Geneva rules

A second international conference was held in 1911 but the intrusion of World War I prevented any substantive revisions of the Geneva rules The Inter national Union of Chemistry was established in 1930 and undertook the necessary revision leading to pub lication in 1930 of what came to be known as the Liege rules... 

The International Union and the Definitive Report. The next important step vias the Definitive Report of the Commission on the Reform of the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry in 1930 at a meeting in LiSge. This report used the Geneva rules as a basis for modification, and many of the 68 Liege rules deal with topics not touched in die original Geneva report. 

Systematic nomenclature on a worldwide scale began in 1892 when a committee of the International Chemical Congress established a set of standards known as the Geneva Rules for naming organic compounds. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (ILTPAC) http /Ywww,iupac.org/dhtml home.html was formed in 1919 and further developed this nomenclature system. In 1886 in the United States, the American Chemical Society (ACS) established a Committee on... 

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. 

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