Catal Surv Asia (2011) 15:5867 DOI 10.

1007/s10563-011-9118-8

The Sixth Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT6) and the Fifth Asia Pacic Congress on Catalysis (APCAT5)
Wataru Ueda

Published online: 19 February 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

The sixth Tokyo conference on advanced catalytic science and technology (TOCAT6) and the fth Asia pacic congress on catalysis (APCAT5) were jointly held in Sapporo from 18th to 23rd July, 2010. It was really comfortable weather on these days, which is usual in Sapporo and totally different from other Japanese cites where it was rainy season, because Sapporo is located in northern part of Japan. The weather was comfortable but the conference started by the plenary lecture of Prof. K. Domen with enthusiasm of the participants from whole of the world. The TOCAT and the APCAT have already long histories. The TOCAT started in 1990 and has been held every 4 years in Tokyo. The past ve TOCAT conferences have earned a good reputation as a new series of international conferences on catalysis that has signicantly lled the gap between fundamental research and technology in catalysis. On the other hand, the APCAT started in 1997 and has been held every 3 years in Asia Pacic countries. The past four APCAT events were held in Korea, Australia, China, and Singapore to provide opportunities for researchers from the Asia Pacic region to discuss current developments in catalysis. Although the both have been held independently on basis of their foundation history and under the different scope so far, there have been various proposals for having a conference jointly or even merging in order to facilitate the progress in the catalysis researches in Asia Pacic regions. This seems becoming more important since increasing contribution of researchers in Asia Pacic regions to the catalysis chemistry and technology is now remarkable.
W. Ueda (&) Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, N21-W10, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan e-mail: ueda@cat.hokudai.ac.jp

There are, however, still many divergent opinions on this matter. After all, Catalysis Society of Japan and Asia Pacic Association of Catalysis Societies decided to hold a joint conference just temporary with continuing the concept of the TOCAT and the APCAT; that is, for further stimulating closer ties between academia and industry and for encouraging young researchers in the eld of catalysis. Because of the above situation, the organizing committee for this joint conference selected Sapporo as the venue in place of Tokyo and set the two chairmen system, Prof. Iwamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology) for the APCAT5 and I (Hokkaido University) for the TOCAT6. For organizing this conference we had valuable suggestions from the International and National Advisory Board members of both the TOCAT and the APCAT and from many others. Thanks to the elaborate conference organization by the all committee members, we had more than 800 participants from various countries, which was exactly the number we expected at the planning stage, and naturally many from Asian countries as summarized in Fig. 1. The total presentation numbers was more than 700 with the distribution of the presentation categories as shown in Fig. 2. We think the distribution was nicely balanced between the oral and the poster presentation although we had to decide to introduce the four parallel oral sessions (three sessions in the past TOCAT) since we had the large number of the abstract submissions. By taking this opportunity, on behalf of the Organizing Committee, we thank all the people who attended this conference. We also express our sincere gratitude to all the plenary, the invited lectures, and the other speakers who presented recent prominent progresses on catalysis chemistry and technology, which made a great contribution to the future of catalysis research and developments as well as to the conference.

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UK 11 Singapore 11 USA 13 Australia 20 Thailand 25 France 28 Taiwan 37 China 88 Korea 112 Japan 412
India Italy Sweden Germany Brazil Saudi Arabia Spain Egypt Iran Austria Swiss Serbia Czech Turkey Norway Hungary Philippines Finland

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Others 47
Netherland 6 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2) 3) 4) 5) 6)

4D (three dimensional and dynamic) analysis in conjunction with theoretical methodologies Catalytic process of renewable resources Nano-state catalysts Single site-state catalysts Strong catalytic process improvement as sustainable technology

Total: 819
Fig. 1 Participant numbers and countries

Plenary lecture 8 Poster(RRR) 29 Poster (youth) 154 Poster(industrial) 62 Invited lecture 23 Oral (industrial) 24 Oral (youth) 28 Oral (general) 138

Poster(general) 247

Total: 713
Fig. 2 Presentation numbers

The joint conference was constructed with the plenary session, the industrial, youth and general sessions with the invited lectures, and the poster sessions. The lecture titles of the plenary session, the industrial session, and the youth session are listed in Table 1. The joint conference set the central scope; Innovation driven by catalysis. Catalysis chemistry has been eagerly demanded as a key technology in chemical industries and its target spread widely into other areas. More in many other elds could be driven or done by catalysis. For the realization of sustainable society that balances the economy and the natural environment, catalysis should be one of the main players for this issue. Therefore, the joint conference was hoped to greatly contribute to exchanging new ideas and technologies of catalysis among the participants and also this conference could promote developments of new outstanding catalysts under the scope. We think this was actually happened at this conference. The research topics presented in the conference could be classied roughly into the following six categories: 1) Photocatalytic materials and process

One of the most important sustainable technologies in the eld of catalysis is photocatalysis which has been actively investigated and developed in Japan under the strong and innovative leadership by Prof. Domen who gave a lecture with the title of Toward large-scale solar fuel production using photocatalytic materials as the rst plenary speaker of the conference on 18th Sunday. The lecture convinced us that the stage of practical application of photocatalysis system has come and at the same time he emphasized further development of new photocatalytic materials, which encouraged young participants to engage into challenging researches. Many about photocatalysis were presented in the invited lecture and the oral and the poster presentations. Researches of the second category seems progressing every where in the world. The second plenary lecture entitled Surface science studies in catalysis: mechanism, microkinetics, thermodynamics and materials given by Prof. Campbell of University of Washington was related to this category. His lecture regarding catalytic reaction kinetics was really basic but reminded us that we still need to understand what state of reacting molecules on dynamic catalytic surface is actually controlling reaction rate and also that we must consistently combine theoretical calculations and experimental measurements. The plenary lecturer Prof. Lercher in his talk entitled Hydrocarbon transport, activation and catalytic conversion in conned spaces also pointed out the importance of understanding dynamic elemental reaction steps for designing catalytic materials. Prof. de Jong as an invited speaker presented his beautiful work on electron tomography for 3D characterization of zeolite. Toyota group also as an invited lecture reported a ne research on automotive catalysts using in situ XAFS and in situ TEM. In conjunction with the development of theoretical methodologies like as reported by Prof. Sautet on DFT calculation, 4D research system will have to be advanced more and more. We had many presentations about catalytic biomass conversion and related topics which are categorized into three. For these topics we had ve invited lectures. Probably we did not have enough time to get a solution for Food versus Chemicals debate at the conference period, but there seems a consensus among the participants that second generation feed stocks will be agricultural residues and forest wastes as well as inedible and algal oils and

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60 Table 1 List of the plenary(PL), invited(IL), industrial(IO) and youth(YO) presentation Code PL-01 PL-02 PL-03 Presenter Kazunari Domen Charles T. Campbell Noritaka Mizuno Lecture title Toward large-scale solar fuel production using photocatalytic materials Surface science studies in catalysis: mechanisms, microkinetics, thermodynamics and materials Molecular design of polyoxometalate-based compounds for environmentally-friendly functional group transformations from molecular catalysts to heterogeneous catalysts Hydrocarbon transport, activation and catalytic conversion in conned spaces Recent developments on catalytic applications of nanocrystalline metal oxides Single site catalysis via surface organometallic chemistry: a predictive approach of heterogeneous catalysis FI catalysts: unique olen polymerization catalysis for the formation of value-added olen-based materials Molecular design of catalytic reactions in proteins Electron tomography for 3D characterization of nanostructured catalysts Strong improvements and new needs: a two-way connection in industrial catalysis Recent progress in automotive catalyst Biofuels: unlocking the potential Monomers from oil seeds: new routes to renewable materials Development of novel environmentally benign aerobic oxidation method Nature of active sites and reaction mechanisms in heterogeneous catalysis by metals: a view from rst principle calculations Design of doped-titania photocatalysts: UV and visiblelight photomineralization studies of representative carboxylic acids The advances in petrochemical processes based on zeolite catalyst Comparison of aqueous phase reforming of ethanol, ethylene glycol and glycerol for hydrogen production over supported group 810 metal catalysts A novel acidity scale for solid and liquid acids by P-31 NMR chemical shifts of phosphine oxides Synthesis gas route for catalytic conversion to basic chemicals Morphology-dependent nanocatalysis: metal oxides Synthesis and catalytic applications of exfoliated CNT/metal/clay nanocomposites Heterogeneous organocatalysis in conned space Catalysis chemistry of nano-conned systems Design of (imido)vanadium complex catalysts for olen insertion/metathesis reactions: notable ligand effect for ethylene oligomerization/polymerization Country Japan

