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Volume 38 Issue 2

Issue of Chemistry International

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Journal Overview

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Guest Editorial

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Outer Limits: Pushing the Extremities

Paul J. Karol

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CHEMISTRY International March-April 2016 Volume 38 No. 2

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Officer’s Column

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Secretary General’s Column

Richard Hartshorn

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Abstract

As I sit down to write this column, IUPAC is about to tick off one biennium and begin another. Each time this happens the organisation renews itself as new people cycle into the positions and committees that plan, initiate, and undertake the work of the Union. It is a time when we look forward and consider our priorities—we seek to make our marks and to advance the discipline.

Features

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The Three-letter Element Symbols:

Lars Öhrström talks to Norman E. Holden about unnilhexium, and other periodic table ghosts of the Cold War

Lars Öhrström, Norman E. Holden

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When Lars Öhrström started paying real attention to chemistry, during his high school years in the early 1980s, the three-letter symbols then designating any element with atomic number higher than 103 seemed like a permanent fixture to the periodic table in the chemistry classroom. In the following years, he learned that they were only temporary placeholders for elements that fulfilled the criteria of “being discovered” but where, for unclear reasons, a name had not yet been agreed.

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Procedures for the Naming of a New Element

John Corish

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The procedures to be followed in the naming of new elements fall into two distinct phases. The first of these is done jointly between IUPAC and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and involves the validation of a claimed discovery and its assignation to a laboratory or to a collaborating group of laboratories. The second phase is carried out by IUPAC alone, which utilises its standard procedures for the recommendation of a suitable name. After this recommendation has successfully gone through the usual stringent refereeing processes, it is then finally approved by the Council before being formally announced.

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The Chemical Structure Association Trust

Advancing Scientific Discovery for Fifty Years ^[*]

Bonnie Lawlor

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The Chemical Structure Association Trust (CSA Trust) is an internationally-recognized, registered charity that promotes and supports the advancement of scientific discovery through the application of computer technologies in the management and analysis of chemical structure information. In support of its Charter, the Trust provides grants specifically to nurture young scientists, ages thirty-five or younger, who have demonstrated excellence in research related to the storage, retrieval, and analysis of chemical structures, reactions, and compounds. Since its inception in 1988, almost one hundred students and researchers worldwide have benefited from travel bursaries and the CSA Trust Grant Program to further their education and research work, but the organization has a rich history that predates the formalization of its charity status. Its roots were planted half a century ago in 1965, when the Chemical Notation Association (CNA) was formed in the United States. It has been an interesting journey from the CNA to the CSA Trust and I have been blessed to have been a part of it almost from the beginning, along with other members of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Information. In honor of the organization’s 50th Anniversary, I’d like to give a brief overview of its past and its present activities.

IUPAC Wire

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Discovery and Assignment of Elements with Atomic Numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118

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On 30 December 2015, IUPAC announced the verification of the discoveries of four new chemical elements; the 7th period of the periodic table of elements is complete.

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Open Data in a Big Data World

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Four major international science organisations (ICSU, ISSC, IAP and TWAS) have joined together to develop and support an accord that includes a set of guiding principles on open access to big data, which is necessary to protect the scientific process and assure that developing countries can participate more fully in the global research enterprise. Limits on access to big data knowledge, they warn, raises the risk that progress will slow in areas such as advanced health research, environmental protection, food productio,n and the development of smart cities.

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UN Secretary General Appoints ICSU Executive Director to Special Advisory Group on the SDGs

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ICSU Executive Director Heide Hackmann has been appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to serve on a special advisory group, drawn from civil society, the private sector, and the scientific community, which will support the Technology Facilitation Mechanism, a key part of the post-2015 architecture for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Project Place

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Company Associates Reengineering Project

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Postgraduate Course in Polymer Science, Prague, Czech Republic

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Critically Evaluated ESR (EPR) Spectra of Important Polymerization-related Radicals

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Which Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table?

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Making an imPACt

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Discovery of the elements with atomic numbers Z = 113, 115 and 117 (IUPAC Technical Report)

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Discovery of the element with atomic number Z = 118 completing the 7th row of the periodic table (IUPAC Technical Report)

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Glossary of terms used in computational drug design, part II (IUPAC Recommendations)

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Standard electrode potentials involving radicals in aqueous solution: inorganic radicals (IUPAC Technical Report)

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Maritime pollutants in shipping and commercial European ports based on relevant physical and biogeochemical environmental parameters (IUPAC Technical Report)

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Latest Updates from PAC Conferences & More—Brief

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IUPAC Provisional Recommendations

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Glossary of Terms Used in Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology

