From the Editor

From the Editor

In 2008, IUPAC will publish the 80th volume of its scientific journal Pure and Applied Chemistry (PAC) and the 30th volume of its news magazine Chemistry International (CI).

By serendipity, the anniversary of PAC coincides with the recent unveiling of a new online interface that makes the journal contents more easily available and searchable. Online PAC provides access to slightly more than 30 years of IUPAC reports, recommendations, and selected lectures from IUPAC-sponsored conferences.

Thirty years is also the approximate age of CI. Year after year, CI has fulfilled its mission of providing news and views about IUPAC activities and other areas of interest to its diverse international readership. CI has proved to be a valuable resource for members most involved in IUPAC activities who want to present their work in different ways and to various audiences. Nowadays, the newsmagazine also benefits from the availability of the internet as a reference and supplement. While it is still a blend of news and reports emanating from within the Union, CI makes frequent links to online reports or supplementary information.

The content of CI has evolved and will continue to do so; that is only natural considering that IUPAC itself evolves, as does the media. Today’s challenge is still to retain a diversity of articles that reflects the full spectrum of IUPAC activities.

In celebration of the PAC and CI anniversaries, I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to everyone who has contributed one way or another to these publications, including former editors and officers of the Union, and all who recognize the need to publish.

See YOU in CI, and have a 2008 pure and happy chemistryear!

Fabienne Meyers

fabienne@iupac.org

Cover: Jan Wouters (Head of Laboratory at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels), a visiting scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute (Los Angeles), and Cecily Grzywacz, a Getty Conservation Institute scientist, discuss the construction, sampling, and analysis of a mock-up of ancient Chinese wall painting materials containing both inorganic pigment paints and an organic pigment glaze. Research on historical reconstructions can lead to better diagnosis of sources of materials and lower levels of destructiveness when studying historical objects. Read more regarding the Asian Organic Colorants project of the Getty Conservation Institute at <www.getty.edu/conservation/science/asian/>. Read more about Protecting Cultural Heritage on page 4 in print.

Photo by Emile Askey. © The J. Paul Getty Trust.

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From the Editor

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- The Emerging Regulatory Environment: Proceedings of the World Chemistry Leadership Meetingby Colin Humphris and Mark Cesa

- IUPAC in Torino, Italy—Part II

- Division Roundups—Part II

- “Chemistry is Beautiful”—A Report on the Opening Plenary Lecture by Roald Hoffmannby Neil Gussman

IUPAC Wire

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- IUPAC InChIKey Project Joins Microsoft BioIT Alliance

- Chemical Heritage Foundation Names Thomas R. Tritton

President

- Zafra Lerman Receives George Brown Award for International

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- In Memoriam: The Oldest Active Chemist Dies at the Age of

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The Project Place

- Electrochemical DNA-Based Biosensors: Terms and

Methodology

- Recent Advances in Nomenclature, Properties and Units:

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- A Multilingual Encyclopedia of Polymer Terminology

- “Global Climate Change”—Monograph for Secondary Schools

- Recommendations for Codes of Conduct

Provisional RecommendationsIUPAC Seeks Your Comments

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- Glossary of Terms Used in Pharmaceutics

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- Definitions of Terms Relating to the Structure and Processing

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- Nomenclatura de Química Inorgánica

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Internet Connection

- ChemSpider and Its Expanding Webby Antony Williams

Conference Call

-The Evolving Identity of Chemistryby D. Thorburns and

Brigitte Van Tiggelen

- Heterocyclic Chemistry by Roger Reed

- Greenhouse Gases: Mitigation and Utilizationby John M. Malin

Where 2B & Y

- Emulsion Polymers, 2–6 June 2008, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA

- Applied Thermodynamics, 29 May–1 June 2008, Cannes, France

- Polar Research, 8–11 July 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia

- Solid State Chemistry, 6–11 July 2008, Bratislava, Slovakia

- Stable Isotope, 31 August–5 September 2008, Presqu’île de Giens, Var, France

- Polymer Processing, 15–19 June 2008, Salerno, Italy

- Chemistry in a Changing World—New Perspectives Concerning the IUPAC Family, 25 April 2008, Marl, Germany

Mark Your Calendar

link to calendars of upcoming IUPAC-sponsored events

January-February 2008 pdf ( 891 KB)

Cover: Jan Wouters (Head of Laboratory at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels), a visiting scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute (Los Angeles), and Cecily Grzywacz, a Getty Conservation Institute scientist, discuss the construction, sampling, and analysis of a mock-up of ancient Chinese wall painting materials containing both inorganic pigment paints and an organic pigment glaze. Research on historical reconstructions can lead to better diagnosis of sources of materials and lower levels of destructiveness when studying historical objects. Read more regarding the Asian Organic Colorants project of the Getty Conservation Institute at <www.getty.edu/conservation/science/asian/>. Read more about Protecting Cultural Heritage here. Photo by Emile Askey. © The J. Paul Getty Trust.

