Dr. Fabienne Meyers, Associate Director of IUPAC, talks about her career path, her daily work, and why IUPAC isn't just there to invent rules

Career: As A Chemist at IUPAC

Picture Competition 2013 & Calendar 2014
The best pictures showing the beautiful and fascinating things you find in a chemistry lab are combined in a calendar for 2014

Picture Competition 2013 & Calendar 2014
The best pictures showing the beautiful and fascinating things you find in a chemistry lab are combined in a calendar for 2014

Evolving Nanopores
Directed evolution techniques used to build biological nanopores with specific dimensions, thus allowing specific analytes to be targeted

125 Years of Liquid Crystals
Since the discovery of liquid crystals in 1888, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991 was awarded for research into liquid crystals and they have become essential to our everyday lives

Sound Help for Trisubstituted Alkenes
Access to challenging trisubstituted alkenyl nucleoside phosphonates made easy by ultrasound

Biocidal Products Regulation
New biocidal products regulation enters into operation on 1 September 2013

Stabilized, Functionalized α-C-Glycosides
A strategy for the synthesis and functionalization of fluorinated α-C-glycosides was developed

Salt is the Solution
Optimization of a salting-out system to improve recovery of biobutanol from fermentation broth

Let Nature Be Your Guide
A group of scientists in China developed a biomimetic synthesis of equisetin and (+)-fusarisetin A