rahvusvaheline keemiaorganisatsioon, mis kooskõlastab muuhulgas oskussõnavara ja keemianomenklatuuri; asut. 1919, keskus Oxfordis
an international nongovernmental body formed in 1919 to foster worldwide communications in chemical science, both academic and industrial
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IUPAC is the international authority defining recommended terminology, atomic weights, isotopic abundances, and other data. The IUPAC rules for systematic chemical nomenclature are widely adopted. IUPAC also introduced the InChI line notation for compounds.
Notifications shall include: 1. properties, identification and uses (a) common name; (b) chemical name according to an internationally recognised nomenclature (for example International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)), where such nomenclature exists; ...