Recently added articles from Chemistry International:

From the editor.(Editorial)

Mar 01, 2008; Meyers, Fabienne ... "Good ideas really do not need a lot of selling" was the comment by the reviewer of a project proposal submitted recently to IUPAC. Is this really right? Sure it is if the ideas presented are well targeted to an audience that knows the importance and ramifications of the proposal. But what ...

The role of ICTNS in the project system.(Officer's Column)(Interdivisional Committee on Terminology, Nomenclature and Symbols)

Mar 01, 2008; Lorimer, Jack ... In the May-June 2006 issue of CI, Gus Somsen, then chairman of the Project Committee, highlighted some features of the IUPAC project system. His article described how a project progresses from an initial idea to preparation and external review of a project proposal, to assembling a Task ...

The father of toxicology?(Stamps International)(Paracelsus)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008; Rabinovich, Daniel ... Much has been written about Paracelsus (1493-1541), the famous alchemist, physician, and astrologer of the sixteenth century, often cited for coining the phrase "the dose makes the poison." Never the unpretentious type, he was born Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim in ...

Chemistry for biology.

Mar 01, 2008; Norin, Torbjorn ... The relationship between chemistry and biology is succinctly embodied in the often-cited statement "cells obey the laws of chemistry." In this context, it is also relevant to reflect on the opening lines of the famous paper by Watson and Crick: "We wish to suggest a structure for the salt ...

The human kinome--Invitrogen Corp. poster caption.

Mar 01, 2008 ... Phosphorylation by protein kinases represents a central theme within signal transduction. Since the description of reversible protein phosphorylation influencing protein activity by Fischer and Krebs in 1955, protein kinases have been shown to play central roles in the regulation of most ...

Scientifiques Sans Frontieres Australia.(Organization overview)

Mar 01, 2008; Scholes, Colin ... Malaria infects 515 million people each year, killing one to three million children, yet currently there is no vaccine. (1) Arsenic poisoning from contaminated drinking water affects 157 million people. (2) And although bright minds exist all over the world, representatives from the ...

Three decades of IUPAC initiatives.(Chemical Education in India)(International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry)

Mar 01, 2008; Uberoi, N.K. ... As undergraduate science students at Delhi University (DU), we became familiar with IUPAC's role in pure and applied chemistry in the early 1950s. While pursuing graduate studies at Princeton University in the late 1950s, the junior author (KVS) was mesmerized by the chemical ...

Council round table discussions: actions arising from Torino.(Up for Discussion)(Torino, Italy)(Conference news)

Mar 01, 2008 ... On 10 August 2007, four round table discussions were held for the first time during the General Assembly to allow small groups of Council delegates to debate subjects of mutual interest in a setting conducive to the easy exchange of ideas. A consensus emerged among the 67 participants that ...

Solubility data compilations for the practicing chemist.(Tools of the Trade)

Mar 01, 2008; Gamsjager, Heinz ... Phenomena related to the solubility of solids, liquids, and gases with one another are of interest to scientists, technologists, and medical practitioners in a wide array of disciplines. Solubility data are, for example, employed to determine thermodynamic quantities, and to predict the ...

Water in the Gaza Strip.(IUPAC Wire)(Conference news)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Malta III attendees unanimously adopted the following communique to be addressed to regional and world leaders. The document has been delivered to Tony Blair, envoy to the Middle East working on behalf of the United States, Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union. ...

Luis Oro to become EuCheMS president.(IUPAC Wire)(European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Professor Luis Oro, past president of the Real Sociedad Espanola de Quimica, has been elected as president elect of EuCheMS. He will become president in October 2008. Prof. Oro has made important contributions to the renaissance of chemistry, not only in Spain, through his ...

On the environmental impact of altered pesticide use on transgenic crops.(The Project Place)

Mar 01, 2008; Kleter, Gijs A. ... Modern biotechnology has enabled the introduction of "foreign" genes into crop plants, leading to the creation of "transgenic" plants and providing a new method for conveying properties of interest to plants. Since the first large-scale introduction of transgenic crops a little more than ...

Future energy: improved, sustainable, and clean options for our planet.(The Project Place)

Mar 01, 2008; Letcher, Trevor ... Current debates about energy policy involve two key issues, fuel shortages (oil, coal and gas) and atmospheric pollution resulting from the burning of that oil, coal and gas--both of these are chemical issues. We have the technical know-how to use less energy per capita and ...

Green Book: Abridged Version.(The Project Place)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... The new project "Green Book: Abridged Version" aims at creating a condensed version of the third edition of the Green Book--Quantities, Units, and Symbols in Physical Chemistry*--that will consist of only 40 to 50 pages and be more suitable for university teaching and continuing education ...

Postgraduate course in polymer science.(The Project Place)(Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... The 12th and 13th runs of this course will be held in the academic years 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in Prague. The courses are sponsored by UNESCO with minor financial assistance from the Academy of ...

Chemical issues in biomass burning in Sub-Saharan Africa.(The Project Place)

Mar 01, 2008 ... A new project, endorsed by the IUPAC Subcommittee on Green Chemistry, proposes the preparation of a collaborative book exploring all the aspects relevant to biomass burning in sub-Saharan Africa, with special focus on the chemistry aspects. Biomass burning implies emission of ...

Green chemistry, sustainable development, and social responsibility of scientists.(The Project Place)(Conference news)

Mar 01, 2008 ... The more than 3 000 chemists who came to Moscow in September this year to participate in the XVIII Mendeleyev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry had a chance to enjoy a true Indian summer--in Russia, known as a "woman's summer." The Congress was held in the headquarters of the ...

Glossary of Terms used in Pharmaceutics.(Provisional Recommendations)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... This Glossary of Terms in Pharmaceutics is needed by practitioners in the field of pharmaceutics--a field that fulfills an important and crucial role, different from the roles of other scientific disciplines involved in the drug-making process. The glossary contains 156 definitions used in ...

Explanatory Glossary of Terms used in expression of relative isotope ratios and gas ratios.(Provisional Recommendations)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... To minimize confusion in the expression of measurements of isotope and gas ratios, a glossary based on recommendation by the Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights of the IUPAC is presented. Entries in the glossary are consistent with the SI system of units or with ...

Glossary of class names of polymers based on chemical structure and molecular architecture.(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... This document defines class names of polymers based on the class names of starting monomers and characteristic features of the chemical constitution of polymer molecules (macromolecules), i.e., class names that have gained general acceptance in the polymer and material literature, science ...