General principles for systematic naming of acids

Molecular compounds and ions commonly regarded as inorganic acids are treated no differently than other molecular species when constructing systematic names. 

The most easily applied general principle for systematic naming is that of additive nomenclature, exemplified in Section IR-8.3. As mentioned in Section IR-8.1, substitutive nomenclature could also be generally applied. However, this is not further elaborated here. 

Sections IR-8.4 and IR-8.5 describe hydrogen names, which are related to additive names and only needed in special cases. 

The method called acid nomenclature in Section 1-9.6 of Ref. 2 is little used and not needed. Its use is therefore no longer recommended. 

Note that Section P-42 of Ref. 1 lists a great many inorganic oxoacid species for use as parent structures in the naming of organic derivatives. (See the discussion in Section IR-8.1.) Most of those species, but not all, are included here. In particular, several dinuclear and polynuclear acids are not explicitly included. 

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