The International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry (ICCBIC) has been organized biannually since 1964 by the Slovak Chemical Society (SChS) and Slovak University of Technology (STU) in Bratislava. It is the only regular scientific event in the field of coordination and bioinorganic chemistry in the Central Europe. The characteristic atmosphere of the Smolenice Castle helped to strengthen the professional relationships as well as the friendships between participants. Many top coordination chemists from all over the world have attended ICCBIC during the sixty years of its history, e.g. E.I. Solomon, J. Reedijk, A. Hauser etc.

Since 1993 the Book of Abstracts is regularly created containing reviewed contributions of the participants. List of Book of Abstracts:

ICCBIC has started as a Symposium on the Structure and Properties of Coordination Compounds held in Bratislava at the Slovak University of Technology (back then Slovak Technical University), and at the House of Scientific Workers of the Slovak Academy of Sciences at Smolenice Castle on 2-4 September 1964 in connection with the 8th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC) in Vienna.

The symposium was attended approximately by 180 scientists and research workers from 18 countries. Three plenary lectures were delivered by:

J. C. Bailar, Jr. (USA): The Walden Inversion in the Reactions of Cobalt Complexes,
R. S Nyholm (England): Advances in Complex Chemistry of the Early Transition Elements,
M. A. Poraj-Košic (USSR): Some New X-Ray Structural Investigations of Complex Compounds.

The 2^nd Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 1-5 December 1969 and was attended by 80 participants. Eleven plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

B. Jeżowska-Trzebiatowska (Poland): Structure abd bonding of beta-diketone complexes,
L. Cattalini (Italy): Some aspects of ligand substitutions at planar transition metal complexes,
U. Belluco (Italy): Platinum – olefin complexes. 3 A. V. Ablov (USSR): Binuclear copper compounds.

The 3^rd Conference on Coordination Chemistry had taken place at the Smolenice Castle on 6-10 December 1971 and was attended by 72 participants. Ten plenary lectures were presented, including:

M. T. Beck (Hungary): Kinetics and catalysis of chromium(III) complex formation,
J. Bjerrum (Denmark): On bridged thiocyanate complex formation,
V. Gutmann (Austria): The role of coordination chemistry in a unified approach to chemical interactions.

The 4^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 13-19 December 1973 and was attended by 57 participants. Twenty-nine plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

J. Gažo (Czechoslovakia): Distortion isomerism of copper(II) compounds,
N. G. Bokii (USSR): Crystal structures of some organometallic complexes of tin and mercury,
P. M. Zorkii (USSR): Stereochemistry of metallocycles and intermolecular interactions in crystals of inner-complex compounds of copper and nickel.

The 5^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 24-28 December 1974 and was attended by 80 participants. Twelve plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

Yu. N. Kukushkin (USSR): Influence of п-acceptor properties of ligands on acid-basic and redox properties of platinum complexes,
E. Uhlig (GDR): Elementenkomplexe als Katalyzatoren der stereospecifischen Dienpolymerisation,
I. N. Marov (USSR): Coordination compounds of molybdenum(V) in aqueous solutions.

The 6^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 14-17 September 1976 and was attended by 75 participants. Ten plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

S. Kirschner (USA): The application of preferential solvent extraction for the resolution of a racemic inner complex,
L. I. Elding (Sweden): A mechanism for redox substitutions and related reactions in Pt(IV)/Pt(II)-systems,
V. Gutman (Austria): Solid state and interface coordination chemistry.

The 7^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 11-14 September 1978 and was attended by 86 participants. Fourteen plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

L. Sacconi (Italy): Polynuclear 3d metal complexes with tertiary phosphins,
M. E. Volpin (USSR): Structure and reactivity of organocobalt(IV) chelates,
R. D. Archer (USA): The dynamic stereochemistry of eight-coordinate inert metal chelates; nonrigid or rigid?

The 8^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 8-11 December 1980 and was attended by 80 participants. Nine plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

J. H. Ammeter (Switzerland): Electronic lability in coordination compounds,
Yu. V. Yablokov (USSR): EPR of exchange clusters containing three and four magnetic ions,
L. Kolditz (GDR): The problem of disorder and reactivity in solid coordination compounds.

