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Teaching Experimental Instrumental Analytical Chemistry Are we forming professionals, training operators or illuding students (and ourselves)?

Teaching Experimental Instrumental Analytical Chemistry Are we forming professionals, training operators or illuding students (and ourselves)?

What is the Best Definition for (Bio)Analytical Chemistry?

One of the simplest definitions for analytical chemistry is “the branch of chemistry concerned with analysis.”1 But what does "analysis" really mean? In the past it was synonymous for decomposition. However, with the rise of new technologies, it is no longer necessary to destroy samples to know their composition. Therefore, the current meaning of analysis refers to the identification and quantification of different analytes without the need for decomposition. However, analytical chemists do not merely provide results; they also develop strategies to measure different chemical properties. Furthermore, they spend an enormous amount of time interpreting the obtained data. Thus, considering the vast variety of works involving analytical chemistry, a more comprehensive definition of the discipline is required. Analytical chemistry was defined in the second half of the 20th century as “the chemical discipline that gains information on the chemical composition and structure of substances, particularly on the type of species, their amount, possible temporal and spatial changes, and structural relationships between the constituents.”2 In 1993, the Working Party on Analytical Chemistry (WPAC) of the Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) defined analytical chemistry as “a scientific discipline that develops and applies methods, instruments, and strategies to obtain information on the composition and nature of matter in space and time,” indicating that the development of methods and instruments is a central part of this science.3 However, some analytical chemists consider that this sort of definition does not entirely reflect the identity and wide scope of analytical chemistry. In the year 2000, Professor Miguel Valcárcel proposed a more comprehensive definition for analytical chemistry as “a metrological science that develops, optimizes and applies material, methodological and strategic tools of widely variable nature which materialize in measurement processes intended to derive quality (bio)chemical information of both partial [presence or concentration of bio(chemical) analyte species] and global nature on materials or systems of widely variable nature (chemical, biochemical and biological) in space and time in order to solve scientific, technical and social problems.”4 This constitutes a very encompassing definition because it includes more complete information that contributes to a deeper characterization and understanding of the discipline, while highlighting the different capabilities and approaches as well as some of the challenges. So, many definitions can be found in the literature. The truth is that while some definitions express essential aspects of (bio)analytical chemistry and the analytical work, others characterize it in a very concise way. Furthermore, while some authors consider it to be a branch of chemistry independent of other chemical disciplines, others classify it as an autonomous science called analytical sciences.4 The important thing is the agreement in the description of the discipline, for example, to obtain information on matter via representative samples; the inclusion of structural information; and the vital role to address important scientific, economic, and social problems. In the present era, (bio)analytical chemistry boasts an extensive array of methods, techniques, and equipment at its command, enabling it to skillfully orchestrate its instrumental repertoire. As a result, the diverse spectrum of capabilities that (bio)analytical chemistry can attain is remarkably broad. The Uruguayan (bio)analytical chemistry scene is no stranger to this continuous change and redefinition. In this regard, BrJAC organized a special issue dedicated to the 7th Uruguayan Congress of Analytical Chemistry (CUQA 7), aiming to celebrate the work of all its participants. This issue contains an Interview with Dr. Manuel Miró from the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain), a Point of View written by Dr. Mariela Pistón from Universidad de la República (Uruguay), and a Letter authored by Dr. Ignacio Machado from Universidad de la República (Uruguay). The special issue also features four Articles and two Technical Notes authored by some of the participants. It is imperative to thank all of the reviewers who have participated in this process by giving their time and expertise to evaluate the manuscripts. I hope you enjoy reading about this exciting work within the field of (bio)analytical chemistry.

Analytical sciences in Austria

Analytical chemistry has been an important independent scientific discipline in Austria for many years. This is clearly highlighted by the long existence of dedicated institutes/ departments at Austrian universities (Graz, Linz, Innsbruck and Vienna) providing high-level education as well as engagement in various curricula and research. Furthermore, this is underlined by the existence of an independent Austrian scientific society dedicated to the promotion of analytical sciences, namely the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry (ASAC), which was founded in 1948. One of the society’s major aims was to further activities in the area of microchemistry and microanalysis, in which significant progress had been achieved by Fritz Pregl. Pregl was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 for his work in microanalysis, work that was carried out at the University of Graz. In the decades following the foundation of ASAC, its focus has shifted from microchemistry to analytical chemistry in a very broad sense, which reflects the huge changes that have taken place in analytical sciences over the years. The title of the journal Microchimica Acta still reminds us of the origins of modern analytical chemistry in Austria. Scientific research in analytical sciences is a privilege of universities, but attitudes towards analytical chemistry as an independent scientific discipline differ from country to country. There is (unfortunately) not full agreement that every chemistry department should have a full professor in analytical chemistry. Universities in Austria have always been aware of the importance of analytical sciences and that experts in this area are vital for progress in chemistry and related fields; therefore, analytical chemistry is well established at Austrian universities. The development of analytical chemistry in Austria and also in the European context has been substantially supported by ASAC. ASAC played a leading role in the Working Party for Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies in the 1970s and 1980s (now the Division of Analytical Chemistry of EuCheMS) and it has always been a driving force to make analytical chemistry sufficiently visible for the scientific community. Achievements in Austrian analytical chemistry and of ASAC are internationally recognized. Therefore, it is not surprising that ASAC is continually involved in the organization of international conferences, including meetings dedicated to specific topics in the analytical sciences, as well as broad-ranging conferences such as Euroanalysis (held in Austria in 1990 and in 2009). Looking for hot spots of analytical chemistry in Austria, one should consider the activities of not only universities, but also a range of government laboratories involved in food analysis, environmental analysis, health and related areas. These labs do perform professional routine analytical work, but they are also involved in the validation of new analytical methods in cooperation with international partners. Last but not least, Austria is an attractive location for international chemical and instrument companies that run production plants as well as research facilities, where highly qualified analytical chemists are employed. The idea to prepare a special issue on the progress of analytical sciences in Austria was immediately welcomed Published in the special issue Analytical Sciences in Austria with Guest Editors G. Allmaier, W. Buchberger and K. Francesconi.

From Chem. Eur. J. to ChemSusChem: All from ChemPubSoc Europe

Only two decades ago, the European publishing landscape for chemistry was characterized by fragmentation and a large number of chemistry journals owned and published by European chemical societies. Most of these journals had little impact, and their economic performance was less than satisfactory. While discussions about this unfortunate situation and a possible consolidation of efforts had come up every now and then, it was only in the early and mid-nineties of the last century that such developments actually occurred and bore fruit. From the start it was recognized that the prerequisite for success was quality and that it would be necessary to expand into disciplines other than inorganic and organic chemistry probably sooner rather than later. However, the amalgamation of the existing journals into new journals jointly owned by chemical societies was difficult, as the national pride of society members in their national journal, and in some cases the need to change the language of publication to English, had to be overcome. But finally, upon the encouragement of Jean-Marie Lehn, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and Wiley-VCH took the initiative. The first member of what would become a large family of European chemistry journals, Chemistry—A European Journal, covering all areas of chemistry, saw the light of day in 1995. Only three years later the journal was officially owned by the national chemical societies of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Eight months later Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland joined the owners, and a month later Sweden. The contract with Austria was signed in 2000, and today 14 European chemical societies are the joint owners of this journal, which has in the meantime developed into a highly successful journal publishing full papers, communications and a variety of review-type articles with a current Impact Factor of 5.330. This group of 14 societies adopted the name Editorial Union of Chemical Societies (EUChemSoc) for its further publishing activities, all of which are being pursued together with Wiley-VCH, the group's long-time partner in society publishing; and there has been a lot of activity. In 1998, the European Journal of Organic Chemistry and its counterpart, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, were founded. These journals replaced a large number of society journals and have now developed into leading journals in their fields. Only two years later, ChemPhysChem and ChemBioChem joined the journals family, followed by ChemMedChem in 2006 and ChemSusChem in 2008. Also here, existing society journals, such as the Journal de Chimie Physique et de Physico-Chimie Biologique of the former Société Française de Chimie or the journals Il Farmaco and Annali di Chimica of the Società Chimica Italiana were transformed and used as a basis for the new products. In all cases, the flagship journal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Angewandte Chemie, was used as a carrier journal in the start-up phases. And, watch out, a new project is already in the pipeline and will be announced soon! The success of this approach of combining the competence of various chemical societies to create new platforms for publishing chemical research results was soon picked up in other parts of the world. The Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) was created, and its first product, Chemistry—An Asian Journal, was launched in 2006. Today, eleven Asian societies are co-owners of the journal. The Asian and European initiatives work closely together and mutually support each other's top journal. However, the name EUChemSoc for the group of the European owner societies quickly turned out to be less adequate than originally anticipated, in particular after the former Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) changed its name into European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, abbreviated as EuCheMS. As a consequence of this similarity in names and also to make the purpose of this partnership, namely to publish top-notch chemistry journals, more visible, the partner societies decided to change the name of their alliance to the Chemical Publishing Society Europe. ChemPubSoc Europe is the new name for the well-established and successful group of 14 European chemical societies that are the owners and co-owners of and responsible for the continuously growing portfolio of highly successful and relevant chemistry journals. Whenever you see the name ChemPubSoc Europe on the cover of a journal, you can be sure that you hold a premier source of chemical information in your hands—made in Europe for the world!

From Chem. Eur. J. to ChemSusChem: All from ChemPubSoc Europe

Only two decades ago, the European publishing landscape for chemistry was characterized by fragmentation and a large number of chemistry journals owned and published by European chemical societies. Most of these journals had little impact, and their economic performance was less than satisfactory. While discussions about this unfortunate situation and a possible consolidation of efforts had come up every now and then, it was only in the early and mid-nineties of the last century that such developments actually occurred and bore fruit. From the start it was recognized that the prerequisite for success was quality and that it would be necessary to expand into disciplines other than inorganic and organic chemistry probably sooner rather than later. However, the amalgamation of the existing journals into new journals jointly owned by chemical societies was difficult, as the national pride of society members in their national journal, and in some cases the need to change the language of publication to English, had to be overcome. But finally, upon the encouragement of Jean-Marie Lehn, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and Wiley-VCH took the initiative. The first member of what would become a large family of European chemistry journals, Chemistry—A European Journal, covering all areas of chemistry, saw the light of day in 1995. Only three years later the journal was officially owned by the national chemical societies of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Eight months later Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland joined the owners, and a month later Sweden. The contract with Austria was signed in 2000, and today 14 European chemical societies are the joint owners of this journal, which has in the meantime developed into a highly successful journal publishing full papers, communications and a variety of review-type articles with a current Impact Factor of 5.330. This group of 14 societies adopted the name Editorial Union of Chemical Societies (EUChemSoc) for its further publishing activities, all of which are being pursued together with Wiley-VCH, the group's long-time partner in society publishing; and there has been a lot of activity. In 1998, the European Journal of Organic Chemistry and its counterpart, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, were founded. These journals replaced a large number of society journals and have now developed into leading journals in their fields. Only two years later, ChemPhysChem and ChemBioChem joined the journals family, followed by ChemMedChem in 2006 and ChemSusChem in 2008. Also here, existing society journals, such as the Journal de Chimie Physique et de Physico-Chimie Biologique of the former Société Française de Chimie or the journals Il Farmaco and Annali di Chimica of the Società Chimica Italiana were transformed and used as a basis for the new products. In all cases, the flagship journal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Angewandte Chemie, was used as a carrier journal in the start-up phases. And, watch out, a new project is already in the pipeline and will be announced soon! The success of this approach of combining the competence of various chemical societies to create new platforms for publishing chemical research results was soon picked up in other parts of the world. The Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) was created, and its first product, Chemistry—An Asian Journal, was launched in 2006. Today, eleven Asian societies are co-owners of the journal. The Asian and European initiatives work closely together and mutually support each other's top journal. However, the name EUChemSoc for the group of the European owner societies quickly turned out to be less adequate than originally anticipated, in particular after the former Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) changed its name into European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, abbreviated as EuCheMS. As a consequence of this similarity in names and also to make the purpose of this partnership, namely to publish top-notch chemistry journals, more visible, the partner societies decided to change the name of their alliance to the Chemical Publishing Society Europe. ChemPubSoc Europe is the new name for the well-established and successful group of 14 European chemical societies that are the owners and co-owners of and responsible for the continuously growing portfolio of highly successful and relevant chemistry journals. Whenever you see the name ChemPubSoc Europe on the cover of a journal, you can be sure that you hold a premier source of chemical information in your hands—made in Europe for the world!

From Chem. Eur. J. to ChemSusChem: All from ChemPubSoc Europe

Only two decades ago, the European publishing landscape for chemistry was characterized by fragmentation and a large number of chemistry journals owned and published by European chemical societies. Most of these journals had little impact, and their economic performance was less than satisfactory. While discussions about this unfortunate situation and a possible consolidation of efforts had come up every now and then, it was only in the early and mid-nineties of the last century that such developments actually occurred and bore fruit. From the start it was recognized that the prerequisite for success was quality and that it would be necessary to expand into disciplines other than inorganic and organic chemistry probably sooner rather than later. However, the amalgamation of the existing journals into new journals jointly owned by chemical societies was difficult, as the national pride of society members in their national journal, and in some cases the need to change the language of publication to English, had to be overcome. But finally, upon the encouragement of Jean-Marie Lehn, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and Wiley-VCH took the initiative. The first member of what would become a large family of European chemistry journals, Chemistry—A European Journal, covering all areas of chemistry, saw the light of day in 1995. Only three years later the journal was officially owned by the national chemical societies of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Eight months later Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland joined the owners, and a month later Sweden. The contract with Austria was signed in 2000, and today 14 European chemical societies are the joint owners of this journal, which has in the meantime developed into a highly successful journal publishing full papers, communications and a variety of review-type articles with a current Impact Factor of 5.330. This group of 14 societies adopted the name Editorial Union of Chemical Societies (EUChemSoc) for its further publishing activities, all of which are being pursued together with Wiley-VCH, the group's long-time partner in society publishing; and there has been a lot of activity. In 1998, the European Journal of Organic Chemistry and its counterpart, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, were founded. These journals replaced a large number of society journals and have now developed into leading journals in their fields. Only two years later, ChemPhysChem and ChemBioChem joined the journals family, followed by ChemMedChem in 2006 and ChemSusChem in 2008. Also here, existing society journals, such as the Journal de Chimie Physique et de Physico-Chimie Biologique of the former Société Française de Chimie or the journals Il Farmaco and Annali di Chimica of the Società Chimica Italiana were transformed and used as a basis for the new products. In all cases, the flagship journal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Angewandte Chemie, was used as a carrier journal in the start-up phases. And, watch out, a new project is already in the pipeline and will be announced soon! The success of this approach of combining the competence of various chemical societies to create new platforms for publishing chemical research results was soon picked up in other parts of the world. The Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) was created, and its first product, Chemistry—An Asian Journal, was launched in 2006. Today, eleven Asian societies are co-owners of the journal. The Asian and European initiatives work closely together and mutually support each other's top journal. However, the name EUChemSoc for the group of the European owner societies quickly turned out to be less adequate than originally anticipated, in particular after the former Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) changed its name into European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, abbreviated as EuCheMS. As a consequence of this similarity in names and also to make the purpose of this partnership, namely to publish top-notch chemistry journals, more visible, the partner societies decided to change the name of their alliance to the Chemical Publishing Society Europe. ChemPubSoc Europe is the new name for the well-established and successful group of 14 European chemical societies that are the owners and co-owners of and responsible for the continuously growing portfolio of highly successful and relevant chemistry journals. Whenever you see the name ChemPubSoc Europe on the cover of a journal, you can be sure that you hold a premier source of chemical information in your hands—made in Europe for the world!

Contributions of Professor Pier Giorgio Zambonin to analytical chemistry

On the occasion of his 72nd birthday it is our pleasure to congratulate Professor Pier Giorgio Zambonin for his outstanding scientific achievements and significant contributions to the growth of analytical chemistry. Pier Giorgio Zambonin, born in Castelguglielmo in 1935, received his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Padova in 1959. In 1963 he became assistente ordinario (Assistant Professor) at the University of Bari where he was among the founders of the local “Institute of Analytical Chemistry”. In 1966 he joined the laboratory of Professor Joseph Jordan at the Pennsylvania State University where he spent a three-year period as research associate. In 1971, he received the “libera docenza”, and in 1974 he became Full Professor at the University of Bari and, soon after he became Head of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, a position held until 1981 when the Institute merged with the newly established Department of Chemistry. He is presently Head of the University Research Centre for Analytical Mass Spectrometry. As a member of the Italian Chemical Society, Pier Giorgio Zambonin was President of the Apulian Section for a total of nine years and President of the Division of Analytical Chemistry for three years. Since 1988 he has served as representative of the Italian Chemical Society in the Working Party for Analytical Chemistry—WPAC (now Division of Analytical Chemistry) of the Federation of European Chemical Societies (now EuCheMS). In 1996 he was Chairman of the ninth edition of the Euroanalysis conference held in Bologna (involving about 1,000 participants from all over the world and more than 900 scientific contributions). On that occasion he was awarded the Sigillum Magnum of the University of Bologna. The accompanying photo shows Professor Pier Giorgio Zambonin at Euroanalyis IX receiving an award of merit from Professor Arnaldo Liberti, dean of the Italian analytical chemists. As a member of the WPAC Study Group on “Education in Analytical Chemistry” he worked on the harmonization of teaching the discipline in European universities (the “Eurocurriculum”), contributing a chapter to the textbook Analytical Chemistry (Kellner R, Mermet J-M, Otto M, Valcarcel M, Widmer HM (eds) Wiley-VCH, Weinheim). The scientific career of Pier Giorgio Zambonin which started with enthalpimetric studies [1] moved soon to the field of molten salts, at that time, an appealing research area with large potential applications in fields such as nuclear energy, fuel cells, refractory metal deposition and heat transfer/storage. In this field Professor Zambonin rapidly became an internationally acknowledged leader creating the well-known Italian school [2]. A complete survey of his contribution to molten salt chemistry (fundamental aspects, electrochemistry, reaction mechanisms, gas–solute interactions, kinetic studies, etc.) would take a review article, so we purposely will focus on a very limited number of issues. Anal Bioanal Chem (2007) 389:2051–2053 DOI 10.1007/s00216-007-1280-5

