This quantity relies at the Lectures offered on the assembly "Chemistry at the start of the 3rd Millennium", wh ich was once held in Pavia, Italy, throughout the interval 7-10 October, 1999. The assembly concerned the participation of scientists from German and ltalian Universities of the 'Coimbra Group'. The 'Coimbra Group', wh ich used to be based in 1987, gathers the main old and prestigious eu Universities, with the purpose to advertise tasks in either study and educating and to supply guidance for the development and improvement of the collage process. German and Italian Universities in the Coimbra team suggest each year a topic for clinical dialogue, which originates a gathering to be held in a German or Italian college. The assembly in Pavia was once the 5th of the sequence and these of Bologna (1995), Jena (1996), Siena (1997), Heidelberg (1998). each one assembly is targeted on a subject matter from both humanistic or typical sciences and is composed in aseries of lectures offered by way of extraordinary scientists from the six participanting Universities. For the Pavia assembly, the steerage Committee selected Chemistry because the subject and amassed researchers with adventure in just about all fields of chemistry. specifically, in the course of the assembly, lectures have been awarded on many updated matters of chemistry, together with: fabrics technology, superconductors, supramolecular chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, fullerenes, liquid crystals, photoinduced electron move, and so forth. the various subject matters have been lined by means of wonderful and renown researchers of many of the fields.