The first 17 articles in the present journal issue are devoted to one or both of two special causes.

The first is to honor the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis in Novosibirsk, Russia. Prof. Georgy K. Boreskov (1907–1984) was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was very active in the scientific field of this journal, which was started in 1974 as a joint venture of the Hungarian and Soviet Academies of Sciences. From the Russian part, Georgy Boreskov was the responsible founding editor. His publications were analyzed in a recent issue of this journal [1]. In 1958, he was one of the founders the Institute of Catalysis within the Siberian Branch of Academy of Sciences, USSR, which was re-named in his honor after his death. This institute continues to be the single largest contributor to the present-day Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis and, as the detailed analysis published in this issue shows [2], the journal is the number two venue where this institutes publishes its research results.

Another form of the dissemination of research results is made possible by presentations at scientific meetings. Last fall, the 14th International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Physical Chemistry was held between September 24 and 28, 2018, in Belgrade, Serbia. This series of events is organized every second year by the Society of Physical Chemists of Serbia. Catalysis and kinetics was very well represented among the oral and poster communications in 2018 and many researchers of the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis attended the meeting. So this issue is proud to host articles that were written based on the presentations in Belgrade.