IUPAC is registered in Zurich, Switzerland, and the administrative office, known as the "IUPAC Secretariat", is in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States.
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20 Facts About IUPAC
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IUPAC was established in 1919 as the successor of the International Congress of Applied Chemistry for the advancement of chemistry.
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Since its creation, IUPAC has been run by many different committees with different responsibilities.
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IUPAC is best known for its works standardizing nomenclature in chemistry, but IUPAC has publications in many science fields including chemistry, biology and physics.
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Some important work IUPAC has done in these fields includes standardizing nucleotide base sequence code names; publishing books for environmental scientists, chemists, and physicists; and improving education in science.
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IUPAC is known for standardizing the atomic weights of the elements through one of its oldest standing committees, the Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights .
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IUPAC stands as a legacy of this meeting, making it one of the most important historical international collaborations of chemistry societies.
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Since this time, IUPAC has been the official organization held with the responsibility of updating and maintaining official organic nomenclature.
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Since World War II, IUPAC has been focused on standardizing nomenclature and methods in science without interruption.
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In 2016, IUPAC denounced the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon.
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IUPAC is governed by several committees that all have different responsibilities.
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IUPAC committee has a long history of officially naming organic and inorganic compounds.
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IUPAC nomenclature is developed so that any compound can be named under one set of standardized rules to avoid duplicate names.
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The first publication on IUPAC nomenclature of organic compounds was A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds in 1900, which contained information from the International Congress of Applied Chemistry.
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IUPAC establishes rules for harmonized spelling of some chemicals to reduce variation among different local English-language variants.
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IUPAC has a system for giving codes to identify amino acids and nucleotide bases.
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IUPAC needed a coding system that represented long sequences of amino acids.
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One extensive book on almost all nomenclature written by IUPAC committee is the Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature – The Orange Book, 1st edition This book was revised in 1987.
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IUPAC Presidents are elected by the IUPAC Council during the General Assembly.
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