Contents

>Past President's Column
>PEDECIBA
>Scientific and Technical Information
>Macromolecular Nomenclature and Terminology
>Aligning the Red and Blue Books
>
IUPAC News
>Awards
>IUPAC Projects
>Highlights from PAC
>Provisional Recommendations
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New Books
>Reports from Conferences
>Conference Announcements
>Conference Calendar

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Chemistry International
Vol. 24, No. 6
November 2002

> A Sketch Is Worth A Thousand Words
a note from the editor

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PEDECIBA–Programa de DEsarrollo de CIencias BAsicas

Contents


Past President’s Column

PEDECIBA–Programa de DEsarrollo de CIencias BAsicas
by Patrick Moyna

Scientific and Technical Information
IUPAC Representative’s Report on the 2002 ICSTI General Assembly
by Wendy Warr
Cometh A Digital Dark Age?
by Tony Davies

Macromolecular Nomenclature and Terminology: A Brief History of IUPAC Activities
by Máximo Barón, Norbert Bikales Bikales, Robert Fox, and William Work

Aligning the Revised Red and Blue Books and Preparing for IUPAC Preferred Names
by Ture Damhus

IUPAC News
The Address is www.iupac.org

Awards and Honors
Dana Knox Receives the Franzosini Award

IUPAC Projects
New SIT Software Makes Speciation Calculations Easier
Recommendations for NMR Measurements of High pK Values and Equilibrium Constants in Strongly Basic Solutions
Performance Evaluation Criteria for Preparation and Measurement of Macro- and Microfabricated Ion-Selective Electrodes
New Solubility Data Projects
Concepts and Structure for Requests in Clinical Laboratories
Properties and Units for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology
Global Use of the C-NPU Concept System for Properties in Toxicology

Highlights from Pure and Applied Chemistry
Definitions Relating to Stereochemically Asymmetric Polymerizations
Potentiometric Selectivity Coefficients of Ion-Selective Electrodes

Provisional Recommendations
Definitions of Terms Related to Polymer Blends, Composites and Multiphase Polymeric Materials

New Books and Publications
The Science of Sweeteners
Ionic Poylmerization
Green Chemistry in Africa
Vermeer’s Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces

Reports from Conferences
Bioinformatics 2002: North-South Networking
CHEMRAWN XIV Follows Up With Green Chemistry Activities
Functional p-Electron Systems
Organic Synthesis
Solubility Phenomena-Application for Environmental Improvement
Physical Organic Chemistry

Conference Announcements
Polymer Characterization (POLYCHAR-11), 6-10 Jan 2003
UNESCO School & IUPAC Conference on Polymer Properties, 14-17 Apr 2003
Ionic Polymerization, 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2003

Spectroscopy of Partially Ordered Macromolecular Systems, 21-24 Jul 2003

Conference Calendar of IUPAC-sponsored events

A Sketch Is Worth A Thousand Words

Vision is a sense deeply anchored in our mind. It not only allows us to "look," but far more valuable, vision helps us to "see." Thus, the skill of image making–sketching, painting, or photography–is a universally cherished art.

In chemistry, molecular sketches and 3D representations are among the tools used to help us visualize and understand structures and reaction mechanisms. A sketch can also be a memorization technique, that teachers of all disciplines and grades use daily. In this issue of CI, two instances remind us that "a sketch is worth a thousand words." The first, extracted from Margolskee’s contribution to a PAC special topic issue on the science of sweeteners, is appropriately sweet. And, it speaks for itself; see page 26. The second one, which I find delightful, comes from Professor Perrin’s very private collection that was on display at the 16th International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (San Diego, CA, USA, August 2002); it is called Distillation II, see page 33.

While CI is obviously not an artsy newsmagazine, I often feel that we should put more thinking into sketches, and use "images" to help overcome the complexities and difficulties of our common language. After all, this might also help to improve the "image" of chemistry!

Fabienne Meyers
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