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CHEMISTRY International The News Magazine of IUPAC September-December 2015 Volume 37 No. 5-6 Young Ambassadors for Chemistry in Thailand and Cambodia Progress of Chemistry in South Korea INTERNATIONAL UNION OF Medicinal Chemistry in IUPAC PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY Chemistry International CHEMISTRY International Subscriptions The News Magazine of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Six issues of Chemistry International (ISSN 0193-6484) will be published bimonthly in 2015 (IUPAC) (one volume per annum) in January, March, May, July, September, and November. The 2015 subscription rate is USD 110.00 for organizations and USD 65.00 for individuals. IUPAC Affiliate All information regarding notes for contributors, Members receive CI as part of their Membership subscription, and Members of IUPAC bodies subscriptions, Open Access, back volumes and orders is receive CI free of charge. available online at www.degruyter.com/ci ISSN 0193-6484, eISSN 1365-2192 Managing Editor: Periodicals postage paid at Durham, NC 27709-9990 and additional mailing offices. Fabienne Meyers POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Chemistry International, IUPAC Secretariat, PO Box IUPAC, c/o Department of Chemistry 13757, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3757, USA. Boston University Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering © 2015 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). 590 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, USA Cover: An Aerial view of the open space in Chamchuri Square Shopping Mall in Bangkok with E-mail: [email protected] some of the participating students and teachers of the Young Ambassadors for Chemistry Phone: +1 617 358 0410 program. Page 32 Production: Joshua Gannon Printed by: Sheridan Communications BUILD YOUR OWN BOOK! NEW DE GRUYTER SELECT Individually assembled content For more information, visit Hardcover edition degruyter.com/select Printed Exclusively for you Contents CHEMISTRY International September-December 2015 Volume 37 No. 5-6 Treasurer's Column Ringing the Changes—For the Future by John Corish 2 Stamps International Dreams Make Good Stories 3 Features Progress of Chemistry in South Korea by Choon H. Do 4 Meeting the Google Expectation for Chemical Safety Information 12 by Leah McEwen and Ralph Stuart Medicinal Chemistry in IUPAC by Robin Ganellin 17 Youth Views on Sustainability by David Yafté Díaz–Sánchez 21 IUPAC Wire Thieme–IUPAC Prize 2016 Call for Nominations 24 IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists 24 IUPAC-ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry Call for Nominations 25 CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Green Chemistry Call for Nominations 25 Standard Atomic Weight of Ytterbium Revised 26 De Gruyter to Launch Chemistry Standards Database 26 Solubility Data Series Books Now Available on Web 27 L’Oréal–UNESCO Awards for Women in Science 2015 Announced 27 Berhanu Abegaz Heads the UNESCO International Basic 28 Sciences Programme (IBSP) Scientific Board Christo Balarew Receives Presidential Honors 28 In memoriam: Nikola Kallay (1942-2015) 29 Project Place Storing Energy: with special reference to renewable energy sources 30 Nomenclature for Polymeric Carriers Bearing Chemical Entities 30 with Specific Activities and Names Measurement of Photoluminescence Quantum Yields 31 Young Ambassadors for Chemistry (YAC) 32 Making an ImPACt Latest Updates from PAC Conferences 36 Brief Guide to the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry 37 IUPAC Glossary of Terms Used in Neurotoxicology 37 See center IUPAC Provisional Recommendations pages tear-out Source-Based Nomenclature for Single-Strand Homopolymers 38 and Copolymers Glossary of Terms Used in Extraction 38 Bookworm Ionic Polymerization, Part I & II 39 Polymers and Organic Chemistry 39 Macromolecular Complexes 40 Conference Call POLYCHAR 23 World Forum Advanced Materials 42 Science Assessments and Research Integrity 44 Where 2B & Y 46 Mark Your Calendar 49 Index 2015 50 Stamps international, page 3 Treasurer’s Column Ringing the Changes— For the Future market conditions, advised that the Union should move to more proactive management of its resources by John Corish while maintaining its prudent approach to ensure the safe preservation of our capital. Tenders for the man- s the world economy con- agement of the portfolio were solicited from financial tinues to return, if some- management companies and, following interviews, the Awhat haltingly, to a more Finance Committee advised that the portfolio be man- vibrant state, it is good to be aged by BB&T and Scott and Stringfellow. These new able to report that during the arrangements were negotiated by the Executive Direc- past twelve months there have tor and the Treasurer and implemented in November been significant and beneficial 2014 with a new Investment policy statement being changes in all aspects of the financial management put in place to govern their operation. and operation of the Union. It goes without saying The national subscriptions of our National Adher- that it has not been possible for