Recently added articles from Chemistry International:
From the editor.
Mar 01, 2009; ... In less than 6 months, we will meet for the biennial IUPAC Congress and General Assembly (GA) in Glasgow, UK. IUPAC members engaged in divisions and committees will, as usual, juggle a busy schedule of meetings, but also hopefully find the time to participate in the Congress organized by ...
Chemistry solutions.(Officers' Column)
Mar 01, 2009; ... From 2-7 August 2009, scientists from across the globe will come together at Glasgow's iconic Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) for the IUPAC Congress, one of the world's most prestigious international chemistry conferences. Four years ago, the Royal Society of Chemistry ...
Amount of substance and the mole.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The International System of Units, the SI, is built upon seven base quantities and seven base units, as summarized in the table below. Although most of these are familiar to all scientists, the quantity "amount of substance" and its unit "mole" are less familiar and are mainly used by ...
Customs, chemistry, and IUPAC: an old story.(International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry )(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... For many people, mention of a customs authority or agency brings to mind those annoying officials at the border who inspect your luggage and confiscate your travel souvenirs. Obviously, this is only a partial view of what customs does. Customs is responsible for collecting and safeguarding ...
What's in a chemical name?(Stamps International)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Geneva Conference of 1892, attended by 34 prominent chemists from nine European countries, marked the first international effort to address the dire need for a systematic way of naming organic compounds, the number and complexity of which were rapidly increasing at the time. A set of ...
IUPAC's contribution to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.(Helping Improve Biosafety and Biosecurity)
Mar 01, 2009; ... For many years, IUPAC had been working with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to consider advances in science and technology relevant to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). In 2008, IUPAC participated for the first time in a Meeting of Experts of the ...
UN declares 2011 as International Year of Chemistry.(IUPAC Wire: News and information on IUPAC, its fellows, and member organizations.)
Mar 01, 2009 ... On 30 December 2008, the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution proclaiming 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry, placing UNESCO and IUPAC at the helm of the event. Ethiopia submitted the UN resolution calling for the year, which will celebrate ...
UNESCO--United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.(IUPAC Wire: News and information on IUPAC, its fellows, and member organizations.)(Organization overview)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... UNESCO, founded in November 1945 as a specialized agency of the UN, contributes to the building of peace, the alleviation of poverty, to sustainable development, and intercultural dialogue through education, science, culture, and communication. In fulfilling its mission, UNESCO functions ...
IUPAC executive director search.(IUPAC Wire: News and information on IUPAC, its fellows, and member organizations.)(International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is seeking to appoint a new executive director to replace Dr. John W. Jost, who will retire towards the end of 2010. The executive director reports to the president through the secretary general (and for financial matters ...
Val Metanomski remembered.(IUPAC Wire: News and information on IUPAC, its fellows, and member organizations.)(In memoriam)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Longtime IUPAC member Val Metanomski died on 11 December 2008. He was an expert in the development and application of polymer nomenclature, and was one of the authors of the IUPAC Purple Book, the Compendium of Polymer Terminology and Nomenclature. Val's long and sterling ...
In memoriam.(IUPAC Wire: News and information on IUPAC, its fellows, and member organizations.)(Obituary)
Mar 01, 2009 ... IUPAC was saddened to learn of the following deaths (reported since 1 March 2007) of Union colleagues. We shall remember them with respect and gratitude for their service to IUPAC. Prof. Ronald D. Brown (Australia)--Member, Commission on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy, ...
Guide for authors of papers and reports in polymer science and technology.(The Project Place: Information about new, current, and complete IUPAC projects and related initiatives.)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Polymer chemistry is advancing rapidly as major improvements in polymer synthesis make an impact. Some of the most far-reaching advances have come from "living" free radical polymerization and from the introduction of dendrimers. This means many polymers can now be prepared with high ...
Update of Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry.(The Project Place: Information about new, current, and complete IUPAC projects and related initiatives.)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... It has been 10 years since the first Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry was published. During this period, a remarkable change in medicinal chemistry practice has occurred, largely in response to the genomic revolution, including the introduction of combinatorial chemistry, ...
Analogue-based drug discovery II.(The Project Place: Information about new, current, and complete IUPAC projects and related initiatives.)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Analogue-based drug discovery has a very important role in drug research. The first project under the same title afforded a book published by Wiley-VCH in 2006. It was well received (e.g., see M. Cowart, J. Med. Chem. 2006, 49, 4799), and all the copies were sold within 18 months. ...
Frontiers of chemical sciences: research and education in the Middle East.(The Project Place: Information about new, current, and complete IUPAC projects and related initiatives.)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Building on the tremendous success of the first, second, and third Malta conferences (see projects 2002-061-1-020, 2004-030-1-020, and 2006-035-1-020, respectively), the Executive Committee has recently approved a project to be known as Malta IV. The objectives are as follows: ...
Investigating out-of-specification test results of chemical composition based on metrological concepts.(The Project Place: Information about new, current, and complete IUPAC projects and related initiatives.)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009 ... By the current good manufacturing practice in pharmaceutical industry, out-of-specification (OOS) test results are results that fall outside the specifications or established acceptance criteria. Identifying OOS test results is described in FDA Guidance for Industry "Investigating OOS Test ...
Young Ambassadors for Chemistry in Taipei, Taiwan, and Mauritius.(The Project Place: Information about new, current, and complete IUPAC projects and related initiatives.)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Young Ambassadors for Chemistry (YAC) project is a partnership of IUPAC's Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) and Science Across the World (SAW), designed to facilitate the flow of ideas between chemistry and society using young people as mediators. After five years of ...
Convention on the use of units for time in Earth and Planetary Sciences.(Provisional Recommendations)
Mar 01, 2009 ... www.iupac.org/reports/provisional The units of time (both absolute time and duration) most practical to use in Earth and Planetary Sciences are multiples of the year, or annus (a). Its proposed definition in terms of the fundamental SI unit for time, the second (s), for the ...
Functional Food and Health.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Functional Food and Health edited by Takayuki Shibamoto, Kazuki Kanazawa, Fereidoon Shahidi, and Chi-Tang Ho ACS Symposium series 993, 2008 ACS (ISBN-13: 9780841269828) This book is a product of presentations made at the first ...
Biodiversity and Chemistry of Natural Products.(Conference Call: Reports from recent conferences and symposia)(Conference notes)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The IUPAC-sponsored conference on Biodiversity and Chemistry of Natural Products, held 13-18 July 2008 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, was an amalgamation of the International Conference on Biodiversity and the International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products ....