will be held at Inter-University Center (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia

under the joint auspices of

Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology,
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia,
Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Advances in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Theory of NMR and applications of modern NMR techniques in pharmaceutical research, medicine, organic and bioorganic chemistry.

The meeting will take place at the Inter-University (IUC) Center, don Frana Bulica 4, Dubrovnik. Participants are asked to notify their wishes regarding accomodation and transportation to our travel agent:

Mrs. Irena Bogadi Vrancic, F.I.-Zagreb,
Padez 5, HR-10431 Sv. Nedelja, Croatia.
phone/fax: +(385)-(1)-33-70-280; phone: -33-70-340.

Most participants will be accommodated in Hotel Lero and some in Hotel Bellevue. Both hotels are within a walking distance from the IUC. For participants and accompanying persons the hotel prices (to which a daily sojourn tax of 1,20 USD should be added) are:

Hotel LERO	bed/breakf.	half-board
Single room	32 USD	38 USD
Double/per person	18 USD	23 USD

Hotel BELLEVUE	bed/breakf.	half-board
Single room	45 USD	50 USD
Double/per person	35 USD	40 USD

The city of Dubrovnik can be reached by air from Zagreb and some other European cities, by (frequent) buses from Zagreb, Rijeka and Split, by boat from the ports of Rijeka and Split, or by boat from Italy.

A collective flights from Zagreb to Dubrovnik (round trip) at discount price will be organized by our travel agent. The plane leaves Zagreb on Saturday, June 24 and on Sunday, June 25, 2000.

Regarding the boat connections from Rijeka to Dubrovnik please contact JADROLINIJA Co. (HR-51 000 Rijeka; phone: +(385)-(51)-211-444, -666-100; fax: -214-867, -211-845; or phone in Zagreb:+(385)-(1)-42-17-77;Internet: http://www.tel.hr/jadrolinija/)

JADROLINIJA Co. also runs the boat services from Ancona, Italy, to Split, and from Bari, Italy, to Dubrovnik. SEM MARITIME Co. (HR-21 000 Split; phone: +(385)-(21)-589-433; fax: -589-215; E-mail: marina@sem.hr; Internet: http://www.sem.hr/) runs daily (except on Sunday) boat connection from Ancona to Split.

The enclosed registration form should be received by the organizer by May 15, 2000.

The registration fee of USD 150,00 should be paid by May 15, 2000. When paid after an additional amount of USD 50,00 should be added to the fee.

A number of fellowships will be granted. Those who need financial support are encouraged to apply for it.

The account for paying in Croatian currency is:
PBF, Pierottijeva 6, Zagreb
Privredna banka, Zagreb
br. računa: 30101-603-39287
podračun: 210011, NMR

Those paying in other currency are advised to send a personal check payable to:

Dražen Vikić-Topić, DU’2000 NMR, or to pay to acc. no. 30101-620-16/3207102, ZAGREBAČKA BANKA, Zagreb, PBF, Pierottijeva 6, NMR.

Participants are kindly asked to send a copy of bill to organizer.

Participants should send the abstract(s) either in the form of MS Word document(any version) as an e-mail attachment or as a hard copy. The margins of 2.5 cm and Times New Roman font (1.5 line spacing; size 12) are recommended. The abstract should not exceed two typewritten page. The deadline is May 15, 2000.

All participants are invited to submit papers which will be published in the special issue of Croatica Chemica Acta (CCA is SCI/CC journal) devoted to The Third International Dubrovnik NMR Course and Conference (DU'2000 NMR). Manuscripts in which NMR is used for identification and analysis of new compounds, mechanisms,etc. are also encouraged.

Manuscripts will undergo normal peer review procedure of CCA. Instructions to Authors could be found at the WWW page given above.

The participants are encouraged to submit their papers before meeting or upon their arrival in Dubrovnik. Those unable to attend are invited to send their manuscripts to the organizer by mail.

All correspondence concerning DU'2000 NMR should be addressed to:

Dr. Dražen Vikić-Topić, Head of NMR Center
Ruđer Bošković Institute,
HR-10001 Zagreb, POB 1016
Croatia

fax:+(385)-(1)-46-80-084; E-mail: vikic@faust.irb.hr
phone: +(385)-(1)-45-60-961 or 46-80-085 or(385)-(1)-45-61-111, ext. 1734, 1378
GSM: 098 289-448