IUPAC to emerge ing Organisations provide the mainstay of the funding completely unscathed from the very difficult finan- that is used to operate the Union and to finance our cial conditions that have prevailed during and since various programmes. The proportion to be paid by the recession, but we have come through these each member has been decided for many years using a circumstances very well. More importantly, we have model based on the values of the chemical production now set the foundations in our revenue generation of each country as reported annually by Cefic. To avoid and financial management information systems and abrupt changes in these subscriptions the relevant Cef- expenditure controls that will enable us to progress ic data were averaged over the five most recent years and prosper in the future. The Executive Director and for which they were available. Countries were also of- Secretary General have worked this year to bring the fered the option to pay in U.S. dollars or in their nation- management accounting for all operations in-house al currencies. In the latter case the exchange rates used and the Secretariat is now using new GAAP-compliant were averaged over the four quarters of the year prior software. The recent appointment of a financial con- to a Council meeting—again to minimise abrupt chang- troller will ensure that our management accounting is es in the subscription for any member. Unfortunately, undertaken in a much more timely manner. the algorithm developed and used over the years in this model failed when used to calculate the nation- Our three principal income streams remain the Nation- al subscriptions for the upcoming biennium (2016-17). al subscriptions paid by our member countries, the A significant number of countries were assigned very income from our investment portfolio, and the profits large and unacceptable percentage increases in their from our publications and I will report on these in re- subscriptions. This failure was due in part to chang- verse order. The year that has just passed, 2014, was es in the pattern of distribution of the manufacture of the first in our new collaborative publication venture chemicals across the world but with this effect being with De Gruyter. The result has been very encouraging. greatly aggravated by the steady and large increase in The net profits from our publications—the subscrip- the value of the U.S. dollar relative to most other cur- tions to Pure and Applied Chemistry, less its publi- rencies, particularly during the past two years. These cation and distribution costs, and those of Chemistry exchange rate changes have also rendered the value International—had been steadily declining during the of the payments being made in National currencies in years prior to 2014, but this decline has now been the current biennium quite considerably smaller than turned around and we are likely to see instead an in- was calculated at the time that they had been bud- crease in this income in the future as the new arrange- geted, thus reducing the real income of the Union. To ments settle down. Important decisions still remain to overcome these difficulties an interim model to apply be made in respect of Chemistry International, and new for the next biennium only was proposed, in consul- income-earning possibilities have also been opened up tation with the Officers and with the approval of the by a new value-added database for IUPAC standards Bureau, to the recent Council meeting at Busan. The and recommendations. basic tenet of this model is to equally share the cur- At its meeting in February 2014 the Finance Com- rent financial burdens by setting the same percentage mittee, after a thorough review of our Investment increase, five percent year on year, for all members Portfolio carried out in the light of the then-prevailing on their current subscriptions. The budgets proposed 2 CHEMISTRY International September-December 2015 also carried manageable deficits and the recovery was professional staff at the Secretariat for their unstinting thereby moderated so that it will be gradual. In addi- support and help throughout. I am confident that all of tion to accepting this interim arrangement, the Council the measures that have been put in place to improve also agreed to the setting up of a task force which will, and maintain our financial wellbeing will ensure that in the immediate future, consult with all stakeholders, the Union can move on with confidence to celebrate especially the National Adhering Organisations, to es- its Centenary in 2019 and to continue for many years tablish a new model on which to base the calculations thereafter. of national subscriptions in the future. This new model is scheduled to be ready next year and will be sent for John Corish <[email protected]> has been treasurer of IUPAC since January approval to the next Council meeting in Brazil in 2017. 2008. He has served IUPAC at many levels since 1979, including chair of As the end of my service as Treasurer of IUPAC ap- the Subcommittee on Materials Chemistry, president of the Inorganic proaches, I wish to thank my fellow Officers and the Chemistry Division, and member of the Finance Committee.