Contents

President’s Column

On the Path to Rewarding Times by Natalia Tarasova 2

Features

Taking IUPAC Literally: Woodward’s Pure and Applied Chemistry Words by Jeffrey I. Seeman 4

The Periodic Table (Continued?): Eka-francium Et Seq. by Paul J. Karol 10

Chemistry Organizations in a Changing World by Stephen A. Matlin, Alain Krief, Henning Hopf, and Goverdhan Mehta 15

IUPAC Wire

IUPAC and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Take Partnership to New Level 20

IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 20

IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements—Updated Release 21

Gender-based Harassment in the Practice of Science 21

ICSU to Merge with ISSC 22

Remembering Peter Greaves Taylor Fogg (1929-2016) 22

Stamps International

Woodward’s Birth Centennial by Daniel Rabinovich 23

Project Place

Environmental Fate and Risks of Nano-enabled Pesticides 24

Ecological Risk Assessment Workshop for Central America 26

A Critical Review of Reporting and Storage of NMR Data for Spin-Half Nuclei in Small Molecules 26

Guides in Metrology 27

Bookworm

Successful Drug Discovery 28

Making an ImPACt

Source-based Nomenclature for Single-strand Homopolymers and Copolymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2016) 29

Comprehensive Definition of Oxidation State (IUPAC Recommendations 2016) 29

2014 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Constants of Physics and Chemistry—cut-out 29

Glossary of Terms Used in Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016) 30

Provisional Recommendations

Terminology of Bioanalytical Methods 31

Nomenclature and Terminology for Dendrimers with Regular Dendrons and for Hyperbranched Polymers 31

Conference Call

WMFmeetsIUPAC by Hans van Egmond and Rudolf Krska 32

Chemistry Education by Datuk Dr. Soon Ting-Kueh 33

Green Chemistry by Pietro Tundo 36

Solid State Chemistry by Adriana Lančok 38

Where 2B & Y 41

Mark Your Calendar 43