Chem.02 4-7 March 2002
 The venue for the Conference was the University of Cairo and the scientific program would take place during the period from March 4 to March 7, 2002. The scientific program was organized by a group of the Chemistry and Astronomy departments, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. The major branches of chemistry, physical, organic, inorganic and analytical are being dealt with throughout the conference. The Chem. 02 meeting was attended by 201 participants with 19 guests from at least 15 different countries and nationalities. The scientific program consisted of 43 invited talks, 58 oral contributions on hot topics in different branches of chemistry, in addition to 76 contributed poster papers. novel feature of the meeting was the presentation of 4 tutorials on: Chirality in Organic Chemistry by Prof. H. Duddeck and Prof. E Winterfeldt, Nanoparticles and Clusters by Prof. M.S. El-Shall, Molecular Biology Revolution, Facts and Fiction by Prof. Said Goda and Introduction to Chemometrics by Prof. Kurt Varmuza. In addition, there were two workshops: one on NMR techniques by Prof. Yehia A. Eibrahim and the other workshop is on Thermal analysis and mass spectrometry by Prof. M.A. Zayed and Prof. G.W. Hohne.
The objectives of the conferences were:
 1. Recognizing the extent of the environmental pollution in order to suggest scientific and practical solutions.

2. Gathering distinguished scientists from Egypt and abroad to review the achievements and prospective in each and every branch of chemistry.

3. Forming integrated teams of Egyptian and foreign scientists to suggest and conduct research projects of national and international interest aiming to put our department align with the research plans in the world.

4. For the first time, Astrochemistry is integrated into a chemistry conference. Two sessions are dedicated to field of “chemistry in Space” in cooperation with scientists from NASA (USA), Italy and Japan. Two workshops will be held during the conference in the fields of Thermal analysis and NMR spectroscopy to allow young scientists and research associates to follow recent trends and technology in these fields.