Officer’s Column
Secretary General’s Column by Richard Hartshorn 2
Features
The Three-letter Element Symbols: Meddling Manner or Diplomatic Defusing? by Lars Öhrström and Norman E. Holden 4
Procedures for the Naming of a New Element by John Corish 9
The Chemical Structure Association Trust—Advancing Scientific Discovery for Fifty Years by Bonnie Lawlor 12
IUPAC Wire
Discovery and Assignment of Elements with Atomic Numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 16
Open Data in a Big Data World 17
UN Secretary General Appoints ICSU Executive Director to Special Advisory Group on the SDGs 18
Project Place
Company Associates Reengineering Project 19
Postgraduate Course in Polymer Science, Prague, Czech Republic 20
Critically Evaluated ESR (EPR) Spectra of Important Polymerization-related Radicals 21
Which Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table? 22
Making an ImPACt
Discovery of the Elements with Atomic Numbers Z = 113, 115, 117 (IUPAC Technical Report) 24
Discovery of the Element with Atomic Number Z = 118 Completing the 7th Row of the Periodic Table (IUPAC Technical Report) 24
Glossary of Terms Used in Computational Drug Design, Part II (IUPAC Recommendations) 24
Standard Electrode Potentials Involving Radicals in Aqueous Solution: Inorganic Radicals (IUPAC Technical Report) 24
Maritime Pollutants in Shipping and Commercial European Ports Based on Relevant Physical and Biogeochemical Environmental Parameters (IUPAC Technical Report)25
Latest Updates from PAC Conferences & More—Brief 25
IUPAC Provisional Recommendations
Glossary of Terms Used in Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology 26
How to Name Atoms in Phosphates, Polyphosphates, their Analogues, and Transition State Analogues for Enzyme-catalysed Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions 26
Comprehensive Definition of Oxidation State 26
Stamps International
Berzelius and the Chemical Alphabet 27
Conference Call
Latin American Pesticide Residue Workshop—Food and Environment 28
Ecological Risk Assessment 29
Where 2B & Y 30
Mark Your Calendar 35
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