SUBCOMMITTEE ON BIOORGANIC
CHEMISTRY
Number: 302/2/96
Title: Chemistry for the Utilization
and Preservation of Bioorganic Resources and Diversity
Coordinator(s): U.K.
Pandit and T.
Norin
Completion Date: 1998
Objective:
It is recognized that the maintenance of biological diversity is
a global concern and that many developing countries are major centres
of biological material of medical and economic values. These considerations
have led to the 'MANILA
DECLARATION concerning the Ethical Utilization of Asian Biological
Resources' adopted at the 7th Asian Symposium on Medicinal Plants,
Spices and other Natural Products held in Manila, February, 1992.
IUPAC can play a highly significant role in the 'preservation of
bioorganic resources and diversity' by directing international attention
to the opportunities for harnessing the 'hidden chemistry' of bioresources.
It can take an important lead in demonstrating the immense value
of these materials based on the insight into the structure and properties
of medicinal natural products and the basis of chemical processes
(enzyme-catalyzed transformations) which operate within them. IUPAC
can contribute to the understanding that these resources are indispensable
to the future of mankind. The project envisions the organization
of symposia or reviews which will highlight the role of chemistry
in the important task of utilization and preservation of biologically
and economically valuable resources and diversity, especially in
developing countries.
Progress:
Activities in connection with the project have been initiated in
the form of the organization of an International Symposium on "Biodiversity
and Bioresources-Conservation and Utilization", with the
first meeting being held during 23-27 November 1997, in Phuket,
Thailand. Further meetings are planned (at two year intervals) in
Brazil (July 11 - 15, 1999), Turkey (2001) and Russia (2003). At
the Phuket meeting, the Phuket
Declaration concerning "The Conservation and Sustainable
Utilization of Biological Diversity" was adopted under auspices
of the IUPAC. H.R.H. Princess Chulaborn Mahidol graced the meeting
by presenting the opening keynote lecture of the Symposium.
> Continuation: Project
3/1/99
Last update: 27 August 1998
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