ECHET96 in offering a low cost and near-instant mechanism for discussing chemistry, with features such as full color structure diagrams, "clickable" or editable reaction schemes, rotatable 3D molecular images, index searches of conference proceedings, contributed discussions by participants, a conference "molecular hyperglossary", up to date access statistics for articles, and a prize for the "best poster". We are inviting you to consider contributing an article or poster to this event. The deadline for submitting an abstract is May 15th 1998. Further details can be obtained using any of the following procedures; 1. Connecting to the following World-Wide Web location; http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ectoc/echet98/ 2. Subscribing to the electronic mail list by mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk (ie sending a mail to majordomo@ic.ac.uk) the single line message (no signatures please); subscribe echet98 During the conference period of 29 June to 24 July 1998, postings to this forum will primarily involve dialog around the papers (Q's, A's, comments). Outside the conference period, we expect postings to be restricted to information about the event only. Discussion will be by e-mail (we find this works best across a range of time zones) by posting messages to echet98@ic.ac.uk At the end of the conference, we anticipate a CD-ROM will be produced that incorporates articles and posters, electronic discussions around them and other useful materials. We invite you to take part either as a presenter or a socractic participant in this new and evolving format. In either case, we look forward to having you join us on this "off-year" Heterocyclic Conference. Henry Rzepa; C. Oliver Kappe; Chris Moody Executive Committee of ECHET98 chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)