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Category: IUPAC in the Press

What is a molecular machine?

A new project aims to define the key terms used in the field of molecular machines. It is hoped that the new definitions will allow researchers to avoid semantic debates,...

InChI is now built for collaboration — and scale

The International Chemical Identifier (InChI) is going through a massive transformation — meet two of its champions who are helping bring InChI to the masses. The InChI story is something...

A Conversation with Greta Heydenrych

with Dalmeet Singh Chawla Heydenrych aims to lead IUPAC through the rise of digitization and open science. Cite: ACS Cent. Sci. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.3c00116 Publication Date: February 3, 2023 For most chemists,...

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...