Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry

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 Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Revised nomenclature for radicals, ions, radical ions and related species (Recommendations 1993), PureAppL Chem., 65, 1357-1455 (1993). 

IUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Revision of the extended Hantzsch-Widman system of nomenclature for heteromonocycles, Pure Appl. Chem., 55, 409-416 (1983). 

The IUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry has continuing responsibility for revising and expanding the rules that appeared in the Definitive Report. 

TUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, 4th ed., Pergamon Press, Inc., Elmsford, N.Y., 1979. 

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Organic Chemistry Division, Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, J. Rigaudy, S. P. Klesney, Hrsg. Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Sections A, B, C, D, E, F and H, 1979 Edition, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1979... 

Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, lUPAC, Butterworths Scientific Publications, London J. Am. Chem. Soc. 82, 5545-81 (1960). 

The reader is referred to Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, issued by the Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 3rd ed., Butterworth, London, 1971, Section B, from which this section was taken. See also The Naming and Indexing of Chemical Compounds from Chemical Abstracts (reprint of the Introduction to the Subject Index to Volume 56 (Jan. June 1962) of Chemical Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1962,1 5 132-146. 

A complete, comprehensive grammar for systematic chemical nomenclature does not exist to date. The system of recommendations developed by the lUPAC Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (hereafter referred to as TUPAC ) has not become a truly universal standard, presumably because of the complexity of the recommended rules, but also because of the frequent alternatives allowed in name assignment. It must also be said that a certain reluctance on the part of chemical industry to recognise the need for fully systematic nomenclature can be detected, and this leads in practice to the use of much quasi-systematic and inconsistent nomenclature. 

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