Preface

Abstract The 4th International Conference of the Chemical Societies of the South-Eastern European Countries (ICOSECS-4) was held in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, from 18-21 July 2004, at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade. These conferences have become a biennial event: the first two were held in Halkidiki, Greece (1998 and 2000), and the third in Bucharest, Romania (2002). ICOSECS-4 was organized by the Serbian Chemical Society on behalf of the Society of Albanian Chemists, Union of Chemists of Bulgaria, Pancyprian Union of Chemists, Association of Greek Chemists, Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia, Chemical Society of Montenegro, and Romanian Chemical Society. The title of the conference was Chemical Sciences in Changing Times: Visions, Challenges and Solutions. Within this broad title, there were contributions from all areas of chemistry. However, the main focus of the conference was reflected in three symposia: - Advanced materials: From fundamentals to application - The greening of chemistry: Pursuit of a healthy environment and safe food - Teaching and understanding chemistry: New concepts and strategies for changing times (dedicated to 150 years of teaching chemistry in Serbia) The meeting was organized under the auspices of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS), the Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of Serbia, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The president of IUPAC, Leiv Sydnes, and the president of FECS, Gabor Naray-Szabo, attended the conference and addressed the participants. Some 600 researchers from 26 countries took part in the conference. One of the reasons for this large attendance lies in the fact that the organizers of these conferences (the chemical societies of South-East Europe) have declared a commitment to keep the registration fee as low as possible. In comparison with prevailing fees at similar meetings, the ICOSECS-4 registration fee of 80 euros can be considered really modest; it included the book of abstracts, the welcome reception, a city sightseeing tour, and the conference dinner! The scientific program featured five plenary lectures: - John Fenn, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA, the 2002 Nobel Laureate: "Electrospray wings for molecular elephants" - Peter Atkins, Oxford University, Oxford, UK: "Modern trends in chemical education" - C. N. R. Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India: "New directions in the chemical design of materials" - Egon Matijevic, Clarkson University, Potsdam, USA: "Mechanisms of formation of uniform fine particles and their applications" - Ivano Bertini, University of Florence, Florence, Italy: "From genomes to cellular mechanisms and drug design" In addition to the plenary lectures, the program included 38 invited lectures and 25 oral and 437 poster presentations. Brief summaries of all contributions were published in a two-volume book of abstracts. As already mentioned, the organizers put together a rich social program, which included a welcome reception in the historic City Hall (featuring a recital of the Simonuti Trio), a boat sightseeing tour of Belgrade, and a conference dinner with live music and dancing. The next conference, ICOSECS-5, will be organized by the Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia in 2006. Teodor Ast Conference Editor and Chairman of the International Scientific Committee

