Before this book went to press; sad news was received of the sudden death, on
November 5, 2006, of Professor Hitoshi Ohtaki.
Professor Dr. H. Ohtaki was one of the founders of the Eurasia series of conferences.
His enormous service to organize this series of conferences have been aimed
to deepen the friendship of chemists in the Eurasia continent, supporting scientific
researches of chemists from other continents. This significant amount of voluntary
work has earned great respect to him in the chemical community around the world.
The contribution to the latest Eurasia conference, 9th Eurasia Conference on
Chemical Sciences was tremendous and the conference proceedings will be an
important memorial action of Hitoshi’s Eurasia initiative.
Therefore, I would like to share this opportunity with you and his friends by
adding tributes and messages in the book.