A history of the international group for correlation analysis in chemistry

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AbstractThe author has been Secretary of the International Group for Correlation Analysis in Chemistry (formerly Organic Chemistry) since it was founded in 1982. A series of conferences in the USA, which began with a Symposium on Linear Free Energy Correlations at Durham, NC, in 1964, eventually stimulated the development of a similar series in Europe, starting with a conference on Correlation Analysis in Organic Chemistry at Assisi, Italy, in 1979. This conference established a continuing organization in a provisional form and, at the second conference in Hull, UK, in 1982, this became the International Group for Correlation Analysis in Organic Chemistry. The conferences have continued ever since at intervals of between two and three years at venues in Europe or (on two occasions) in Asia, and now total nine. The Group (which dropped the ‘Organic’ from its title in 1991) has been an Associated Organization of IUPAC since 1990. The article describes the development of the Group as a society during twenty years and its various activities, including the conferences and a substantial Newsletter, produced at intervals of six months to a year for 24 issues. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.