The 9^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 31 May – 3 June 1983 and was attended by 83 participants. Twelve plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

Yu. V. Yablokov (USSR): Some new aspects of the nature of the magnetic centres in the crystals of the coordination compounds,
A. B. P. Lever (Canada): Factors determining redox energies in phthalocyanines and porphyrins (A. B. P. Lever, Canada),
H. Elias (GFR): Ligand substitution in planar platinum(II), palladium(II) complexes: the role of the substrate.

The 10^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 4-7 June 1985 and was attended by 96 participants. Thirteen plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

D. Reinen (GFR): Cu²⁺ and Ni²⁺ in tetrahedral coordination – experimental evidence for Jahn-Teller distortions?,
O. Traverso (Italy): Photogeneration of reactive low-valent transition metal complexes,
D. Steinborn (GDR): On the electronic influence of carbanions in metal complexes.

The 11^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 2-5 June 1987 and was attended by 100 participants. Thirteen plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

S. V. Larionov (USSR): New groups of volatile coordination compounds,
L. Kolditz (GDR): Mechanism of solid state reactions and coordination chemistry,
R. D. Archer (USA): Kinetics and bonding considerations – a new guide to new coordination polymer structures with examples using cobalt and zirconium.

The 12^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 6-9 June 1989 and was attended by 92 participants. Fourteen plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

G. P. Van der Kelen (Belgium): Ceramic high Tc superconductors – survey on actual chemistry and future development,
Yu. V. Yablokov (USSR): Magnetic resonance in high temperature superconductors,
D. Benerjea (India): Thermodynamics, kinetics and mechanism of formation and dissociation of ternary complexes.

The 13^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 11-14 June 1991 and was attended by 70 participants. Sixteen plenary lectures were presented at the conference including:

R. van Eldik (Germany): EPR Spectroscopic Insight into the Architecture of Molecular Crystals of Copper(II) Complexes with Organic Ligands (C. Friebel, Germany), Application of High-Pressure Techniques in Mechanistic Studies of Bioinorganic Systems,
M. Verdaguer (France): Ferro and/or Ferrimagnetism: How to Design Molecular-Based Magnets,
P. R. Bontchev (Bulgaria): Copper Complexes with Antihypertension Drugs Captopril and Propranolol

The 14^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 7-11 June 1993 and was attended by 92 participants. For the first time the conference was entitled "Contributions to the Development of Coordination Chemistry". The twenty-one plenary lectures were presented by:

V. Gutmann (Austria), H. B. Bürgi (Switzerland), P. Pallavicini (Italy), M. Verdaguer (France), C. Kutal (USA), H. Hennig (Germany), B. M. Rode (Austria), W. Linert (Austria), R. E. P. Winpenny (UK), J. Mrozinski (Poland), F. Di Furia (Italy), R. C. Thompson (USA), G. La Monica (Italy), M. D. Grillone (Italy), A. Vogler (Germany), D. M. Wagnerová (Czech Republic), B. Sieklucka (Poland), M. Mitewa (Bulgaria), O. P. Anderson (USA), H. Elias (Germany), P. R. Bontchev (Bulgaria).

The 15^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 5-9 June 1995 under the title: "Current Trends in Coordination Chemistry" and was attended by 92 participants. The plenary lectures were delivered by:

E. Uhlig (Germany), K. R. Koch (South Africa), H. Böhland (Germany), L. Ballester (Spain), P. Šegedin (Slovenia), C. Kutal (USA), M. Sarakha (France), D. Meyerstein (Israel), D. Steinborn (Germany), L. McElwee-White. (USA), M. Herberhold (Germany), B. M. Rode (Austria), Y. D. Lampeka (Ukraine), M. Verdaguer (France), R. Boča (Slovakia), M. Melník (Slovakia), J. Mrozinski (Poland), O. Knop (Kanada), V. Gutmann (Austria), H. Sigel (Switzerland), P. R. Bontchev (Bulgaria), D. M. Roundhill (USA), W. Linert (Austria).

