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IUPAC Analytical chemistry, like all scientific disciplines, requires continual communication on the international level. Since World War I1 there has been phenomenal growth in the number of analytical journals and conferences dedicated to encouraging greater exchange of information around the world. Perhaps the most structured attempt to foster international interaction has been the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The Union is a voluntary nonprofit association of adhering organizations representing the chemists of 45 countries. Its objectives are: to promote continuing cooperation among the chemists of member countries; to study topics of international importance to pure and applied chemistry that need regulation, codification or standardization; to cooperate with other international organizations that deal with topics of a chemical nature; and to contribute to the advancement of pure and applied chemistry. Historically, analytical chemistry was represented in 1949 only by the Commission on Reactions and Reagents in Quantitative Analysis. Through the efforts of Professor 1. M. Kolthoff, the entire structure of IUPAC was reorganized that year with the establishment of five sections (now divisions), one of which was the Analytical Section. Last month the IUPAC General Assembly held its biennial meeting in Leuven, Belgium, and the Analytical Division (V) was represented by seven commissions: Analytical Reactions and Reagents (V.l), Microchemical Techniques and Trace Analysis (V.2), Analytical Nomenclature (V.3), Spectrochemical and Other Optical Procedures for Analysis (V.4), Electroanalytical Chemistry (V.5), Equilibrium Data (V.6), and Analytical Radiochemistry and Nuclear Materials (V.7). Titular and associate members elected by members of the various commissions represented analytical chemists from more than 30 nations around the world. As a t the United Nations, concern over national representation, bureaucracy, etc. impede some of the work of the Union; however, the forum does provide an important opportunity for scientists from the various countries to meet periodically to discuss the major issues facing their disciplines and to initiate and participate in projects on a variety of topics such as nomenclature and standardization. In 1981 alone it is indicated that approximately 80 reports will be completed by the commissions of the Analytical Division. Some of these reports will be published in Pure & Applied Chemistry, but, unfortunately, past experience indicates that their distribution to the analytical community will not be as wide as it should be.
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