Meetings

Committee on Nomenclature, Terminology, and Symbols

The full Committee typically meets during each ACS spring and fall national meeting. The fall meeting is open to Members of the ACS who are registered to attend the associated national meeting. All meetings are open to Councilors as observers.

Following are agendas for upcoming Committee meetings. We’ve also listed minutes from past Committee meetings, as available:

2010 Spring @ San Francisco

• Minutes
• Attachment 1
  Agenda
• Attachment 2
  Presidential Symposia
• Attachment 3
  ACS Strategic Plan – Review Actions and Conclusions
• Attachment 4
  Report on Biochemical and Carbohydrate Nomenclature
• Attachment 5
  Nomenclature Generation Software
• Attachment 6
  Nomenclature Wikipedia Entry Update
• Attachment 7
  Element 112
• Attachment 8
  Membership Address List

2009 Fall @ Washington DC

2009 Spring @ Salt Lake City

2008 Fall @ Philadelphia

• Minutes
• Attachment 1
  ACS Strategic Plan – cover letter
• Attachment 2
  ACS Strategic Plan – metrics and strategies summary
• Attachment 3
  Report on ANSI Nontechnology activities, Herb Kaesz
• Attachment 4
  Nomenclature Generation Software, Peter Rusch
• Attachment 5
  Committee Expense Reimbursement Procedure

2008 Spring @ New Orleans

• Minutes
• Attachment 1
  Chemistry International – Terminology in Nuclear Processes – Misconceptions and Inaccuracies
• Attachment 2
  Chemistry International – Recent Advances in Nomenclature, Properties, and Units
• Attachment 3
  Chemistry International – A Multilingual Encyclopedia of Polymer Technology
• Attachment 4
  IUPAC Division VIII Committee Update Report
• Attachment 5
  IUPAC Graphical representation standards for chemical structure diagrams
• Attachment 6
  Proposal for Explicit Designation of PINs
• Attachment 7
  Proposal for Revision of Boundaries for Application of Organic PIN Rules and Inorganic PIN Rules
• Attachment 8
  Progress Report on Wiki for Nanotechnology Terminology
• Attachment 9
  Glossary of Class Names of Polymers Based on Chemical Structure and Molecular Architecture
• Attachment 10
  Explanatory Glossary of Terms used in Expression of Relative Isotope Ratios and Gas Ratios
• Attachment 11
  Glossary of Terms Used in Pharmaceutics
• Attachment 12
  ACS Petitions
• Attachment 13
  Chemical Abstracts to Check on Wikipedia
• Attachment 14
  Report on ASTM Terminology Resource, G. Clark Dehne
• Attachment 15
  Report of the ACS Carbohydrate Division Nomenclature Committee

2007 Fall @ Boston

• Minutes
• Attachment 1a
  Redefinition of the kilogram – a decision whose time has come
• Attachment 1b
  Calculating Molar Mass and Related Quantities in the New SI
• Attachment 2
  Project Status – Wiki for Nanotechnology Terminology, Peter Rusch
• Attachment 3
  IUPAC Division VIII Committee meeting (Turin), August 4-5

2007 Spring @ Chicago

• Minutes
• Attachment 1
  IUPAC: Recommendations for Graphical Representation Standards for Chemical Structure Diagrams
• Attachment 2
  IUPAC Division VIII Committee meeting of September 6-7, 2006
• Attachment 3
  CAS Nomenclature Changes for CA Index Names