PAC60 Celebrations
Abstract
To celebrate 60 years of its scientific journal Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC with its publishing partner DeGruyter has compiled a virtual issue including the journal’s most cited papers. The set of articles should not be regarded as a simple “best of.” Over the 60 years of its existence, PAC has published more groundbreaking papers than we could possibly highlight, but this collection allows for a vivid glimpse of the rich variety of topics covered.
We hope that you find this collection of papers interesting and enjoyable to read from both a scientific and historical perspective.
Each of these 60 papers are freely available and to celebrate the journal’s 60th Anniversary, we would encourage you to submit a short 200-500 word commentary with your observations or even recollections of the work and/or the authors. We will then publish these online alongside the respective paper. An example of such commentary can be found in the section imPACt of the present issue of Chemistry International (see page 38): Randal Richards, a British chemist, educator, author, scientist, and former professor at the University of Durham, glimpses at a 1967 paper by Walter Stockmayer, a paper which originated as an invited lecture at the IUPAC International Symposium on Macromolecular Chemistry in Tokyo in 1966.
Pure and Applied Chemistry has always endeavoured to be the community’s journal and we hope that on this occasion we can enlist efforts and enthusiasm of members to commemorate and celebrate some wonderful authors and important pieces of work. Please send your contribution along with the title of the paper you are commenting on to <pac@degruyter.com>.
The December 2020 issue of PAC is also a celebration of the journal’s Diamond Jubilee. It brings together articles on diverse themes by twelve scientists, winners of the IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists and the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists during the last decade since 2011, and makes a fitting tribute to the journal on its 60th anniversary. The issue includes a preface by Christopher Brett, IUPAC President, (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2020-1106).
https://iupac.org/what-we-do/journals/pure-and-applied-chemistry/
The call for application for the IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists is coordinated yearly; the next deadline is 15 Feb 2021 for candidates having completed their Ph.D. during the calendar 2020; https://iupac.org/2021-iupac-solvay-international-award-for-young-chemists/
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead - Full issue pdf
- President's Column
- Resilience in Pandemic Time
- Features
- Challenges for Evaluation of the Safety of Engineered Nanomaterials
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Feeding the World in a Time of Climate Change
- Early Industrial Roots of Green Chemistry
- IUPAC Wire
- Election of IUPAC Officers and Bureau Members—Call for Nominations
- IUPAC Congress 2027
- PAC60 Celebrations
- IYPT 2019—Global Report
- UNESCO-Russia Mendeleev International Prize in the Basic Sciences
- IUPAC Blockchain Technology White Paper—Call for input
- CPCDS Shorts
- Feed for Thought
- In Memoriam—Alexander Lawson: Visionary Pioneer in Cheminformatics
- Project Place
- Provisional Report on Discussions on Group 3 of The Periodic Table
- Development of a Machine Accessible Kinetic Databank for Radical Polymerizations
- Assessment of Absolute Isotope Ratios for the International Isotope Delta Measurement Standards
- Development of a Metadata Schema for Critically Evaluated Solubility Measurement Data
- Making an imPACt
- Glossary of methods and terms used in surface chemical analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)
- Global occurrence, chemical properties, and ecological impacts of e-wastes (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Variation of lead isotopic composition and atomic weight in terrestrial materials (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Definitions and notations relating to tactic polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)
- Terminology of polymers in advanced lithography (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)
- IUPAC/CITAC Guide: Evaluation of risks of false decisions in conformity assessment of a multicomponent material or object due to measurement uncertainty (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Dielectric dispersion in solutions of flexible polymers
- Bookworm
- Glossary of Terms Used in Molecular Toxicology
- Up for Discussion
- The Hudlicky case—A reflection on the current state of affairs
- Conference Call
- Frontiers in Chemical Technology
- OPCW Convenes International Experts to Develop Strategy for Greener, Safer, and More Sustainable Chemistry
- Green Chemistry Postgraduate Summer School Online
- Foreword
Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead - Full issue pdf
- President's Column
- Resilience in Pandemic Time
- Features
- Challenges for Evaluation of the Safety of Engineered Nanomaterials
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Feeding the World in a Time of Climate Change
- Early Industrial Roots of Green Chemistry
- IUPAC Wire
- Election of IUPAC Officers and Bureau Members—Call for Nominations
- IUPAC Congress 2027
- PAC60 Celebrations
- IYPT 2019—Global Report
- UNESCO-Russia Mendeleev International Prize in the Basic Sciences
- IUPAC Blockchain Technology White Paper—Call for input
- CPCDS Shorts
- Feed for Thought
- In Memoriam—Alexander Lawson: Visionary Pioneer in Cheminformatics
- Project Place
- Provisional Report on Discussions on Group 3 of The Periodic Table
- Development of a Machine Accessible Kinetic Databank for Radical Polymerizations
- Assessment of Absolute Isotope Ratios for the International Isotope Delta Measurement Standards
- Development of a Metadata Schema for Critically Evaluated Solubility Measurement Data
- Making an imPACt
- Glossary of methods and terms used in surface chemical analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)
- Global occurrence, chemical properties, and ecological impacts of e-wastes (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Variation of lead isotopic composition and atomic weight in terrestrial materials (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Definitions and notations relating to tactic polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)
- Terminology of polymers in advanced lithography (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)
- IUPAC/CITAC Guide: Evaluation of risks of false decisions in conformity assessment of a multicomponent material or object due to measurement uncertainty (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Dielectric dispersion in solutions of flexible polymers
- Bookworm
- Glossary of Terms Used in Molecular Toxicology
- Up for Discussion
- The Hudlicky case—A reflection on the current state of affairs
- Conference Call
- Frontiers in Chemical Technology
- OPCW Convenes International Experts to Develop Strategy for Greener, Safer, and More Sustainable Chemistry
- Green Chemistry Postgraduate Summer School Online
- Foreword
