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abstract: Main topics dealing with experiment, theory and applications will be on Boron clusters, Organic compounds with boron, materials incorporating boron, organic compounds with boron functional groups, and applications of molecules and materials incorporating boron. We encourage interested scientists to express their views to make this symposium really valuable. Suggestions will be very welcome. As a novelty in IMEBORON XIII we would like to introduce a panel discussion on a selected topic that would be voted by registered participants. We also have introduced IMEBORON YOUTH, and FLASH POSTER presentations.

abstract: Although the number of the participants in the three subsequent editions remained almost constant (about 40 researchers coming from different countries) the high quality of the lectures and the active participation of all the members to informal and actual discussions have greatly contributed to the success of each meeting and to the thick network of collaborations among the groups. In the HALCHEM meetings all the groups have obtained enough time to show their main interests and all the topics regarding the chemistry of the halogens (such as synthetic and theoretical aspects, spectroscopy, metal powder activation by CT adducts, supramolecular chemistry, hypervalent halogen compounds, …) has been welcome. Hypervalence was the reason to introduce other elements besides the most traditional halogens, consequently, the subject of the congress was extended to other molecules incorporating main group elements having more than eight electrons