Chapters collected from “The Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications (VCCA-2021) – Research and Innovations in Chemical Sciences: Paving the Way Forward”. This conference was held in August 2021 and organized by the Computational Chemistry Group of the University of Mauritius. These peer-reviewed chapters offer insights into research on fundamental and applied chemistry with interdisciplinary subject matter.

• A virtual conference on chemistry and its applications (VCCA-2021) was organized online from 9th to 13th August 2021 6
• Contents 8
• List of contributing authors 14
• 1 Performance and kinetics of a fluidized bed anaerobic reactor treating distillery effluent 18
• 2 Sustainability of ameliorative potentials of urea spiked poultry manure biochar types in simulated sodic soils 32
• 3 Effects of alum, soda ash, and carbon dioxide on 40–50 year old concrete wastewater tanks 46
• 4 A review of sludge production in South Africa municipal wastewater treatment plants, analysis of handling cost and potential m 56
• 5 A comparison of two digestion methods and heavy metals determination in sediments 68
• 6 Simultaneous remediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and heavy metals in wastewater with zerovalent iron-titanium oxide 88
• 7 Antioxidant and antibacterial activities of two xanthones derivatives isolated from the leaves extract of Anthocleista schwein 98
• 8 Use of biochemical markers for diabetes prevention in the new decade 110
• 9 Cytotoxicity test and antibacterial assay on the compound produced by the isolation and modification of artonin E from Artocar 122
• 10 Antibacterial, antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of the stem bark of Archidendron jiringa ( Jack) I.C. Nielsen 140
• 11 Fabaceae: a significant flavonoid source for plant and human health 152
• 12 Developing a questionnaire for diabetes mellitus type 2 risk effects and precondition factors – multivariate statistical path 164