This quantity is predicated at the Lectures offered on the assembly "Chemistry initially of the 3rd Millennium", wh ich used to be 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 was once based in 1987, gathers the main old and prestigious ecu Universities, with the purpose to advertise tasks in either learn and educating and to supply directions for the development and improvement of the college method. German and Italian Universities in the Coimbra workforce suggest each year a subject matter for medical dialogue, which originates a gathering to be held in a German or Italian college. The assembly in Pavia used to be the 5th of the sequence and these of Bologna (1995), Jena (1996), Siena (1997), Heidelberg (1998). each one assembly is targeted on an issue from both humanistic or common sciences and is composed in aseries of lectures awarded via wonderful scientists from the six participanting Universities. For the Pavia assembly, the guidance Committee selected Chemistry because the subject and accumulated researchers with event in just about all fields of chemistry. particularly, through 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 on. different issues have been lined by way of amazing and renown researchers of a number of the fields.