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United States of America Japan

PL-04 PL-05 PL-06

Johannes A. Lercher Lakshmi Kantam Mannepalli Jean Marie Basset

Federal Republic of Germany India French Republic

PL-07 PL-08 IL-A01 IL-A02 IL-A03 IL-A04 IL-A05 IL-A06 IL-A07

Terunori Fujita Yoshihito Watanabe Krijn P. de Jong Roberto Buzzoni Hirohito Hirata Joseph Kocal Jean-Luc Dubois Tatsuya Nakano Philippe Sautet

Japan Japan Kingdom of the Netherlands Republic of Italy Japan United States of America French Republic Japan French Republic

IL-B01

Adesoji A. Adesina

Australia

IL-B02 IL-B03

Ling Qu Shuichi Naito

Republic of China (Taiwan) Japan

IL-B04 IL-B05 IL-C01 IL-C02 IL-C03 IL-C04 IL-C05

Shang-Bin Liu Masayuki Otake Wenjie Shen Po L. Yue Sang-Eon Park Xinhe Bao Kotohiro Nomura

Republic of China (Taiwan) Japan Peoples Republic of China Hong Kong Republic of Korea Peoples Republic of China Japan

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The Sixth Tokyo Conference Table 1 continued Code IL-D01 IL-D02 IL-D03 IL-D04 Presenter Keiichi Tomishige Masatake Haruta Hong He Christopher Hardacre Lecture title Catalyst development for the hydrogenolysis of biomass-derived chemicals Oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde and acetic acid by supported gold catalysts Selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3 over iron titanate catalyst Selective hydrogenation of acetylene in ethylene-rich feedstocks over novel Pd Ce/Al2O3 catalysts Preparation and characterization of titanium dioxide produced from Ti-salt occulated sludge in wastewater treatment Chiral phosphoric acids as versatile catalysts for enantioselective carboncarbon bond forming reactions The new energetically efcient process for propylene production by using a reaction of higher olens with methanol Development and commercialisation of a novel methyl methacrylate process Novel palladium-on-carbon catalyst, Pd/C[Ph2S], for chemoselective hydrogenation Development of zeolite hydrocracking catalyst and system for resid hydrodesulfurization unit Understanding the inhibiting effect of aromatic hydrocarbons on the selective catalytic reduction of NOx Catalytic reduction of N2O from sewage sludge incineration Isomerization process of 3,4-diacetoxy-1-butene catalyzed by Pd homogeneous complexes Development of a new syngas production process for utilization of associated gas (AATG Process) Thioresistant catalysts for selective ring opening of gas oil A combined theoreticalexperimental study to understand and improve the performance of the Z-forming metallosilicate catalyst Study of Pt-free anode catalysts for anion exchange membrane fuel cells An efcient synthesis of chiral alcohols via catalytic hydrogen reduction of esters Development of dehydrogenation catalyst for organic chemical hydride for the large amount of hydrogen storage and transportation Accelerate catalyst studies using novel high throughput heat treatment units Selective catalytic reduction of NO by ammonia over Fe2(SO4)3/TiO2 catalyst Unsteady state simulation of monolith TWC Role of the alumina surface properties on the ammonia production during the NOx SCR with ethanol over Ag/Al2O3 catalysts Country Japan Japan Peoples Republic of China United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Republic of Korea

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IL-D05

Ho Kyong Shon

IL-D06

Masahiro Terada

Japan

IO-A01

Tohru Setoyama

Japan

IO-A02

David W Johnson

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Japan Japan United States of America Japan Japan Japan French Republic Japan

