By Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir (auth.), Professor Georges Van Binst (eds.)

A subject for a Solvay convention could be basic adequate to comply with the good culture of past meetings. nevertheless it's going to no longer be so extensive that it will possibly no longer be lined throughout the constrained time of the convention. After dialogue of numerous such issues, "Design and Synthesis of natural Molecules in response to Molecular acceptance" was once selected. based on Albert Einstein we are living in an period of excellent tools and pressured goals. for instance in natural chemistry the recognized artificial tools let us arrange an astronomical variety of compounds; the distance among the potential and the suitable turns into greater each day. After discovery and category of the most sorts of reactions, the learn of the selectivity of reactions turns into of paramount significance. you can examine rather a lot from Nature, which makes use of molecular attractiveness to accomplish selec­ tivity in a level to date unimaginable via mere mortals. to investigate the structural positive factors utilized by means of Nature, to complete excessive molecular recog­ nition, and to simulate those good points through synthesis have lately develop into for that reason favourite occupations of chemists. the aim of this convention used to be to collect teams, the analysts and the syntheticists, to debate the current prestige of the information. This monograph comprises the chairman's advent within which he has summarized the details at factor and the contributions of the well known scientists who participated. The organizers wish that it'll stimulate extra examine during this attention-grabbing field.