Congress of the Slovak & Czech Chemical Societies

Milan Drábik

doi:10.1515/ci-2022-0128

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Congress of the Slovak & Czech Chemical Societies

Milan Drábik

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From the journal Chemistry International Volume 44 Issue 1

The 73rd Annual Congress of the Slovak & Czech Chemical Societies, held 6-10 September 2021 in High Tatras, Slovakia, attracted nearly 400 participants who presented and discussed the large scope of topics and achievements of chemistry research in Slovakia and Czech Republic. The program comprised an exclusive plenary lecture by Pavol Čekan on Development of quantitative and multiplex diagnostic technologies and application, and several invited lectures, lectures, and posters.

As an on-going tradition, the organisers were eager to award IUPAC Poster Prizes to the best posters and as before, they proceeded with the challenging task of reviewing and judging all the submissions. The IUPAC Poster Prize is aimed to PhD students and chemists younger than 40 years, thus poster presentations of 107 young colleagues (from among the total number of more than 200 posters) have been monitored and evaluated with the aim to choose two posters and authors to be awarded. Members of the ad-hoc monitoring and evaluating committee have been Jan John, president of Czech Chemical Society, Eva Víglašová, guarantee of the poster sessions of the Congress, Pavol Čekan, and Milan Drábik, chair of Slovak National Committee of IUPAC. After two evenings of viewing posters and discussions with authors, the committee decided to award and present the certificates to:

Klaudia Kvaková, PhD student at Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic: Fluorescent Nanodiamonds Modified With Biocompatible Polymers
Elena Kupcová, university teacher at Department of Chemistry of the Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia: Sample Pre-Treatment and Determination of Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Mixture in Different Types of Matrices

Klaudia Kvaková explains the theme of her research and poster: Sentinel node(s) (SN) mapping became the standard procedure used in cancer diagnostics. However, agents commonly used to map the nodes have several major drawbacks. Fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) are biocompatible materials that exhibit unique optical properties enabling their visualization in biological systems and thus could replace the now commonly used agents. Here we focus on the preparation of FNDs labelled with D-mannose for SN visualisation. It has been also shown that these particles interact specifically with macrophages, which are retained in the lymphatic nodes providing their clear imaging contrast.

Elena Kupcová gives insight into the theme of her research and poster: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are very persistent organic contaminants found not only throughout the whole spectrum of environment such as soil or water, but are also carefully monitored in the food. The poster presents analytical methods applicable to the determination of 18 PAHs in water, soil and meat samples; the data acquired by three extraction methods (Soxhlet extraction, solid-phase extraction, liquid-phase microextraction) and two chromatographic methods (high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with fluorescent and UV detection, gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry) are compared.

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