XX Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry

A comprehensive report on the XX Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry is presented. The most interesting reports are considered, among them are: presentation of Nobel Prize winner Professor D. Shechtman on quasi-periodical crystals; report of Professor S. Dmitriev about completing Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of chemical elements with super heavy elements (atomic numbers 113–118); lecture of then RAS President Academician V. Fortov on the behavior of chemical elements under extremal conditions of superhigh pressures where materials basically change their properties; presentation of Professor K. Ganesha on a new generation of peptide nucleic acids analogs capable of selectively binding DNA or RNA molecules; the combined report of Academicians O. Chupakhin and V. Charushin on the intensive entry of the nucleophilic functionalization of C–H bonds into the theory and practice of organic synthesis, and others. Possibilities of cooperation of fundamental science and leading industrial companies are discussed. Significant attention is given to the modern chemical education as well.