CHEMISTRY, IUPAC
and open data
Professor Nicole J. Moreau
Member of ICSU Executive Board
CHEMISTRY,
and open data
Professor Nicole J. Moreau
Member of ICSU Executive Board
IUPAC
What is ICSU
made up?
ICSU International Council
for Science
122 National members
31 Scientific Unions
From Argentina to Zimbabwe
IUPAC
National &
multidisciplinary
22 Scientific
Associates
International &
monodisciplinary
coordinate interdisciplinary activities aiming to strengthen international
science for the benefit of society
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Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Cuba
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
Uruguay
encompasses more than 85% of the world’s chemical
sciences and industries
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IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements
The 7th period of the periodic table of elements is complete !
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June  november 2016
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Iupac is the final authority on the
naming of elements
The decisions are detailed in reports by the Joint Working Party (JWP),
which includes experts drawn from IUPAC and IUPAP.
Published in an early 2016 issue of the IUPAC journal Pure and Applied
Chemistry. The JWP has reviewed the relevant literature pertaining to
several claims of these new elements. It has determined that the RIKEN
collaboration have fulfilled the criteria for the discovery of element 113,
and that for discovery of the elements with atomic numbers Z= 115, Z=
117, and Z= 118 it is the Dubna-Livermore-Oak Ridge collaboration
between scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in
Dubna, Russia; from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California,
USA; and from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA
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Names and symbols
* The proposed names and symbols are checked by the Inorganic
Chemistry Division of IUPAC for consistency, translatability into other
languages, possible prior historic use, etc. (a new element can be
named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a country or place, a
property, or a scientist) : W.H. Koppenol, PAC, 74 (2002) 787-791.
* After divisional acceptance, the names and two-letter symbols will
be presented for public review for 5 months, before the highest body
of IUPAC, the Council, will make a final decision and introduce them
into the Periodic Table of the Elements.
nihonium Nh, moscovium Mc, tennessine Ts, and oganesson Og
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IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements
A new IUPAC’s periodic table for the educational community with stable isotopic abundance
shown as pie diagrams has been published as an interactive one on August the 16th, 2016.
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DATA BASES offered by IUpac
IUPAC offers several electronic databases that facilitate the
search and retrieval of the output of its research activities
Agrochemicals
Aqueous solutions
Nomenclature, properties, and units in Laboratory Medicine
Gas kinetics
k0-NAA
Solubility
Stability constants
Standards Online
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AGRO CHEMICALS
accurate information on the chemistry of agrochemicals
and the regulations pertaining to their use*. Also gives
access to the Pesticide Properties Database
AQUEOUS SolutionS
programs for the quantitative treatment of activity
coefficients + a wide range of equilibria in solutions* (ionic
strengths, temperatures...) Includes software for speciation
calculations and titration simulations
Nomenclature, properties, units in Laboratory Medicine
Common understanding between what is measured in a
biological system and how the results are expressed
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Gas kinetics DB
kinetic and photochemical evaluated data: summary
tables of kinetic data, & individual sheets of reaction
data*
K0-NAA
Using the k0 comparator method, data essential for
calculation of analytical results from Neutron-Activation
Analysis (NAA).
Solubility dB
Mutual solubilities and liquid-liquid equilibria of
binary, ternary and quaternary systems. *Water,
inorganic compounds, a variety of organic compounds
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Stability constants DB
very fast access to all significant published metalligand stability constants with over 22 000 literature
references*
Standards Online
“standards and recommendations” = terms, standard
values, procedures, rules for naming compounds and
materials…, extracted from the J. Pure and Applied
Chemistry, are internationally binding for scientists in
industry and academia, patent lawyers, toxicologists,
environmental scientists, legislation, etc
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Chemical nomenclature & terminology
* Division VIII – Chemical Nomenclature and
Structure Representation
* Inter-divisional committee on Terminology,
Nomenclature and Symbols, ICTNS
Recommendations consensus among IUPAC divisions,
Technical Reports ICSU Unions, CGPM
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Chemical nomenclature & terminology
Published in PAC, freely-available in the year
following their publication
IUPAC Colour Books (free access
on line)
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IUPAC is not a
very rich Union !
Thank you for your attention