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Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC
From the journal Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC Volume 22 Issue 6

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IUPAC Celebrates 80 Years of Service to Chemistry with Commemorative Periodic Table

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Periodic Table

IUPAC FAQs
Chemical Elements

The right to name a new element has traditionally been accorded by the scientific community to the discoverer(s) after claims have been established beyond a doubt. Since 1947, names suggested by discoverers have been reviewed for suitability by the IUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (II.2), and the accepted name has been forwarded for approval to the IUPAC Council. To avoid confusion, discoverers are asked to use an atomic number rather than a name in the literature until approval of a proposed name is received from IUPAC. If a particular name has been used unofficially for a given element but a different name is ultimately chosen, the first name cannot be transferred at a later time to designate a different element.

The most recent process of review and approval of the names for elements 101-109 (IUPAC Recommendations 1997) appeared in Pure and Appl. Chem. Vol. 69, No. 12, pp. 2471-2473 (1997), and a summary was published in Chem. Int. Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 37-38 (1998). Because claims of the synthesis of heavy elements can be controversial, a joint Working Party of the International Unions of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and Physics (IUPAP) has been established to review published details and assign priority in the discovery. This procedure was applied to elements 101-109, and it is now in force for elements 110 and beyond. A more complete report on the procedures for naming new elements is in now preparation for submittal to Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Prof. Herbert D. Kaesz (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA; E-mail: hdk@chem.ucla.edu), Chairman of the IUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (II.2), has submitted the brief text above to accompany the commemorative periodic table inserted in the mailing with this issue of Chemistry International. The material above has been excerpted from a paper currently in preparation by Prof. W. H. Koppenol (a former Titular Member and Secretary of Commission II.2) on the procedures for naming new elements, and it incorporates suggestions offered by Prof. John Corish (President of IUPAC's Inorganic Chemistry Division) and Dr. Gerd M. Rosenblatt (Vice President of Division).

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  1. IUPAC Celebrates 80 Years of Service to Chemistry with Commemorative Periodic Table
  2. Report on First Workshop on Thermochemical, Thermodynamic, and Transport Properties of Halogenated Hydrocarbons and Mixtures, Pisa, Italy, 15–18 December 1999
  3. Report on the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance (CCQM), International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) Headquarters, 4–7 April 2000, Sèvres, France
  4. Report on the 32nd Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR) Meeting, 1–5 May 2000, The Hague, Netherlands
  5. Report on the 23rd Committee on Reference Materials (REMCO) Meeting of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ISO Headquarters, 15–17 May 2000, Geneva, Switzerland
  6. Overview of the International Symposium on Atmospheric Deposition and its Impact on Ecosystems, with Reference to the Mideast Region, Tel Aviv, Israel, 4–5 June 2000
  7. Epilogue: Coding Scheme for Properties in Laboratory Medicine
  8. Kurt Leopold Loening (1924–2000)
  9. New Projects
  10. Formulating International Ethical Guidelines for Science (ICSU-SCRES)
  11. New Publications from the World Health Organization
  12. William Horwitz Receives Robert Boyle Medal from Royal Society of Chemistry
  13. IUPAC Seeks Your Comments
  14. Chemistry and Human Health Division Committee
  15. Commission on Toxicology–VII.C.2
  16. 6th Rio Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry, 3–9 December 2000, Pucon, Chile
  17. 6th International Conference on Solar Energy and Applied Photochemistry, 3–8 April 2001, Cairo, Egypt
  18. 1st International Symposium on Macroand Supramolecular Architectures and Materials (MAM-01): Biological and Synthetic Systems, 11–14 April 2001, Kwangju, South Korea
  19. 11th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry and Biology, 20–27 April 2001, Zvenigorod, Russia
  20. NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Molten Salts: From Fundamentals to Applications, 4–14 May 2001, Kas, Turkey
  21. CHEMRAWN XIV World Conference on Green Chemistry: Toward Environmentally Benign Processes and Products, 9–13 June 2001, Boulder, CO, USA
  22. International Conference on Dynamical Processes in Excited States of Solids (DPC’01), 1–4 July 2001, Lyon, France
  23. European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR 8), 2–6 August 2001, Dubvornik, Croatia
  24. International Workshop/Conference on Coupled, Hyphenated, and Multidimensional Liquid Chromatographic Procedures for Separation of Macromolecules, 9–13 September 2001, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
  25. 9th International Conference on Correlation Analysis in Chemistry (CAIC-IX), 9–14 September 2001, Borówno (Bydgoszcz), Poland
  26. Conference Calendar
  27. Index
https://doi.org/10.1515/ci.2000.22.6.161

Articles in the same Issue

  1. IUPAC Celebrates 80 Years of Service to Chemistry with Commemorative Periodic Table
  2. Report on First Workshop on Thermochemical, Thermodynamic, and Transport Properties of Halogenated Hydrocarbons and Mixtures, Pisa, Italy, 15–18 December 1999
  3. Report on the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance (CCQM), International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) Headquarters, 4–7 April 2000, Sèvres, France
  4. Report on the 32nd Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR) Meeting, 1–5 May 2000, The Hague, Netherlands
  5. Report on the 23rd Committee on Reference Materials (REMCO) Meeting of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ISO Headquarters, 15–17 May 2000, Geneva, Switzerland
  6. Overview of the International Symposium on Atmospheric Deposition and its Impact on Ecosystems, with Reference to the Mideast Region, Tel Aviv, Israel, 4–5 June 2000
  7. Epilogue: Coding Scheme for Properties in Laboratory Medicine
  8. Kurt Leopold Loening (1924–2000)
  9. New Projects
  10. Formulating International Ethical Guidelines for Science (ICSU-SCRES)
  11. New Publications from the World Health Organization
  12. William Horwitz Receives Robert Boyle Medal from Royal Society of Chemistry
  13. IUPAC Seeks Your Comments
  14. Chemistry and Human Health Division Committee
  15. Commission on Toxicology–VII.C.2
  16. 6th Rio Symposium on Atomic Spectrometry, 3–9 December 2000, Pucon, Chile
  17. 6th International Conference on Solar Energy and Applied Photochemistry, 3–8 April 2001, Cairo, Egypt
  18. 1st International Symposium on Macroand Supramolecular Architectures and Materials (MAM-01): Biological and Synthetic Systems, 11–14 April 2001, Kwangju, South Korea
  19. 11th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry and Biology, 20–27 April 2001, Zvenigorod, Russia
  20. NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Molten Salts: From Fundamentals to Applications, 4–14 May 2001, Kas, Turkey
  21. CHEMRAWN XIV World Conference on Green Chemistry: Toward Environmentally Benign Processes and Products, 9–13 June 2001, Boulder, CO, USA
  22. International Conference on Dynamical Processes in Excited States of Solids (DPC’01), 1–4 July 2001, Lyon, France
  23. European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR 8), 2–6 August 2001, Dubvornik, Croatia
  24. International Workshop/Conference on Coupled, Hyphenated, and Multidimensional Liquid Chromatographic Procedures for Separation of Macromolecules, 9–13 September 2001, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
  25. 9th International Conference on Correlation Analysis in Chemistry (CAIC-IX), 9–14 September 2001, Borówno (Bydgoszcz), Poland
  26. Conference Calendar
  27. Index
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