Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry

The lUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry continues its work, which is effectively open-ended. Guidance in the use of lUPAC rules (38) as well as explanations of their formulation (39) are available. A second volume on nomenclature of inorganic chemistry is in preparation it will be devoted to specialized areas. Some of the contents have had preliminary pubHcation in the journal Pure andJipplied Chemist, eg, "Names and Symbols of Transfermium Elements" in 1944. 

The second edition of the well-known Red Book, the definitive recommendations of the lUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, appeared in Pure Appl. Chem., 28, 1-110 (1971). It is also available separately as a hard-bound reprint. In this edition, the rules for naming organometallic compounds have been completely revised and extended, with introduction of the rj nomenclature for organic ligands. 

Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature, 17 403-404 Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (CNIC), 17 392 Committee on Medical and Biologic Effects of Environmental Pollutants, 26 585 Committee on Nomenclature, Terminology, and Symbols (American Chemical Society), 17 386... 

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the International Committee on Atomic Weights (ICAW) was formed. Although the ICAW did not set internationally approved names, a name with an atomic weight value in their table lent support for the adoption of that name by the chemical community. Twenty years later, the ICAW became a part of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC) when it was formed. lUPAC was called the International Union of Chemistry in those early days. In 1949, the responsibility for acceptance of the name of a chemical element was given by lUPAC to its Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (CNIC). 

Names used in this cumulative Subject Index for Volumes XVI and XVII, as well as in the text, are based for the most part upon Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, Definitive Rules 1970 Report of the Commission on the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Butterworths, London, 1971 [see Pure Appl. Chem. 27(1), 1-110] also on the Tentative Rules of Organic Chemistry—Section D and Nomenclature of Inorganic Boron Compounds [Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, IUPAC, published in Pure Appl. Chem. 30(3 -4), 683 - 710 (1972)]. All of these rules have been approved by the ACS Committee on Nomenclature. Conformity with approved organic usage is also one of the aims of the nomenclature used here. 

Each manuscript should be submitted in duplicate to the Secretary of the Editorial Board, Professor Jay H. Worrell, Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620. The manuscript should be typewritten in English. Nomenclature should be consistent and should follow the recommendations presented in Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, Second Edition, Definitive Rules. 1970 Issue of the IUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry. Abbreviations should conform to those used in publications of the American Chemical Society, particularly Inorganic Chemistry. 

Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, lUPAC, Butterworths Scientific Publications, London /. Am. Chem. Soc. 82, 5523-44 (1960). 

In the past, some elements were given two names because two groups claimed to have discovered them. To avoid such confusion it was decided in 1947 that after the existence of a new element had been proved beyond reasonable doubt, discoverers had the right to suggest a name to IUPAC, but that only the Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (CNIC) could make a recommendation to the IUPAC Council to make the final decision. 

Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, Pure Appl. Chem., 69, (1997) 2471 www.mpac.org. 

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Biochemical Nomenclature and related Documents, Portland Press, London,1992. See also lUPAC Recommendations 1999 Revised Section F Natural Products and related Compounds, Prep, for Publ. by P.M. Giles, Jr.), Pure Appl. Chem. 1999,71,587. lUPAC, Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemisty, Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry. Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. 

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