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How to Name Atoms in Phosphates, Polyphosphates, their Analogues, and Transition State Analogues for Enzyme-catalysed Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions

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Comprehensive Definition of Oxidation State

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Stamps International

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Berzelius and the Chemical Alphabet

Daniel Rabinovich

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Conference Call

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Latin American Pesticide Residue Workshop—Food and Environment

N. Gras, J.B. Unsworth

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Ecological Risk Assessment

J.B. Unsworth, N. Gras

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Where 2B & Y

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New Chemistries for Phytomedicines and Crop Protection Chemicals

6-9 April 2016, New Delhi, India

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Function Through Disorder: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Biology and Medicine

25-26 June 2016, Les Diablerets, Switzerland

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Phosphorus Chemistry

5-10 June 2016, Kazan, Russia

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Self-assembly in the World of Polymers

10-14 July 2016, Prague, Czech Republic

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Solubility Phenomena

24-29 July 2016, Geneva, Switzerland

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Blood-Biomaterial Interactions

12-16 September 2016, Wellesley, MA, USA

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CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science

1-12 August 2016, Trieste, Italy

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28th National [Turkish] Chemistry Congress with International Participation

15-21 August 2016, Mersin Turkey

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The Power of Norms

22-24 September 2016, Prague, Czech Republic

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Selenium Research (Se2017)

13-17 August 2017, Stockholm, Sweden

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Mark Your Calendar

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Chemistry International (CI) is the newsmagazine of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). News about IUPAC, its chemists, publications, recommendations, conferences and the work of its Divisions and Committees along with special feature articles is published quarterly in CI.

From 2022 onwards, CI is an online only publication and is freely accessible to all readers. The print edition has been discontinued.

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Volume 38 Issue 2

Issue of Chemistry International

Masthead - Full issue pdf

Outer Limits: Pushing the Extremities

Contents

CHEMISTRY International March-April 2016 Volume 38 No. 2

Secretary General’s Column

Abstract

The Three-letter Element Symbols:

Lars Öhrström talks to Norman E. Holden about unnilhexium, and other periodic table ghosts of the Cold War

Abstract

Procedures for the Naming of a New Element

Abstract

The Chemical Structure Association Trust

Advancing Scientific Discovery for Fifty Years[*]

Abstract

Discovery and Assignment of Elements with Atomic Numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118

Abstract

Open Data in a Big Data World

Abstract

UN Secretary General Appoints ICSU Executive Director to Special Advisory Group on the SDGs

Abstract

Company Associates Reengineering Project

Postgraduate Course in Polymer Science, Prague, Czech Republic

Critically Evaluated ESR (EPR) Spectra of Important Polymerization-related Radicals

Which Elements Belong in Group 3 of the Periodic Table?

Discovery of the elements with atomic numbers Z = 113, 115 and 117 (IUPAC Technical Report)

Discovery of the element with atomic number Z = 118 completing the 7th row of the periodic table (IUPAC Technical Report)

Glossary of terms used in computational drug design, part II (IUPAC Recommendations)

Standard electrode potentials involving radicals in aqueous solution: inorganic radicals (IUPAC Technical Report)

Maritime pollutants in shipping and commercial European ports based on relevant physical and biogeochemical environmental parameters (IUPAC Technical Report)

Latest Updates from PAC Conferences & More—Brief

Glossary of Terms Used in Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology

How to Name Atoms in Phosphates, Polyphosphates, their Analogues, and Transition State Analogues for Enzyme-catalysed Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions

Comprehensive Definition of Oxidation State

Berzelius and the Chemical Alphabet

Latin American Pesticide Residue Workshop—Food and Environment

Ecological Risk Assessment

New Chemistries for Phytomedicines and Crop Protection Chemicals

6-9 April 2016, New Delhi, India

Function Through Disorder: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Biology and Medicine

25-26 June 2016, Les Diablerets, Switzerland

Phosphorus Chemistry

5-10 June 2016, Kazan, Russia

Self-assembly in the World of Polymers

10-14 July 2016, Prague, Czech Republic

Solubility Phenomena

24-29 July 2016, Geneva, Switzerland

Blood-Biomaterial Interactions

12-16 September 2016, Wellesley, MA, USA

CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science

1-12 August 2016, Trieste, Italy

28th National [Turkish] Chemistry Congress with International Participation

15-21 August 2016, Mersin Turkey

The Power of Norms

22-24 September 2016, Prague, Czech Republic

Selenium Research (Se2017)

13-17 August 2017, Stockholm, Sweden

Mark Your Calendar

Advancing Scientific Discovery for Fifty Years ^[*]