Curriculum Vitae
Rafael Filipe Teixeira Arbuez Gomes
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Rafael Filipe Teixeira Arbuez Gomes
Citation names
- Gomes, Rafael
- Rafael F. A. Gomes
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0210-5837-4E37
Email addresses
- rafael.gomes@campus.ul.pt (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2016 - 2019
Concluded
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Farmácia (Doutoramento)
Major in Medicinal Chemistry
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
"New Synthetic asymmetric methodologies for the synthesis of bioactive building blocks and potential scale up/out" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Honor and Distinction |
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2010 - 2015
Concluded
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Ciências Farmacêuticas (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
"Synthesis and biological evaluation of new furan containing triarylmethanes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023/04/01 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal |
| 2022/10/01 - Current | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal |
| 2022/03 - Current | Visiting Researcher (Research) | University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry, United Kingdom |
| 2022/09/01 - 2023/02/01 | Principal Investigator (Research) | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
| 2020/02/01 - 2022/05/01 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2024/04/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2022/10/01 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2015/09 - 2015/12 | FLATOUT - From Flat to Chiral: A unified approach to converting achiral aromatic compounds to optically active valuable building
blocks
ERC-2011-StG_20101014 - FA521006
Master Student Fellow
Universität Wien Institut für Organische Chemie, Austria
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European Research Council
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023/04/01 - Current | ROS-responsive linkers for bioconjugation
2/2023/PTDC/QUI-OUT/3989/2021
Researcher
Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
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| 2022/09/01 - 2023/02/01 | Functions and Mechanisms of disease in the human body
CEEC-COFAC/ULusófona-CBIOS/3-2022
Principal investigator
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| 2020/02/01 - 2022/05/01 | Synthetic valorization of furan based building blocks derived from renewable resources
PTDC/QUI-QOR/32008/2017
Researcher
iMed.ULisboa/FFUL, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/01/01 - Current | Straightening training, research and innovation capacities in the valorization of bio-renewable resource
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/951996/EU
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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European Commission
Ongoing
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| 2023/02/01 - 2024/02/01 | Innovative skin products from the valorization of industrial marine wastes
B4Skin
Researcher
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| 2021/12/01 - 2023/12/01 | Production of bioamines from crustacean shells using sustainable catalytical processes
EXPL/BII-BIO/0436/2021
Research Fellow
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| 2019/01/01 - 2021/01/01 | Research Institute for Medicines
UID/DTP/04138/2019
PhD Student Fellow
iMed.ULisboa/FFUL, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2015/01/01 - 2018/01/01 | Integrated valorization of lignocellulosic agroindustrial waste to furan based building blocks
ELAC2014/BEE-0341
PhD Student Fellow
iMed.ULisboa/FFUL, Portugal
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Concluded
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| 2013/01/01 - 2015/01/01 | Research Institute for Medicines
UID/DTP/04138/2013
Other
iMed.ULisboa/FFUL, Portugal
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Preprint |
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Intellectual property
| Patent |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/02/15 | From lignocellulosic and chitin biomass towards fine chemicals: A Diversity-Oriented Synthesis approach on furanic platforms | Workshop - Biomass Valorization & Winter School – Photosynthesis and Photocatalysis
Biomass4Synthons (Sofia, Bulgaria)
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| 2021/09/27 | Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Biomass Derived Furanic Platforms | 5th EuChemS Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (5th EuGSC)
Association of Greek Chemists (AGC) and EuChemS /Division of Green and Sustainable Chemistry (Greece)
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| 2021/09/03 | Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Biomass Derived Furanic Platforms aiming at drug discovery | International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis 2021 (ISySyCat2021)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (Évora, Portugal)
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| 2021/07/14 | Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Biomass Derived Furanic Platforms aiming at drug discovery | XXVII Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (ENSPQ)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2021/06/10 | Diversity-oriented synthesis of furanic platforms towards sustainable drug discovery | 2nd Meeting of the Group of Portuguese Chemists Abroad of the Portuguese Chemical Society
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química
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| 2020/01/15 | A sustainable aproach for the discovery of medicinal relevant scaffolds: From furans to cyclopentenones | 13th National Organic Chemistry Meeting (13ENQO) and the 6th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting (6ENQT)
SPQ (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2019/06/28 | valorization of olive leaves: methanolysis of oleuropein | Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Human Health (NatProdDDH)
Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2019/06/15 | Synthesis of value-added products from biomass derived feedstocks | Chemistry: Shaping the Future (4ECQUL)
Colégio da Química (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/06/22 | Valorization of biomass: the transformation of furans to bioactive cyclopentenones | MedChemTrain SummerSchool 2018
MedChemTrain (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/01/17 | Lewis acid promoted fast and efficient synthesis of trans-4,5-diamino-cyclopent-2- enones in aqueous media as an environmentally friendly procedure and potential new platform for chemical biology | 12th National Organic Chemistry Meeting (12ENQO) and the 5th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting (5ENQT)
SPQ (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2017/12/05 | Copper promoted fast and efficient synthesis of trans-4,5-diamino-cyclopent-2-enones in aqueous media: a clickable potential new platform for chemical biology | UL Chemistry PhD Meeting (2ECQUL)
Colégio da Química (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2017/06/14 | From easily available renewable furans to important bioactive molecules | 9th Postgraduate iMed.ULisboa Students Meeting & 2nd i3DU Meeting
iMed (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2017/06/12 | Oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to important bioactive molecules | MedChemTrain SummerSchool 2017
MedChemTrain (Penela, Portugal)
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| 2016/04/26 | Synthesis of Anticancer Symmetric Bis(N-alkylaniline)triarylmethanes via Friedel-Crafts-Catalyzed Reaction between Secondary Anilines and Aldehydes | 5th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting (PYCHeM) and 1st European Young Chemists Meeting (EYCHeM)
PYCA (Guimarães, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2018 - 2018 | Cyclopentenones: synthesis and biological evaluation in human cancer cells
Co-supervisor
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Química Bioorgânica (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2017 - 2017 | Synthesis of potentially bioactive Diels-Alder 5-HydroxymethylFurfural adducts
Co-supervisor
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Ciências Farmacêuticas (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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| 2016 - 2017 | From sugar base bio renewable resources to new chemical building blocks and bioactive molecules
Co-supervisor
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Química Bioorgânica (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2020/04/27 - 2020/04/30 | MedChemTrain e-School 2020 (2020/04/27 - 2020/04/30)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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| 2018/06/14 - 2018/06/15 | 10th Postgraduate iMed.ULisboa Students Meeting & 3rd i3DU Meeting. Internal conference aiming at the dissemination of the
work done between different program areas of iMed.Ulisboa. The conference is usually two days long, has over 200 participants
and features at least 1 international plenary speaker. (2018/06/14)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2017/06/16 - 2017/06/19 | XXV edition of the SPQ National Meeting (XXVEN-SPQ). The national meeting featured 8 international and 4 national plenary
speakers and several keynote and invited oral speakers both from Academia and Industry. (2017/06/16)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2017/06/14 - 2017/06/15 | 9th Postgraduate iMed.ULisboa Students Meeting & 2nd i3DU Meeting. Internal conference aiming at the dissemination of the
work done between different program areas of iMed.Ulisboa. The conference is usually two days long, has over 200 participants
and features at least 1 international plenary speaker. (2017/06/14)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2017 - 2017 | Hands on Preventive Maintenance and Calibration of Micropipettes (2017)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2016/06/14 - 2016/06/15 | 8th Postgraduate iMed.ULisboa Students Meeting & 1st i3DU Meeting. Internal conference aiming at the dissemination of the
work done between different program areas of iMed.Ulisboa. The conference is usually two days long, has over 200 participants
and features at least 1 international plenary speaker. (2016/06/14)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2016 - 2016 | Scientific Image Edition (2016)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2022/09/30 - Current | NOITE EUROPEIA DOS INVESTIGADORES 2022; Experimental activity and dissemination towards the general public.
