International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC to German International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ) was founded in 1919 by chemists from industry and academia. The aim was to allow worldwide communication, the chemist with each other and promote. The IUPAC has long been considered the dominant institution recognized if it is binding recommendations on nomenclature, symbols, terminology, standardized methods of measurement values ​​for molar masses of chemical elements in natural isotopic mixture composition and many other topics in the areas of chemistry. The IUPAC publishes the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Chemists around the world work as volunteers in projects for the IUPAC, which are divided into the following eight sections:

• Analytical Chemistry
• Inorganic Chemistry
• Chemistry and Health
• Chemistry and Environmental
• Chemical Nomenclature and Structure Representation
• Macromolecular Chemistry
• Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
• Physical and Biophysical Chemistry

Formation

Among the chemists already existed long before the creation of the IUPAC, the desire to promote international cooperation. So there was already a precursor organization, the International Association of Chemical Societies (IACS ), which met in Paris in 1911 and, among other things should already take care of issues of nomenclature and standardization in chemistry. Attempts to standardize chemical nomenclature, but already began in 1860 when Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz the first international meeting organized, which eventually led to the 1892 so-called Geneva nomenclature for organic chemical compounds.