The EOC Symposium is an annual event for international scientific exchange held by The State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry (SKLEOC) at Nankai University. The EOC Symposium aims to provide a high-level forum to learn expert opinions on the frontier topics of organic chemistry, discuss both fundamental and applicable aspects of new organic research, and foster collaborations among the speakers, guests and our own faculty members at Nankai.

The 1^st EOC symposium was held in 2014 with the topic on the first row transition metals, main group and rare-earth compounds. The 2^nd Symposium was focused on natural product synthesis. The 3^rd Symposium was focused on Transition Metal Catalysis For Organic Synthesis. The 4^th Symposium was focused on Asymmetric Synthesis: the Methods and Applications. The 5^th Symposium is focused on Organic Functional Materials and Electronics: Synthesis and Devices. This year’s topic is “Elemento-organic Compounds: Synthesis and Applications”

We are very pleased to have eight keynote lectures by the distinguished speakers, twenty invited lectures by the outstanding young professors from various universities and research institutes around the world, and thirty posters from Nankai’s research groups at this year’s EOC Symposium.