Project Details:

Horizons in Biomolecular Chemistry

Project No.:302-4-97
Start date:1997-01-01
End date:2001-12-31
Division:Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Division
Objective:

IUPAC has established (General Assembly 1997, Geneva) an "Ad Hoc Strategic Committee on BioMolecular Chemistry" which has been assigned the task of coordinating and developing the activities at the bio-frontiers of molecular chemistry. The Committee will, as an initial action, compile a list of the current bio-related projects within the participating Divisions. It will further embark on the task of formulating and subsequently executing, novel interdisciplinary projects in the domain of molecular interpretation of bio-processes and bio-phenomena. The Organic Chemistry Division shall, starting January 1998, nominate two titular members for work on this project.

Description:
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Progress:

The "Bio-oriented projects in Divisions I, II, III and VIIhave been inventoried and, where applicable, coordination of workon projects between the relevant Divisions has been initiated.

The first activity of the Interdivisional committee on BiomolecularChemistry, in the context of the project, consisted in the organizationof the microsymposium on "NovelPorphyrinoids and their Metal Complexes" at the GDCh/IUPAC Congressin Berlin, 1999. The theme of Biomolecular Chemistry will be coordinatedin the future by Division III, under its newly adopted mandate.Interdivisional Projects, especially together with Division VII,are in preparation for the biennium 2000-2002 and will be presentedunder the new IUPAC project system.