On May 19-21, 2010, BIT's 1 st Annual World Congress of Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis-2010 was held successfully in Beijing, China.

As the keynote speakers, Dr. David Berkowitz, Professor, University of Nebraska, USA; Dr. Jos Brands, St. Director, Merck Research Laboratories, USA; Dr. Qi-Lin Zhou, Professor, Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, China; Dr. Xumu Zhang, Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Rutgers University, USA made excellent presentations and warmly discussed with the audiences at keynote forum.

Totally, there were more than 300 participants from more than 28 countries and areas have attended the WCCAS-2010. Participants from academic, industrial professionals and key-decision makers delivered the new achievement on their research, together discussed and analysis the development. The separate session covered Novel Technologies for Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis ; Organometallic Chiral Catalysts in Asymmetric Transformations; Enantioselective/ Diastereoselective Organocatalysis ; Applications of Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis; Biocatalysis for Asymmetric Transformations…

WCCAS-2010 greatly contributed to the promotion of new concepts for the development of efficient methodologies for catalytic asymmetric synthesis and its practical applications. The topics reflected and placed emphasis on aspects that are common to all areas of catalytic asymmetric synthesis.

Depending on the warmly support and good suggestions from all of the participants, we are confident in organizing WCCAS-2011 which would be better and more successful than WCCAS-2010.