The Nomenclature Committee membership remains essentially unchanged since the last meeting, which was held on Monday, April 2nd, 2001. The "call for new members" advertisement, placed on the POLY website, http://www.chem.umr.edu/~poly/nomenclature.html, has elicited no further inquiries in the last 2 years. Nevertheless, the ACS POLYmer Division Nomenclature Committee proposes to leave it on the website in the hope of attracting new members.

A1. Web-Based Document for Identification, Orientation, and Naming of CRUs/SRUs. Ted Wilks has created an English-language, web-based version of the IUPAC recommendations for correct identification, orientation, and naming of constitutional repeating units (CRUs); these are essentially the same as the CAS principles for correct identification, orientation, and naming of structural repeating units (SRUs). The document, entitled "Guide for the Authors of Papers and Reports in Polymer Science and Technology", is available on the IUPAC website (go to http://www.iupac.org/reports/IV/guide.html and select Download document (pdf file — 254KB)). This article is more extensive than the previously published Macromolecular Nomenclature Note (MNN) No. 18, which was little more than an introduction to the subject; however, it is still easier to read than the formal IUPAC and CAS documents upon which it is based. Authors and editors of books, encyclopedias, and journal articles are encouraged to use it.

The POLY website cross-reference http://www.iupac.org/divisions/IV/IV.1/index.html leads to this article on the IUPAC website.

A2. Other IUPAC Matters. Four Committee members (Fox, Metanomski, Wilks, and Work) continue to contribute to projects of the IUPAC Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature, although Fox and Metanomski are enjoying "semi-retirement" in that they now act mainly as consultants. Topics in various stages of development, for which they are directly responsible, include:

Project 29/97: except for nomenclature for spiro-macrocycles, all differences between the Fox and Schultz/Wilks approaches had been resolved prior to the Brisbane meeting (Dr. J. L. Schultz, a retired DuPont employee, is an IUPAC consultant). For nomenclature for spiro-macrocycles, a decision was made at the Brisbane meeting to accept the Schultz/Wilks approach, rather than the alternative approach by Fox. Prof. Ernest Marechal elected to relinquish his position as Project Leader for this project; from July, 2001, his place will be taken by Prof. Werner Mormann (Univ. of Siegen, Germany).

Project 30/97: Prof. Jiri Vohlidal (Charles Univ., Prague) continues to work on this document, for which Ted Wilks is nominally Project Leader. The latest version, presented at the Brisbane meeting, was well received; the document is near completion-minor corrections are still needed.

Project 22/93: seven of the eight chapters proposed for the Guide have been assembled in electronic format; we await a decision on whether the planned Chapter 2, Polymerization Reactions, will be written or abandoned.

Project 33/99: suggestions for minor modifications made at the Warsaw meeting were implemented in the revision distributed November 1, 2000. Further suggestions made at the Brisbane meeting will be implemented in the next revision (due November 1, 2001).

Project 35/2000: suggestions for minor modifications made at the Warsaw meeting were implemented in the revision distributed November 1, 2000. Further suggestions made at the Brisbane meeting will be implemented in the next revision (due November 1, 2001).

"Purple Book" revision: the 1991 edition of the "Purple Book" has been converted to .pdf format and is available on the IUPAC website http://www.iupac.org/publications/books/author/metanomski.html. As revised chapters become available, they will replace earlier ones. When the revised chapters for the complete second edition are available, IUPAC will publish the book. Ted Wilks is responsible for collecting all revised chapters and editing of the complete second edition.

B1. Macromolecular Nomenclature Note No. 18 (MNN 18). The contents of MNN 18 continue to draw interest. The original article, published in Polymer Preprints, 2000, 41(1), 6a-11a, has been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, and Spanish. The Chinese and Hungarian versions were published in polymer journals in China[1] and Hungary[2], respectively, and the Spanish version is available on the POLY website[3]. The Nomenclature Committee’s thanks go to Prof. Jiasong He* for the Chinese version, to the DuPont Language Services Unit and Dr. Andrew Foldi for the Hungarian version, and to Prof. Javier Macossay** for the Spanish version.

[1] Gaofenzi Tongbao (Polymer Bulletin) 2001, No. 2, 74-80.

[2] Muanyag es Gumi (Rubber and Plastics), 2001, 38, 49-55.

[3] http://www.chem.umr.edu/~poly/nomenclature.html

*IUPAC Commission IV.1 member

**ACS POLYmer Division Nomenclature Committee member

Work is still in progress on translations into:

C. Other Matters. The Committee continues to promote polymer-nomenclature recommendations, especially those of the IUPAC Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature (Commission IV.1). The Committee monitors how the macromolecular nomenclature matters are explained and discussed in various textbooks and handbooks, and offers suggestions for improvements. Individual questions from POLY members and requests to help in the naming of polymers are answered promptly.