The 16^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 9-13 June 1997 under the title: "Progress in Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry" and was attended by 81 participants. The invited plenary lectures were presented by:

P. Braunstein (France), J. J. Ziolkowski (Poland), I. Bertini (Italy), and M. Grätzel (Switzerland).

The 17^th Conference on Coordination Chemistry was held on 7-11 June 1999 under the title: "Coordination Chemistry at the Turn of the Century" and was attended by 97 participants. The invited plenary lectures were presented by:

G. Kauffman (USA), J. Gladysz (USA), M. Andruh (Romania), P. R. Bontchev (Bulgaria), and M. Verdaguer (France).

The 18^th International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 4-8 June 2001 entitled: "Challenges for Coordination Chemistry in the New Century" and was attended by 93 participants. The invited plenary lectures were presented by:

D. Rehder (Gremany), Yu. Wang (Taiwan), B. Chowdhury (USA), and J. Mrozinski (Poland).

The 19^th International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 2-6 June 2003 entitled: "Progress in Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 96 participants. The main plenary lectures were delivered by the invited lecturers:

D. Steinborn (Germany), A. von Zelewsky (Switzerland), P. Strauch (Germany), and A.B.P. Lever (Canada).

The 20^th International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 5-10 June 2005 entitled: "Advances in Coordination, Bioinorganic and Inorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 114 participants. The main plenary lectures were delivered by the invited lecturers:

M. R. Sundberg (Finland), G. Simonneaux (France), M. Yamashita (Japan), and H. Sigel (Switzerland).

The 21^st International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 3-8 June 2007 entitled: "Achievements in Coordination, Bioinorganic and Applied Inorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 86 participants. The main plenary lectures were presented by the invited lecturers:

M. Mikuriya (Japan), R. Slade (UK), P. Day (UK,), and T. Szabó-Plánka (Hungary).

The 22^nd International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 2-7 June 2009 entitled: "Insights into Coordination, Bioinorganic and Applied Inorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 110 participants. The main plenary lectures were presented by the invited lecturers:

M. Yamashita (Japan), B. Sieklucka (Poland), M. R. Sundberg (Finlan), and M. Nakamura (Japan).

The 23^rd International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 2-7 June 2011 entitled: "New Trends in Coordination, Bioinorganic, and Applied Inorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 101 participants. The main plenary lectures were presented by the invited lecturers:

D. Reinen (Germany), J. Mroziński (Poland), E. C. Constable (Switzerland), and J. Reedijk (Netherlands).

The 24^th International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 2-7 June 2013 entitled: "Recent Developments in Coordination, Bioinorganic, and Applied Inorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 173 participants. The main plenary lectures were delivered by the invited lecturers:

N. Kojima (Japan), A. Ozarowski (USA), L. Brammer (UK) and E. I. Solomon (USA).

The 25^th International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 31 May - 5 June 2015 entitled: "Advancing Coordination, Bioinorganic and Applied Inorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 118 participants. The main plenary lectures were delivered by the invited lecturers:

A. Hauser (Switzerland), T. Mizokawa (Japan), and C. J. Rhodes (UK).

The 26^th International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 4-9 June 2017 entitled: "Modern Trends in Coordination, Bioinorganic, and Applied Inorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 110 participants. The main plenary lectures were delivered by the invited lecturers:

M. Fujita (Japan), F. Tuna (United Kingdom), M. Ruben (Germany), and M. Melnik (Slovakia).

The 27^th International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 2-7 June 2019 entitled: "Progressive Trends in Coordination, Bioinorganic, and Applied Inorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 106 participants. The main plenary lectures were delivered by the invited lecturers:

L. Cronin (United Kingdom), R. Boča (Slovakia), G. Molnár (France), and G. Psomas (Greece).

The 28^th International Conference on Coordination and Bioinorganic Chemistry was held on 2-7 June 2022 entitled: "Recent Progress in Coordination, Bioinorganic, and Applied Inorganic Chemistry" and was attended by 88 participants. The main plenary lectures were delivered by the invited lecturers:

R. Boča (Slovakia), P. Sipos (Hungary), D. Ruiz-Molina (Spain).