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Articles on Chemical Education are also considered.
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Articles must describe original work and provide definite accounts of completed studies. The text should be
divided into (i) Abstract, (ii) Introduction, (iii) Results
and discussion, (iv) Experimental and (v) References.
Notes must describe original work as Articles but provide brief accounts of findings and results of less extensive studies.
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including table, foot- notes and references on bond paper
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Latin abbreviation, and for prefixes in the name of chemical
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of genera and names of periodicals or abbreviated forms
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their positions in the text is desirable. Formula inserted in
the running text should be written on one line, if possible. Metal valency should be indicated as NiII, nickel(II),
and ionic charge as Na+
, Cl–
, SO4
2–, Fe(CN) 3–
.
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Nomenclature should be in conformity with the latest
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Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (1990), International Union
of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), International Union
of Bio-chemistry (IUB) and Chemical Abstracts.
Experimental data for a compound should follow the
order: yield, m.p., elemental analysis, optical rotation,
refractive index, UV, IR, NMR, mass spectra. An alter- nate
tabular presentation of selected data may be used, if desired.
Reports of the isolation of known compounds from a
new plant/animal source should be made as brief as possible. The isolation procedure should be mentioned, and
the means of identification noted – it is not necessary to
give detailed spectroscopic, analytical or chromatographic
data which are already known. These papers should not
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Title should be concise. The use of symbols, abbreviation and formula is discouraged.
Name of authors should be followed by their addresses
along with E-mail. An asterisk should follow the name of
the author who is to receive any correspondence.
Each paper should contain Keywords.
Abstract should be informative and summarise the principal findings of the work.
Introduction should be clear and brief, embracing the nature of the problem and providing its background with relevant references
Results and discussion should embrace first the results followed by a discussion of their significance. Only relevant results should be presented, and figures, tables and equations should be used for the purpose of brevity. Tables should be typed on separate pages, one on each.
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Acknowledgement should be given on a separate sheet
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Abbreviation for a few of the commonly used terms are m.p., b.p., g, mg, cm, min, h, ppm, nm, ms, IR, UV, NMR, GLC, HPLC, TLC, v/v, w/w, TG, DTA.
not more than what is absolutely necessary. Figures should
be numbered with Arabic numerals and mentioned consecutively in text indicating their respective locations. All
figures (with legends) and tables should be presented on separate pages at the end of the main text of the manuscript.
UV, IR, one-dimensional NMR, mass spectra, HPLC and
GC traces will not be published unless absolutely necessary.
These may however, be submitted as additional material to
help the referee to assess the paper.
References should be numbered consecutively and these
numbers are to appear as superscripts in appropriate places
in the text. Care must be exercised for uniformity in citation. Ibid, Idem, et al. should not be used. Abbreviation
for titles of Journals should be as in the Chemical Abstract references. The initials and surnames of all the authors
should be furnished, the name of the journal should be
underlined with a single line and the volume number
underlined with double line. Citations should follow the
order : author's name(s), journal's name, year, volume, page.
A few sample citations are given below.
- P. C. Ray, J. Indian Chem. Soc., 1924, 1, 207.
- T. G. Traylor and F. Xu, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1990, 112, 178.
- I. Collins, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 1, 2000, 2845.
- R. M. Abdel-Rahman, Indian J. Chem., Sect. B, 1988, 27, 548.
- J. Nakayama, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2000, 73, 1.
- G. Barany and R. B. Merrifield in "The Peptides", eds. E. Gross and J. Meienhofer, Academic, New York, 1980, Vol. 2, p. 3.
- F. A. Cotton and G. Wilkinson, "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry", 5th ed., Wiley, New York, 1988.
- A. P. Banerjee, Indian IN 161024/1987 (Chem. Abstr., 1988,109, 25172).
- A. K. Khanna, J. Indian Chem. Soc., in the press/communicated (Manuscript numbers).