Nomenclature of inorganic compounds

The chiral identity of a molecule is included in the nomenclature of inorganic compounds, and today s comprehensive system is based upon suggestions made in 1990 in IUPAC s Recommendations on Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry [84], and ACS s Inorganic Chemical Nomenclature [90]. The basis for the usage of stereochemical descriptors was laid by Brown [91,92], from which three types of chiral descriptor conventions were developed (i) Steering-wheel-convention [93], (ii) Skew-lines convention [94] and (iii) Oriented-skew-lines convention [95]. 

Scott, J. D. Notes on the Nomenclature of Inorganic Compounds, in Inorganic Syntheses, II, 257-267, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York (1946). 

Abbreviations used are listed in Nomenclature of Inorganic Compounds other abbreviations will be described in the text. 

This review follows the recoimnendatioiis made by lUPAC [71JEN], [77FER], [90LE1] on the nomenclature of inorganic compounds and complexes, except for the following items ... 

Commission on Nomenclature of Inorganic Compounds, Pergamon Press, Oxford, (1971), 110 pp.. Cited on page 11. 

The name of the constitutional repeating unit consists of the names of the central atoms and the names of bridging and side groups. The central atom is chosen as the one which occurs latest in the sequence prescribed for the nomenclature of inorganic compounds ... 

Chemical nomenclature is the system of names that chemists use to identify compounds. When a new substance is formulated, it must be named in order to distinguish it from all other substances (see Figure 6.1). In this chapter, we will restrict our discussion to the nomenclature of inorganic compounds—compounds that do not generally contain carbon. 

The nomenclature of inorganic compounds (Appendix II) should be reviewed,... 

For details of the nomenclature, see Emil Votocek, Slovnik sloucenin anorganick ch die ndzvoslovisjezdoveho zavedeniho officielne roku 1918 [Nomenclature of inorganic compounds introduced officially in 1918], (Praha Ceskd chemickd spolecnost, 1919). 

Names and Formulas of Inorganic Compounds—In this section on the nomenclature of inorganic compounds, the names and formulas of two-element or binary compounds are considered first. The... 

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