Introduction

This issue of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry consists of contributions coming from the V. A. Fock School on Quantum and Computational Chemistry held in Novgorod the Great from April 26 to 30, 2004. This was the eighth annual meeting of this school. The first meeting of the V. A. Fock School was held in December 1998 in celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Professor V. A. Fock of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) University, whose work such as the ubiquitous Hartree–Fock approximation is central to physical chemistry and chemical physics. These meetings are attended by the established researchers as well as by younger scientists from leading research centers of Russia. The 2004 meeting was attended by participants from Moscow State University, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Science (RAS), Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of RAS, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis of SB RAS (Novosibirsk), Fock Research Institute for Physics (St. Petersburg), St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics, Ivanovo Institute of Chemical Technology, Favorski Institute of Chemistry SB RAS (Irkutsk), and others. The meeting held in 2004 was remarkable by a special session, the Satellite Symposium on Embedding Methods in Quantum Chemistry of Condensed Phase, organized by Professor I. V. Abarenkov from the Fock Institute. This event gathered established researchers who delivered plenary lectures on their current research. The meetings of this series are sponsored by the Scientific Council on Chemical Structure and Reactivity of RAS. The 2004 meeting, as the previous ones, was also supported by the Section of Quantum and Computational Chemistry at the D. I. Mendeleev Chemical Society of Russia and by the European Working Party for Computational Chemistry at the Federation of European Chemical Societies extended their sponsorship to the V. A. Fock School. Financial support for this activity comes from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 04-03-42015, and the Fock School, 04-03-42017, the Embedding Symposium. The topics presented at the Fock School range from the theoretical foundations of quantum chemistry to its applications related to structure dynamics and reactivity and from diatomics to solid states and biomolecules. The applications involve small molecules as well as biomolecules and condensed-phase systems. These meetings would not be possible without the kind support and assistance of many people. Among them, Professor A. L. Buchachenko, chairman of the Division for Computational Chemistry at the Mendeleev Society chairman of the RAS Council on Chemical Structure and Reactivity, and Professor G. Náray-Szabó, former Chairman of the European Working Party for Computational Chemistry and the President of the Federation of European Chemical Societies must be mentioned. Also, the kind hospitality on the part of the president of the Yaroslav the Wise State University of Novgorod. Professor A. L. Gavrikov has been indispensable to the success of this series of meetings. Key roles were played by the chairman of the local Organizing Committee Prof. Dr. B. I. Seleznev, rector for the Institute of Electronic Information Systems at Novgorod University and his coworkers. Dr. T. M. Lebedeva, Mrs. I. Telina, and Mrs. G. G. Zlatina, whose solutions to all problems made the sessions successful and comfortable and eased the concerns created by the necessary paperwork. Finally, Professor Yngve Öhrn (Florida, USA) is acknowledged for his devotion in organizing the preparation and publication of these Proceedings in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.

The federation of european chemical societies (FECS) division for chemistry and the environment (DCE)

The federation of european chemical societies (FECS) division for chemistry and the environment (DCE)

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions (FECS) European Analytical Column no. 32 (January 2004)

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions (FECS) European Analytical Column no. 32 (January 2004)

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions (DAC-FECS)

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions (DAC-FECS)

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions

Eurobachelor accepts analytical chemistry as a key core area: European Analytical Column No. 32 from the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions (DAC – FECS)

Eurobachelor accepts analytical chemistry as a key core area: European Analytical Column No. 32 from the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions (DAC – FECS)

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions

ERA—European Radiochemists Association: Report on the activities of the Working Party for Nuclear and Radiochemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies

The European Radiochemists Association started almost simultaneously with the appearance of the first issue of the Radiochemistry in Europe newsletter in August 1995. The objective of the European Radiochemists Association (ERA) is to extend and improve communication between radiochemists in Europe through a newsletter. Liaison persons within each country or group exchange details of their activities, set up a diary of relevant international events and exchange details of specialist equipment, facilities and technology. In the year 2000 the Federation of European Chemical Societies decided to form a working party on nuclear and radiochemistry. It is a formalisation of the European Radiochemists Association. Each chemical society is allowed to nominate a member to the Working Party on Nuclear and Radiochemistry. Currently we have 12 nominated members plus two invited and one observer. In addition to the ERA aims and objectives it proposes to put together a syllabus of radiochemistry for undergraduate and post-graduate students—this aspect has been a part of our support of the International Atomic Energy Agency initiative. Also the aim of the working party is to support other working parties and divisions, to press the Federation of the European Chemical Societies for financial structure. To this end an Expression of Interest has been tabled with the Framework 6 Programme for networking within radiochemistry in Europe. The WP will liaise with the International Isotope Society and the International Society on Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Biology to seek to communicate and to consider ways of working together.

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions European Analytical Column No. 31(January 2003)

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies and Professional Institutions European Analytical Column No. 31(January 2003)

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies: European Analytical Column No. 30 (January 2002)

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies: European Analytical Column No. 30 (January 2002)

The division of analytical chemistry of the federation of European chemical societies

The division of analytical chemistry of the federation of European chemical societies

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies

The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies