IUPAC-IUB Joint Commission

IUPAC-IUB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN), Conformational nomenclature for five- and six-membered ring forms of monosaccharides and their derivatives (Recommendations 1980), Eur.J.Biochem. Ill, 295-298 (1980) Arch. Biochem. Biophys.,207,469-472(1981) PureAppl. Chem.,S3,1901-1905(1981) ref.2,pp. 158-161. 

IUPAC-IUB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN), Nomenclature of branched-chain monosaccharides (Recommendations 1980), Eur. J. Biochem., 119, 5-8... 

IUPAC-IUB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN), Nomenclature of glycolipids, in preparation. 

Spom, Roberts and Goodman81 have recently provided a broad overview of the field of the retinoids, based on the IUPAC-IUB Joint commission definition that Retinoids are a class of compounds consisting of four isoprenoid units joined in a head-to-tail manner. (The work was updated in 1994) Whereas there is only a handful of naturally occurring retinoids using this definition, more than a thousand man-made retinoids are known. The IUPAC-IUB bulletin recommended that the term, retinal, not be used as a chemical designation but be reserved as an adjective referring to the retina. They suggested that retinaldehyde be used instead in scientific literature as the name of chemical related to vision. 

IUPAC-IUB Joint Commission on Biochemical. Nomenclature (JCBN). Nomenclature of glycoproteins, glycopeptides and peplidoglycans (Recommendations 1985). Ear. J. Biochem., 159 (1986) 1-6 Glycoronjugate J., 3 (1986) 123-134 / Biol Chem.. 262 (1987) 13-18 PureAppl. Chem., 60 (1988) 1389—1.394 Royal. Society of Chemistry Specialist Periodical. Report, Amino Acids and Peptides, Vol. 21,1990. 329. 

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