Biochemical nomenclature carbohydrates

BIOCHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE Carbohydrates, determining the cyclic structures of,... 

These Recommendations expand and replace the Tentative Rules for Carbohydrate Nomenclature [1] issued in 1969 jointly by the IUPAC Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry and the IUB-IUPAC Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (CBN) and reprinted in [2]. They also replace other published JCBN Recommendations [3-7] that deal with specialized areas of carbohydrate terminology however, these documents can be consulted for further examples. Of relevance to the field, though not incorporated into the present document, are the following recommendations ... 

Not all problems were solved, however, and different usages were encountered on the two sides of the Atlantic. A joint British-American committee was therefore set up, and in 1952 it published Rules for Carbohydrate Nomenclature [18]. This work was continued, and a revised version was endorsed in 1963 by the American Chemical Society and by the Chemical Society in Britain and published [19]. The publication of this report led the IUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry to consider the preparation of a set of IUPAC Rules for Carbohydrate Nomenclature. This was done jointly with the IUPAC-IUB Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature, and resulted in the Tentative Rules for Carbohydrate Nomenclature, Part I, 1969 , published in 1971/72 in several journals [1]. It is a revision of this 1971 document that is presented here. In the present document, recommendations are designated 2-Carb-n, to distinguish them from the Carb-n recommendations in the previous publication. 

IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN), Nomenclature of carbohydrates (Recommendations 1996), http //www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/2carb/. 

Systematic substitutive nomenclature may be used to name all organic molecules. However, those that are of animal or vegetable origin have often received trivial names, such as cholesterol, oxytocin and glucose. Biochemical nomenclature is based upon such trivial names, which are either substitutively modified in accordance with the principles, rules and conventions described in Chapter 4, Section 4.5 (p. 70), or transformed and simplified into names of stereoparent hydrides, i.e. parent hydrides of a specific stereochemistry. These names are then modified by the rules of substitutive nomenclature. Three classes of compound will be discussed here to illustrate the basic approach carbohydrates amino acids and peptides and lipids. For details, see Biochemical Nomenclature and Related Documents, 2nd Edition, Portland Press, London (1992). 

IUPAC-IUB Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature, 202, 258(4) IUPAC-1UBMB Nomenclature of Carbohydrates, 144, 195(lb)... 

Biochemical Nomenclature and Related Documents, Portland Press, London, 1992. Contains about forty reprints of articles taken from journals, on nomenclature of amino acids, peptides, and carbohydrates. This information is now mostly available on websites. 

Polysaccharides are formed by glycosidically linked carbohydrate (glycosyl) residues. As expected, the nomenclature of polysaccharides is based on the nomenclature of carbohydrates. The recommendations of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry-International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (lUPAC-IUB JCBN) have been pub-lished and are open to the public at http //www. chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/2carb/39.html. 

IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN). Nomenclature of carbohydrates (Recommendations 1996). Pure Appl. Chem.. 68 (1996) 1919-2008 Carbohydr. Res., 297 (1997) 1-90 Adv. Carbohydr. Chem. Biochem., 52 (1997) 43-177 . /. Carbohydr. Chem., 16 (1997) 1191-1280. 

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Bio og y, Enzyme Nomenclature, 1992, Academic Press, Orlando, FL, 1992. lUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature, Nomenclature of Carbohydrates, Recommendations 1996, edited by McNaught,... 

Whereas organization and use of Part II Report are unchanged, clearly the subject of nomenclature is one of a state of flux. By the end of 1980, many of the draft documents of the lUB-IUPAC Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature relating to carbohydrates should have been finalized. At that... 

The most authoritative current statement of good practice on carbohydrate nomenclature is the document lUPAClIUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature of Carbohydrates Recommendations, Pure Appl. Chem., 1996, 68, 1919) the full text of which can be read on the Dictionary of Carbohydrates CD-ROM (access from the Windows Start menu item or via the Help menu in the main program). 

Tentative rules for carbohydrate nomenclature. Part 1 J. Biol Chem. mi) 247, 613-634 Corrections, Eur. J. Biochem. (1972) 25, 4 Conformational nomenclature for five- and six-mem-bered ring forms of monosaccharides and their derivatives... 

Professor Jones s participation in professional societies and affairs outside the University were as follows Rapporteur for the Royal Society of Canada (Chemical Section) in 1971, and Convenor in 1972 Member of the Advisory Committee to the Atlantic Regional Laboratories of the National Research Council, Halifax, Nova Scotia Member of the Board of Governors of the Ontario Research Foundation Member of the Board of Advisors for the British Commonwealth for Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Carbohydrate Research Chairman of the Fourth International Conference on Carbohydrate Chemistry, which was held in Kingston in 1967 and a Corresponding Member of the Nomenclature Committee of the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry, American Chemical Society. Professor Jones was a member of The Chemical Society, the Biochemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry (Associate), the Chemical Institute of Canada, the American Chemical Society, and the New York Academy of Sciences. 

Nomenclature of Carbohydrates, Pure Appl. Chem., 68 (1996) 1919-2110 Adv. Carbo-hydr. Chem. Biochem., 52 (1997) 47-171. 

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