This Round Table is organized within the framework of the 2012 program of activities of the Scientific Counselor of the Italian Embassy in the Russian Federation, approved and financed by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Co-organizers of the Round Table are Prof. Pietro Fre', Scientific Counselor of the Italian Embassy and Prof. Oskar I. Koifman Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Science, Rector of the Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology (ISUCT) together with Prof.