4. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY (IUPAC)

Introduction:

Established in 1919. IUPAC is recognized as the international authority on chemical nomenclature, terminology, symbols, units, atomic weights and related topics. Its reports and recommendations on these matters are generally accepted as definitive and often from the basis for drafting regulations relating to chemical manufacturing, international commerce and matters relevant to food, health and the environment. The following are its objectives:

-to promote the continuing cooperation amongst the chemists of the Member Countries.

-to study topics of international importance to Pure and Applied Chemistry which need regulation, standardisation and codification;

-to cooperate with other international organisations which deal with the topics of chemical nature;

-to contribute to the advancement of Pure and Applied Chemistry in all its aspects.

Secretariat:Dr.J.W.Jost, Executive Director, IUPAC Secretariat,PO Box 13757, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-3757, USA, FAX:(1 919) 485 8706

E.mail:secretariat@iupac.org, http://www.iupac.org

SUBSCRIPTION: US$ 20,900 (2002)        CATEGORY: based on CT

VOTING RIGHTS: based on CT

No.of Divisions: 7

No. of Committees: 10

Positions in IUPAC

1. A.Chakravorty, Bureau Member 1992-1999

2. K.V.Sane, Secretary, Committee on Teaching of Chemistry

3. C.N.R.Rao, Chairman, Task Group on Basis for NMR & Photo Electron Spectroscopy,1982-83

Member, IUPAC Bureau 1982 and 1983

Chairman, Committee on Teaching of Chemistry,1982-83

Vice President, IUPAC 1984-85

President, IUPAC 1986-1988  

4. S.Varadarajan, Member CHEMRAWN Committee of IUPAC 1995-97

XXVIII General Assembly of IUPAC at Guildford, UK from 4-11 August 1995:

1. SV Kessar FNA:  Full Support Leader of delegation

2. DVS Jain FNA: perdiem for 5 days

3. A.Chakravorty:FNA

4. S.Varadarajan:FNA

5. K.Anji Reddy 7-1-32 Amerpet Hyderabad:

6. Dipankar Chakravorty:Jadavpur Univ:

XXXVI General Assembly of IUPAC at Geneva Switzerland from

23-30 August 1997:

1. Goverdhan Mehta FNA Leader:

2. P.Natarajan FNA (Could not attend)

3. A.Chakravorty FNA

4. Pravinder Singh of Ranbaxy New Delhi

XXXVII General Assembly of IUPAC at Berlin, Germany from 6-13 August,1999

1. D.V.S.Jain, FNA :

2. P.T.Manoharan, FNA:

3. S.Chandrasekharan, FNA:

4. R.V.Hosur, FNA:

5. Animesh Chakravorty, FNA:

6. C.L.Kaul, Mohali:

7. Arindam Banerjee, IACS, Calcutta:

XXXVIII General Assembly of IUPAC at Brisbane, Australia from June 29 to July 8,2001

1. Dr.J.P.Mittal, FNA

2. Professor S.Chandrasekaran, FNA

3. Dr.Javed Iqbal, FNA

4. Professor A.K.Bakshi, Deptt.of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi

5. Dr.Nagendra Kumar, Moradabad

6. Professor A.K.Yadav, Univ.of Rajasthan, Jaipur

7. Dr.A.K.Srivastava, Univ.of Mumbai, Mumbai

8. Dr.C.Suresh Reddy, S.V.Univ, Tirupati

42^nd General Assembly of IUPAC will be held from 8-17 August,2003 and the 39^th Congress of IUPAC on 10-15 August,2003 in Ottawa, Canada

1. Dr.J.P.Mittal, FNA, Leader
2. Dr.N.Chandrakumar, FNA
3. Professor S.Chandrasekaran, FNA    
4. Dr.Sumit Bhaduri, FNA  or B.B.Lohari , Ahmedabad

Seminar/Symposia

VIII Int.Conf. on Phenothiazines and Structurally Related Psychotropic Compounds at Rajasthan Univ.Jaipur

International Symposium on Organic Synthesis at IISc, Bangalore during December,1994.

Int.Conf., on Chemical & Biological Thermodynamics at GND University Amritsar from 5-8 January 1997.

International Symposium on Advances in Polymer Sciences & Technology at CLRI, Chennai during 5-9 January,1998.

Vth IUPAC International Symposium on Bio-organic Chemistry (ISBOC-5) at NCL, Pune during January 30- February 4,2000.

Status Report:

No report so far.