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IUPAC Global Women’s Breakfast Regional Contacts

Did you know that there is a global team of volunteer women and men working to coordinate #GWB2023 events? All of the GWB Organizing Team members are happy to connect...

IUPAC International Award for Advances in Harmonized Approaches to Crop Protection Chemistry – Call for Nominations

This award recognizes individuals in government, intergovernmental organizations, academia, and industry who have exercised personal leadership for outstanding regulatory, public policy, and/or educational contributions supporting international harmonization of crop protection...

IUPAC Concentrate – sample 2022-08-17

The August Sample is out! Please contact Fabienne with any input/question [email protected]. Next sample will be mid September. To view, share, subscribe or look for past issues, link to Sample...

Special CTI on Green Chemistry

CTI, Volume 4, Issue 2 (release August 1, 2022; https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/cti/4/2/html) This special issue of Chemistry Teacher International was a collaboration project between the Chemistry and the Environment Division, CHEMRAWN, the Committee on Chemistry...

Cheminformatics: data and standards a PAC special issue

In 2021, a call was released for developing a special issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry on cheminformatics and with the aim of discussing cheminformatics standards and future needs. The proposed topics...

Vivek Polshettiwar is awarded the 2022 IUPAC-CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Green Chemistry

Vivek Polshettiwar (India) has been awarded the 2022 IUPAC-CHEMRAWN VII Prize for Green Chemistry in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of green chemistry. Vivek Polshettiwar is awarded...

eTOC Alert ‘Pure and Applied Chemistry’ – July 2022

A new issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry is now available on De Gruyter Online. Please click on the following link to view the articles: Pure and Applied Chemistry Volume...

Chemistry Education is the Way Forward

In a recent post released in ChemistryViews (1 Aug 2022), IUPAC President Javier García Martínez (JGM) recounts his week-long journey to Cape Town, South Africa, where he attended the 26th...

IUPAC First NAO Forum

IUPAC Holds Its First NAO Forum to Foster Internal Communication and Engagement within its Stakeholders by Javier García Martinez, IUPAC President The NAO Forum is a new communication channel,...

Scientific Editor for Pure and Applied Chemistry – Call for Nominations

Professor Hugh D. Burrows, Scientific Editor of Pure and Applied Chemistry, is stepping down at the end of 2022 after serving as Scientific Editor since 2014. IUPAC is searching for...