Page last modified 9 January 2008.

Copyright © 2003-2007 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Questions regarding the website, please contact edit.ci@iupac.org

From the Editor

President’s Columnby Jung-Il Jin

Features

- Protecting Cultural Heritage: Reflections on the Position of Science in Multidisciplinary Approachesby Jan Wouters

- Radionuclides and Radiochemistry, Part II: Terminology in Nuclear Processes—Misconceptions and Inaccuracies

by Mauro L. Bonardi and David S. Moore

- The Emerging Regulatory Environment: Proceedings of the World Chemistry Leadership Meetingby Colin Humphris and Mark Cesa

- IUPAC in Torino, Italy—Part II

- Division Roundups—Part II

- “Chemistry is Beautiful”—A Report on the Opening Plenary Lecture by Roald Hoffmannby Neil Gussman

IUPAC Wire

- Polymer International–IUPAC Award 2008: Call for Nominations

- IUPAC InChIKey Project Joins Microsoft BioIT Alliance

- Chemical Heritage Foundation Names Thomas R. Tritton

President

- Zafra Lerman Receives George Brown Award for International

Scientific Collaboration

- In Memoriam: The Oldest Active Chemist Dies at the Age of

Nearly One Hundred

The Project Place

- Electrochemical DNA-Based Biosensors: Terms and

Methodology

- Recent Advances in Nomenclature, Properties and Units:

Strategy for Promoting SC-NPU Achievements

- A Multilingual Encyclopedia of Polymer Terminology

- “Global Climate Change”—Monograph for Secondary Schools

- Recommendations for Codes of Conduct

Provisional RecommendationsIUPAC Seeks Your Comments

- Metrological Traceability of Measurement Results in Chemistry

- Glossary of Terms Used in Pharmaceutics

Making an imPACt

- Representation of Configuration in Coordination Polyhedra

- Definitions of Terms Relating to the Structure and Processing

of Sols, Gels, Networks, and Inorganic Hybrid Materials

- Alcohols with Water

Bookworm

- Nomenclatura de Química Inorgánica

- “Photochemistry for a Better Life”

Internet Connection

- ChemSpider and Its Expanding Webby Antony Williams

Conference Call

-The Evolving Identity of Chemistryby D. Thorburns and

Brigitte Van Tiggelen

- Heterocyclic Chemistry by Roger Reed

- Greenhouse Gases: Mitigation and Utilizationby John M. Malin

Where 2B & Y

- Emulsion Polymers, 2–6 June 2008, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA

- Applied Thermodynamics, 29 May–1 June 2008, Cannes, France

- Polar Research, 8–11 July 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia

- Solid State Chemistry, 6–11 July 2008, Bratislava, Slovakia

- Stable Isotope, 31 August–5 September 2008, Presqu’île de Giens, Var, France

- Polymer Processing, 15–19 June 2008, Salerno, Italy

Mark Your Calendar

link to calendars of upcoming IUPAC-sponsored events

January-February 2008 pdf ( 891 KB)

Cover: Jan Wouters (Head of Laboratory at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels), a visiting scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute (Los Angeles), and Cecily Grzywacz, a Getty Conservation Institute scientist, discuss the construction, sampling, and analysis of a mock-up of ancient Chinese wall painting materials containing both inorganic pigment paints and an organic pigment glaze. Research on historical reconstructions can lead to better diagnosis of sources of materials and lower levels of destructiveness when studying historical objects. Read more regarding the Asian Organic Colorants project of the Getty Conservation Institute at <www.getty.edu/conservation/science/asian/>. Read more about Protecting Cultural Heritage here. Photo by Emile Askey. © The J. Paul Getty Trust.

Page last modified 9 January 2008.

Copyright © 2003-2007 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Questions regarding the website, please contact edit.ci@iupac.org