What tasks scientists-chemists of the Academy are working on today, about the achievements of inorganic chemistry for the needs of medicine, the role of chemistry for the country's economy and the life of every person in the program "About Science. Competently" (hosted by academician of the NAS of Ukraine Volodymyr Semynozhenko), which is broadcast on the YouTube channel of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was told by the director of the V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, academician of the NAS of Ukraine Vasyl Pekhno.