Based on "The Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications (VCCA-2020) - Research and Innovations in Chemical Sciences: Paving the Way Forward" held in August 2020 and organized by the Computational Chemistry Group of the University of Mauritius. The chapters reflect a wide range of fundamental and applied research in the chemical sciences and interdisciplinary subjects.

• Preface of the Book of Proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications (VCCA-2020)
• Contents
• List of contributing authors
• 1 Role of heteroatoms and substituents on the structure, reactivity, aromaticity, and absorption spectra of pyrene: a density functional theory study
• 2 Effect of delocalization of nonbonding electron density on the stability of the M–C_carbene bond in main group metalimidazol- 2-ylidene complexes: a computational and structural database study
• 3 Educational components in the supervision of chemistry postgraduate students: experiences and reflections
• 4 Chemometric exploratory data analysis for patients with diabetes type 2 and diabetic complications
• 5 Electronic structure theory study of the reactivity and structural molecular properties of halo-substituted (F, Cl, Br) and heteroatom (N, O, S) doped cyclobutane
• 6 Theoretical investigation of the stability, reactivity, and the interaction of methylsubstituted peridinium-based ionic liquids
• 7 Chemical computational approaches for optimization of effective surfactants in enhanced oil recovery
• 8 Determination of bulk and surface properties of liquid Bi-Sn alloys using an improved quasi-lattice theory
• 9 Identification of potential histone deacetylase inhibitory biflavonoids from Garcinia kola (Guttiferae) using in silico protein-ligand interaction
• 10 Thermodynamics of the micellization of quaternary based cationic surfactants in triethanolamine-water media: a conductometry study
• Index