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
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