Beijing (formerly romanized as Peking) is the capital city of China. The weather in late August is usually quite pleasant. Combining both modern and traditional architectures, Beijing is one of the oldest cities in the world, with a rich history tracing back three millennia. With mountains surrounding the inland city on three sides, in addition to the old inner and outer city walls, Beijing was a perfect location for the imperial capital and has served as the political headquarter of the country for most of the past eight centuries.

The city is renowned for its famous scenic spots, including many temples, gardens, walls, and gates. It has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites – the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, the Ming Tombs, Zhoukoudian, parts of the Great Wall, and the Grand Canal – all are popular locations for tourism. With many of the top universities, research institutes, and high-tech enterprises, Beijing is also renowned for higher education, scientific research, and innovation.

The site proposed for the conference is the Friendship Hotel of Beijing, which is one of the largest garden-style hotels in Asia. Located in the heart of Zhongguancun High-Tech Zone, the Friendship Hotel neighbors many world famous tourist sites (such as Yuanmingyuan Park and the Summer Palace) and universities (such as Tsinghua University and Peking University). Conferences and banquets from 10 up to 800 people can be well accommodated in the Hotel, with large modern auditoriums for plenary lectures, small lecture halls for parallel sessions, and plenty of space for poster presentations, exhibitions, and coffee breaks.

The Chinese physical organic chemistry community is truly committed to organizing a successful ICPOC26 in Beijing. Hence, a national organizing committee, embracing representatives of the major universities and research institutes in China that are active in physical organic chemistry research, will oversee the organization of the conference, assisted by a local organizing committee. The conference program will be developed by the conference committees. Through this committee, we aim to increase the domestic and international impact of ICPOC26, maximizing its visibility to the physical organic chemistry community. The number of ICPOC26 attendees is expected to be 400-500.

lan Williams (Chair), University of Bath, UK
Manabu Abe, University of Hiroshima, Japan
lgor Alabugin, Florida State University, USA
Mark Cesa, IUPAC, USA
Jin-Pei Cheng, Tsinghua University, China
Maria Cristiano, University of Algarve, Portugal
Jason Harper, University of New South Wales, Australia
Eduardo Humeres, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Hans-Ullrich Siehl, University of Ulm, Germany
lvo Leito, University of Tartu, Estonia
Miroslav Ludwig, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Heidi Muchall, Concordia University, Canada
Henrik Ottosson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Charles Perrin, University of California San Diego, USA
Pietro Tundo, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Einar Uggerud, University of Oslo, Norway
Raghavan Sunoj, Indian Institute of Technology, India.
AnnMarie O'Donoghue, Durham University, UK

Aiwen Lei (Wuhan University)
Chunming Cui (Nankai University)
Hai-Bo Yang (East China Normal University)
Kuiling Ding (Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS)
Lei Liu (Tsinghua University)
Li-Zhu Wu (Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS)
Qing-Hua Fan (Institute of Chemistry, CAS)
Sanzhong Luo (Tsinghua University)
Wei Wang (Lanzhou University)
Wei-Hai Fang (Beijing Normal University)
Wen-Jing Xiao (Central China Normal University)
Xiaoming Feng (Sichuan University)
Yao Fu (University of Science and Technology of China)
Yu Liu (Nankai University)
Yuanjiang Pan (Zhejiang University)
Yun-Dong Wu (Peking University)
Zhanting Li (Fudan University)
Zhenfeng Xi (Peking University)

Jin-Pei Cheng (Chair, Tsinghua University)
Sanzhong Luo (Co-chair, Tsinghua University)
Mingtian Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Lei Jiao (Tsinghua University)
Qiang Liu (Tsinghua University)
Bijie Li (Tsinghua University)
Xingwei Guo (Tsinghua University)
Jie Yang (Tsinghua University)

Address：Mong Man Wai Building of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Phone：+86-10-6278-7136

Email：icpoc26@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn