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International the News Magazine of IUPAC CHEMISTRY International The News Magazine of IUPAC January-March 2017 Volume 39 No. 1 Chemistry Organizations in a Changing World Woodward’s Words The Periodic Table (Continued?) INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY Chemistry International CHEMISTRY International Subscriptions Six issues of Chemistry International (ISSN 0193-6484) will be published quarterly in 2017 (one volume The News Magazine of the International Union of Pure and per annum) in January, Apri, July, and October. The 2017 subscription rate is USD 110.00 for organizations Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and USD 65.00 for individuals. IUPAC Affiliate Members receive CI as part of their Membership subscrip- tion, and Members of IUPAC bodies receive CI free of charge. 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This work is licensed Boston University under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering International License. 590 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, USA E-mail: [email protected] Front Cover: In a rapidly changing world, what is the fundamental purpose of chemistry organizations, Phone: +1 617 358 0410 what should be their roles and how do they need to refresh themselves to best serve the field and also society at large? Stephen A. Matlin, Alain Krief, Henning Hopf, and Goverdhan Mehta examin these Production: Joshua Gannon questions. See feature page 15. Cover image ©VAlekStudio Printed by: Sheridan Communications Back Cover Tear-off Page: IUPAC periodic table of the elements, version 28 November 2016 YOUR SHORTCUT TO IUPAC STANDARDS TEST OUR NEW DATABASE Test the database yourself and activitate your 30 days of free online trial. Your access token: IUPAC-database Discover how to get access: degruyter.com/accesstoken This trial does not include any contractual obligations This database is the only product that provides for the quick and easy search and retrieval of IUPAC’s standards and recommendations which until now have remained unsorted within the huge Pure and Applied Chemistry archive. f Useful: IUPAC’s standards and recommendations easily discoverable f Comprehensive: standard values and procedures; nomenclature, terminology and symbols in chemistry and materials properties of elements, etc. f Smart: topical structure, advanced search, cross linked entries degruyter.com/iupac Contents CHEMISTRY International January-March 2017 Volume 39 No. 1 President’s Column On the Path to Rewarding Times by Natalia Tarasova 2 Features Taking IUPAC Literally: Woodward’s Pure and Applied Chemistry Words by Jeffrey I. Seeman 4 The Periodic Table (Continued?): Eka-francium Et Seq. by Paul J. Karol 10 Chemistry Organizations in a Changing World by Stephen A. Matlin, Alain Krief, Henning Hopf, and Goverdhan Mehta 15 IUPAC Wire IUPAC and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Take Partnership to New Level 20 IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 20 IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements—Updated Release 21 1 18 Gender-based Harassment in the Practice of Science 21 1 2 H He hydrogen helium [1.007, 1.009] 2 Key: 13 14 15 16 17 4.003 3 4 atomic number 5 6 7 8 9 10 Li Be Symbol B C N O F Ne ICSU to Merge with ISSC 22 lithium beryllium name boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon [6.938, 6.997] 9.012 standard atomic weight [10.80, 10.83] [12.00, 12.02] [14.00, 14.01] [15.99, 16.00] 19.00 20.18 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar sodium magnesium aluminium silicon phosphorus sulfur chlorine argon 22.99 [24.30, 24.31] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 26.98 [28.08, 28.09] 30.97 [32.05, 32.08] [35.44, 35.46] 39.95 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Remembering Peter Greaves Taylor Fogg (1929-2016) 22 K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton 39.10 40.08 44.96 47.87 50.94 52.00 54.94 55.85 58.93 58.69 63.55 65.38(2) 69.72 72.63 74.92 78.97 [79.90, 79.91] 83.80 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon 85.47 87.62 88.91 91.22 92.91 95.95 101.1 102.9 106.4 107.9 112.4 114.8 118.7 121.8 127.6 126.9 131.3 55 56 57-71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 Cs Ba lanthanoids Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn caesium barium hafnium tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium astatine radon 132.9 137.3 178.5 180.9 183.8 186.2 190.2 192.2 195.1 197.0 200.6200.6 [204.3, 204.4] 207.2207.2 209.0209.0 87 88 89-103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112112 113113 114114 115115 116116 117117 118118 Stamps International Fr Ra actinoids Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn UutUut Fl UupUup Lv UusUus UuoUuo francium radium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium ununtrium flerovium ununpentium livermorium ununseptium ununoctium 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Woodward’s Birth Centennial by Daniel Rabinovich 23 lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium 138.9 140.1 140.9 144.2144.2 150.4150.4 152.0152.0 157.3157.3 158.9158.9 162.5162.5 164.9164.9 167.3 168.9 173.0 175.0 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr actinium thorium protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium lawrencium 232.0 231.0 238.0238.0 For notes and updates to this table, see www.iupac.org.ww This version is dated 8 January 2 016. Copyright © 2 0 01616 IUIUPAC,PAC, the InteInternationalrnational Union of Pure and Applied ChemistChemistry. 113 115 117 118 Project Place Nh Mc Ts Og Environmental Fate and Risks of Nano-enabled Pesticides 24 Ecological Risk Assessment Workshop for Central America 26 A Critical Review of Reporting and Storage of NMR Data for Spin-Half Nuclei in Small Molecules 26 Guides in Metrology 27 Bookworm Successful Drug Discovery 28 Making an ImPACt Source-based Nomenclature for Single-strand Homopolymers and Copolymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2016) 29 Comprehensive Definition of Oxidation State (IUPAC Recommendations 2016) 29 2014 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Constants of Physics and Chemistry—cut-out 29 Glossary of Terms Used in Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016) 30 Provisional Recommendations Terminology of Bioanalytical Methods 31 Nomenclature and Terminology for Dendrimers with Regular Dendrons and for Hyperbranched Polymers 31 Conference Call WMFmeetsIUPAC by Hans van Egmond and Rudolf Krska 32 Chemistry Education by Datuk Dr. Soon Ting-Kueh 33 Green Chemistry by Pietro Tundo 36 Solid State Chemistry by Adriana Lančok 38 Where 2B & Y 41 Mark Your Calendar 43 President’s Column On the periods of the Periodic Table provides a natural op- portunity for a necessary expert review of these cri- Path to teria in the light of the experimental and theoretical Rewarding advances in the field. IUPAC and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) have re- Times cently agreed to establish a new joint working group which task will be to examine the criteria used to by Natalia Tarasova verify claims for the discovery of new elements. am grateful for this oppor- Another event I would like to mention is the es- tunity to wish members of tablishment of the Interdivisional Committee on IIUPAC bodies and adhering Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development. Green organizatins, fellows, affiliate members, and company Chemistry which started 25 years ago as the inven- associates a successful, fruitful, and healthy year in tion, design, and application of chemical products 2017. Many of us will meet in São Paulo, Brazil, in July, and processes to reduce or eliminate the use and the at the IUPAC General Assembly and the 46th World production of harmful substances, is seen nowadays Chemistry Congress, for the first time to be held in as a basic instrument for sustainable development South America, to discuss the directions of the Union’s that touches many aspects of the environment and activities as IUPAC is moving to its’ centenary in 2019. human welfare, and is relevant to 17 Sustainable De- velopment Goals set by the United Nations.
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