Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds

Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds, Recommendations 1993, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1993). 

Panico, R., W. H. Powell, and J.-C. Richer, eds., A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds, Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, 1993. 

A word about nomenclature. Once upon a time, chemists made a useful distinction between acetals (derived from aldehydes) and ketals (derived from ketones) which has since perished. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) decided (Rule C-331.1) that the term ketal is redundant and that the term acetal should now apply to all 1,1-to-ethers whether derived from aldehydes or ketones. Nevertheless, in A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds, Recommendations 1993 (R. Panico, W.H. Powel, I-C Richter, Eds. Blackwell Science Oxford, 1993) the IUPAC graciously reinstated the term ketal , by popular demand, as a subclass of the generic term acetals (Rule R-5.6,4),... 

Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, PUP AC Recommendations, eds. W.H. Powell and H. Favre, Royal Society of Chemistry, in preparation. [See also, Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1979 A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds, Recommendations 1993, eds. R. Panico, W.H. Powell and J.-C. Richer, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1993 and corrections in Pure Appl. Chem., 71, 1327-1330 (1999)]. 

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biochemical Nomenclature and Related Documents, 2nd Edition, Portland Press. London, UK, 1992. Richer, J.-C., K Panico, and W.H. Powell Guide to the Use of IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds, Blackwell, Oxford and London, UK, 1994. 

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