Commission on the Nomenclature

International Union of Pure and Appbed Chemistry, Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, The Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry. Sections A, B, C, D, E, F and H, Pergamon, Oxford, 1979. 

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 ... 

IUPAC Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry and IUPAC-IUB Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (1971). Carotenoids. O. Isler. Basel, Switzerland Birkhauser Verlag, pp. 851-864. 

Leigh, G.J. (ed.) (1990) Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry. Recommendations 1990, Issued by the Commission on the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry (Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford). 

The Commission on the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry is currently producing a further volume of the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, which will deal with more specialised aspects of inorganic nomenclature not currently treated in the 1990 version. For example, one chapter will be devoted to the nomenclature of nitrogen hydrides, another to the nomenclature of iso- and heteropolyanions and yet another to techniques and recommendations for abbreviations of names, especially ligand names. These chapters are innovative but also codify a great deal of established practice. 

The principal advances in the systematization of organic nomenclature have come from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, and from the Chemical Abstracts Service. The IUPAC Definitive Rules for Hydrocarbons and Heterocyclic Systems (1957)4 and for Characteristic Groups (1965)5 have been widely accepted by the chemical community, and, in their latest revised form,6 constitute the standard reference work. These rules are closely related to those developed in parallel by Chemical Abstracts for indexing purposes, and it is fortunate that, as a result of close cooperation between the two bodies, there are few areas of disagreement. 

IUPAC Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (CNOC),... 

IUPAC-IUB. IUPAC commission on the nomenclature of organic chemistry and IUPAC-IUB commission on biochemical nomenclature tentative rules for the nomenclature of carotenoids. Biochemistry 10 4827-4837, 1971. 

Names employed in the cumulative subject index for Volumes I to VI are based upon those adopted in Volume II (Appendix, page 257) with a few changes that have been standardized and approved since publication of Volume II. No major changes seemed to be required for general conformity with the Definitive Rules for Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, 1957 Report of the Commission on the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. 

U) The names and symbols given here are systematic and based on the atomic numbers of the elements as recommended by the IUPAC Commission on the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry [22]. The names are composed of the following roots representing digits of the atomic number ... 

After the acceptance of the rules just mentioned, international work on nomenclature practically came to a standstill until the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) was formed in 1919. This organization appointed a Commission for the Reform of the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry the work of this Commission, carried out under Holleman s leadership from 1924 to 1930, led to the adoption of the already mentioned Definitive Report (11) containing the Li6ge Rules, a considerably improved version of the Geneva Rules. Since then this international commission, later named the Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, has put forward a number of improvements and additions to the Li6ge Rules these will be referred to later in another connection. 

The International Union of Chemistry, founded in 1919, had as one of its first achievements the instituting of an International Commission on the Nomenclature of Biological Chemistry. At the second conference of the Union, held in Brussels in June 1921, R. Marquis, professor at the Sorbonne, presented a report justifying the establishment of this new organization to study nomenclature. 

The International Commission on the Nomenclature of Biological Chemistry began to function immediately, meeting for the first time in Lyon, France, in June 1922. As the basis for its work the commission decided upon a very thorough report by Bertrand (1), a distinguished biochemist who was to be chairman of the commission for many years. 

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