Cristiano, Maria De Lurdes2020-03-032020-03-0320200033-4545http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/13558The IUPAC sponsored biennial Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC) series bear a long history and a solid reputation as the leading international gatherings on Physical Organic Chemistry. Since their first installment in Crans sur Sierre (Switzerland) in 1972, ICPOC meetings have been held in Noordwijkerhout (The Netherlands, 1974), Montpellier (France, 1976), York (UK, 1978), Santa Cruz (USA, 1980) Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium, 1982), Auckland (New Zealand, 1984); Tokyo (Japan, 1986), Regensburg (Germany, 1988), Haifa (Israel, 1990), Padua (Italy, 1994), Incheon (Korea, 1996), Florianopolis (Brazil, 1998), Göteborg (Sweden, 2000), San Diego (USA, 2002), Shanghai (China, 2004), Warsaw (Poland, 2006), Santiago de Compostela (Spain, 2008), Busan (Korea, 2010), Durham (UK, 2012), Ottawa (Canada, 2014), Sidney (Australia, 2016). The 24st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 24) was held at the University of Algarve, in Faro, Portugal, July 1–6, 2018.engICPOC-24Mechanisms and catalysisPhysical foundations of organic reactivitySupramolecular and systems chemistryjournal articlehttps://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-1014