IUPAC stands for International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. It is an organization that represents chemistry and associated sciences and technologies internationally. Its objective is to bring together a dispersed, international chemistry community to progress the chemical sciences through cooperation and the unrestricted sharing of knowledge.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), established in 1919, was created by chemists from the public and private sectors.
These chemists realized that weights, measures, names, and symbols used in chemistry must be standardized globally.
The International Association of Chemical Societies (IACS), which served as its predecessor organization, had gathered in Paris in 1911 and laid the groundwork for the standardization goals that IUPAC would later base its work on.
Nomenclature
- Two IUPAC organisations that have a significant impact on this activity are Division VIII - Chemical Nomenclature and Structure Representation and the Interdivisional Committee on Terminology, Nomenclature, and Symbols.
- The most widely recognised authority on chemical terminology and nomenclature is IUPAC. The creation of recommendations to produce unambiguous, uniform, and consistent nomenclature for certain scientific domains is one of IUPAC's key efforts.
- These recommendations are typically presented as glossaries of terms for particular chemical disciplines, definitions of terms relating to a group of properties, nomenclature of chemical compounds and their classes, terminology, symbols, and units in a particular field, classifications, and uses of terms in a particular field, and co-references.
Aim of IUPAC
- Encourage sustainable development.
- Develop recommendations to establish unambiguous, standard, and consistent nomenclature and terminology for certain scientific domains, including naming new elements in the periodic table, and promote the free interchange of scientific information
- Create guidelines for the uniformity of measurement techniques, atomic weights, and several other critically analyzed data.
- To encourage the conduct of scientific research, conferences, and the granting of awards for the acknowledgment of scientific excellence, publish technical reports, journals, publications, databases, and other information resources.
Steps to writing the IUPAC nomenclature
- First, determine the longest carbon chain.
- Depending on the number of carbon atoms, give the natural molecule a base name
- .Add a prefix or suffix to the base to indicate the existence of functional groupings.
- If there is a substitute, identify it.