The Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is organizing a National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS) -2018, during December 06-8, 2018. This is a regular biennial conference and 5th in this series. The conference intends to bring together eminent scientists, technologists and young researchers from across the country to provide a common platform for discussing their achievements and newer directions of research in the field of Chemical Sciences. The FICS-2018 conference will deliberate on all branches of Chemical and allied sciences encompassing fields from theory and experiment to applications of Chemistry to modern science and technology. The scientific program will consist of plenary sessions, invited talks, and poster presentations. This is going to be a major international conference being held in the North-Eastern region of India and provide much needed exposure to the students as well as scientists from this region. In addition to poster presentations for students, there will be some selected short oral presentations by them as well.