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The following documents are provisional recommendations that have completed the period of public review, and are in the process of being completed, or already published in Pure and Applied Chemistry.

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currently under public review

Under review by the author(s)

• Dispersity (IV)
  
• Terminology for radical polymerizations with minimal termination - the so-called 'living' and/or 'controlled' radical polymerization (IV)
• Glossary of class names of polymers based on chemical structure and molecular architecture (IV)
• Explanatory Glossary of Terms Used in Expression of Relative Isotope Ratios and Gas Ratios (II)
• Glossary of Terms Used in Pharmaceutics (VII)
• Metrological Traceability of Measurement Results in Chemistry (V)
  
• Standard Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (V)
  
• Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (VIII)
• Nomenclature of Cyclic Peptides (VIII)
  
• Thermochemistry of chemical reactions: Terminology, symbols and experimental methods for the determination of bond energies (I)

In press

Published

• Glossary of Terms Related to Kinetics, Thermodynamics and Mechanisms of Polymerization (IV)
• Nomenclature for Rotaxanes (VIII)
• Graphical Representation Standards for Chemical Structure Diagrams (VIII)
• Glossary of Terms Related to Solubility (V)
• Structure-Based Nomenclature for Cyclic Macromolecules (IV)
• Further Conventions for NMR Chemical Shifts (I)
• Definitions of Terms Relating to the Structure and Processing of Inorganic and Polymeric Gels and Networks, and Inorganic Polymeric Materials (II, IV)
• Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry (I)
• Explanatory Dictionary of Key Terms in Toxicology (VII)
• Glossary of Terms Used in Toxicology - Expanded and Revised from "Glossary for Chemists of Terms Used in Toxicology" (IUPAC Recommendations 1993) (VII)
• Glossary of Terms Used in Photochemistry (III)
• Guidelines for Potentiometric Measurements in Suspensions - Practical pH Measurements in Soil Suspension (V)
• Glossary of Terms Relating to Pesticides (VII)
• Terminology of Polymers Containing Ionizable or Ionic Groups and of Polymers Containing Ions (IV)
• Graphical Representation of Configuration (VIII)
• JCAMP-DX for EMR (CPEP)
• XML-based IUPAC Standard for Experimental, Predicted, and Critically Evaluated Thermodynamic Property Data Storage and Capture (ThermoML) (CPEP)
• Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (VIII)
• Numbering of fullerenes (VIII)
• Terminology in soil sampling (V)
• Name and symbol of the element with atomic number 111 (II)
• Definitions of terms related to polymer blends, composites and multiphase polymeric materials (IV)
• Quantities, terminology, and symbols in photothermal and related spectroscopies (I.5)
• Glossary for toxicokinetics of chemicals (VII)
• Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric materials (IV)
• Terminology for analytical capillary electromigration techniques (V)
• Name and Symbol of the Element with Atomic Number 110 (II)
• Measurement of pH. Definition, standards, and procedures (V, I)
• Recommendations for the use of the term "recovery" in analytical procedures (V.1)
• Nomenclature of regular single-strand organic macromolecules (IV.1)
• Definitions relating to stereochemically asymmetric polymerizations (IV.1)
• Phane nomenclature. Part II: Substitution derivatives of phane parent hydrides (III.1)
• The naming of new elements (II.2)
• Nomenclature for the C₆₀-I_h and C₇₀-D_5h(6) fullerenes (III.1)
• NMR nomenclature: nuclear spin properties and conventions for chemical shifts (I.5)
• Generic source-based nomenclature for polymers (IV.1)
• Selectivity in analytical chemistry (V.1)
• The hold-up volume concept in column chromatography (V.3)
• Retention parameters in gas chromatography (V.3)
• Definitions of basic terms relating to low-molar-mass and polymer liquid crystals (IV.1)
• Nomenclature of structural and compositional characteristics of ordered microporous and mesoporous materials with inorganic hosts (I.6)
• Names for muonium atoms and ions (II.2)
• Nomenclature of lignans and neolignans (JCBN)
• IUPAC guidelines for terms related to chemical speciation and fractionation of trace elements: Definitions, structural aspects, and methodological approaches (V.2 - VI.1 - VII.C.2)
• Names for inorganic radicals (II.2)
• Biological monitoring for exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (VII.C.2)
• Nomenclature, symbols, units, and their usage in spectrochemical analysis - XVII. Laser-based molecular spectrometry for chemical analysis: Absorption (V.4)
• Glossary of terms used in theoretical organic chemistry (III.2)
• Nomenclature of organometallic compounds of the transition elements (II.2)
• Definitions of terms for diffusion in the solid state (II.3)
• Classification and use of terms for amplification and related reactions (V.1)
• Revised Section F of the 1979 Blue Book: Natural products and related compounds (III.1)
• Extension and revision of the nomenclature for spiro compounds (III.1)
• Extension and revision of the von Baeyer system for naming polycyclic compounds (III.1)

Abandoned
- Nomenclature for isotope, nuclear, and radioanalytical techniques
- Nomenclature for X-ray emission spectrochemical analysis

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