IO-A03 IO-A04 IO-A05

Masatoshi Yoshimura Kazuhiro Inamura Dan Hancu

IO-A06 IO-A07 IO-A08 IO-A09 IO-A10

Toichiro Sasaki Masaru Utsunomiya Kota Yokoyama Christophe Geantet Rudy Coquet

IO-A11 IO-A12 IO-A13

Tomokazu Sakamoto Takaji Matsumoto Yoshimi Okada

Japan Japan Japan

IO-A14 IO-A15 IO-A16 IO-A17

Guanghui Zhu Junhua Li Tatsuya Yoshikawa Fabien Can

United States of America Republic of China Japan French Republic

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62 Table 1 continued Code IO-A18 Presenter Hitoshi Saima Lecture title Development of PSA system for the recovery of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide from blast furnace gas in steel works Development of advanced catalysts for CO converter equipped with a CO2 selective membrane New MXDA(m-xylylenediamine) process Effect of zirconium containing MC catalysts on liquid phase oxidation of p-xylene Parallel xed-bed technology in catalysis research. An engineering perspective Inuence of the meso-macroporous ZrO2 TiO2 calcination temperature on the pre-reduced Pd/ZrO2 TiO2 (1/1) performances in chlorobenzene total oxidation High active three-dimensional ordered macroporous potassium-dopped CeZr solid solutions for diesel soot combustion Hydrocarbon production over alumina supportedmolybdenum carbide catalyst In situ reduction of cobalt oxide supported on alumina in an environmental transmission electron microscope The role of ZrO2 in Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts in methanol synthesis Dry reforming of methane over LnFe0.7Ni0.3O3 perovskites and their composites with Gd-doped ceria: inuence of Ln nature Hexaniobate nanoscrolls as building blocks for dyesensitized hydrogen production from water under visible light irradiation Selective hydrogenation of 1,3-butadiene over Pd and Pd3Sn catalysts supported on different phase of alumina Highly active mesoporous NbW oxide solid acid catalyst Promoting effect of metal oxide species on hydrogenolysis of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol to 1,5-pentanediol over Rh/SiO2 Role of promoters in copper chromite catalysts for hydrogenolysis of glycerol Hydrolysis of cellulose by carbon-supported metal catalysts The effect of Ni promoter and chelating reagent for the preparation of highly active Ni-MoS2/g-Al2O3 HDS catalysts Simultaneous monitoring of gas and surface species during NOx storage-reduction by in situ polarizationmodulation infrared reectionabsorption spectroscopy Enhanced CO tolerance of Pt(1.0)-Ru(1.0-y)-Sn(y)/C electrocatalysts prepared by the selective deposition of Sn on the surfaces of Pt and Ru Density functional theory study of sulfur poisoning in solid oxide fuel cells: role of surface subsurface sulfur atoms Country Japan

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IO-A19 IO-A20 IO-A21 IO-A22 IO-A23

Osamu Okada Yonggun Shul Jung Han Ryu Jan C van der Waal Jean Francois Lamonier

Japan Republic of Korea Republic of Korea Kingdom of the Netherlands French Republic

IO-A24

Guizhen Zhang

Republic of China

YO-B01 YO-B02 YO-B03 YO-B04

Dai-Viet N. Vo Roya Dehghan-Niri Heon Jung Leyla Kapokova

Australia Kingdom of Norway Republic of Korea Russian Federation

YO-B05

Kazuhiko Maeda

Japan

YO-B06

Kanda Pattamakomsan

Kingdom of Thailand

YO-B07 YO-B08

Caio Tagusagawa Shuichi Koso

Japan Japan

YO-B09 YO-B10 YO-B11

Rasika B. Mane Tasuku Komanoya Qiang Gao

India Japan United States of America Republic of Italy

YO-B12

Nobutaka Maeda

YO-B13

Jong Suk Yoo

Republic of Korea

YO-B14

Teppei Ogura

Japan

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The Sixth Tokyo Conference Table 1 continued Code YO-C01 Presenter Yuji Kikukawa Lecture title Synthesis of a novel dialuminum-substituted silicotungstate and the diastereoselective cyclization of (?)-citronellal Pinacol-type rearrangement catalyzed by Zr-incorporated SBA-15 Tin ion-exchanged montmorillonite: characterization and solid acid catalysis for cyanation reactions with cyanotrimethylsilane Discovery of copper-free wacker-type oxidation of internal olens using PdCl2DMA catalyst system Design of a molecularly-imprinted Ru catalyst for regio- and shape-selective epoxidation of terminal C=C bond of limonene Inuence of CeO2 morphology on Au nanoparticles for CO oxidation Synthesis of functionalized magnetic nanoparticles with coreshell structure and their application as magnetically recoverable nanocatalysts On the origin of size specic catalysis of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) stabilized Au clusters for aerobic oxidation reactions Preparation of protonated titanate nanotubes and its application as efcient solid acid catalyst Shape-dependent reducibility and catalytic activity of cuprous oxide nanocrystals Sulfonic acid functionalized crystal like mesoporous benzene silica as a remarkable water tolerant catalyst UV Raman spectroscopic studies on zeolite assembly mechanisms Performance of PtSn catalysts supported on Almodied MCM-41 for dehydrogenation of propane combined with selective hydrogen combustion Structural evolution of Mg-M-CO3 (M = Al3?, Fe3?, Ga3?, Mn3?) layered double hydroxides and their performance as high temperature CO2 adsorbents Country Japan

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YO-C02 YO-C03

Shih-Yuan Chen Jiacheng Wang

Republic of China (Taiwan) Japan

YO-C04 YO-C05

Takato Mitsudome Satoshi Muratsugu

Japan Japan

YO-C06 YO-C07

Na Ta Kohsuke Mori

Peoples Republic of China Japan

YO-C08

Hironori Tsunoyama

Japan

YO-C09 YO-C10 YO-C11 YO-C12 YO-C13

Masaaki Kitano Huizhi Bao Nicolas Bion Feng T. Fan In Young Ahn

Japan Peoples Republic of China French Republic Peoples Republic of China Republic of Korea

YO-C14

Qiang Wang

Republic of Singapore

catalytic process developments will have to be promoted year by year. The category four could cover wide range of research targets but the following would be keywords; nano-sized catalytic materials, catalytic materials in conned state, and catalysis in mesoscopic eld. Prof. Mizuno from the University of Tokyo presented his long-term research activity in the eld of polyoxometalate catalyst, which was clearly depicted in his lecture title, Molecular design of polyoxometalate-based compounds for environmentallyfriendly functional group transformation-from molecular catalysts to heterogeneous catalysts-. He clearly demonstrated the high prosperity and prospect of polyoxometalate catalyst in organic synthesis, particularly liquid-phase selective oxidation of organic compounds with hydrogen peroxide. Like as that the discrete structure of polyoxometalate determines the catalysis, catalytic activation of

molecules will be determined by the local structure such as mesoscopic property. Prof. Lercher suggested that this should be taken into account in designing next generation catalysts. The fth plenary lecture, Dr. Kantam, presented in her talk entitled Recent developments on catalytic applications of nano-crystalline metal oxides, a wide variety of catalytic reactions which could be realized by unique catalytic properties based on nanocrystallinity of metal oxides. From the several invited lectures and the other presentation we were convinced that catalysts with extremely high or unique performance will be generated by tuning morphology control of nano-solid and also by introducing connement structure. Even in protein systems which is regard as potent platforms of preparing various articial materials, it was demonstrated in the Prof. Watanabes lecture Molecular design of catalytic reactions in proteins that the formation of nano-metal particles

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Awards of best youth oral presentations YO-B12 Nobutaka Maeda Simultaneous monitoring of gas and surface species during NOx storage-reduction by in situ polarization-modulation infrared reectionabsorption spectroscopy Hexaniobate nanoscrolls as building blocks for dyesensitized hydrogen production from water under visible light irradiation Inuence of CeO2 morphology on Au nanoparticles for CO oxidation The effect of Ni promoter and chelating reagent for the preparation of highly active Ni-MoS2/g-Al2O3 HDS catalysts Sulfonic acid functionalized crystal like mesoporous benzene silica as a remarkable water tolerant catalyst UV Raman spectroscopic studies on zeolite assembly mechanisms In situ observation of formation process of gold nanoparticles by quick XAFS measurement Republic of Italy

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Kazuhiko Maeda

Japan

YO-C06 YO-B11

Na Ta Qiang Gao

Peoples Republic of China United States of America French Republic Peoples Republic of China Japan

YO-C11 YO-C12

Nicolas Bion Feng T. Fan

Awards of best youth poster presentations YP20-109 J. OHYAMA Y. HIGUCHI K. TERAMURA T. SHISHIDO T. TANAKA YP20-117 K. KIMURA H. EINAGA Y. TERAOKA YP20-127 A.K. ADHIKARI K-S. LIN K-C. CHANG M-T. TU W. LU YP20-130 F. GOELTL J. HAFNER YP20-181 S-Y. LEE E. A. PRASETYANTO E-Y. JEONG S-E. PARK YP22-113 Y. T. KIM K-D. JUNG E.D. PARK YP22-124 J. KIM M. CHOI R. RYOO YP22-125 J. LI Y. WEI Y. QI P. TIAN Y. HE X. SUN Z. LIU Very beginning conversion of methanol to olens over zeolites with different structure hydrocarbon pool mechanism or methylation-cracking route Peoples Republic of China Effect of mesoporosity on catalyst longevity in methanol-to-gasoline reactions Republic of Korea Gas-phase dehydration of glycerol into acrolein over ZSM-5 catalysts Republic of Korea Alkane adsorption in protonated and Na-exchanged chabazitecompartin different ways to model van Der Waals interactions Synthesis of melamine- and TCPPPMO and its catalytic behavior on the hydrogen transfer and oxidation reaction Austria Hydrogen adsorption in metal organic frameworks by hydrogen spillover Republic of China (Taiwan) Preparation of highly dispersed platinum catalysts on TiO2 by using polymer protected nanoparticles Japan

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The Sixth Tokyo Conference Table 2 List of the awarded presentations Code YP22-126 Presenter H. YAMAZAKI H. IMAI Y. YOKOI T. TATSUMI J. N. KONDO YP22-131 S. Y. FOO C. K. CHENG T-H. NGUYEN A. A. ADESINA YP22-165 A. TANAKA H. KOMINAMI K. HASHIMOTO YP22-168 J. YANG H. YAN G. MA F. WEN B. MA C. LI Novel visible-light-responding photocatalyst using absorption due to localized surface plasmon resonance: Au/CeO2 Roles of the dual-cocatalyst in the PtPdS/CdS showing exceptional high quantum efciency for photocatalytic hydrogen production Japan CO2 reforming of methane on a CoNi/Al2O3 catalyst system Australia Lecture title In situ FT-IR study on the reactivity of surface methoxy species on zeolite Country Japan

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on the interior surface of proteins can be achieved, which is apparently very informative for realizing real molecular based-tunable technology for nano-material synthesis. Dr. Fujita, Mitsui Chemicals, in his lecture entitled FI Catalysts: Unique Olen Polymerization Catalysis for the Formation of Value-Added Olen-Based Materials introduced us pronounced polymerization catalysts created by new ligand methodology named ligand oriented design concept with electronically exible properties of ligands. This method cultivated not only new polymerization catalysts but also will provide new catalysts system that can afford unique polymer structure and properties. In different angle from that of Dr. Fujita, Prof. Basset in his lecture of Single Site Catalysis via Surface Organometallic Chemistry: A Predictive Approach of Heterogeneous Catalysis proposed the predictable approach of creating heterogeneous catalysts by expanding organometallic chemistry to surface organometallic chemistry on the basis of molecular concept. Organic ligand is keyword in the concept of Dr. Fujita and in Prof. Basset inorganic surface ligand seems to be the concept but single sitestate in the category ve is common for both the catalyst systems. The last one, six, is the category of catalyst development and process development that can maximize energy and materials consumption efciency. Many research achievements that have a potent of replacing the existing catalytic processes or already introduced commercially were

reported. Needless to say, key points of them are the ndings of new catalytic processes and/or new catalysts. For innovation it could be true that these long-term cumulative efforts are indispensable as usual in the catalysis research even though newly advanced research trends as described in the above will promote it greatly. Of course it is practically impossible to summarize all the presentation but the above six classication would be helpful for overlooking the current research movement. We hope that the various reports in the industrial session triggered new and advanced researches and those in the youth session were positive for encouraging young researchers and students. To further encourage them we selected six best oral presentation and 12 best poster presentations from the youth sessions by the program committee and awarded them at the banquet. The awardees and awarded lecture title are listed in Table 2. As shown in the snapshots of the conference, the conference for the opening to the banquet through the excursion run quite smoothly. After stimulate discussion at the lectures and fruitful idea exchange at the poster presentations, many of us enjoyed the excursion to Noboribetu which is one of the most famous hot spring in Hokkaido and Jingiskan party. All the program would leave the participants nice memory of the conference in Sapporo. At the banquet, it was announced that the next conference of APCAT will be held in Taiwan in 2013 and the TOCAT 7 will be in 2014.

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