Exhibition
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Noite Europeia dos Investigadores 2022
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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| 2021/09/24 - Current | NOITE EUROPEIA DOS INVESTIGADORES 2021; Experimental activity and dissemination towards the general public.
Exhibition
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Noite Europeia dos Investigadores 2021
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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| 2022/05/24 - 2022/06/05 | FIC.A; Experimental activity and dissemination towards the general public.
Exhibition
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FIC.A – Festival internacional de Ciência 2022
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Biociências e Tecnologias da Saúde, Portugal
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| 2018 - 2018 | NOITE EUROPEIA DOS INVESTIGADORES 2018; Dissemination of the work done in Academia in different institutes to the general
society
Exhibition
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NOITE EUROPEIA DOS INVESTIGADORES 2018 |
| 2017 - 2017 | NOITE EUROPEIA DOS INVESTIGADORES 2017; Dissemination of the work done in Academia in different institutes to the general
society
Exhibition
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NOITE EUROPEIA DOS INVESTIGADORES 2017 |
Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/01/01 - Current | Ceramics (2571-6131) | mdpi |
| 2022/12/01 - Current | Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (1477-0520) | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2022/01/13 - Current | Catalysis Science & Technology | RSC |
| 2022/01/01 - Current | Molecules (1420-3049) | mdpi |
| 2022/01/01 - Current | Inorganics (2304-6740) | mdpi |
| 2022/01/01 - Current | Catalysts (2073-4344) | mdpi |
| 2022/01/01 - Current | ChemSusChem (1864-5631) | Wiley |
| 2021/08/27 - Current | Arabian Journal of Chemistry | Elsevier |
| 2021/11/03 - 2021/11/19 | Angewandte Chemie International Edition | Wiley |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2016 - 2018 | ipSC, Comissão de estudantes pós-graduados do iMed.Ulisboa, iMed.ULisboa Postgraduate Students Committee | Scientific workshop organization, Social events organization, Conference organization, post-graduate students-intitution communication |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/09/01 - Current | Química Orgânica II | Química Orgânica II (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2022/09/01 - Current | General Chemistry | General Chemistry (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2022/09 - Current | Química Orgânica I | Química Orgânica I (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2022/01/01 - Current | Drug Synthesis | Drug Synthesis | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2022/09/01 - 2023/02/01 | Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy | (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
| 2019 - 2019 | Flow experiment developed in the course of PhD applied to MSc students | Química Orgânica II (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
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| 2017 - Current | MSc thesis "Preparation of trans-4,5-diamino-cyclopent-2-enones" | Nuno Esteves |
| 2022/09/01 - 2023/09/01 | Msc thesis "Machine Learning Driven Discovery of Novel Electrochemical Transformations" | Latimah Arrechea |
| 2019/09/01 - 2023/09 | PhD Thesis Valorization of Olive Leaves as a source of Medicinal Relevant Scaffolds | Kessia Andrade |
| 2019/09/01 - 2023/09 | PhD thesis "Antimalarial evaluation of Cyclopentane scaffolds" | Juliana Pereira |
| 2022/09/01 - 2023/08/01 | MSc thesis "Fmoc derivatives for optimized Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis" | Bruno Geraldes |
| 2016 - 2016 | Synthesis of Potentially Bioactive Diels-Alder 5-HydroxymethylFurfural adducts | João Gonçalves |
| 2016 - 2016 | Synthesis, and stability analysis of 1,2,4-oxadiazinan-5-ones precursors and Imidazolidin-4-ones | Nuno Esteves |
Distinctions
Award
| 2022 | Best Oral Presentation
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal
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| 2020 | Best PhD thesis in Organic Chemistry in Portugal
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal
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| 2019 | Best poster award with Juliana Pereira
Colégio da Química, Portugal
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| 2019 | Lab2Market@Técnico 2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2018 | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) grant for the V Symposium of Medicinal Chemistry Young Researchers |
| 2018 | ICPOC 24 grant for the 24th IUPAC International Conference On Physical Organic Chemistry
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, United States
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| 2017 | Travel grant for attending TRAMECH IX 2017, Fez, Morocco
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, United States
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